The entire project was conducted in three stages over the course of 21 months starting in September 2002. The first stage focused on the refinement of the idea of a State-Local Gateway and the selection of applications to be included in the prototype. The second stage was the development of the Prototype, and the final stage consisted of prototype testing and refinement. After the prototype development, field testers across NYS were recruited to evaluate the Prototype in terms of ease of use, usefulness, convenience, and speed, and to compare it to the current method of working. The field test also elicited information about policy and management implications of developing a fully-functioning State-Local Gateway in NYS. In terms of tasks and products, the phases were organized as shown in Table 2.

Time Period	Participants	Actions	Products and Results
Project Exploration and Initiation
Summer 2002	NYS Office For Technology’s Local eCommerce/ eGovernment Advisory Committee	Committee meetings and workshops	Discussions about the growing number of individual intergovernmental information systems and ideas about pursuing single point of contact
Fall 2002	CTG Members of NYS OFT’s Local eCommerce/ eGovernment Advisory Committee	Exploratory meetings and workshops	Current practice research Identification of characteristics of an ideal state-local gateway Identification of applications for the Prototype Recruitment of Prototype Team Members
Systems Analysis, Design, & Development
Winter 2003	CTG Prototype Team members	Prototype development meetings	Detailed end-to-end process maps Prototype scope statements Application-specific service objective statements
Summer 2003	Corporate Partners CTG Prototype Team members	Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions	Functional requirements Business process rules Data flows and requirements
Fall 2003	Corporate Partners CTG Prototype Team members	Development meetings Writing, testing software Code and Design review	Web maps Software architecture documents Software requirement specifications Use case realization specifications Source data identification Data cleansing and integration Draft Prototype components
Testing
Fall 2003	Corporate Partners CTG Prototype Team members	Individual application testing Integration testing User acceptance testing	Refined Prototype ready for field test
Training and Prototype Evaluation
Fall 2003	Corporate Partners CTG Prototype Team members Additional Field Testers	Training 2-week Field Test Discussion groups	Prototype Evaluation Project Report
Prototype Decommission
Late Fall 2003	Corporate Partners CTG	Prototype debrief session Prototype disabled	Documented learning from Prototype development Prototype artifacts archived