DESIGN AND FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF TALKGROUP plans and radio features selection for eight state agencies that will bring the project back on schedule
Alliant Joined When
- Talkgroup planning process is 7 – 8 months behind
- Delays caused increased cost to vendor and the state
- Further delays will compromise deployment and add significant cost
- Planning process critically behind for 8 agencies
- Delays had caused smaller departments to questions their wish to participate in the system
Project Focus
Phase I –
- Evaluation of current process and reasons for off-schedule status
- Development of the plan to get eight state agencies back on schedule
Phase II –
- Management of the actual process
- Facilitation of planning meetings for the 8 work teams
- Documentation of talkgroup and configuration plans
- Post-meeting follow-up to ensure approval of plans
Key Changes and Operational Benefits
Implementation of this program provided the following results:
- Brought the project into compliance with the State’s time performance requirements.
- Developed high quality plans for all eight agencies 3 calendar weeks ahead of schedule
- All 8 agencies made their configuration decisions so that the client only needed to develop the final programming templates and agencies know what types of radios to purchase
- Clarified and gained agreement on roles of all key players at onset of planning process
- Maintained document and version control
- Developed and implemented a formal acceptance process
- Educated a cross-section of each agency’s staff regarding the radio system and its potential application for their agency
- Facilitated the resolution of budget questions and considerations
