New System Development for UNICEF Childcare - COIT 20248

COIT 20248: Information Systems Analysis and Design
Term 3, 2017
Assessment 1 - Systems Development
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction.......................................................................................................................................1
2. Approach to Systems Development..................................................................................................2
3. Systems Requirements......................................................................................................................3
4. Project Cost Benefit Analysis.............................................................................................................4
5. Project Schedule................................................................................................................................6
6. System Information Requirement Investigation Techniques.............................................................9
7. Reflections and Conclusions............................................................................................................10
References...........................................................................................................................................11

1. Introduction
This project is based on the development of a new information system for UNICEF Child
Care that deals with the caring and supervision of children under thirteen. They have a
particular scheme in which, the parents of the children will pay certain amount of sum of
money and with the same, UNICEF will buy and provide food, study materials, toys and
other objects required for the development of the children. However, with the manual
system used for handling of the money and purchase of the materials, the center is facing
some problems that result in the wastage of resources. In order to solve these problems,
this particular project has been developed and approved by the chairman of the
organization John Smith.
Based on the requirements of the project, the objectives can be determined as follows.
To develop a new information system for UNICEF Child Care
To develop a user profile system with user authentication procedure
To include an online payment option for the parents of the children
To add cyber security measures to the online payment gateway
To develop an automated ordering system that will take input from the number of
orders placed
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2. Approach to Systems Development
There are several systems development methods available and a particular one is chosen
based on the requirements of the system. Hence, in order to determine the systems
development method most suitable for the project, first the features of the system need to
be analysed. For this project, the proposed system features are as follows.
User Portal – In order to initiate online registration of users and payments, a user portal
needs to be created. This portal will have a login system through which a user (parent of a
child) can register and then log in using an email id / unique username and a unique
password (Špundak 2014). In this profile, the user can upload his details including the details
of his child and can also have the option of make online payments to UNICEF.
Auto-Generated Invoice System – One problem of the system to be addressed is the
publication of invoice for the payments made by the user. Hence, one proposed feature of
the system is to generate a digital invoice that is to be sent to the user immediately after a
payment is made.
Auto Order – Finally, the main requirement of the system is to send an order to the seller
automatically once a new user is registered in the portal. This feature will prevent the issue
of shortage or wastage of materials and resources (Serrador and Pinto 2015).
Based on the requirements of the system, it can be said that the most suitable systems
development methodology is prototyping.
Justification – Prototyping process will allow the developer to create the prototype of the
entire system at once and then perform various tests on it. Since the system requires a
number of different features, following other conventional development methodologies will
consume a significant amount of time and cost. A general prototyping model is shown in the
following diagram.
Figure 1: Prototyping Systems Development Method
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