bmarotto Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 Atfer 17 years on one BB computer system we are moving to another system. We have a mid September live date. Our system file build training was in December. Our HIS order/entry interface was problematic and took several months more than expected but it seems to be working now. We have yet to receive a billing interface for testing or begin the data conversion. Our superuser techs had their class three weeks ago and are working on developing training exercises. BB file build is complete except perhaps for some minor tweaking. New SOPs are about 70% complete. We will be doing our own validation. Summer vacations are starting and to make matters worse, a tech decided to retire now instead of at the end of the year. I would like to delay the live date 4-6 weeks to make sure staff are properly trained and everything is validated. Our LIS wants to hold firm with the Sept date and said once the database is frozen, BB can be validated in three weeks!!! I think this is unrealistic for a new system.My question to everyone is: How long did it take to validate your system (1) if you did it yourself or (2) if you hired a third party? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 Yikes, that's an aggressive schedule.We are merging two systems into one. One is Misys, the other homegrown. We hired a third party to do our validation, it took them about three months. We've been working on the conversion validation in house, and it has taken a couple of months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korchek Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 Atfer 17 years on one BB computer system we are moving to another system. We have a mid September live date. Our system file build training was in December. Our HIS order/entry interface was problematic and took several months more than expected but it seems to be working now. We have yet to receive a billing interface for testing or begin the data conversion. Our superuser techs had their class three weeks ago and are working on developing training exercises. BB file build is complete except perhaps for some minor tweaking. New SOPs are about 70% complete. We will be doing our own validation. Summer vacations are starting and to make matters worse, a tech decided to retire now instead of at the end of the year. I would like to delay the live date 4-6 weeks to make sure staff are properly trained and everything is validated. Our LIS wants to hold firm with the Sept date and said once the database is frozen, BB can be validated in three weeks!!! I think this is unrealistic for a new system. My question to everyone is: How long did it take to validate your system (1) if you did it yourself or (2) if you hired a third party? Our company performs validations for many different Blood Bank systems. Our execution phase is a 12 week process from the time we receive access to your system to completion of the validation. If you plan to do in house and have to create all your test scripts, this process may take longer depending on the amount of resources you have on this project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skopti Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 In 2003 we moved to a new BB computer system, we did the validation in house and it took about 12 weeks to validate.In 2005 we did an upgrade to the system and we validated the system in house and it took 3 weeks using 2 techs and 1 IST Analyst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adiescast Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 Wow, I thought our forced schedule was aggressive...We used scripts from a third party, but modified them and validated the system ourselves. It took us 5 weeks of very hard work and we barely made the deadline. I am still trying to clean up the paperwork so it is presentable for inspection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmarotto Posted August 15, 2007 Author Share Posted August 15, 2007 Our go-live date has been moved to November 12th...phew!. We are testing our param settings now (looks to be about 400 of them) then we will spend 6 weeks running some test scripts.Did you use a screen capture program? I am using SnagIt and annotating the screen capture to highlight and describe what is being tested. The vendor provided a template of all the params and what they do depending on our settings. I am naming each screen capture file with the index number from the template and the param name. Some require captures of successive screens to see the whole picture. I am also using some video captures. It is time consuming but it is really giving me a better understanding of what each param does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mini Me Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Hi adiescast How was your experience with the scripts. Did you do the testing or third party did it. Was using or modifying scripts was hard for you. ThanksMini Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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