4/16/2010 CSS Billing Working Group

10:00 am in N42-286

Proposed Agenda:  "CSS Cohesion, Transparency, Collective Effort"

• Recap -- where we are in what we're working on. 

1. 1. Group Cohesion as the Billing Working Group -- regular meetings, shared perspective on our common problems, respect for our individually different problems.  We are the group and we can solve our problems. 
   2. PMATS -- asked SAIS to change the DTR text to be more useful
   3. Direct Billing via TNSC-for-CSS* *-- evaluated whether Direct Billing in this way should be in our toolkit, and if so, start prototyping how. 

• Operational Standards -- Group Process Calendar
  • with Irina Vainstock facilitating, as part of CSS HQ's Process Calendar initiative
  • Schedule billing windows per line of business.  Let's hammer out a consistent production schedule – how often and precisely when in the month/quarter will we commit to processing the existing billables?  Goals include smoothing out volume of JV files sent to finance
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• Other Process Improvement Initiatives
  • Remind ourselves of things on The List -- should we take any off?
  • Brainstorm things not on the list -- what might we want to add?
  • Prioritize things that are on the new list
  • Spawn child processes to swarm things forward -- do people want to sign up to work on certain things?