SysTest Labs is providing Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) support to the North Dakota Department of Human Services (DHS) with its implementation of a $60 million replacement Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS).   The North Dakota Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) Project is a turnkey development project where the design, development, and implementation (DDI) vendor is using a COTS MMIS product as the base, with customizations and extensions to meet North Dakota specific requirements. The DDI vendor began work in mid-2006. SysTest Labs was engaged as the IV&V vendor and came on board in the fall of 2007 as the requirements definition phase of the project was ending and the detail design was beginning.  The current planned implementation date is April 2011. As the IV&V contractor, SysTest Labs’ primary services include:

• Business Process Review. A review of current MMIS related business processes for the department and the identification of those requiring business process modification.
• Project Oversight.  Complete verification and validation of project artifacts and outcomes:
  • Review of all project planning and management plan deliverables, to include an assessment of completeness and adequacy
  • Participation in weekly project management and project work plan meetings as well as the monthly Executive Steering Committee
  • Identification and documentation of project risk and issues stratified by severity and potential impact to project success, to include recommendations and mitigation strategies
• Provision of monthly independent assessment project status reports to executive management on project health, schedule, and budget
• Design Review.  Verification of the Detail Design of the project, to include MMIS subject matter expert participation in design sessions, specialized design sessions on selective issues, review of design documents for accuracy and completeness, and identification and documentation of unresolved issues.
• System and Integration Test Review.  Detailed assessment and analysis of the system and integration test methodologies, practices, and outcomes of the DDI vendor’s test activities, to include weekly analysis reports throughout the test phase.
• User Acceptance Test Support.  Assist with the development of User Acceptance Test (UAT) plans and UAT test cases, and the execution of UAT through review outputs of test, tracking defects, and participating in the Defect Management Board.
• MITA/CMS Certification Support.  Designed the approach to validate the MITA/CMS Certification requirements to applicable sections of the Detail System Design, including the mapping of test cases that address the MITA/CMS Certification requirements for each requirement.