Mark Brunner Missouri Department of Conservation

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1 Mark Brunner Missouri Department of Conservation

2 The Issues We Had No Common Way Of Showing What Management Practices Yielded What Results Various Bookkeeping Systems Various Filing Systems Various Reporting Systems

3 Where We Were Tabular Accomplishment Measures Tied To Projects Rather Than Practice Lose Visibility Into Activities Specific Location Not Captured Time Captured In Separate Database Not Correlated to Accomplishments No GIS Data Collection Standards Different Divisions Different Guidelines Various Levels of Collection

4 Where We Wanted To Be Single Application to Capture Employee Time and Accomplishments All Data Entries Tied to Location Web Based Application Gather Geographic Data/Information from Non-Geographic People Be Able to Have a History of What Was Done Where and When

5 What Was Out There Various Geospatial Tools Investigated CAPT In House Geospatial Tool IFRIS Virginia Division of Forestry Mapped Activities and Timesheet Developed by the Timmons Group USFS/WebDet Forestry Stewardship Plan Tracking and Reporting Steve Westin Presentation to Administration

6 Weighing The Options Adapt an Existing System Use Pieces from IFRIS (Virginia Forestry) Built Early Prototype User Feedback Dated Technology Build a New Application Use Most Current ESRI API s Customized Timesheet TALON Was Born!

7 What Is Talon? Time, Activity, Location Online Notebook One Place to Capture All Accomplishments Geospatially Tie Accomplishments and Time Replaces 3 rd Party Timesheet System Replaces In House Accomplishment System Ties All Time and Accomplishments to a Location Big Buckets Activity Shapes

8 Timesheet Time Data Entered a Pay Period at a Time Basic Data Required for Each Row (Effort) Activity What Did You Do? Location Where Did You Do It? Target Why Did You Do It? Project Was It Part of a Special Project?

9 Activity What Did You Do? Actual Boots on the Ground Activity Projects Change but Activities Remain the Same Record Activity and Tie in Reasons Later Prescribed Burn Planting Teach Class Common Activities Across Divisions

10 Location Where Did You Do It? All Talon Entries Tied to Big Bucket Big Bucket Type Determined by Activity County, MDC Area, Landowner Boundary, Watershed Selection of Type Provides Specific List Selection of Specific Big Bucket is Required Majority of Entries Just Need Big Bucket Time Entries and Many Accomplishments Some Entries Require Map Interaction Accomplishment Can Only Be Completed Geospatially

11 Targets Why Did You Do It? Who or What Benefited From The Activity Targets Defined in Groups Multiple Targets Allowed From Multiple Groups Habitat, Species, Audience, Infrastructure, Etc. Allow Reporting To Different Strategic Goals Reports Can Pull Different Targets for Each Goal Next Generation Goals Regional Goals

12 Project Is There Special Funding or Tracking? Majority Will be Automatically Assigned Based on Activity, Division, Location, Target Sport Fish Restoration F50D Wildlife Restoration Act W93D Special Projects Picked From a List CI Projects Research Grants Specially Funded Projects

13 Geospatial Tie In All Talon Entries Tied to Big Bucket Time and Map Activities are Loosely Coupled Like Activities on the Same Big Bucket in Same Date Range are Considered Tied Together No Need to Map Majority of Time Activities Big Bucket Association is Enough to Map It GeoCode Can Generate Point on Map Mapped Accomplishments Get More Detail Actual Shapes Drawn on Map

14 Spatial Matrix All Accomplishments Tied to Location Big Buckets Immediately Answer Big Office Questions What Have You Done in My Congressional District School District COA Conservation Opportunity Area

15 Talon Components Time Developed In-House Timesheet Time Captured by Effort Activity, Location, Target(s), Project Pay Period Oriented Map Developed by Timmons Group Richmond VA Create Spatial Representation of Activities Correlate Activity Shapes with Time Entries Search and Display Selected Activities Geospatially

16 Specific Requirements Time Entry Not Dependant on Mapping All Entries Tied to a Geospatial Location Database Driven Easily Query All Data Web Based User Interface Tracking of Activities Over Time Leverage Existing and Common Data Avoid Data Duplication

17 System Components Oracle Database SDO Geometry Fast Query of Geospatial Data All Business Data and Attributes ArcServer and SDE Only Used for Shape Data Web Standards CSS, AJAX, REST, SOAP, JSON Web Services

18 Development Approach User Involvement From the Start Early Requirements Gathering Prototype User Interface Iterative Agile Development Two Week Sprints Users See Progress On a Regular Basis Early Feedback On Functionality

19 Phased Testing Approach Initial Alpha Test Group Focus on Fisheries, Forestry, PLS, and Wildlife Focus on 2 Representative Regions Expanded Alpha 2 Test Group Expand to Include More Folks from All Regions Targeted Sub-Groups as Necessary (HR, Fiscal) Expand to All Divisions Statewide Beta Testing Side By Side Timesheet Testing

20 Where We Are Today Beta Version Available for Testing Side-by-Side Testing elabor and TALON Time March Selected Divisions Initial Time Entry April All Employees Time and Leave Closing May Map Functions Available for Testing June Reset Database for Production July 1 Live for All Salaried Employees Dec 16 Add All Hourly Timesheets

21 Early Benefits Department Wide Activity Resolution Forced Introspective Geographic Layer Simplification Consolidate Layers for Big Buckets Dissolved MDC Area Layer Stream Management Areas Landowner Boundaries User Contributed Buckets Include Other Public Lands

22 Where Are We Going TALON Budget Integration Expenditure Reporting Common Data Integration Contacts Module One Database that All Applications Reference Geospatial Information Maps

23 Future Expansion Enterprise Wide Data Integration Integrate Land Tracking Incorporate Legacy Systems Ag Crop Event Scheduling Protection Arrests Hunter Education Forest Fire Reporting Magazine Subscriptions Permit Sales Integrate Stand Alone Databases and Spreadsheets (Advances in One Application Have an Immediate Positive Impact on Other Applications)

24 Demonstration Live Demonstration Enter Effort on the Timesheet Create Activity Shape on Map Create a Map Effort to Correlate the Two Question/Answer Session

25 TALON

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