Information Systems Analysis and Design for International Charity Foundation

COIT 20248: Information Systems Analysis and Design
Term 2, 2018
Assessment 1 - Systems Analysis
Lecturer: xxx
Tutor: xxxx
Prepared by:
Student Name: xxx
Student Number: xxx

Table of Contents
1. Introduction.......................................................................................................................................1
2. Approach to Systems Development..................................................................................................2
3. Systems Requirements......................................................................................................................3
4. Project Cost and Benefit Analysis......................................................................................................4
5. Project Schedule................................................................................................................................6
6. System Information Requirement Investigation Techniques.............................................................8
7. Reflections and Conclusions..............................................................................................................9
References...........................................................................................................................................10

1. Introduction
In order to provide funding to young children for their education and medical treatment, Mr. Colin
MacFarlane of Rotary Club of Box Hill Central set up the International Charity Foundation (ICF) in
partnership with In-country Facilitators and Australian OAGDS (Overseas Aid Gift Deduction Scheme)
organisations. The company is a private ancillary fund and receives donations from various sponsors
for their main operational purposes.
Due to the use of manual operational system, the current operations are slow and very less efficient.
Hence, the company has decided to conduct a project for the implementation of an information
system that will be to solve the existing operational problems and issues.
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2. Approach to Systems Development
System development methods are used to develop particular systems based on their requirements.
There are several methods that are aligned with standard project management methodologies for
the development of the system (Jin 2015). Some of the common systems development methods
used are waterfall, agile, scrum, rapid prototyping and others.
Based on the analysis and requirements of the case study, the most suitable approach for systems
development is rapid prototyping. Rapid prototyping method involves continuous development of
prototype until all the issues are resolved and the final design is ready for implementation. One main
advantage of this method is that several components of the project can be designed and developed
at the same time and hence, reduces excess time required if the development is done one by one. In
this project, there are several features of the system that need to be developed and hence, using the
prototyping method, they can be simultaneously developed with much reduced project time
required.
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