Question:
I'm an attorney, and am
starting to code my own cases with the Workload Drivers now.
Can the Defender in an office designate
a case manager to code the workload drivers?
Answer:
Please DO NOT code any Workload
Drivers, without explicit direction by your Defender or Executive Director.
For the vast majority of offices, the
Workload Drivers do not need to be coded until the fall data collection period.
That is the planned deployment schedule for dData and the Work Measurement
Study.
The Steering Group will be providing
additional training webinars over the summer, on the proper coding of Workload
Drivers.
Some offices are voluntarily coding the
drivers now, in June, and will be coding the Workload Drivers through the
summer and the fall collection periods. Defenders in those offices have chosen
to undertake this early coding, to provide additional data for later analysis.
Coding the Workload Drivers is a
substantial undertaking, requires much coordination and training, and a great
deal of quality control. If the Workload Drivers are entered now, in the
Spring, their coding must must be very accurate. This coding project can,
therefore, only be undertaken at the direction of the Defender or Executive
Director. Please do not code the workload drivers now, in the Spring of 2014,
absent explicit direction from your Defender or Executive Director.
Defenders and Executive Directors who
are interested in voluntarily coding Workload Drivers now should contact the
Steering Group, for advice on the procedures we recommend for training and
coding. Some members of the Steering Group are part of this Spring coding
effort, and can advise on the use of a case manager, "a Driver
Driver") to help with the Workload Driver coding effort.
