Use the following case description to answer questions below.

The School of Business operates international business programs in 10 locations throughout Europe. The school had its first of 3,000 graduates in 2000. The school keeps track of each graduates student number, name, country of address, and the name of each major the student completed. In order to maintain strong ties to its alumni, the school holds various event around the world. Events have a title, date, location, and type (e.g., reception, dinner, or seminar). The school needs to keep track of which graduates have attended what events. When a graduate attends an event, a comment is recorded about the information school officials learned from that graduate at that event. The school also keeps in contact with graduate by mail, email and phone interactions. As with events, the school records information learned from the graduate from each of these contacts. When a school official knows that he or she will be meeting or talking to a graduate, a report is produced showing the latest information about the graduate and the information learned during the past two years from that graduate from all contacts and events the graduate attended. The university thinks the business school model is a good one, and would like to set up an information system that can automate the process for all graduates. The proposal is to attach this system to the existing university registration system so it would cost nothing to maintain. The plan is to hire graduate assistants to evaluate and design the system in the summer months, and the ITS department can implement the system without extra cost. ITS department has contracts with external consultants to modify the registration system, so adding a couple of modules can be part of the routine. Now, you are the graduate assistant to evaluate and analyze such system for the university.

1) List 3 key steps you would take to determine the system requirements. These are not requirements, instead they are steps to determine or to refine requirements. Briefly explain what each step is and why it should be included.

2) Provide a brief risk analysis of the project so you can make some efforts to avoid them.

3) Develop a baseline project plan that you can follow to develop the required components. You should include at least 3 of the 5 system development life cycles, SDLC, depending on the specific approach you take. You dont need to use PM software. You only need to describe the baseline tasks in each development life cycle. Notice the short time frame in selecting the proper SDLC.

4) Draw a context diagram and a level-0 DFD diagram for the new components you will propose to deliver. You want to use only the terms included in this brief description for your diagrams. This can simplify and limit the scope of your system requirements.