Schedule enhancements for FY21 | Allow single-day dockets without room assignment

[chandracarney]

Description

Expand hearing room and day capacity for FY21 schedules to be built, and expanded upon as needs arise.

The Board would like to allow single-day dockets without room assignments in order to build:

• AMA-only dockets (thus also filling existing dockets with legacy) in order for AVLJs and others to hear AMA-only cases
• One-off dockets for extra capacity to alleviate COVID-19 strain

The Board would like to expand standard scheduling capacity by:

• Adding 5 more hearing rooms
• Making the time slots consistent by standardizing to 12 across ROs
• Expanding Central Office to have 5 business days instead of 4

Investigate what work needs to be done to remove or introduce new requirements, and work towards these goals.

Acceptance criteria

• Investigate constraints surrounding building single-day dockets Understand any Caseflow constraints for creating new hearing day without a room associated #14614
• Investigate adding room and day capacity for FY21 schedule Investigate increase in hearing schedule days/rooms #14769
• Add 5 hearing rooms to schedule Change number of slots for hearing days; add new hearing rooms #14772
• Make the time slots consistent / standardize to 12 across ROs Change number of slots for hearing days; add new hearing rooms #14772
• Make Central Office slots 10 across the board Change number of slots for hearing days; add new hearing rooms #14772
• Allow individual days with hearing room “none” to schedule Veterans

Background/context/resources

Related work

#13975