Implementers - September 3 2019

Owned by Wesley Brown
Last updated: Sept 05, 2019
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Call Information

  • 01:00 PDT - Seattle
  • 04:00 EDT - New York, DC
  • 10:00 CAT - Zambia/Malawi (UTC+2)
  • 11:00 EAT - Tanzania/Kenya (UTC+3)


Last Meeting Notes: Implementers - August 13 2019

AGENDA

Item

Lead (Time)

Notes and Updates

Software Development Update

Roadmap: Living Product Roadmap 

Current sprint: Backlog Grooming Sprint 132

Upcoming sprint: Backlog Grooming Sprint 133

Version 3.7: 

Team stats: https://openlmis.atlassian.net/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=12504

Velocity: 

Wesley Brown, Sebastian Brudziński(5 min)

Living Product Roadmap Updated

Version 3.7 Update

  • Sprint 132 is the last development sprint for version 3.7
    • Focusing on caching for requisition UI
  • Release process (and code freeze) to start with Sprint 133
Global Product Committee UpdateWesley Brown (5 min)Update on the last Global Product Committee meeting: PC: August 20 2019
Implementation/Partner Update

Dércio Duvane (30 min)

Overview/Update of Angola Implementation

  • Goal: improve reporting and forecasting, coordiante supply chain, improve understanding of supply chain processes
  • Pilot in 4 provinces spanning 7 facilities; objectives: trainings, equipement
  • Established technical working group with MOH
  • Established and approved requirements with technical working group
  • What is the number of facilities that will be supported?
    • 61 facilities after the first phase
  • How many people are involved?
    • On the PSM side: 3 people
    • Some technical support from VR
    • Technical working group from MOH (very helpful)
  • DHIS2 used to hold the master data; manual sync between DHIS2 and the OpenLMIS instance
  • Conducted training for users to strengthen their computer skills and be in control of the OpenLMIS system
  • Quite some work on translations to make users understand what they are seeing (some direct translation didn't make sense)
  • Operations supports: WhatsApp, Service Desk, e-mails, phones
  • Technical challenges: performance (especially stock management)
  • Next steps: national rollout between Oct-Nov

Mozambique UpdateMomad (10 min)Next time?
Casper Project UpdateWesley Brown (5 min)
  • Project in Tanzania, called "ghost implementation"
  • They use eLMIS, but they want to use some features of v3
  • Migrating data from eLMIS to OpenLMIS v3 in the background
  • Currently running pilot
  • Could be useful for other implementations running eLMIS (or even other systems) to more easily upgrade to v3

3.8 Feature Priorities

Wesley Brown (10 min)

New Page for Feature Backlog: Feature Backlog

  • Perhaps add more detail to the features

Current Suggestions:

  1. Configuration Assistant
    1. Simon: User profile management is difficult right now. Assisting in this area would be helpful
    2. Simon: Visualizations of supply lines, nodes, etc
  2. Stock Management - UI Caching

Please fill out the ranking poll here: http://www.polljunkie.com/poll/wakcoc/openlmis-37-feature-priorities

Next PC meeting: Topic ideas??


Implementation/Partner Update, Feature Priorities

Additional Requests and Information:



ATTENDANCE: 

Wesley Brown, Sebastian Brudziński, Ben Leibert, Diógenes Calei, Douglas Khumalo (Unlicensed), Dércio Duvane, Mariberto Neto (Unlicensed), Matthew Kumbuyo (Deactivated), Momad, Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed), Simon Dean (Unlicensed)

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