use cases for the ZIMS Project

Use cases are the standardized definition of a business activity that will be supported within the ZIMS application. At the end of each Joint Application Development (JAD) session, our objective is to have captured the information necessary to document the named use cases.

Use cases will build the foundation on which the ZIMS application is built. Using the JAD process should keep ZIMS development costs down by reducing the chance of application errors and/or omissions in the design that can be costly to correct at a later date.

Completed use cases

JAD 1, Minneapolis
28 attendees (22 organizations/8 countries represented)

Core
1.                  Acquisition
2.                  Accession
3.                  Disposition
4.                  Animal Transfers within Institution

Vet
1.                  Imaging
2.                  Manage Clinical Notes
3.                  Drug inventory Maintenance
4.                  Prescription Drug Processing
5.                  Drug Usage Tracking
6.                  Drug Inventory
7.                  Diet Notes

JAD 2, Sydney
26 attendees (15 organizations/9 countries represented) 

Core
1.                  External Transfers
2.                  Animal identification
3.                  Maintain Demographic Information
4.                  Maintain Genetic information
5.                  Maintain Morphometric Information
6.                  Reproduction Monitoring and Manipulation
7.                  Life Stage Management
8.                  Animal Observation
9.                  Management Action and Planning
10.              Enclosure and System Management
11.              Enclosure and System Environment Monitoring
12.              Enclosure and System Tracking

Vet
1.                  Maintain Automated Protocols
2.                  Maintain Documented protocols
3.                  Maintain Physiological Data
4.                  External Sample Request Processing
5.                  Internal Sample Request Processing
6.                  Sample Collection
7.                  Sample Analysis and Test Result Processing
8.                  Sample Bank Storage Management
9.                  Sample Receiving
10.              Sample Banking Deposit
11.              Sample Banking Disposition
12.              Sample Banking Inventory Reconciliation
13.              Sample Shipping

JAD 3, Dvur Kralove
20 attendees(7 countries represented, including 10 veterinarians from 6 countries)

Topic of use cases:
1.                  Scheduling
2.                  Clinical medicine
3.                  Preventative healthcare
4.                  Necropsy
5.                  Pathology
6.                  Reports and permits
7.                  Visual and physical examination
8.                  Assessment
9.                  Diagnosis and treatment
10.              Immobilization
11.              Quarantine management
12.              Paristitology surveillance and control
13.              Pre-shipment
14.              Scheduling
15.              Necropsy
16.              Routine exams 

More information on use cases is available through IADISC (www.iadisc.org).