Imagine this scenario: After considering their 3 target markets, Pine Valley Furniture’s board of directors has selected the student furniture project for the WebStore. They are asking you to help them choose a method for determining the requirements.
Don't use plagiarized sources. Get Your Custom Essay on
Systems Requirements Presentation
Just from $13/Page
Create a 12- to 18-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes to the board in which you:
Compare traditional, contemporary, radical, and agile methodologies for requirements gathering as they would apply to the Pine Valley Furniture project, outlining the advantages and disadvantages for Pine Valley Furniture in your comparison.
Recommend the methodology (i.e., traditional, contemporary, radical, or agile) you think will work best for Pine Valley Furniture’s student furniture WebStore and describe why you think it will work best for Pine Valley Furniture’s student furniture WebStore.
Explain “Figure 7-22: Level-0 DFD for the WebStore” of Ch. 7, “Structuring System Process Requirements” from Modern Systems Analysis and Design. Please note that this is more than just explaining what a Level-0 DFD is, you need to explain what happens in at least two of the process flows.
Consider incorporating multimedia and images where appropriate.
Provide any references and citations according to APA guidelines. Please review the Center for Writing Excellence material regarding references, citations, paraphrasing, plagiarism and the Student Code of Academic Integrity. To sum this up, proper references and citations are needed for all of your work and should also be provided on your Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides and speaker notes pages when needed – just having a Reference Slide at the end is not sufficient.
Please make sure your material is specific for the Pine Valley Furniture project and not just generic material. You should always consider that your audience may be more business-oriented than technical oriented so you need to spell out what you mean.
Submit your assignment.
Please note that I do not consider simply parroting back material from another source to be sufficient – you will need to provide your material in your own words and discuss or describe how any external material you provide relates to the scenario. Also, please make sure you properly paraphrase, quote, reference and cite any material you are discussing.
Regarding Speaker Notes: Some presentations are more just bullet points, and some are more sentence-like. Your speaker notes certainly do not have to be complete essays for each bullet point, but if your presentations are just bullet points, then your speaker notes should be what you would say to explain the point. Speaker notes are not required for every slide or for every bullet point on a slide if the meaning of the material is obvious or if the material on the slide is sufficiently explanatory. The Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation (and speaker notes) should be able to stand on its own to present the material in sufficient depth for the intended audience to understand the overview of your material and the critical details and to remain as a reference. Also note that speaker notes should be incorporated within the presentation using the Microsoft® PowerPoint® Notes pages capability and not as a separate file. Your speaker notes have the same spelling/grammar and reference/citation requirements as a written assignment.
1191268 – Pearson Education Limited ©
most efficient if the WebStore system exchanged information with existing
PVF systems rather than capture and store redundant information. This
analysis concluded that the WebStore should exchange information with
the Purchasing Fulfillment System (a system for tracking orders [see
Chapter 3 ]) and the Customer Tracking System (a system for managing
customer information). These two existing systems will be “sources”
(providers) and “sinks” (receivers) of information for the WebStore system.
When a customer opens an account, his or her information will be passed
from the WebStore system to the Customer Tracking System. When an
order is placed, information will be stored in the Purchasing Fulfillment
System. When a customer requests status information on a prior order,
information will be retrieved from the Purchase Fulfillment System.
Finally, Jim found that the system would need to access two additional
data sources. First, in order to produce an online product catalog, the
system would need to access the inventory database. Second, to store the
items a customer wanted to purchase in the WebStore’s shopping cart, a
temporary database would need to be created. Once a transaction is
completed, the shopping cart data can be deleted. With this information,
Jim was able to develop the level-0 DFD for the WebStore system, which is
shown in Figure 7-22 . He then felt that he had a good understanding of
how information would flow through the WebStore, of how a customer
would interact with the system, and of how the WebStore would share
information with existing PVF systems. Each of these high-level processes
would eventually need to be further decomposed before system design
could proceed. Yet, before doing that, he wanted to get a clear picture of
exactly what data were needed throughout the entire system. We will
discover the outcomes of this analysis activity—conceptual data modeling
—in Chapter 8 .
file://view/books/9780135172827/epub/OPS/xhtml/fileP7001015738000000000000000000A35.html#P7001015738000000000000000000A35
file://view/books/9780135172827/epub/OPS/xhtml/fileP7001015738000000000000000002867.html#P7001015738000000000000000002867
1191268 – Pearson Education Limited ©
Figure 7-22
Level-0 DFD for the WebStore
1191268 – Pearson Education Limited ©
