PUCPR - Workforce Planning for System Development and Documentation

CLIENT
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR)

 
AREA
Health care

 
PROBLEM
Need to assist in the assembly of a high-performance development team to work in the PUCPR’s hospital system, working in a software factory model with performance measured by Function Point Analysis (FPA) techniques.

 
SOLUTION
Acting with great success in the development of hospital systems in the outsourcing format, with allocation in a software factory on Visionnaire's premises and a team of high-performance development professionals, formed in partnership between Visionnaire's staff and PUCPR's.

 
RESULTS
Complementation of the development capacity of the PUCPR technical team, allowing the hospital system of the institution to be developed and delivered according to its planning. This allowed PUCPR to respond to the needs of the business areas without the need to unnecessarily increase its internal staff.

 
TECHNOLOGY
The environment in which the hospital system was inserted included the following technologies: standard Java language JEE (Java Platform, Enterprise Edition, currently Jakarta EE), Pascal, Active Server Pages (ASP) and PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor; Swing and Hibernate; JBoss Server, JavaServer Faces (JSF), Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and RichFaces; Apache/Maven, Crystal Reports.

 
The following methodologies were applied: object-oriented analysis with Unified Modeling Language (UML) standard, collaboration and sequence class diagrams, and entity relationship data modeling.

 

  
Detailed problem:
PUCPR's Information Technology (IT) department needed to aggregate development capacity to deliver its hospital system. Although PUCPR's technical team was highly productive and had the required profile to develop the system, production capacity was insufficient to meet the deadlines defined by the business area, mainly for the development and testing phases.

 
For this reason, PUCPR sought a development outsourcing solution under a software factory model. The need was to hire a development team that would work in total synergy with the PUCPR team, capable of evaluating development efforts by applying Function Point Analysis (FPA) techniques.

 
Detailed solution:
The systems developed were aimed at administering the hospitals of the Associação Paranaense de Cultura (Paranaense Association of Culture) group, such as Hospital Universitário Cajuru, Santa Casa, Hospital Nossa Senhora da Luz. The project also involved systems integration using the TISS standard regulated by the Agência Nacional de Saúde (ANS, National Health Agency).

 
The PUCPR team identified functions or subsystems that were passed on to the Visionnaire software factory. Both teams used function points to measure the development effort, with development being allocated to the Visionnaire core software factory.