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CASE: Big Guy Corporation Health through Technology Corporate...

CASE: Big Guy Corporation

Health through Technology

Corporate overview

The Big Guy Corporation began operation, on a small scale, in August 1989. Operations began as a private medical laboratory, providing bio-medical testing for hospitals and private laboratories.

In 1997, the Big Guy Corporation expanded operations into the medial analyzer field. Opening Toronto's first facility dedicated to research & development, production/testing and sales of state-of-the-art laboratory analyzers, the Big Guy Corporation has earned the reputation of being the number 1 manufacturer of medical equipment in Canada. We are now turning our attention towards the U.S and beyond.

Annual revenues, as of our last physical year, are in excess of 1.5 billion dollars. We employee 800, are well qualified people, across the country. Our strength is our people and we strive to hire the most talented in their respective fields.

Departments

While we have all of the departments normally associated with a corporate environment, there are some that require special attention. They are research & development and production. These two departments have special requirements over and above the typical business model.

Because of the nature of the business, we have strict policies concerning security. That is, given the chance, our competitors would love to get their hands on our research. Therefore, the research & development and production departments are in a state of lockdown 24 hours a day. It is imperative that all staff understand this and comply with all security regulations and policies.

In order to facilitate our security policy and also to gain some independence from outside suppliers, we are in the process of purchasing two companies. These operations will expand our production/research capabilities and provide additional specialty metals for production purposes.

The first company is ABC limited. This company is deeply involved in digital imaging systems, both in research and production. We can use their expertise to design and incorporate radically new technologies into our systems.

The second company is Brasco Limited. This organization specializes in refining pharmaceutical materials, something that we need in order to reduce our dependency on third party sources.

Due to the sudden merge of the companies, the CEO is facing a few challenges to handle such as merging different operating systems for cloud based data exchange, active directory management, centralized printing and back up and security review etc.

Questions

1. Design a complete scrum based framework for smooth transition. Identify the technical challenges, user stories, epics, detailed tasks etc. [8 marks]

2. Develop a WBS with timeine based on your solutions for Q1. [6 marks]

3. Assume you are half-way thru with the sprints. Draw a burndown chart.

[4 marks]

4. Do you think Agile manifesto is a good fit for this project? Explain with

detail phases that you plan to apply. If agile framework is not the only solution, what other framework(s) would you recommend and why? [5 marks]

5. Identify any Risks related to the project and the mitigation strategies. [2 marks]

PS: Feel free to make any additional assumption. There is no tool restriction (you may take screenshot of those tools' output if you use), but submission requirement is in word/pdf format in a single document. The tasks list have to be thorough and comprehensive - for ex., task definition as 'implementing security' or 'migrating to cloud' is too generic and not acceptable.

You may need to do research with the perspective of a cloud network admin for the tast breakdown.