CWS-CARES Public Library
Data Conversion: How Counties are Participating
The Data Conversion Team has been working to convert data from CWS/CMS to CWS-CARES. To accurately capture the questions and needs of our counties, the Data Conversion Team has a process that they repeat every Data Conversion Cycle with new and existing groups for Practice and Data Validation (depending on service areas).
First, they schedule a kickoff meeting to provide a general overview of the data conversion process so that the counties know what to expect. For Practice Validation, the workgroup meets regularly to discuss the source to target mapping (STTM) and transformation logic for the original field in the legacy system and the new field in CARES V1. For Data Validation, office hours are scheduled to answer questions and walk through issues reported by the county testers.
The Data Conversion team tracks and addresses issues brought up by the counties, and revises STTM and/or transformation logic as needed. When functionality questions come up, the team also creates clarification requests and follows up with the Product team. All the responses and updates to issues raised are accessible real-time via Microsoft Teams.
We want to thank counties for their continued support in this critical process of validating data conversion!
Originally published in the CWS-CARES Explorer.