System Design Portfolio: CarHire CRS Development - SBM4201 Report

This report outlines the design and development of a Central Reservation System (CRS) for CarHire, an Australian rental company. It covers the entire system development life cycle, starting with the planning phase, which includes defining the project scope, resource allocation, and stakeholder analysis. The system analysis phase focuses on functionality requirements, budget analysis, and technology selection, utilizing tools like Android Studio, PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, and jQuery. The design phase involves creating a prototype, implementing security measures, and documenting the implementation process. System implementation includes testing functionality and security, with results shared with stakeholders. The report concludes with deployment, maintenance planning, and project closure. Figures illustrating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Gantt chart are included to visualize the project's timeline and tasks.

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Introduction:
This report is constructed to identify all the essential activities of the CRS development
throughout the whole life cycle for the CarHire. CarHire is Australian rental company which was
established in 2010. CarHire wants to develop a CRS system to establish a proper database
system and website along with the official email service. They also need a network infrastructure
to establish network facilities and communication medium with proper security and system
availability.
Planning Phase:
This purpose of this phase is to determine the scope, resources, cost, time and benefits of
certain projects throughout the whole life cycle. Research is also involved in this phase as facts
are necessary in order to create a good planning. CRS system development process will be
containing the initial planning activities. Which are followed:
The scope of this project is to research and collect relevant information about the CRS
implementation. The project scope defines the functionality of the CRS system required by the
CarHire. The project scope must be defined before starting the project to gain a clear idea about
the requirements and developing process (Buede and Miller 2016). After defining the project
scope, the resource allocation needs to be conducted. For implementing CarHire system, multiple
software applications are essential in both front and back end. The stakeholder analysis also
needs to be conducted in the planning phase. All stakeholder associates with the CarHire must be
identified in order to set certain standards. The scope completion report must be shared with
every stakeholder after finishing the project planning phase.

System Analysis: After completing the planning phase, the required functionality of the CRS
system will be analyzed through conducting critical analysis. The whole project must be
completed under one year and two months. Required budget for completing the project also
needs to be analyzed and calculated (Chew et al. 2014). Android Studio mobile application will
be used to construct the mobile application. For the web application at back end PHP, SQL, java
and the front end will be constructed with html, css and jquery.
System Design: Before starting the system design, the software specification must be reviewed
to understand the requirement of the project. The functionality of the applications will be
determined to crate the prototype. First, the prototype will be constructed while considering the
functionalities (Vaidyanathan 2013). The initial security measurement will also be implemented.
After testing the prototype, the CRS and mobile system will be implemented by following the
prototype by IT executives. After setting the modular parameter the complete implementation
report is documented.
System implementation: After completing the implementation phase, The CRS system need to
be test to check the functionality and security. The test will ensure that the web and mobile
application are implemented successfully. Mainly the security measurement needs to check to
avoid any vulnerability. As usual, the test results will also need to be shared with the
stakeholders.
Deployment and Maintenance: Deployment is one of the crucial phase as the implemented
CRS system need to be handover to the CarHire. After deployment the maintenance
measurement will be defined and close the project.

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Figure 1: WBS of the System Development

Figure 2: Gantt chart
References:
Buede, D.M. and Miller, W.D., 2016. The engineering design of systems: models and methods.
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Vaidyanathan, S., 2013. A new six-term 3-D chaotic system with an exponential
nonlinearity. Far East Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 79(1), p.135.