{"id":396,"date":"2011-10-20T00:23:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T07:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osucws\/?p=396"},"modified":"2013-05-11T23:17:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T06:17:04","slug":"evals-your-performance-has-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osucws\/uncategorized\/evals-your-performance-has-improved\/","title":{"rendered":"EvalS: Your Performance Has Improved"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n \"EvalS<\/a>\n
Now available to classified employees.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

The performance of the EvalS application is now ready for primetime use. \u00a0The team worked hard, in conjunction with help from Enterprise Computing, to make changes to the code to improve upon the speed of the application. \u00a0Locally, you should see a significan improvement. \u00a0What took over 30 seconds to load before now takes a second or two on bringing up a person’s evaluation. \u00a0The initial load of the application is about 4 seconds, and still a little slow for our liking, so the team is looking at how to make it better. \u00a0Half a world away, in Malaysia, I can access the EvalS system and begin entering in results, and on a slow-wi fi connection, it takes about 15 seconds to load. \u00a0Not too bad.<\/p>\n

The official notification went out on October 19th, by Jacque Rudolph. \u00a0If you haven’t read the email from the inform list, you should. \u00a0A kudos to the HR and Business Center team for all the hard work put into it. \u00a0I found out more than I imagined about the process, and there are a lot of nuances to consider, with bargaining agreements, and other particulars to work with. \u00a0Along the way, we hope we improved the process as well.<\/p>\n

So how did it begin? \u00a0Well it all began with a request for development of an electronic time reporting system, funded by the Provost. \u00a0As Bob Nettles and I discussed, the decision was to ultimately look at a vendor system for the time reporting piece, as there are good systems already out there. \u00a0So we couldn’t just sit around and develop nothing, and discussing with Jacque Rudolph and Bob Nettles, we said why don’t we tackle some of the other paper processes, and the evaluation process came to mind, due to its specific nature. \u00a0With approval from the Provost, we set off in discussions and Agile development. \u00a0We didn’t wait until all the details were there, otherwise it would have taken significantly longer. \u00a0The Agile method allows for more rapid development, while gathering the particulars. \u00a0We did show and tells along the way, and worked out many of the specifics.<\/p>\n

The development team of \u00a0Lead Developer Jose Cedeno with some assistance from Kenneth Lett, Mauricio Cordoba on styling, and Joan Lu, the software\u00a0architect\u00a0responsible for the overall technical design, put in a lot of hours, working weekends and then some to bring it together. \u00a0We didn’t have the staff of a Google or a Microsoft, or my former company IBM, to implement this, but the talent of the two helped bring this to life. \u00a0I put in a little time, myself on the original concept of the User Interface design, and Mauricio filled in the rest, so we do hope you find it as a good and modern interface. \u00a0There’s still some things we can do to make it better, but we have to save some things for the next few releases, don’t we?<\/p>\n

For those who don’t know what it takes to develop portlets, the little apps in a portal, send us a note, and we’ll fill you in. \u00a0It does take some knowledge of Portal development, along with java programming expertise. \u00a0So it’s not just for anyone to develop in.<\/p>\n

This is one of the steps Central Web is taking in Greening OSU. \u00a0So we encourage everyone to start using it. \u00a0For the Classified IT and Professional Faculty, we will be working toward your electronic evaluations next, so as I always say, stay tuned. \u00a0 Sincerely, Jos Accapadi, Associate Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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