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This webinar, sponsored by the Children's Bureau's Division of State Systems, was the first webinar in the FY2014 Back to Basics: Procurement and Project Management series. This webinar examined how to write a good business requirement statement and then how to test the soundness of that statement against a definitive list of characteristics.

This webinar, sponsored by the Children's Bureau's Division of State Systems (DSS) builds on guidance set forth in Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information Systems (SACWIS) Technical Bulletin #1: Action Plan Guidance and Examples issued in December, 2005. This webinar provided direction on how to construct an action plan, identified common pitfalls and benefits of action plans and described the tracking process for action plans.

This webinar, part of the Children's Bureau's Division of State Systems' (DSS) Back to Basics Series, will discuss the end user engagement and participation in system implementation, responsiveness and enhancement; help desk best practices and user documentation.

State Automated Child Welfare Information Systems (SACWIS) Transfer Systems identifies state’s system history.

Through the webinar series, “Back to Basics,” the Division of State Systems within the Children’s Bureau is offering a venue for information sharing and discussion. The fifth webinar of the series, “The Impact of Development Methodologies, Software Frameworks and Platform Choices on Release Management,” reviews the ways in which these different elements impact software release.

Through the webinar series, “Back to Basics”, the Division of State Systems within the Children’s Bureau, is offering a venue for information sharing and discussion. The fourth webinar of the series, “Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them”, reviews nine common pitfalls associated with building and maintaining child welfare information systems including: lack of user involvement; poorly defined requirements; scope creep, lack of a change control system, poor testing, under-allocated resources, system performance issues, lack of a high-functioning user help desk and poor vendor relationship.

Through the webinar series, “Back to Basics”, the Division of State Systems within the Children’s Bureau, is offering a venue for information sharing and discussion. The third webinar of the series, “The Child Welfare Information Technology System Project Lifecycle, Part 2”, reviews the project stages including implementation, maintenance and operation, and Federal requirements.

This Program Instruction (PI) provides information for states and tribes who request FFP for costs associated with an automated data processing project covering one or more of the human services programs established by the Social Security Act. This addresses the use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software applications by these agencies, including purchased, leased and hosted proprietary software products and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.

Through the webinar series, “Back to Basics”, the Division of State Systems within the Children’s Bureau, is offering a venue for information sharing and discussion. The second webinar of the series, “The Child Welfare Information Technology System Project Lifecycle, Part 1”, reviews the initial project stages including planning, procurement, relationship management and effective management of priorities, with two experienced child welfare Information System managers sharing their perspectives.

Through the webinar series, “Back to Basics”, the Division of State Systems within the Children’s Bureau, is offering a venue for information sharing and discussion. The first webinar of the series, “Fundamentals for a Child Welfare IT Manager”, reviews the key competencies of this role, highlighting the importance of different skill sets at different project life cycle stages.