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CI7350_REASSESSMENT_CW2_November2019
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing
RETAKE CI7350 CW 2 Specification
Introduction and background
Technology and information technology in particular, can now provide help in many ways that were not possible in the past.

You are invited to propose a project that will help a small organization called KU Pets, develop a project using Agile principles and in particular AgilePM Project Framework.

One of the project criteria is to decide the scope of the project. You must identify a specific area where such a project development would be useful and feasible, and justify your choice.

The proposal will need to be constrained within a small budget for funds and development costs of a nominal £100K. It is expected that the project, will be up and running within 6 months, and result in some sustainable benefit to KU Pets within one year. It is expected that these funds, possibly with further funds from other identified sources, will enable any new long-term venture to become self-supporting after an initial period of up to 12 months. If you decide that your project will require additional funding beyond the £100K, you will need to show how this money might be raised and spent, and how it could be recovered over a two-year period. You can apply for further funding.

The organisation for which you must do this project for is called KU Pets, provides private health care for domestic pets via clinics throughout the UK. The Director of KU Pets is concerned that there is a lack of communication within the practice particularly in the sharing of information and resources across the various clinics. To resolve this problem the Director has requested the creation of a centralized database system to store relevant information with regard to: Clinics, Staff, Pet Owners, Pets and Appointments.

KU Pets has many veterinary clinics located in the main cities of the UK. Each clinic has a Manager and a number of staff (for example, vets, nurses, secretaries, cleaners).

The details stored on each member of staff include the staff number, name (first and last), address (street, city, and postcode), telephone number, date of birth, gender, national insurance number, position, and cu
ent annual salary.

When a pet owner first contacts a clinic of KU Pets, the details of the pet owner are recorded. Also the details of the pet requiring an appointment are noted.

The directors of the clinics are aware that the proposed system is untested so that changes to their original ideas may be made as the development progresses.

It was decided that DSDM Agile Project Framework would be used for the development and a kick-off Facilitated Workshop was held.

Prioritised Requirements from the Kick-Off Workshop

KU Pets need to:
· Register pet owners. (M)
· Input appointment details (M)
· List all appointments for the coming week. (S)
· Provide access to a central database via the Internet. (M)
· Input pet details. (M)
· Input staff information. (S)
· List all staff at a particular clinic. (S)
· Report on historical appointments (C)

Appointments for the last 2 years are held in various electronic formats at the many veterinary clinics.

Issues Arising from the Kick-Off Workshop

The new system should have the following levels of access:
a. Secretaries should be able to enter and update pet owner details, pet details, staff details and appointment details.
. Vets, nurses and secretaries will have access to pet owner details.
c. Vets and nurses will have access to appointment details.
d. System Administrators will have complete access.



The report should contain information to be used as part of a business and project case for the organization, plus any other potential partners who might support your venture. You should make a plausible and convincing case with a well-specified project plan.

Also several facilitated workshops were ca
ied out and some useful information has been put together as described in the case study description above.

What you need to deliver:

1. Project Title, Aims and Objectives of Project: This should indicate the objectives, and the deliverables of this project [6 marks]
2. The expected sustainable benefits that will result from the project any assumptions on which the plan is based [6 marks]
3. The key stakeholders for this project, and their expectations
[5 marks] 4. Summary of Project Justification and cost-benefit analysis including any intangible benefits [10 marks]
5. Total Budget requested - This should explain
iefly how funds would be allocated and scheduled over the lifetime of the project.
Where other funding or resources are relevant, they should be     mentioned in the bid.                          [10 marks]
6. A High Level Use Case Diagram that should directly relate to the business process requirements identified above. This should include the users of the systems. [10 marks]
7. Total of 4 users stories based on the MUST HAVE requirements.
Using the template: "As a
ole>, I want so that enefit>" and the associated Acceptance Criteria for each user story. [8 mark]
8. Choose 2 user stories to focus on from the 4 user stories above in q5. Develop 2 paper prototypes, one each of the 2 user stories.
[10 marks] 9. A class diagram that will form the basis of the database for the information system that will be developed [10 marks] 10. A critical analysis of agile methodologies compared to waterfall and a justification of why AgilePM approach is suitable for this project
                                        [20 marks]
11. Marks will be awarded for the Quality of the Assignment report structure, clarity, and format [5 marks]
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Vignesh answered on Dec 17 2021
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AGILE IN PET CLINIC: KU PET DEVELOPMENT METHOD USING AGILE
Animal husbandry
Animal husbandry has become a major economic activity in today’s world. This provides a high potential for rural employment at the lowest investment. In order to make sure an efficient pet clinic service delivery to provide a mobile veterinary service to all service to avoid a lack of communication between various clinics. A centralized database system is a setup to provide a service for all the staff in various clinics (Fine, et al., 2019).
Aim and Objective of the project
The main objective of the project is providing a centralized database system that provides service to clinics throughout the UK. All the data’s were stored in the same order for each member in the KU pet clinic. Along with the centralized database system providing a doorstep service to the pet owners to reduce the mo
idity and mortality. Planning the project plan about the pets clinic business provides the user to understand and plan an effective approach for development that provides the feasibility of the project.
Expected benefits
The expected benefits for having the project plan are to get the clinic financial plan as well as the feasibility of the project.
Some key purpose of having this is as follows,
· To understand the profitability of the clinic business throughout the UK in every clinic
· To calculate the average revenue of the clinic
· To understand the cost of opening a new clinic or new clinical practice
· To calculate the salary and wages on staffs
· To calculate the startup cost and monthly or yearly expenses
· To manage the clinic finance and when to payback
· To estimate to open new service like doorstep service in future
Key stakeholder of the project
The key stakeholder in the pet clinic project involved in the project is as follows
· Suppliers
· Manufactures
· Companies
· Government
· Distributors
· Retailers
· Service provides
· Pet owners
· Veterinary doctors
Suppliers
Supplier is an entity who provides goods and services to the organization. It is a part of supply chain management where it takes bulk order and provides the services. It may be a manufacturer or any kind of distributors. According to the pet clinic, Suppliers will be responsible for providing the required machines to the clinic. They are directly in contact with the clinic.
Manufactures
Manufacturers are the one who is producing the products. It does not produce the product based on the needs. They keep a target and produce the medicines because no disease could not be predicted so by without any specific target the products are made.
Retailers
Retailers are those who are supplying directly or indirectly to the organization. Some of the medicine could be directly obtained from the retailer but some are from indirect retailers so, for indirect retailers, suppliers are involved. They were in contact with the retailers both as direct and indirect.
Service providers
Service providers are staff who provides their services to the pets and their owner. When they a
ived at the cline they will take care of the appointment, giving medicines etc.
Pet owners
Pet owners are those who own the pets and provide all the required food and shelter to it. When it is necessary to give treatment to the pet they have taken them to the pet clinic.
Veterinary doctors
Veterinary doctors are one who provides treatment to the pets who got affected.
Each and every stakeholder has different expectation or involvement in this KU pet clinic. They were directly or indirectly connected with the pet clinics. Even though the manufacturer, companies, distributor were not directly involved in this pet clinic their products were used and the cost that was estimated will have their part in it. Suppliers will supply all the necessary medicines and medical items and they were the directly connected member to the pet clinic. Retailers were either a direct supplier or an indirect supplier. Some purchase medicine from the retailer directly while some request the suppliers to do this job. So they were either indirect contact or indirect contact. Clinical service provider or staffs, doctors and pet owners will be direct contact with the stakeholder.
Summary of the project
A KU pet is a small clinic provides private health care for the domestic pets that located in the UK. This has several clinics throughout the UK that plans to have a centralized database system to store and retrieve all clinical as well as pet owner’s data for easy communication between every clinic. They planned to record all the details including pet’s history, pet owners details, clinical equipment’s details, appointment details, service doctor details, staff details and medicine details. They were estimated the cost of the project setup of £100000 (£100K) and expected the project that withstands for one year. The aim and scope of the project are discussed above and the cost of the budget is discussed in the following steps. The project is suggested for long term service that uses an agile method to test the proposed system that allows having additional requirements in future. The project business plan for the KU pets clinic in the UK works by forecasting productivity, planning consulting visit, treatment visit, yearly incomes, salaries, ongoing and forecasting expenses, and startup investment.
The summary of the project plan of KU pet’s clinic provides the following activities.
· The KU pet clinic aims to provide the following benefits to the user.
· Store all information in the centralized database system
· Records every details of the user from manager, staff member, pet owner etc. for every clinic in various location
· Pet owner and pet details were recorded for future appointments and consultation
· This will list all the appointments in the coming week or for the full month
· Provide fast, reliable and safe access to the centralized database using internet
· List of all staffs in each clinic or particular clinic can be viewed
· Reports of the particular appointment can be given
· Appointments can be done through mobile service or on websites
Cost beneficial analysis
Cost beneficial analysis or cost-effectiveness analysis is a way of analyzing the economic estimation to relative cost that provides an efficient way to achieve the objective of the project. An economic analysis is important for every business plan that helps to take health care decision making. This is applied in three ways: to justify the defined strategy ex-ante analysis, to evaluate the contact of the cu
ent program and to evaluate the impact of past program ex-post analysis.
Ex-ante: this is the view of forecast events based on the possible prediction while Ex-post analysis is a view that looks at the result and events after they occu
ed. Estimated both of this will helps to estimate the annual cost of the project for the next two years. Below table contains the cost details that were used for the KU pet’s clinic project.
    Category
    Item
    Quantity
    Price
    Total
    Hardware and service
    Central server
    2
    Â£4000
    Â£8000
    
    Cable installation
    1
    Â£6200
    Â£12400
    
    Software licenses
    1
    Â£15000
    Â£15000
    
    User workstation
    7
    Â£2000
    Â£14000
    
    Medical equipments
    3
    Â£7000
    Â£21000
    System training
    System overview
    10
    Â£500
    Â£5000
    
    Software
    10
    Â£500
    Â£5000
    Total
    
    
    
    Â£70,400
Budget plan for KU pet clinic
Ku pets require to improve their clinic by resolving the lack of communication and sharing the information with the other clinics. So the director has decided to create a centralized database system where all the service providers such as staff and doctors can access the information. Once the pet owner visits the clinic their information will be stored so if he/she comes again then their information will be accessed. So that they can go to any
anch of KU pets and there will not be an issue based on communication. They have spent some money on improving the lack of communication.
The fund allocated for the development cost of KU pet clinic is £100K and expected to run for the next 6 months that sustain the result for KU pet for one year. This is developed for the long-term venture of becoming a self-supporting after the initial setup of one year.
Start-up requirements
In business, it is very important to follow the rules and regulation framed by the legislative. To satisfy the legal requirements £1000 is spent. For getting the stationeries such as surgical equipment’s, veterinary equipment’s, autoclaves, sterilizers, etc they have allocated £500. For medical equipment’s they are spending £20000. For buying lab equipment’s they are spending £15000. Every business organization should be insured so they should be insured and they have allocated £1000. For rent, they have allocated £1500. For clerical set up, they have allocated £1000 and for kennel equipment, they have allocated £2000. To create a waiting room setup they have allocated £5000. £47000 is allocated for spending total setup expenses. And they require £20000. They have a total asset of £75000 and total requirements are £122000.
    Legal
    Â£1000
    Stationery
    Â£500
    Medical Equipment
    Â£20000
    Lap Equipments
    Â£15000
    Insurance
    Â£1000
    Rent
    Â£1500
    Clerical
ookkeeping setup
    Â£1000
    Kennel...
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