11/14/2008 – Implementation planning; ICBS BR 1.2.5 deployed into production; Physical inventory process

• After meeting with ICBS-R Team personnel the week of October 27, the staff of the Silver City Cache (SFK) began entering location, inventory and other data in team-provided spreadsheets to prepare for implementation.  Because of the Cache Managers’ meeting, scheduled annual leave, etc., Billy Lawrence says the data collection will take slightly longer than expected, so “go live” will likely occur in December
• Team members have been working on pre-implementation tasks with personnel from the next two caches in the queue: NCK in Redding and LSK in Ontario, California
• Due to forecasted incident activity in Southern California through December, the team plans to implement NCK first, then LSK.  Barring any unexpected problems, we expect to have both caches on the new ICBS system by the end of January 
• The ICBS-R Implementation Team recently met with representatives from the Northwest Cache (NWK) and the two NW satellite caches (LaGrande and Wenatchee) to explore viable implementation strategies and timelines
• Because the LaGrande Cache (LGK) is scheduled to move into a new facility in May 2009, a decision was made to postpone implementing any of the three Northwest Area caches until after that time.  It’s likely that implementation might occur after the 2009 Northwest fire season
• With the Northwest caches off the table for now, the team plans to implement the Northern Rockies Cache (NRK) after the two California caches.  The Implementation Team will begin working with the NRK staff to begin compiling cache data for the implementation spreadsheets
• On Thursday November 13, ICBS business release (BR) 1.2.5 was deployed into production. 
• This release includes several fixes that were affecting the ROSS-ICBS interface.  It also includes several enhancements and bug fixes that were reported by application users at the Rocky Mountain, Southern Area and Prescott Caches
• In mid-December government and Sterling Team members will help the Prescott Cache complete its year-end physical inventory process on the new system 
• The team has invited reps from the other four “live” caches to participate in this exercise.  Any lessons learned during that week will be shared with other caches that have not yet completed an annual inventory using the new system