Information System Development for UNICEF Childcare Organization

COIT 20248: Information Systems Analysis and Design
Term 3, 2017
Assessment 1 - Systems Development
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction.......................................................................................................................................2
2. Approach to Systems Development..................................................................................................2
3. Systems Requirements......................................................................................................................3
5. Project Schedule................................................................................................................................6
6. System Information Requirement Investigation Techniques.............................................................8
7. Reflections and Conclusions..............................................................................................................9
References...........................................................................................................................................10
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1. Introduction
The paper mainly focuses on the information system that is needed to be
developed for UNICEF childcare organization that mainly assists in giving appropriate caring
as well as supervision to the children who are below 13. The organization follows a specific
scheme and as per the scheme, the parents need to pay for all the necessities of the
children including foods, toys and other materials. It is found that the organization uses
manual system for managing the organizational operation however the utilization of manual
system create number of challenges which is required to be resolved. In order to resolve the
problem that the organization faces due to the use of manual system, the executive level
authority of the organization proposed implementation of information system.
The objectives of UNICEF Childcare organization are as follows:
 To develop information system for resolving the issues associated with manual
system within UNICEF childcare organization
 To automate the entire process of ordering
 To incorporate facility of online payment
2. Approach to Systems Development
According to the system requirement, one of the most important requirements is to
select proper system development methodology. Therefore, in order to determine proper
methodology of system development it is very much necessary to analyze the various
features of the system. For the information system the development, the proposed features
include:
Auto-generated invoice system: One of the most significant issues that the
organizations are facing is in addressing publication of invoices during the payment
procedure for providing confirmation to the users (Matharu et al., 2015). Therefore, the
organization wants to develop this facility.
User portal: the facility of user portal is needed so that the users can be able to
register as well as they can also make the payment online. By utilizing the technique, the
user can also upload the details as well as other additional information about the children.
Auto order: The auto order option is quite advantageous as with the help of this
option, the organization will be able to order for the requirements of the users whenever a
new user enters or registers within the organization portal (Kerzner and Kerzner, 2017). It is
found that this feature is very advantageous in minimizing the wastage as well as shortage
of both materials as well as resources.
Justification
It is identified that for this project, Prototyping development method is considered as
one of the most suitable system develop methodology as it helps in providing the
opportunity to the developer to develop the prototype of the system at once for performing
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number of tests on the system (Fleming and Koppelman ,2016). As a system contain number
of features and therefore it can follow number of conventional method then it will consume
more time as well as money.
3. Systems Requirements
Functional requirement
The functional requirements of the system are elaborated below:
Online payment: Online payment facility is for the parents so that they can pay the fees of
the childcare organization online and be able to get automated details of payment at the
end of the year (Mijumbi et al., 2016).
Auto order functionality: The auto order functionality is generally present so that
the organization can be able orders the requirements of the children automatically
whenever a new user registers.
Login/register: It is found that proper register facility must be present for the new
users and for the existing users login facility is required for accessing the details that are
present on the portal whenever necessary (Bahill and Madni, 2017).
Non-functional requirement
The non-functional requirements of the system are elaborated below:
Device support: The system must be developed in a way so that it can be supported
by most of the devices including PC, iOS as well as android.
System security: It is identified that the information system mainly deals with
sensitive as well as confidential information and thus proper security is required to be
provided so that the data as well as information cannot be misused (Dennis, Wixom and
Tegarden, 2015).
Database servers: It is found that both data as well as information are stored within
the database server of the organization so that the information that is stored can be
accessed at any time whenever needed.
4. Project Cost Benefit Analysis
Project cost benefit is one of the techniques that is utilized for comparing the total
cost and the total benefit for the information system that is mainly proposed for the UNICEF
childcare organization (Sanders et al., 2016). Cost benefit analysis is used so that the
company can be able to estimate the net benefit that is associated with the project. In
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