UNICEF Child Care Information System Development

COIT 20248: Information Systems Analysis and Design
Term 3, 2017
Assessment 1 - Systems Development
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1. Introduction
UNICEF Child Care is an organization that provides caring and supervision services to
children of ages between six and thirteen. For enrolling in their services, the parents of the
children need to register their names in the company office and make payments for bearing
the expenses of food, toys and residence of their children (Zaglia et al. 2015). However,
UNICEF has noticed that this process has a number of issues and problems that is affecting
the entire business structure of the company. While some issues are due to manual
processing, others are mainly due to lack of proper operation structure that need to be
addressed.
UNICEF has proposed the development of a new information system including a company business
portal that will be able to solve the identified problems at once.
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2. Approach to Systems Development
The development of the proposed system will require a particular development method
that should include a well defined development life cycle. Some of the possible systems
development methods include agile, waterfall or prototyping. Analysing the requirement of
this system, the best method for the development will be Prototyping. The systems
development life cycle will be as follows.
Initiation – In this phase of the life cycle, the development of the prototype will be initiated.
This phase includes preparation of requirement document, collection of resources, planning
and others.
Prototyping – This is the main phase of the development life cycle that can be repeated
more than once unless the desired outcome is reached (Bimonte et al. 2017). This phase
contains a number of sub-phases including requirement gathering, developing and testing.
Production – Finally, in this phase, the complete version is developed from the prototype
and delivered to the project client.
Among all the different development methodologies, prototyping method has been chosen
because in this project, the prototype of the system will be first developed and tested.
Based on the test results and completion of the entire prototype, the full version will be
developed and handed over to UNICEF.
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