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6. Roles and Responsibilities describe how individuals and teams contribute to activities within the Knowledge Area. Roles are described conceptually, with a focus on groups of roles required in most organizations. Roles for individuals are defined in terms of skills and qualification requirements. Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) was used to help align role titles. Many roles will be cross- functional. (See Chapter 16).
Appendix A: Maplight.org [a] You are to design a database to support (parts of) a web site tracking money and politics in the U.S. Congress. This assignment and is based on the web site http://maplight.org (Slide A). However, the assignment will differ from that site. When it does, the assignment & Canvas discussion board are considered authoritative. Each election season, enormous amounts of money are contributed to candidates. To make the role of money in the democratic processes more transparent, you are to design the database for a website that will track contributions by various contributors to legislators. Each legislator is elected to a particular Chamber in Congress (House of Representatives ("House") or the Senate) in a particular year. [simplifying assumption: we won't track terms, or the possibility that a given individual can serve different terms in different houses of Congress.] The legislator has a party affiliation (Democrat, Republican, Independent) and is elected from a particular state. Members of the House of Representatives (e.g. Brad Ashford: NE-2) are elected from a particular district within the state (e.g. 1, 2, 3,...) and the district number is stored. Senators represent the entire state and therefore have no district number (e.g. Kelly Ayotte: NH) (Slide B). The name, telephone number, and e-mail for the legislator are also to be stored (Slide C, D). [c] A legislator receives contributions. Each contribution is made on a specific date in a particular amount, usually $100-1000, to a specific legislator (Slide E). The database is to record this contribution information, as well as the name of the contributor. Contributors are classified into interest groups (e.g. 'veterinarians, 'Cellular systems and equipment', 'Sugar cane & sugar beets', 'Attorneys & law firms', etc.). Each contributor is classified into a single interest group. An interest group is classified into an interest and an industry. For example, the 'veterinarians' interest group is part of the 'Agricultural Services & Products' interest, which is classified under the 'Agribusiness' Industry (Slide F). [d] An interest group may have a position (support, oppose) on a particular bill (Slide G). A bill is a piece of proposed legislation (Slide H). It has a unique identifying number (e.g. S.5 747 (114th)6; H.R. 1528 (113th)) and an official title (e.g. 'American Innovation Act', 'Veterinary Medicine Mobility Act of 2014'). A bill has a legistator who is the bill's sponsor and zero or more legislators who are co-sponsors, has a summary, has a date on which it is introduced, and has a
current status (e.g. 'The bill has become law', 'a veto override was attempted', etc.) (Slide I). Over time, the bill passes through a number of actions. Each action has a date (Slides J, K). An action may have an action name (if it is a Major Action) and may have a description, but these are optional. This system will not keep track of amendments to bills, or of other (alternative) titles, nor will it store additional information about bills (e.g., 'Learn More') (Slide 1). [e] Multiple votes are taken on a bill during its lifetime (Slides K, L). A vote (voting event) takes place on a particular day, in a particular chamber (Senate, House) or Committee, is taken on the basis of a 'motion' and has a 'result'. Legislators may cast their individual votes during a voting event. A legislator may have a vote of 'yes', 'no', 'present', or 'not voting' (Slide N). Based on a tally of the individual votes, the voting event may have a result of 'passed', 'not passed'. The number of 'yes' votes and the number of 'no' votes are stored for each voting event, as are the individual votes of legislators. In other words, it should be possible to determine how individual legislators voted during a given voting event and what the total number of 'yes' and 'no' votes were for the voting event as a whole. [f] You may assume, here, that the legislators' emails and contributor names are unique. You may also assume that a contributor gives at most one contribution to a given legislator on a given day, i.e the combination (legislator, contributor, date} is unique and is associated with a single contribution amount. A contributor can give multiple contributions to the same legislator, as long as the contributions are made on different days. A contributor can also give contributions to multiple legislators on the same day. A legislator can cast only one vote for each voting event. [g] With the data described above stored in a database, the website can determine the total amount of money contributed by particular organizations, to individual legislators. It can break down the contributions by the industry or interest. It can determine the amount of money contributed by contributors who oppose or who support a particular bill. It can also show the volume of contributions by organizations who support and oppose a bill over time. Note, the website does not directly link contributions to specific legislator votes on particular bills. That would be illegal... Outside of the scope of this assignment, but interesting to think about is to what extent contributions are correlated in time or result with specific legislative action... To what extent does money influence decisions in Congress?