Problems with the project scope for the BPMEF

July 14 : Talked to Indika sir about the problems we are having with BPM project. He suggest us to check whether our solution is really what EC is wanted. We were feeling like what is left for us to do for what we planned to give in the implementation is mostly supported in WWF.

July 15 : Talked to our supervisor from EC Mr. Chathura De Silva regarding the matters we were having. He said that he personally think this project will give good value to customers in commercial area, but he is not sure about how it can be convinced to academic.

July 18 : Again we talked to Indika sir who is our super group super group regarding this matter. But he doesn’t like to see us to move us away from this project now as we have done quite lot of work on this, we don’t have much time left to start a new project whole over again. And also in previous batches groups who changed projects late got in to trouble because of time limitations.

With these things we were quite confused deciding which way we ahead. We had 2 options here. One to go higher level than what EC expects from us and give more advance features to this. And the other is to move another one. We already had discussions with several resource personnel to find are there any projects which we can do. Out of those new project ideas our members were highly interested in eHealth system’s disease monitoring system.

July 21 : Still were discussing about pros and cons of the 2 options we have. I discussed with each members to find out each of their individual thoughts on these where there were mixed feelings on this. But my personal thought was to find out chances of extending current project to higher level as we have done fair amount of study on BPM, WWF and we have some kind of understanding of these concepts and that knowledge will help us to go further deep in to these concepts rather than going on to do something that we have no clue. Starting something new has the risk of leading us to a worse situation than this as we haven’t done sufficient amount of study on this.

July 22 : When we were discussing on the project that we selected as the alternative for the project, we realized that on the worse case scenario we might have to implement only pattern identifying and prediction based on those which will lead us to a situation where there is not much for us to present for the project. Also we found there are opportunities for us to take BPM system concept to its next step by using “Operational Intelligence” concepts and techniques for handling huge business process databases.

So we are finally came to the “Million Dollar” decision to go ahead with BPM project with further improvements to the project idea.