Date of Award

Fall 12-1-2007

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS)

First Advisor

Josh Pauli

Second Advisor

Stephen Krebsbach

Third Advisor

Christopher Olson

Abstract

The Women's Center at McKennan hospital in Sioux Falls, SD is in need of a new scheduling application that will save the scheduling committee both time and resources during each scheduling period. This paper is designed to illustrate the processes involved from the initiation phase, when the project manager first became aware of the situation, through the planning, designing, and execution of the project, all the way to the construction of the actual application. This paper follows the 5 sections or phases of the work breakdown structure and through each, illustrates the deliverables that were identified and constructed. The deliverables were chosen based on the information requirement perceived in each phase. In the Initiation phase, the goal is to establish some preliminary information about the project, so for this phase the deliverables included: identifying the key stakeholders, establishing the project charter, and writing the business case for the project. In the Planning phase, the objective is to obtain some of the functional information about the application, and so for this phase, the project scope, the work breakdown structure, and the Gantt chart were identified as key deliverables. The Execution phase is concerned with gaining a detailed picture of the application in preparation for development. This phase identified deliverables such as: conducting an interview, establishing requirements, creating use cases, and creating the associated diagrams. The last two phases are concerned with how the reporting process was conducted, the actual production of the application, and preparing the final reports and conducting a lessons learned report. Once all of the information has been gathered, compiled and reviewed, the application can be written in such a way that the nurses at the Women's Center will know exactly what they are receiving and will be able to concentrate their efforts more on patients instead of reviewing and editing schedules.

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