Software Process & Management
Software Management Risk Measurement
The challenging factor for the IT experts is to acquire the updated information and utilize them for the specific purpose, which makes people life more comfortable and convenient solution. Software design for the human lifecycle is the basic requirement of this era. Many software engineers proposed the lifesaving software that deal in tumour surgery and improve the performance of the surgeon during operations.
There are several ideas and management discussions are in process for finding the better solution of the critical problem in human body as well as tackle such sensitive case via practicing the virtual operations. In general practices, universities graduates pay their worthy attention towards the software development process for the human lifecycle which is basic requirement of today’s surgeons. The proposed model of Software Development Lifecycle is present by the software engineering department students in University of Melbourne.
The effort of particular team by named “Aura” is suggest the plan in front of management which is clearly specify the modern technique for tackle the temporal bone diseases by surgeons. Aura’s team represents the virtual surgery project with its distinguished features and characteristics by creating a link between the software experts and surgeons. The conceptual theme of this project is to facilitate the medical experts with innovative technology which helps to deal with the serious patients of skull injury / cancer. In the proposed system of Aura’s team, there are a lot of risk factors are involves.
The key feature of Virtual surgery project is base on the information system which is available in form of explicit knowledge, but this software can’t deal with the critical nature of problems with support of limited information. The tacit / expert’s knowledge having their significant impact on virtual system. The presence of expert creates the wisdom approach on the bases of their valued knowledge and experience. After implement the virtual technology during surgery, nobody can denied the impact of realism.
It have own importance for human lifecycle, minimize the risk and desired results produced is the most demanding situation by the patient from surgeon rather from virtual surgery technique, which proposed by the Aura’s team. By adding new technology can be less effective for generating the expected results in the field of medical. Although, this project is expensive in sense of bearing the fee of experts from two different fields i.e. medical and software engineering.
The availability of experts is most crucial factor which can be the cause of failure, because many experts are engage in their routines job and focus towards the existing systems of operations. Medical experts give less attention towards the new technological approach because they are symbols of saving life rather put their patients into more critical situation after practicing the virtual surgery system.
Aura’s team mention under Software Project Management Plan during march (2010) that virtual software system is provide the support to medical examiner for improving their skills but the surgeon opinion is clearly reflect in opposite direction. The skill development process is relied on knowledge and insight which gain by an individual during his/her work performance via facing the turbulence situation. The unbalanced situation can be raised for the team to engage all the experts with their time commitment and contribution towards virtual surgery system via focusing decentralization approach. While this concept work in an artificial environment but in real existence biasness of knowledge intellect and conflict among the experts is create the barrier for successful implementation of virtual surgery system by Team Aura.
There are several complication involve in the system for the end user and make them reluctant to practice this innovative technology in routine work. A materialize sense of end user shows less confidence for using system in appropriate way, because human brain are less efficient to memories the thins / operations after single or twice a time teaching. It will prefer continuous process of learning for a longer period which is not cost effective approach by Team Aura.
Characteristics, Features & Requirements
As discussed earlier the primary aim of the software system is to enable the surgeons to virtualize the temporary bone surgery in an effective manner. The drilling process and the surgery surroundings with structure of the bone are shown in the system, which creates the helpful environment for the surgeons to enhance the possible of a successfully bone surgery.
The characteristics includes in this software system that enables the user to interact with the surgical surroundings with special features of sound and zooming, by utilizing these special focused features towards the temporal bone surgery, the surgeons successfully implement and execute a typical temporal bone surgery. To remove the bone from the skull, a drilling tool consists of a burr used. The burr is driven by electric motor.
By the proper use of different types of burr, the surgery can be customized as to remove fine or small parts of bone or to remove larger piece of bones. As far as practice concerns, this system can partially fulfil the surgeons to practice and enhance their abilities in a familiar and adjustable situation and such a cost effective and safe way to learn the basic methods of the surgical process. This software consists of a package for hearing and balance disorders which are the advanced surgical method applied in temporal bone surgery.
This software requires the more complicated tests to generate the finer results. A 3D model concerted CT scan results, which interactive functional access to rotational view of the model. It is a very typical process to get the actual 3D model from the slices of CT scans. The perfect interaction of the 3D model with the software system is another critical matter, which can easily be viewed and rotated as per the environmental situation.
The next step required the specific burr to use in surgical process. The measurement of the result oriented burr is very difficult and complicated task to perform by an inexperienced student or novice users, who are non familiar to temporal bone surgery. To select the required texture of burr, specific size, sufficient torque or speed and adequate pressure, a crucial examination required. Mostly student could not perform well at this step and fails to successfully simulate the software system. The clear view can be seen by the zoom view of the 3D model produced by CT scan, which are very important to practice the temporal bone surgery.
It is necessary that the 3D model of CT scan is structured to rotate and zoomed view by 3000% (30x). Furthermore, the sound and voice system also in a good condition as sound is very helpful in surgical process. In this step the software system of virtual temporal bone surgery requires a significant examination of the situation and makes a proper plan to execute the bone surgery.
At the earlier stages and first sight, the software system of virtual temporal bone surgery, seemed to be a great achievement of medicinal and surgical field. But in later phase different complications pointing out towards the difficulties and negative measures of the software system. Virtual temporal bone surgery still required more research and development work with prototype modelling, which focusing towards the analytical and behavioural sciences to implement and carry out the more cost effective and simpler way for the novice students and inexperienced staff to learn the basic techniques and successfully achieve the desired objectives.
Furthermore, spotlighting towards the theoretical models involved in temporal bone surgery. These theoretical models can easily be generated and students cannot find any difficulty and complication to examine the methods of temporal bone surgery.
To examine the pretesting approach in software development lifecycle, this technology should be offer in a portable condition, to examine the patients of different regions and different places of the world. There should be no boundaries, which bound the technology to some specific regions of the world, and couldn’t successfully implement in the other affected countries. The software system described above is a very long term software development lifecycle, which crease more hard to adapt and apply the system in an effective manner. Risk management and accuracy of the surgery is also an important matter. By the implementation of the software system, accuracy is doubtful as the conversion of CT scan into 3D model is a complicated task and could not be properly done by mostly students and inexperience teaching staff.
Surgeon preferences are play a vital role for the execution of new software application. It must correlate with the existing system and slight change in technology is welcome by the end user easily. Accessibility and reliability is based on the real experience rather then simulation practices meanwhile building a surgeon confidence comes under first priority. The ultimate concern of this innovative technology is to generate the business and provide the valued services to the affected person from diseases. Pre-testing and evaluation of virtual system is based on the results and response form patients and surgeons.
It is concluded that virtual temporal bone surgery software system required more research and prototype in their software development lifecycle to produce the highly successful and cost effective solutions with accurate results in the surgical process, which makes it a powerful and result oriented system to learn and execute the actual temporal bone surgery.
References
Team Aura, (2010), “Software Project Management Plan”, Virtual Surgery, Revision: 1.42, 1.1.1 Heading: Project Description no. 1.1.1, p. 01.