Question

1. Suppose that you have been appointed the project manager for a project to develop an online booking system for a multi-doctor medical practice that will replace an existing desktop system. The key functionality that is required is as follows:

• Patient registration
• Patient login
• Book first available appointment with any doctor
• Book an appointment at a time of the patient’s choosing with a doctor of their choice.

What development methodologies should you consider?

How would you stage the work for each methodology? What additional information would you need before you made a decision as to your choice of development methodology?

Answer 1

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Software developement process is a part of a Project which divide development work into many phases to ensure better project delivery.

So now let's move on to question, In question the Project to develop an online booking system for a multi-doctor medical practice and key functionality that is required is as follows:

1. Patient registration
2. Patient login

The system should need to have both option regarding to booking of a doctor:-

1. Booking of a doctor can be done to any available time slot with any available doctor.
2. And in 2nd senerio Patient can choose time slot as well as doctor.

So these two are must requirements of this project.

By seeing requirements I should consider Waterfall Development Methodology as development because it is linear project management method which well fit to this project, In this first customer requirements are collected, then other plans will be created.

It is named as Waterfall because phases of project looks like same as down like waterfall.

Phases of waterfall model or stage the work for each methodology:-

1. Requirements: In waterfall model all customer requirements will be collected at start of the project. In this stage our projects all requirements will be collected through going physically to hospital and setup functions there to detect everything related to time slot and availability of a doctor.
2. Design : - After requirement we need to design project in such a way that fit for both logical and physical design.
3. Implementation: This is coding part in which we implement our project using programming language.
4. Verification: Verification is like same as testing part we will collect user reviews that the project meets their need or not by releasing project to customers.
5. Maintenance: In maintenance part customer will use project and gives bugs report, request new feature and Maintenance team will work on that until it fits or satisfy customer.

Customer requirements and hardware set-up to detect doctors's availability in hospital as a additional information is need before I made a decision as to choose waterfall development methodology.

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