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Vitalograph
7 . Lessons Learnt
There were two main lessons learnt by the team throughout
the duration of the project:
- Resourcing
– It is vitally important to ensure that the
project is properly resourced and therefore to have
a very good understanding of what can be sub-contracted
and how much work that will leave internally. If
an organisation isn’t sub-contracting 100%
of the project, how much time will you be expected
to put into it? How much time will members of your
team put into it and has an allowance been made
for this?
- Ensure
requirements are properly defined – It is both unfair and unwise
to expect a vendor to understand exactly what your needs are without
giving them a strong brief. It’s the responsibility of the client
to get this right and to do this, a full understanding of all the business
requirements will be needed.
8
. Future Plans
The design of the website will allow Vitalograph to add further functionality
in the future. Plans for this functionality include:
- Supplier
access to certain parts of the MRP system via the
web e.g. to check availability of stock – when
stocks run down, new stock is automatically re-ordered
- Online
ordering for other offices
- Availability
of training packages for distributors or service
engineers
- Software
updates and patches for customers to download directly (this would significantly
reduce the cost of the current process which requires Vitalograph to
send the updates out on a CD)
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