System Analysis and Design: Headspace NewAccess Project

Running Head: SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
Headspace NewAccess Project
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Non-functional requirements (Part 1)..............................................................................................2
Critical system qualities...............................................................................................................2
System interfaces.........................................................................................................................3
Requirements for user interface...................................................................................................3
System constraints.......................................................................................................................4
Non-functional requirement (Part 2)...............................................................................................5
FURPS.........................................................................................................................................5
Functionality................................................................................................................................5
Usability.......................................................................................................................................5
Reliability....................................................................................................................................6
Performance.................................................................................................................................6
Security........................................................................................................................................6
Review of cloud based.....................................................................................................................6
Strengths of cloud based solution................................................................................................7
Weaknesses of cloud based solution............................................................................................7
Environment in which cloud based solution is deployed............................................................7
SDLC Approach..............................................................................................................................8
Advantages and disadvantages of Predictive SDLC...................................................................8
Advantages and disadvantages of Adaptive SDLC.....................................................................8
Recommendation.......................................................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction:
This report will enlighten on Headspace NewAccess Project that is aimed at recovering
mentally ill youth. Headspace is a health organisation that takes care of youth mental health.
Along with help of government, Headspace operates nationally with a number of centres spread
in various places. Young people of ages between 12 to 25 years who are facing trouble in
physical, mental and drug addiction are assisted and supported by headspace centres (McGorry,
Bates & Birchwood, 2013). Face-to-face communication helps centres to communicate
information to troubled youth. Story told by young patients was previously recorded and sent to
general physicians in different fields and psychologists so that it eliminates inconvenience of
repeating the story every time (Child & Expert, 2015). However, a cloud based solution is being
thought of that would replace previous technology. As a result, benefits of cloud based solution
needs to be considered.
The following paragraphs will mainly focus on non-functional requirements including
user interfaces, system qualities, system constraints and interfaces. Additionally, FURPS will be
discussed in depth followed by a brief discussion on predictive and adaptive SDLC and their
usage in Headspace.
Non-functional requirements (Part 1):
Critical system qualities:
User experience, design and run-time behaviour of a system is influenced by system
qualities. System qualities or factors that are essential for a good system are inoperability,
manageability, scalability, conceptual integrity and reusability (Alrawashdeh, Muhairat &
Althunibat, 2013). Inoperability is defined as the quality of a system to cooperate and interact

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with other peripheral systems. Manageability is the quality of a system to be managed easily that
takes into consideration the efficiency and performance of a system. Scalability is a function of a
system that has capability to deal with increased load however not affecting performance of a
system. Conceptual integrity includes stability of the complete design and coding style of a
system. Reusability is the quality of a system that allows it to be reused in other systems.
System interfaces:
It is defined as a platform to interact with users (in this case patients and professionals). It
is a combination of inputs and outputs of a system. In other words, system interface is referred to
operating system (Suman & Rohtak, 2014). System interface will help user to display detailed
and specific patient reports, update notification, schedule reminder that will help them to send
reminder to young patients and doctor in-charge, and format data structures of patients with help
of HTML and XML tags.
Requirements for user interface:
Professionals and patients will control the Headspace application. As a result, user
interface should be user friendly so that the patients and professionals do not face any problem
while interacting with the application (Singh, 2013). The ways by which Headspace can make
the application user interface more friendly are by strategical use of colour and textures that
would grab user attention, maintaining simplicity in the application and enabling shortcuts for
boosting user process. Furthermore, the opening page should be formatted and designed by
carefully placing items in the page.