A project interface buffering model for application engineer management

This work describes our proposed project interface buffering model (PIBM) which helps to reduce and smooth the many conflicting problems among system engineers, application programmers, system qualifier and system analysts who have participated in the IBM mainframe rightsizing project at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH). In fact, the PIBM can be used to relax or even solve the traditional conflict burden between the vertical formal organization management (VFOM) and horizontal cross-department project management (HCPM), and then to create an acceptable environment. First of all, an overall description on the current hospital status and problem is presented. Then, the interface model is proposed and its current implementation shown. Related effects on the organization perspective and engineer careers are also discussed.