BT & National Health (NPFiT)

We supplied a consultant to British Telecom who performed two roles over a period of 24 months:

• Project: Spine, the UK national database and transactional messaging service for the NHS National Program for IT (NPFiT).
• Technology: Oracle Database, HL7 & XML Messaging, Java J2EE Applications. Multi Tier Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Role 1: Business/Systems Analystfor two of the Spine sub-systems: Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions (ETP/EPS) and View Prescriptions & Dispensing (VPD). Maintenance and updates to sub-system requirement specifications, business impact reports, defect analysis and resolution. UML / use-case documentation conforming to RUP methodology, managed in a Prince 2 project environment.
  • Functional Modelling: Use Case Specification, Activity Diagrams.
  • Data Modelling: Entity Relationship Diagrams, Interface definitions (XML), State Transition Diagrams.
  • Workshop facilitation with key stakeholder (including: domain managers, business clients, system architects and third party suppliers) for elaboration of business requirements.
• Role 2: Quality Assurance of analysis, design and delivery documentation produced by BT personnel and also third party supplier development teams (on-shore & off-shore).  Facilitation peer reviews and formal review workshop.  Documentation reviews for: sub-system requirement specifications, system design specifications, component design specifications, test plans, test scripts, test reports (functional and non-functional), deployment guides & release notes.  Reporting to the project quality manager for escalation of any issues and for updates to the project risk register.

Tools: MS Word/Excel/Powerpoint, Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, Mercury Test Director, Mercury Quality Centre, XML Spy