NBSGUIDANCE
Working Group
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Editorial Board
Appointed subject matter experts who oversee technical report production.
Responsibilities: to ensure consistency, and sign off the final documents before publication.
Level of Effort per Technical Report:
Chartering: 2 Hours
30% Submittal: 4 Hours
60% Submittal: 4 Hours
99% Submittal: 4 Hours
Closeout: 6 Hours
Total: 20 hours
Technical Authors
Subject Matter Experts that draft document content.
Responsibilities: Organize and contribute the majority of the written content, and ensure the team is able to complete writing assignments by the project milestone dates. Attend all the working group meetings, and assist the Document Lead with additional coordination if needed.
Level of Effort per Technical Report:
Chartering: 10 Hours
30% Submittal: 60Hours
60% Submittal: 60 Hours
99% Submittal: 40 Hours
Closeout: 10 Hours
Total: 180 hours
Peer Reviewers
Subject Matter Experts that review the content of the documents and provide feedback.
Responsibilities: The Primary Peer Reviewer schedules project review periods for the Peer Review Team, organizes review questions and feedback with the assistance of the Delivery & Coordination Team, and ensure the reviewers complete their feedback by the project milestone dates. Delivery & Coordination Team will coordinate review sessions of the document.
Supporting Peer Reviewers will attend team meetings and submit feedback during project review periods.
Level of Effort per Technical Report:
Chartering: 2 Hours
30% Submittal: 10 Hours
60% Submittal: 10 Hours
99% Submittal: 10 Hours
Closeout: 6 Hours
Total: 20 hours
Resource Providers
Support Staff
Responsibilities: Identify relevant resources to support the creation of the documents. These resources could be manuals, case studies, reports, etc. Providers ensure the resource material is relevant to the document topic and upload resources to the resource library on the web platform.
Level of Effort per Technical Report:
Up to 10 Hours
Delivery & Coordination
EWN appointed facilitation consultants.
Responsibilities: Facilitates review sessions and coordinates meetings. Edits, assembles, formats and publishes documents as they become available. Creates and manages the NBSGuidance Web Portal for effective collaboration on document development.
Technical Reports Document Leads
Manage the Technical Authors, Peer Reviewers, and Resource Providers.
Responsibilities: Provide technical direction on document content and make final decisions regarding their assigned document. Define the development schedule for the document and assign tasks to the team.
Level of Effort per Technical Report:
Chartering: 20 Hours
30% Submittal: 40 Hours
60% Submittal: 60 Hours
99% Submittal: 20 Hours
Closeout: 20 Hours
Total: 160 hours
Project Leadership
EWN leaders oversee document development.
Responsibilities: Provide enterprise-level to all document working groups to ensure the process and outcomes stay aligned with EWN principles. Final decision-maker if conflicting comments arise. Recommend finished documents to Guidance Committee for publication.
Level of Effort per Technical Report:
Chartering: 8 Hours
30% Submittal: 8 Hours
60% Submittal: 8 Hours
99% Submittal: 8 Hours
Closeout: 8 Hours
Total: 40 hours
Guidance Committee
E&C leaders will provide insight and approve publication.
Responsibilities: Provide general guidance to project leadership to ensure effectiveness, accuracy, and usefulness of technical reports.
Level of Effort per Technical Report:
Chartering: 1 Hour
30% Submittal: 1 Hours
60% Submittal: 2 Hours
99% Submittal: 2 Hours
Closeout: 4 Hours
Total: 10 hours
The Technical Authors team will be composed of NBS Subject Matter Experts at the policy, planning, or implementation levels. Technical Authors will be assigned to a Working Group for a specific Technical Engineering Report based on the author’s level of experience, expertise in a given NBS topic, and availability. The development of each document will require a Document Lead, Lead Technical Authors, and multiple Supporting Technical Authors.
The Document Lead will manage the Technical Authors, Peer Reviewers, and Resource Providers. They will provide technical direction on document content, take ownership of the document schedule, assign writing and reviewing roles, lead Working Group meetings, and resolve team questions by coordinating with Delivery and Coordination Team and the Editorial Board.
The Lead Technical Author will manage the Supporting Technical Authors, schedule and lead team meetings, organize and contribute written content, research NBS topics, and ensure the team is able to complete writing assignments by the project milestone dates.
Supporting Technical Authors will attend team meetings, contribute written content, research NBS topics, and compile data such as drawings, maps, case studies or other supporting documents. They will work closely with the Lead Technical Author to discuss key findings in the research and develop written content together.
Resource Providers identify relevant resources to support the creation of the documents. These resources could be manuals, case studies, reports, etc. They will ensure the resource material is relevant to the document topic and upload resources to the resource library on the web platform.