Committee and Agency Debate ADS dashboard bill, agency proposes quarterly reporting and technical fixes

The House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee on Feb. 9 heard Agency of Digital Services staff explain how the state's enterprise project dashboard works and recommended adding quarterly narrative reporting and technical refinements before changing statute.

Stacy Gibson Granfield, director of the Enterprise Project Management Office at the Agency of Digital Services, told the committee the bill's reporting requests focus on projects in the execution phase (phase 4) of ADS'project lifecycle. "The dashboard requests in the bill really are just aligned to that phase 4," Gibson Granfield said, explaining that the state captures many dates and estimates earlier in exploration and initiation phases that are not execution milestones.

Why it matters: committee members said they want clearer, actionable dates and reasons when projects slip from schedule or budget. ADS staff said some information is already available but hard to present useably from the…