Internet Assisted Review Focus Group March 4, 2002

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Internet Assisted Review Focus Group March 4,
2002
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Agenda

• Introductions
• What is a Focus Group?
• IAR Process within existing Peer Review
• IAR Workflow
• Process 1 Details (SRA Prepares Meeting/Reviewers
  for IAR)
• Process 2 Details (Reviewer Registers for IAR)

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Focus Group

• Technique to communicate effectively with
  end-users in the design development of a
  system.
• Sessions will focus on requirements gathering
  validation

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Focus Groups help Project Team to

• Finalize requirements gain consensus
• Understand the workflow, data model, functions,
  dependencies, business rules
• Define scope of versions to be delivered
• Define user roles for data function security

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Focus Groups help Project Team to

• Identify issues (e.g., policy, changes in
  business practices)
• Verify the draft design and obtain consensus
• Review and critique the prototype
• Visual walkthrough of screens
• Test-Drive screens

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Focus Groups help Project Team to

• Help test pre-production system
• Outline the rollout plan
• Participate in production pilot

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Focus Group Rules

• Be sensitive to time, follow agenda, stay
  focused
• Participants should respect the rights of others
  avoid speaking out of turn
• All participants are equal
• Participants must commit to follow on meetings
• Avoid excessive discussions on highly technical
  issues unless necessary

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Internet Assisted Review
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Overall Process Flow

• How does Internet Assisted Review fit into the
  existing Peer Review process?
• Where does Streamlining fit into the process?

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Process 1. SRA Prepares Meeting/ Reviewers for
IAR SRA finalizes meeting assignments, selects
meeting for IAR and specifies critique
submission and other deadlines.
Process 2. Reviewer Registers for IAR Reviewer
account creation and registration via email.
4. Read-Only Phase After submission deadline,
Reviewers may read other Reviewers critiques.
Reviewers must contact SRA to get a late critique
submitted (manually by SRA). If a reviewer has
not submitted, the SRA may block the Reviewer
from reading.
6. Summary Statement drafts are built from
critiques.
5. Optional Edit Phase After the meeting,
Reviewers may modify their critiques.
3. Reviewers log in and submit critiques and
preliminary priority scores for their
applications.
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Detailed Processes

• Overall Workflow for IAR
• Process 1 Details SRA Prepares
  Meeting/Reviewers for IAR
• Process 2 Details Reviewer Registers for IAR