ISY2001 Systems Analysis and Design

ISY2001 - Case Study Assignment

Released in Week 05 - Due in session 11
Type: Individual assignment
Weighting: 20%
DUE: End of week 11
Submission method: Turnitin on Moodle

Objective
This case study assignment allows students to understand and analyse user
requirements and design a simple system for a small business organisation.

System Requirements

FastCabs is a newly created taxi service company that provides online booking for
clients in the state of NSW.
FastCabs has considered developing a simple website for an online booking System
with the capability to enable clients access from their mobile devices and to book for
a trip. At the time of their first booking, clients should be able to enter their details
into an online form, along with their credit card details. However, clients can also
have an account with FastCabs and for any subsequent bookings, they can log in to
their own account and make a booking for a taxi. They need to be able to enter their
trip origin and destination. The system will give them an estimate of cost according to
their trip description.

Assuming you have been assigned to design and develop the system for FastCabs.
You are given three weeks to come up with a blueprint of the system design and
present the design to a team of consultants. The online booking System should be able
to perform a number of activities such as adding or creating a new customer, checking
for available taxis and drivers in the area requested by the customer, calculating cost
of trip, issuing online ticket or receipt and processing all bookings transactions. You
may add any other possible functions that you deem necessary for this system to
function in this business case.

Task

You are required to design a system that can perform the above activities and
maintain a database containing data relevant to those activities. Carry out “process
modelling” and “data modelling” to achieve this purpose.
Your tasks in this project include:
- Provide a justification of why this system needs to be developed and ensure that
you are professionally convincing to senior management.
- Provide a description of the business case and justification about the business
benefits from implementing this system.
- Describe the project scope and provide a brief cost and schedule analysis.

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- Identify the major functions in the system that will be required in order to meet the
business needs.

- Conduct the TCO of this system in Excel; add your full name and student ID in
Excel in row 1. Embed the TCO part from Excel into the Word document, which is
your assignment file. Ask the teacher to show you how to embed this if you are not
sure.
- Develop data flow diagram (DFD level 0 and Context Diagram with at least 3
different processes).
- Prepare entity relationship diagram, to model the data requirement relevant to
this system.
- Create 3 screen interfaces a (main menu, an input screen and the monthly sales
report) that will be used in the system designed by your group.
The marking will be based on the design; it is not necessary to implement the system.

Marking Criteria
Items Description Marks
1. Clear business case - - at least 4 main business benefits in points form 2%
and justification
2. Project scope Clear and measurable scope statement 1%
statement
3. Cost and schedule Brief cost and schedule analysis done in Excel then copied to the 3%
Word document (assignment doc)
4. TCO clear and Correct, clear and complete list of TCO items 3%
complete ID + Name inserted before embedding into the Word
document
2. Data Flow Diagrams Correct use of symbols, eliminate all common errors and reflect 3%
logical analysis of the system
1. ER-Diagram Correctly show the relationships between essential entities, 3%
indicate attributes for each entity and identify primary keys
4. Screen Interfaces Conform to the guidelines for designing forms and reports, 3%
headings, meaningful content, appealing and business-like
5. Document Clear structure and format, contains table of content, title page, 2%
Presentation good grammar and free of spelling and proofreading errors, work
is original and shows understanding of the system design
concepts, etc.
Total 20%

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Assessment High
Type Weight Distinction Distinction Credit 65% Pass Fail
20% 18-20 15-17- 13-14 10-12 0-9
Case study An outstanding An excellent piece More than Satisfactorily meets Did not sufficiently
Assignment attempt – All of work that competently the criteria meet the criteria to
Assignment items meets all the meets the criteria – some missing pass
are completed specified criteria – specified - – All Assignment items
accurately - well All Assignment Assignment items
formatted and items are are completed
professionally completed accurately with
presented piece of accurately with only minor
work. very minor mistakes or
omissions or omissions.
mistakes

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