Rationale
Headspace project is the case study for this report that emphasizes on the establishment of a system namely “National Youth Mental Health Foundation.” The project will be addressing the bad health of the young people through the means of an online service that can provide real time suggestions on the issues.
Figure 1: Stakeholder Map
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Classification |
Stakeholder |
Impact |
Interest |
Responsibility |
Internal Executive |
Proposed system authorities |
High |
High |
Their responsibility will be to manage the operational activities and take the hard decisions |
Business system analyst |
High |
High |
They will be responsible for developing the feasible use case considering the needs and requirements of the headspace project. |
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Internal Operational |
The project manager |
High |
High |
The project manager will be emphasizing on the management of other stakeholders roles and responsibilities |
Internal Operational |
Project team |
Low |
High |
Project team will be responsible for managing the daily operational activities those are necessary for the project deployment. |
External Operational |
Medical specialist |
Low |
High |
Provide suggestions on the medical care |
External Operational |
Medical professionals |
High |
High |
Analyze the present and past details of the users and propose specific medical suggestions |
External Executive |
Australian youth |
Low |
Low |
Avail the services at mass and make the project successful. |
External Executive |
Government |
Low |
High |
Provide necessary commands and permissions for necessary establishment. |
Internal Executive |
Marketing Team |
High |
High |
Meet the market needs and advertisement |
Internal Executive |
Finance team |
Low |
High |
Manage the budget of the headspace project and keep it minimum without altering quality |
Internal Operational |
Supporting staffs |
Low |
High |
Necessary operational activities delivery for information exchange |
Dear Youths
Headspace project is an attempt towards making a better future through providing medical and fitness support to the youths of Australia. The proposed project will allow the youths to interact with the doctors at the virtual place and provide their mental or physical health issues and avail the best medical suggestions for highly qualified doctors. The innovative approach will allow users to communicate on the online platform and gather the necessary medical suggestions to be well and fit in this competitive world. We, would like to hear your opinion on the same project in manner to fulfil the basic needs and requirements of yours and propose the system that can do all these activities in better and efficient way. Please provide your valuable responses in manner to apply them for developing the system and assuring that the system fulfil your needs and requirements and more than that.
Q1. Please let us know the group in which you belong? Please select one of the responses from the listed options:
- Below 19 years
- Between 19 and 24 years
- Between 24 and 30 years
- Above 30 years
Q2. Health issues are the major problem that needs to be eliminated through the development of an holistic platform where young individuals can go and express their feelings and avail the best medical services. Please select one of the responses from the listed options:
- Disagree
- Neutral
- Agree
- Strongly Agree
Q3. The youths should be given the highest priority as they are the future of this country and could effectively and efficiently provide the necessary support in the economic growth of our country. This system will allow this approach to be effective, please select one of the responses from the listed options:
- Disagree
- Neutral
- Agree
- Strongly Agree
Q4. Please let us know if you or anyone associated with you is being suffered by certain health issues and needs to be connected with the system we will make an approach to contact you that will be helpful in making this system more feasible regarding the delivery of best service, Please select one of the responses from the listed options:
- Yes
- No
If yes, please provide us necessary details through which we can connect to them
Q5. Are you feeling to be connected with this system and facing certain mental or health issues and need some medical suggestion from highly qualified doctors, Please select one of the responses from the listed options:
- Yes
- No
Stakeholder Map
If yes, please let us know about your present situation and previous medical details, we are happy to help you
Q6. The developed system will be helpful in making the current environment health issue free and allow every citizen to be healthy and mentally fit in future, Please select one of the responses from the listed options:
- Disagree
- Neutral
- Agree
- Strongly Agree
Q7. The present life is being tampered due to such medical and mental issues and needs to be eliminated as soon as possible without altering the present live scenarios of the economic conditions assuring that the youths are living well and allowing them to live a happy and productive life. Please select one of the responses from the listed options:
- Disagree
- Neutral
- Agree
- Strongly Agree
Q8. The established system will be available for 24*7 and would be capable of delivering the necessary requirements and medical support for the users assuring that the developed system will be contributing in youths and the economic growth of the country. Please select one of the responses from the listed options:
- Disagree
- Neutral
- Agree
- Strongly Agree
Q9. The process could be less effective due to the unavailability of the doctors or less availability of the medical supports and thus, the attempts being driven could possibly lost inn vein. Please select one of the responses from the listed options:
- Disagree
- Neutral
- Agree
- Strongly Agree
Q10. The society needs such support at its every corner supporting the individuals in living healthy and better life through availing the medical support and care from the best available doctors. Please select one of the responses from the listed options:
- Disagree
- Neutral
- Agree
- Strongly Agree
Figure 2: Headspace Project Use Case
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001 Use Case: Share Stories: the youths will be sharing the information that will be transferred to the medical specialists after recording it into the database. This will include personal details, problems and previous medications.
002 Use Case: Capture Story: The specialists and medical staffs will be capturing the stories for further processing with the medical specialists. The healthcare specialists will respond on the captured story.
003 Use Case: Story Accessing: The users will access the story and the medical suggestions shared by the medical specialists.
Use Case Name: |
Medical Suggestions |
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Primary Actor: |
Users and the Medical Specialist |
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Secondary Actors: |
Administrator |
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Other Stakeholders: |
Staffs, Government |
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Business Goal: |
To provide medical suggestions |
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Precondition: |
The users should be successfully logged in to the system and provided necessary details |
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Success Condition |
The users will avail the necessary medical suggestions |
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Main Path |
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1. story exchanged by the user |
2. the message forwarded to medical specialist |
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3. specialist considers the case |
4. Guidance is provided to the users |
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5. suggestions posted in the system |
6. suggestions are displayed on the screen |
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7. suggestions received by the users |
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Postcondition: |
Regular treatments and suggestions can be exchanged with the medical specialist and the users |
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