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Client Name: 

New York State Office of  Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services

Client Background: 

The Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) oversees one of the nation’s largest addiction services systems with approximately 1,600 prevention, treatment and recovery programs. OASAS chemical dependence treatment programs have an average daily enrollment of nearly 100,000 people and serve approximately 234,000 individuals every year. This includes the direct operation of 12 Addiction Treatment Centers, which serve around 8,000 persons per year. OASAS is the single designated state agency responsible for the coordination of state-federal relations in the area of addiction services. Our mission is to improve the lives of New Yorkers by leading a comprehensive premier system of addiction services for prevention, treatment, and recovery. 

Project Description:

Project Name:

Regional Office Data Initiative (RODI), OASAS Digitization Project, Data Warehouse Redesign.

Project Description:

The Regional Office Data Initiative Project is intended to increase the technological capabilities of Regional Office staff while in the field conducting site reviews of OASAS programs and improve overall efficiency of business process related to same. The OASAS Digitization Project will utilize FileNet as a repository for paper documents that are scanned into the system, improving access to patient treatment information. The Data Warehouse Redesign project is underway but will be transitioned to the candidate to ensure that the requirements are met, and any changes are properly documented.

V Group’s Deliverables 

V Group has worked with OMH in this multi-facet project by supporting in management of requirements through the life of the contract using a requirements management plan and traceability to ensure coverage between the source of each requirement and the test case(s). V Group’s team has been involved in Project Management excellent by providing the leadership in SDLC cycle by working closely with project manager, ITS manager, technical team members and other project stakeholders.

For non-software development assignments, V Group’s team has work closely with Business Systems Analyst and other stakeholders to provide leadership and recommend/execute best approach to problem.

Since it was a wide spread project across multiple cross function teams, V Group has worked as a liaison to stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts to elicit, analyze, communicate, validate and verify the requirements for complex changes to current business processes, policies and information systems and for the development of new business processes, policies and information systems. We have created as-is and to-be business process 

flows to ensure that the implemented business process and supporting software meets the OASAS needs, and conducted requirements workshops and JAD sessions with OASAS subject matter experts as one of the many techniques to be used to elicit requirements.

The documentation of these core requirement involved creation of business requirements documents, context diagrams, business requirements document (BRD), system “as-is” and “to be” states, system specifications, use cases and workflow diagrams, report and screen mockups, swim lane diagrams, and prototypes. V Group’s team has also ensured that the artifacts required by ITS governance process and Secure Systems Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) are created and support the project scope.