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DOB Now system priorities and implementation process
4:38:33
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Commissioner James Oddo provides a comprehensive explanation of the DOB Now system, its current priorities, and the challenges in implementation. He discusses the need to prioritize among numerous initiatives and local laws, and the steps taken to create a more organized approach to system development.
- Primary focus is on retiring legacy systems Biz and Acela by migrating them to DOB Now
- DOB has created a prioritized queue for implementing various local laws and initiatives
- The agency is working to improve transparency and order in the development process
- Challenges include managing multiple priorities and the continuous nature of DOB Now updates
James "Jimmy" S. Oddo
4:38:33
So chair, if I can just sort of frame out the DOB now.
4:38:36
So the as I said earlier, every everything goes through DOB now.
4:38:42
Every local law, every city hall priority, every DOB priority, every rule change.
4:38:50
And the that created a tremendous amount of work and and when everything's a priority, nothing's a priority.
4:38:57
So we've gone through this internal process.
4:39:01
We actually got some really good help from our friends at OMB to realize you can't do 50 priorities at once.
4:39:10
So we have our first mission is to retire Biz and the Acela program to migrate it to DOB now.
4:39:20
And then we have to pick priorities amongst priorities of local laws and various initiatives.
4:39:29
And so now the team has transparency on their their individual priority where it is in the queue.
4:39:38
And there is at least right now an order to this process.
4:39:43
And I think there's much more transparency internally within the agency.
4:39:49
And we just work every day to complete the original mission, which was to retire Biz, retire Acela, and then we will get to the pile now of other priorities that we have to build out.
4:40:03
And