Screening
Screening Team used to be called this.
What is the Intake Team? (or Data Team)
Alternate Methods Team used to be called this.
What is Applicant Methods Team?
He leads the Data Team
Who is Eric Yen?
SMART stands for
What is Standard Method Applicant Review Team?
This person leads the QA Team.
Who is Eileen Young?
Number of days Screening Team has to screen Applicants.
What is 5 business days? (1 week)
AMRM now stands for this.
What is Alternate Method Review Memo?
This current team used to be part of the Data Team.
What is the Screening Team?
They lead the SMART.
Who are Ismael, Justin, and Nahom?
Number of business days between submitting a memo to QA and memo delivery to FEMA.
What is 5 days?
Document FEMA sends us to select Applicants for screening each week.
What is the "Priority List"?
Besides SMART, they’re the only other teams that have team name acronyms.
What are AMT, TOKM, and QA?
Project Review Memos (PRMs) that the Data Team produced without SMART reviews.
What are “Bulk PRMs”? (Or Low Likelihood + Unlikely to Exceed PRMs)
Two team names that used to refer to SMART.
What are “Top-Down Team” or “FEMA Method Team”? (or “Team 1,2,3")
Excel file that lists project status, authors, reviewers, due dates, and other information for each deliverable.
What is the “Project Tracker”?
When an Applicant has at least 1 project greater than $25 million?
They lead the AMT.
Who are Mark Hanson and Tim Gulden?
List that the Data Team maintains to guide analysts' decisions on what costs are High vs. Low Likelihood.
What is the "DoB Matrix"?
The two kinds of memos that SMART produces.
What are ARMs and PRMs.
This person delivers our finished memos to FEMA.
Who is Wilson?
2 places on the internet where the Screening Team finds Applicant-specific financial data.
Where is EMMA, DacBond, Propublica, Applicant's website, HCRIS, etc. ?
As Paul Brenner always reminds us, this is the #1 advantage of Applicants submitting Reasonable Alternate Method(s).
What is: The Applicant is highly unlikely to argue with the results of its own method(s).
Excel file/template that the Data Team designs/ maintains to help analysts organize ceilings and analysis data.
What is the Analysis Workbook?
The time periods that SMART analysts have to divide costs into.
What are Calendar Years (or CY20, 21, 22, partial 23)
This person makes sure everyone receives credit for their publications.
Who is Becca? (or Christina who just joined us)