investment sprint canberra, australia 16 – 20 march 2015
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• The CSPA Investment Planning Sprint was held at the Australian Bureau of Statistics in Canberra 16-20 March 2015. • Nine statistical organizations were represented, six on-site and three
virtual.• The sprint was organized under the sponsorship of the High Level
Group for the Modernization of Statistical Production and Services (HLG).• HLG have sponsored projects to develop core frameworks supporting
modernization which provide the foundation for statistical organizations to standardise and share knowledge (GAMSO, GSBPM, GSIM)• HLG also sponsored projects over the past two years develop and test a
Common Statistical Production Architecture (CSPA) to provide the foundation for the ability to create and implement shared statistical services.
Sprint Outputs
• Brochures • Benefits of CSPA and why you should
invest• How statistical organisations can
transition to CSPA
• Presentations aimed at senior executives, methodologist, technologists and vendors
• 2015 Candidate list
• Papers• Manifest• Developing CSPA through a community
approach• Guide to investment planning and
alignment• CSPA: Taking sharing to the next level• Updated value statement in CSPA
document
• Tools• Portfolio Management Tool
We need to modernise
We have a burning platform with: • rigid processes and methods;• inflexible ageing technology;• increasing cost of traditional data collection methods;• inability to quickly respond to emerging information needs;• slow to harness new and alternative sources of data (such
as sensor, satellite); • difficulty in attracting and retaining skilled staff in the
competitive labour market.
In an increasingly digital and data rich environment statistical organizations are struggling to remain relevant.
Modernisation blueprint exists
CSPA provides a reference architecture to help each agency modernisation, based on common standards:• GSIM • GSBPM• DDI / SDMXCSPA allows us to modernise our environment and use existing international solutions.
Current state
• Each year the HLG has approved a set of services to be produced within CSPA.
• These lists have essentially been offers made by individual agencies.
• The identified services have been delivered but not widely utilised.
• The list of services has not been driven by the priorities of statistical organisations
• Currently, there are a small number of individuals and organisations that are highly influential through existing HLG committee structures. For organisations outside of these committee structures – it can be difficult to participate.
Why aren’t existing services already being used? • There are people to convince (the who):
• Business people• IT people• Enterprise Architect / the decision maker
• We need to convince them to (the what - and then sharing will follow):• Sign on to CSPA (commit)• Commit to reuse as a principle
• Other issues• History - What's already in place, legacy systems• Governance / control issues - People don't want to give up control of their
systems
What is the
right level of
international
collaboration?
Topics discussed at sprint
Compare
individual
organisation
investment
strategies,
modernisation
plans, common
priority areas,
planned projects.
Which
capability
framework to
use to discuss
investments?
.
What is the agreed position on
the expected value added
of investing in CSPA?
How do we
encourage
statistical
organisations
to adopt CSPA,
barriers?
How do we
collaborate to
fill gaps?
Level of modernisation maturity?
What are the
different
scenarios for
collaboration?
.
What is the
role of
vendors?
.
What sort of
funding
models and
governance
arrangements
are needed?
Sharing before CSPA • Statistical organizations already participate in many international engagement
activities that facilitate sharing.• Spontaneous, relationship driven engagements between statistical
organisations, unable to articulate how efficient we have been• The main opportunities that we can focus
on: • greater sharing of each statistical
organisation's ICT portfolio investment and management plans
• finding and exploiting opportunities to align engagements with some vendors
• earlier collaboration on innovative and transformative approaches
• leverage modern technology development practices and tools to support physically dispersed teams
What does CSPA offer to sharing? • It broadens the types of sharing to smaller parts
of IT solutions rather than the large grained, complex pieces that have historically been shared
• It builds on and enhances sharing of non-ICT dimensions of a capability
• Sharing of any dimension of a capability can occur with different degrees of maturity.
• With more maturity in sharing comes: • more confidence in the sustainability of things being
shared• more clarity in roles of providers and consumers of
the thing being shared• greater visibility of the status of things being shared.
Building a Statistical Modernisation Community
Vision of an aligned and collaboratively led community.
• An active community seeking to leverage Common Statistical Production Architecture (CSPA)
• Allow statistical organisations to contribute to achieving the vision of the High Level Group (HLG).
• Individual organisations voluntarily identify the nature of their contributions with the support of a global community.
• The role of HLG is to provide stewardship and to assist in steering the community to deliver on the shared goal in an efficient manner.
• They recognise the right of individual organizations to determine their own contributions based on their own priorities.
• HLG are the holders of the vision and they are influential supporters of the work done to help realise this goal.
Benefits of the Community Approach• Effective approach to delivering statistical services, by lowering the
costs of overall production and minimising duplication by working towards a shared goal.
• SO are able to optimise their level of contribution based on their current capability and resourcing constraints.
• Working on project of mutual interest strengthens understanding, design, implementation and adoption – ensuring statistical services are more fit for purpose scalable and robust.
• The community can broker the exchange of information within the community, linking members who share a common interested.
• The community openly shares learnings and implementation issues, and seeks to overcome.
• Extract best practices round the world• Create projects teams to solve your/common problems• Robust and tested components can be delivered
Supporting the community• Overarching governance – Limited participation governance
arrangements are required: process to new organisations entering the community, principles which cover expected behaviours for members and validation of the output of development project.
• Community fora to allow project teams to share ideas, requirements and test packages. This should include virtual meeting spaces, wiki, blogs and environments to share investment plans and project collateral.
• Administrative and technical support to facilitate the work of the community – including virtual meetings, community activities, assistance on implementing CSPA and compilation of the communities portfolio investment plans. Currently this administrative support is provided by UNECE.
Need to expose investment planswhere we are willing to collaborate
Tailored level of contribution allows every country to participate
Using capability based investment planning• Business capabilities
• Language to describe needs for programme driven investments.
• “An ability that an organisation, person or system possesses".
• Organisation, people, processes, methodology, standards and technology to achieve.
• Characterised as unique and independent entities covering stable business functions in the light of business strategy, which have been abstracted from the organisational model.
• The CSPA investment planning makes use of a standard Capability Reference Model developed by the European Statisitical System as the basis for describing planned investments.
A tool to capture\update the current state of statistical organisations’ portfolios and highlight the areas where investments are planned.
The tool assists statistical organisations to align their portfolio to the CSPA capability reference model.
A portfolio management tool
The process of synthesizing SO investment plans uses the CSPA portfolio management tool to create an overall picture of the CSPA community’s ICT portfolio. This unified view provides the CSPA community with:
•A view of investment coverage and gaps•Areas of likely duplication or overlap•Areas of vendor engagements•A consolidation of the types of investments to be undertaken (Innovation, Transformation, Harvesting)
How the type of investment changes sharing • The CSPA Community will focus on the
investment plans of participating statistical organizations to improve sharing and alignment. • These plans will, amongst other things,
classify capability investments based on how well defined the capability is. • Different investment types will also
influence the nature of sharing in the following ways.
Vendors opportunities• NSO community: International
statistical organisations, Researchers, 10 billion USD, 200 + organisations• Statistical organizations will
increasingly adopt only CSPA complaint services• Offer CSPA compliant services –API• Work with NSO for new services• Ongoing modernization and
enhancement• Increased market
Committing to action
• Manifest • Formalisation of our commitment • Defines expected behaviour• Helps you drive change through the
organisation
• Maximises global participation in the community• Provides access to the strongest
capabilities from the community
• It makes sense for every organisation.
As active participants within the Statistical Modernisation Community, committed to the success of that community, the organizations listed below:
1. Commit to:a. Adopting community behaviours by:
i. Being willing to make compromises to take advantage of, and improve, existing services (where it is sensible to do so)ii. Actively contributing to collaborationiii. Behaving as a trusted partneriv. Sharing intellectual property and code with the community where possible.
b. Adopting an industry standard architecture in accordance with the CSPA, including the Generic Statistical Information Model (GSIM) andthe Generic Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM).c. Sharing information about investment plans and application portfolios, looking for opportunities to collaborate.d. Identifying existing strong capabilities within each member organization, and seeking to make them available as CSPA compliantservices with appropriate documentation.e. Producing (or commissioning from third parties) new and enhanced CSPA compliant statistical services in a manner that enables sharingwithin the communityf. Prioritizing mechanisms that support and encourage community participation when sourcing statistical capabilities
2. Affirm that the community will respect the individual sovereignty and requirements of member organizations and groups
Would yourorganisation
sign up to this?
Candidates identified so far
Is there anything that should be removed from the list?Are these of interest to your organisation?
Two key groups need members
• Architecture Working Group (AWG)• Enforce standards for definition, specification, implementation of services and
their publishing to the catalogue• Maintenance and evolution of CSPA
• Technical Coordination Committee (TCC)• elevating and supporting service implementation • Improve
Next steps• Reviewing and “signing” the Manifest for each participating
organization• Discussion at the Workshop on the Modernisation of Statistical
Production to identify:• statistical organisation who will design and build, • collaboration partners and • implementing statistical organisations.
• Assess individual organisation investment strategies, modernisation plans, common priority areas, planned projects• Use common portfolio management tool• Use ESS capability framework (levels 1, 2, partner on 3)• Evaluate the SO SOA readiness, use OSIMM model• Evaluate the candidate list
Outcomes
• Communicate progress• Getting more precise – Jakob / Ottawa sprint• To get the investment – bunch of stuff you need – investment sprint
• Get the Manifest signed• Look at the candidate list and provide fb –use Therese’s new list• Solicit participants for the Architecture Working Group (ToR: enforce
standards for definition/specification/implementation/publishing to catalogue, maintenance of CSPA; Technical Coordination Committee (ToR: elevating and supporting implementation, improve)
Statistical Data Collection / Metadata collection and managementCoding / using machine learning
Statistical Data Collection / Primary data collectionRefactoring BLAISEInterviewer workload management
Statistical Data Collection / Collection of administrative and other data sourcesWeb scraping
Statistical Processing / Statistical data preparationEdit and checking - BANFFImputation – CANCEISValidation rules specification Probabilistic record linkingAdmin data classification (e.g. for scanner data)
Statistical Processing / Calculation and finalisation of outputFAME wrapped capabilities
Statistical Dissemination / Flexible data access provisioningMicrodata access (confidentiality on the fly)
Statistical Analysis / Statistical output analysis & Statistical Dissemination / Flexible data access provisioning
Geospatial visualisation
List of candidate service – ESS CM
Is there anything that
should be removed from
the list?
Are these of interest to your organisation?
Delete