1.Project Scope Shift

MedTech and the 340 team had made an agreement of shifting the scope. The team will focus more on requirements gathering on other areas of care facility management in the coming a few weeks. This would include areas such as incident reporting, resident register and admission. The 340 team was also asked to investigate other similar software products both in New Zealand and overseas. The document deliverables will involve completing two modules of functional document specification for two areas and one technical document specification for one module. The trade off of doing this is that Medtech only requires from the 340 team to develop a prototype of care plan module. In addition, the team also do not need to consider the integration of the other modules and user acceptance.

2. Lack of documentation skill

Since MedTech has shifted the scope of this project and it will require more requirements gathering and analysis, the consequence of this is that there are more documentation to do. But two of the team members are international students and lack of English written skills. From the previous situations, the other team member is needed to review and rework the other two member’s writing. That is very time consuming for that team member. However, there is no other solution and this action will have to take place in the future. Moreover, the other two members will improve their writing skills as much as they can.

3. Delay of document sign off

There is quite a lot of document deliverables required to be signed-off by MedTech. It was a fact that the project team could not fully meet the standards required by MedTech during last month, resulting in the team having to spend a lot of time on the finding document. That causes ripple effect and delays the whole project. The only way to solve this is to put more time on it after the exam.

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