1.1.2 Assessment outline. Your group will act as a consulting team, working with Golden Home, to develop a full specification against its evolving brief below. It will evolve because as you elicit your way through it Golden Home will spot their possibilities and or problems with its original concept that will need changing. The two outline briefs are as follows: Develop for Golden Home a detailed specification for the developed information system to meet its stated goal by the system's owner. 1. Assignment Description 1.1 Current system: The first branch office of Golden Home was opened in 1992 in AbuDhabi in the UAE. Since then, the Company has grown steadily and now has several offices in most of the main cities of the UAE. However, the Company is now so large that more and more administrative staff is being employed to cope with the ever-increasing amount of paperwork. Furthermore, the communication and sharing of information between offices, even in the same city, is poor. The Director of the Company, Sally Mellweadows feels that too many mistakes are being made and that the success of the Company will be short-lived if she does not do something to remedy the situation. She knows that a database could help in part to solve the problem and requests that a database application be developed to support the running of GoldenHome. The Director has provided the following brief description of how Golden Home currently operates. GoldenHome specializes in property management, by taking an intermediate role between owners who wish to rent out their furnished property and clients of Golden Home who require rent furnished property for a fixed period. Golden Home currently has about 2000 staff working in 100 branches. When a member of staff joins the Company, the Golden Home staff registration form is used. The staff registration form for Susan Brand is shown in Figure 1. Each branch has an appropriate number and type of staff including a Manager, Supervisors, and Assistants. The Manager is responsible for the day-to-day running of a branch and each Supervisor is responsible for supervising a group of staff called Assistants. An example of the first page of are port listing the details of staff working at a branch office in AbuDhabi is shown in Figure 2. Each branch office offers a range of properties for rent. To offer property through Golden Home, a property owner normally contacts the Golden Home branch office nearest to the property for rent. The owner provides the details of the property and agrees an appropriate rent for the property with the branch Manager. Size Medium Cost AED 5,000,000 Purpose Estate Agency Information System Length One year Risk Medium Scope State Agents Information System Economic Value Improve Customer Service The students are expected to deliver the following: A system request that you could give to the administration that explains the sponsor, business need, business requirements, and potential value of the project. Include any constraints or issues that should be considered. . A work plan A feasibility analysis (While full detail report is required when developing a system, the executive summary page and the summary spreadsheet that lead to the conclusions on the feasibility analysis are only required. Requirement Definition ( a list of the functional and non- functional business requirement for the system Develop a set of use cases for the major processes in your system Develop a process model that describes business process (create DFD (context, level 0 and level 1 diagrams) for your system) Develop a data model describing the data that flows through the business processes in the organisation where the system would be implemented (Create ERD for the proposed system). 1.1.2 Assessment outline. Your group will act as a consulting team, working with Golden Home, to develop a full specification against its evolving brief below. It will evolve because as you elicit your way through it Golden Home will spot their possibilities and or problems with its original concept that will need changing. The two outline briefs are as follows: Develop for Golden Home a detailed specification for the developed information system to meet its stated goal by the system's owner. 1. Assignment Description 1.1 Current system: The first branch office of Golden Home was opened in 1992 in AbuDhabi in the UAE. Since then, the Company has grown steadily and now has several offices in most of the main cities of the UAE. However, the Company is now so large that more and more administrative staff is being employed to cope with the ever-increasing amount of paperwork. Furthermore, the communication and sharing of information between offices, even in the same city, is poor. The Director of the Company, Sally Mellweadows feels that too many mistakes are being made and that the success of the Company will be short-lived if she does not do something to remedy the situation. She knows that a database could help in part to solve the problem and requests that a database application be developed to support the running of GoldenHome. The Director has provided the following brief description of how Golden Home currently operates. GoldenHome specializes in property management, by taking an intermediate role between owners who wish to rent out their furnished property and clients of Golden Home who require rent furnished property for a fixed period. Golden Home currently has about 2000 staff working in 100 branches. When a member of staff joins the Company, the Golden Home staff registration form is used. The staff registration form for Susan Brand is shown in Figure 1. Each branch has an appropriate number and type of staff including a Manager, Supervisors, and Assistants. The Manager is responsible for the day-to-day running of a branch and each Supervisor is responsible for supervising a group of staff called Assistants. An example of the first page of are port listing the details of staff working at a branch office in AbuDhabi is shown in Figure 2. Each branch office offers a range of properties for rent. To offer property through Golden Home, a property owner normally contacts the Golden Home branch office nearest to the property for rent. The owner provides the details of the property and agrees an appropriate rent for the property with the branch Manager. Size Medium Cost AED 5,000,000 Purpose Estate Agency Information System Length One year Risk Medium Scope State Agents Information System Economic Value Improve Customer Service The students are expected to deliver the following: A system request that you could give to the administration that explains the sponsor, business need, business requirements, and potential value of the project. Include any constraints or issues that should be considered. . A work plan A feasibility analysis (While full detail report is required when developing a system, the executive summary page and the summary spreadsheet that lead to the conclusions on the feasibility analysis are only required. Requirement Definition ( a list of the functional and non- functional business requirement for the system Develop a set of use cases for the major processes in your system Develop a process model that describes business process (create DFD (context, level 0 and level 1 diagrams) for your system) Develop a data model describing the data that flows through the business processes in the organisation where the system would be implemented (Create ERD for the proposed system)
