Given Scenario AB pty. ltd., is a consultant company and is currently using an in-house developed Human Resource Information System (HRIS). The current HRIS does not cover the business of pre-employment which is being managed manually as well as other Human Resources department activities. This system has several issues that AB wants to resolve in new Human Resource Management System (HRMS).

Issues: Following issues have been identified in the current system.

CV submission

There is no automated system exists for CV submission from the candidates. Currently when AB requires a candidate for a particular post they give the ad in newspaper as well as advertise on their website. Also the HR department of AB sends the ad on different mailing groups like Indeed and Carrier pool. In response to these ads, interested candidates send their CVs through emails to the HR dept. The HR officer then manages these CVs, each as a separate file. One of the issues is that there is no common format for CV submitted by the applicants therefore it becomes difficult for the HR department to identify and shortlist the required candidate for the interview.

CV Searching

Secondly CVs received by email and managed as separate files are not used for any future need because it is difficult to find a candidate of required qualification and experience from a collection of many files. As there is no CV searching facility available, therefore every time company has to give the 2 ad and repeat the whole process of CV collection from the applicants which is not only cumbersome but also a least productive exercise.

Conducting the interviews

Currently there is no automated system to schedule, track and arrange the interviews, as well as to manage the outcome status of the interviews. The interview is conducted by a team of interviewers who give their report to HR in writing. There is no automated way to schedule the interviews and manage their progress, which sometimes leads to misunderstandings and miscommunications between the HR and the concerned department about the time and day of interview.

Personal Information of an Employee

Currently the personal profile of a candidate is maintained in hard files and no automated system exits for the management of AB pty. Ltd.s own employees profiles. The absence of an automated system has made the task of HR department difficult to maintain as they have to keep the record of many hard files in their office.

Benefits to the employees

The company offers several benefits to the employees, but the employees are usually not aware of them. Employees are often unable to get the updated information about the benefits offered by the company in time, resulting in many of the benefits to be unused.

Training of Employees

The company usually gives training to the employees. The HR department usually organizes these trainings but they do not have an automated system to keep the record and manage the trainings in the company

Goal

AB pty. Ltd., wants to resolve all these issues by developing a new Human Resource Management System (HRMS) so that all the necessary functions of HR department could be performed efficiently and effectively.

Assignment Answer the following questions with respect to the scenario given above.

1. By considering the given domain and the issues of the current system you have to identify the Functional Requirements for HRMS (the new system to be developed).

2. AB wants the new system to be built with in a period of 3 months time. Suppose you are the Project Manager of this project and you have a team of 3-4 people. Which of the following software development lifecycles would you choose for developing this project and why?

? Water Fall Model

? Incremental Model

? Rapid Prototyping Model

? Rapid Application Development 3

? Spiral Model

? Extreme Programming

? Fountain Model

Justify your selection by giving solid arguments. You are also supposed to explain that why you have not chosen other SDLC models for building this application.