HRIS Strengthening Knowledge Base

From Osi

This is a collection of articles, briefs and how-to's written by our team on HRIS strengthening topics. Usually, these articles are responses to questions, challenges and problems we have experienced in the field. We have tried to gather our collective knowledge in one place as a "technical cookbook" for anyone who is strengthening HR information systems or other information systems in any context.

Contents 1 Articles 1.1 Data Quality and Management 1.2 Software Development Process 2 Tools and Templates 3 Additional Repositories of Knowledge 3.1 External Resources

Articles

Data Quality and Management

• Developing an HRIS Data Coding Scheme
• Using Previously Collected HRH Data to Create a Data Coding Scheme

Software Development Process

• Guiding Principles of Iterative Development
• Software Development Project Management Guidelines
• Visioning: The First Step in Software Development
• Requirements Gathering and Analysis: The Second Step in Software Development
• The Iterative Development Process
• Understanding Use Cases
• Non-functional Requirements
• Business Rules

Tools and Templates

• Actors and Goals Use Case Template (XLS)
• Scope In-Out List (XLS)
• Project Control List (XLS)
• Issues Log (XLS)
• Test Case Template (XLS)
• Help Manual Contents and Guidelines

Additional Repositories of Knowledge

• HRIS Strengthening FAQ on our project website

• HRIS Strengthening Implementation Toolkit

• Beyond the Toolkit: Resources for HRIS Strengthening

• iHRIS Suite Answers on Launchpad

External Resources

• List of ICT for Development Blogs (these are external blogs)

• Resources for HR Management and HRIS (these are external websites)

• Other Health-related Open Source (these are other open source development projects related to health)

• Peer-Reviewed Journals (these are the websites of journals on related topics such as HRH, open source and ICT for development)

• Resources (these are external websites on more general but related topics}