System Designs Assignment

Running head: SYSTEM DESIGNS
System designs
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Part A:
This section includes a report and memorandum to be discussed as a report.
Introduction:
The following report discusses about the business operations of a Melbourne based
business. The chosen company is the Free Feet Socks Limited (FFSL) and the chosen country is
Australia. The main operations of the business include purchasing raw materials from three
different countries and selling them by using postal delivery services. This report discusses
about the adaptive development methods. This process depicts the use of various applications
and processes with respect to the normal work processes. The report also includes the definitions
of three different adaptive methodologies which include the Scrum, XP and the UP methods.
Moreover, the report also includes a memorandum regarding the inclusion of the human
computer interaction processes to be integrated in the normal business operations of the
concerned company.
Discussion:
This section of the report includes a general comparison among three different adaptive
methodologies which include the Scrum, XP and the UP methods.
Adaptive methodology 1:
This section of the report discusses about the Scrum methodology.
Discussion:
The Scrum is a technology which is used for the development of a software technology.
This method involves segmenting the entire project scope into various sub-processes to be

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completed by various teams of developers. These teams are responsible for completing the tasks
and updating their progresses with each 15 min intervals (Łukasiewicz and Miler 2012). This
method is similar to the agile project management methods which consist of the empirical
methods of system developments. The main use of this development process is to increase the
productivity of the project by applying a significant reduction in time to accomplish them. In
addition, the use of the Scrum methods is also adopted during the management of extreme
programming (XP) based projects. The basic considerations of the XP projects aims to answer
the questions of the team associated along with the considerations to be taken for meeting the
customer’s perspectives.
Advantages:
The first advantage of the Scrum method is that it can be used to know the outcome of a
hard project. This can be used to let the managers know about the outcomes and apply the
solutions accordingly.
The next advantage of this method is that it can be used to quickly apply the changes in
the project and the presence of errors can be removed. This can be used to increase the efficiency
in productivity of the project development methods.
The third advantage of this method is that it can be used to increase the visibility of the
project steps (Mahalakshmi and Sundararajan 2013). This is done by frequently updating the
progress of the project and thus helps to increase the visibility of it.
The last advantage of this method is that it can be used with any technologies especially
the web 2.0 which helps in developing a more efficient and cheaper productivity.

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Disadvantages:
The first disadvantage is the need for specifying the requirements of a project. In case it
is not specified correctly, the costs and time aspects will cause hindrance to the progress of the
project development.
The next disadvantage is that it can only be used by small teams and not with larger
teams. In addition, the need for experienced member is also another factor that causes hindrances
to the project progress.
Adaptive methodology 2:
This section discusses about the XP methodology (Extreme programming) which is also
to be included in the business operations of the company.
Discussion:
The extreme programming method is used for the development of a software process in
compliance with the changes in the consumer demands. The basic methods applied by these
methods include the addition of various checkpoints in the progress where new considerations
relating to the customer need scan be applied in the progress of the project (Ghani and Yasin
2013). The main considerations of this project are that it applied the innovations in the respective
developer teams to successfully apply the changes in the development progress in a more
efficient manner.
Advantages:
The main advantages of the extreme programming methodology are the presence of time
and cost management of the associated companies. Due to the fact that the Extreme