Global - April 21 2020

Global - April 21 2020

Call Information

  • 08:00 PDT - Seattle

  • 11:00 EDT - New York, DC

  • 17:00 CAT - Zambia/Malawi (UTC+2)

  • 18:00 EAT - Tanzania/Kenya (UTC+3)

 

Last Meeting NotesGlobal - March 17 2020

AGENDA

Item

Lead (Time)

Notes and Updates

Item

Lead (Time)

Notes and Updates

Software Development Update

RoadmapLiving Product Roadmap 

Current sprintBacklog Grooming Sprint 148

Upcoming sprintBacklog Grooming Sprint 149

Version 3.10: 

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

Velocity: 

@Wesley Brown, @Klaudia Pałkowska (Deactivated) (5 min)

Release completed for 3.9; getting started on 3.10 in the coming weeks

velocity is picking back up again; probably as a result of some of the work we are doing with CHAI

COVID implementation; finished reference instance set up (https://covid-ref.openlmis.org)

Working on the PCMT integration piece

Implementer Meeting Feedback

@Wesley Brown (5 min)

 

Implementation Response to COVID-19

@Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) (10 min)

What is happening on the ground?

  • Mozambique: Need to adapt delivery schedules to deliver covid products; now issuing essential goods as well as ARVs into the same shipments; possibility of reviewing distribution routes to facilities and CHWs

  • Need of CCE catalog to be operationalized ASAP; covid samples need to be stored at the same temp as vaccines; EPI might have a strong role to play in the future of the epidemic

  • Dianna (MOZ): Still early, but COVID products are in OpenLMIS and are ready; they have a master data mgmt system and import that into OpenLMIS

  • Wes: We are re-purposing CCE catalog for COVID products. 

What support can the OpenLMIS Steward team provide?

  • Christine - More concrete guidance on what data is helpful/needed to gather

We will be contacting each country implementation to see how things are going and how we can help!

COVID-19 Project with CHAI

@Wesley Brown@Gaurav Bhattacharya (Unlicensed) (10 min)

New project collaborating with CHAI: to manage the logistics behind COVID19 response

This is a topic that OpenLMIS has been thinking about for a long time; spinning up a new instance of OpenLMIS for use in emergency situations

Run in the cloud; quick set up; and manage specifically COVID19 commodities

SolDevelop Team is working on this 

Changes to the system: CCE service being used to track ventilators and other covid equipment. Trying to keep it simple and not make many changes

Timeline: aggressive, aim to test next week

Question we are grappling with: How do we define a master product catalog for covid-related commodities?  

Current OpenLMIS countries are well positioned to use this product; 

For Phase I, only going to support new cloud based installations; then in a later phase we can figure out how to integrate with existing implementations

Christine: the plan could be different depending on the country; for example in Malawi it could be straightforward to add a new program. There might not be a benefit of having a separate instance

If you are interested in possibly using the OpenLMIS COVID tool, reach out to Wes or Rebecca. The cost for implementation is covered by CHAI

Josh: donors are trying to align on how to get this out quickly; what is the functional product vs. the SKU's. OpenLMIS is focused on downstream, which means there can be differences in the product catalogs between donors, facilities, etc. There is a need to align the product lists

PCMT=Product Catalog Management Tool; helps you manage your catalog and work with others to manage your catalog PCMT 1 pager

URL:  https://demo.productcatalog.io

PCMT being used to help adjust back to to the routine supply chain catalog/lists

for more info reach out to us at pcmt@villagereach.org 

Version 3.10 Feature Priorities

@Wesley Brown (15 min)

Feature Backlog: Feature Backlog

Proposed Focus for 3.10

Next PC meeting: Topic ideas??

 

COVID System Demo?

SIGLUS Upgrade Discussion

Additional Requests and Information:

 

 


ATTENDANCE:  

 @Wesley Brown @Dércio Duvane  @Josh Zamor (Deactivated) Momad Megji ,Klaudia, Langa, Paulina, Dionildes Silva, @Christine Lenihan, Dianna Lourenco @Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed)


RECORDING:

@Wesley Brown to paste meeting link once ready

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