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Closers David Beaton Kumaran Mahenthiran Jedadiah Crelly STEP Sponsors Dr.David Kluge Rick Voight Dr. Chloe Alexon Faculty Coach Prof. Tom Reichlmayr. Agenda. Introduction Background Goals Process Metrics Current status Demo Reflections. What is EMS Online Directory?.
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Closers David Beaton Kumaran Mahenthiran Jedadiah Crelly STEP Sponsors Dr.David Kluge Rick Voight Dr. Chloe Alexon Faculty Coach Prof. Tom Reichlmayr
Agenda • Introduction • Background • Goals • Process • Metrics • Current status • Demo • Reflections
What is EMS Online Directory? • One and only one nationally expandingonline database of Emergency Medical Services. • A central location for your EMS and public safety organizations in yourcounty, state or any region you wish to explore! • A tool for creating printed directories of all available EMS in as big as national or as small as specific county.
Previous Development • Ongoing project of last 2 years by SE Seniors. • Phase 1 (2004-05): Hazmat – Designed, developed and released to staging. • Phase 2 (2005-06): Pinchhitters – Re-designed, improved, existing features, implemented printable format, and released to production.
Goals For This Year • Improve search features • Minimize needed editor intervention for standardization • Automate creation of Printable Format of the directory • Adapt more Organization Types • Prevent multiple registration of organizations. • Move to a permanent server
Agile Development Process • Lightweight model development • Easily adaptable based on priorities • Small iterations, weekly scheduling
Feature Driven Development • We aren’t reinventing the wheel • Sponsors had a full year to assess software • Many of our tasks were defined in terms of features to be added • Features submitted through “feature request” document and assessed based on risk, priority and technical difficulty
Reactive Development (agile process) • Priorities changed weekly • Long-term schedule less structured, based more on higher level goals • Short-term schedule very fluid, reassessed weekly • Our process evolved throughout the quarter
Metrics cont.(TCE total containment effectiveness) • Defects-escape to a subsequent phase • Errors-discovered during the phase that created them • Industry standard 65-98% • We were at 87.5%
Testing • Testing occurred for two weeks before deployment. • Sponsors were given test environment to experiment with • Small incremental changes allowed during testing • Test plan developed to address major aspects of system
Lifecycle Environment • Two separate environments • Production • Testing • Features first added to testing environment • Sponsors would review and approve changes • Approved changes were migrated to production on a bi-weekly basis
Major Features Added • Duplicate organization prevention • Automated address suffix standardization • Automated data population into printed directory • Last modified search • Survey management • Search result display enhancements
Demo • http://www.emsdirectory.org
Future Features • A method to retrieve survey results • Mass address overrides • E-mail notification enhancements
Positive Aspects • Delegation of work • Team cooperation • Sponsor feedback • Release management
Areas Of Improvement / Challenges • Better feature identification • Feature creep • Source control • Teleconferencing can be challenging • Adapting process to match active system • Sponsors had timeframe they wanted to email all organizations to update information. • System was live-we had to be precise, no room for error