Master Degree project - Australian laboratory plans
1. Introduction
In this information age, information system haspenetrated into every field of social life and played a crucial role to manyenterprises. Using scientific methods to analyse and design information systemsis helpful to improve work efficiency and economic benefits. The main purposeof this report is to analyse the feasibility of the design of an inventorytracking information system for an Australian laboratory. This includes systemdevelopment method, system requirements, cost benefit, project schedule, andrequirements surveys.
The project aims to address the outdated paper-basedinventory tracking system, using barcodes and modern database developmentinformation systems; this process can simplify the inventory tracking process, whichultimately provides an accurate status update and shorten turnaround times.
2. Project Work Breakdown Structure
WBS divideproject components into a hierarchical structure, including all the activitiesneeded to complete the project, and it defines the scope of the project. In general, the project follows five processes includinginitiating, planning, executing, monitoring and control, closing. Depending on the requirements of the laboratory and the object-orientedapproach, the project scope is broken down into different small work packages.Both use case and UML belong to the phase of IT system design. Work BreakdownStructure is depicted as below in Figure.
3. Verifying rationality of the Project Schedule
The systemgoal is to introduce an inventory tracking system to replace the current paper-based tracking system as defined in the WBS scope for effective inventory statustracking and management, which can recover the development cost as soon aspossible.
Theproject schedule is reasonable for the following reasons:
• The schedule is made based on the scope defined in WBS reflecting allnecessary activities needed for project completion.
• A reasonable duration of 48days to completethe project to meet customer needs and recover investment and at the same timegiving enough time for developing the IT system.
• The schedule includesactivities of planning, testing and monitoring and controlling to ensureproject deliverables satisfy predefined quality requirements.
In the process of analysing and researchingthis project, the most vital factors are user requirements and project budget,which directly affect the feasibility and success of the project. Likewise,an experienced project development team is also a factor to be considered by anenterprise.
