IT6103 Final Year Project

INTRODUCTION

• PROJECT OVERVIEW• PROJECT OBJECTIVES• TIME TO BE SPENT ON THE PROJECT

• PROJECT SCOPE• EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS

• HOW TO SELECT A PROJECT• SELECTING A CLIENT• PROJECT SUPERVISOR

PROJECT OVERVIEW

• The individual project is by far the most important single piece of work in the BIT degree programme.

• Project also aims to assess the candidate’s ability to communicate his/her ideas and work.

• It is equivalent to three (3) Modules in the BIT degree programme

• from the end of the second year through to the end of the third year covering over 300 hours of work.

• IS design & development skills– Construct a project from initial ideas, via a thorough

analysis of the problem;– Use references– Apply theories, tools and techniques from taught

courses;

• Report Writing Skills– Formal report writing.

• Summarising and Presenting Skills– Demonstrate the solution to the problem through

developed software;– Defend ideas in discussions and presentations;

• A project in business and science is a collaborative enterprise, frequently involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim.

• Software is a collection of computer programs, procedures and documentation that perform some tasks on an operating system.

• Business software is generally any software program that helps a business increase productivity or measure their productivity.

• The term covers a large variation of uses within the business environment, and can be categorized by using a small, medium and large.

Small size

• The small business market generally consists of home accounting software, and office suites such as – Microsoft Office and – OpenOffice.org.

Medium size

• The medium size, has a broader range of software applications, ranging from – accounting, – groupware, – customer relationship management, – human resources software, – outsourcing relationship management, – loan origination software

Large Size• The last segment covers enterprise level

software applications, such as those in the fields of – Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)– Enterprise Content Management (ECM)– Business Process Management and – Product Lifecycle Management

Types of Applications - Examples

• Library• University• Banking• Credit Card Transactions• Billing• Stock Broker• Sales• Manufacturing• Payroll• Inventory• Insurance• Airlines

• Rental• Employment• Transportation• Real Estate• Fuel Station• Hotel• Health• Taxi• Land Registry• Registration of Births• Passport

Medical and Health Care

• Hospital Information Systems

• Clinic Administration Accounting

• Laboratory Information Processing

• Pharmacy Management

Hospital IS

• Doctor’s information, speciality• Ward information, no. of beds• Theatre information, facilities • Patient information, admittance

information• Consultation information, booking• Listing

– Read each record and print. In time sequence.

Financials

• Asset Management• Financial Planning• Financial Analysis• Financial Consolidation• Expenditure Management• Billing and Cash Collection• Cash Management

Accounting

• Inventory Control• Accounting Receivable• Accounting Payable• Payroll• General Ledger

• Accounting software is application software that records and processes accounting transactions within functional modules such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and trial balance.

• Payroll– Paycheck– Payroll taxes– Pay slip– Payroll card– Payroll Frequencies

Human Resource

• Effective Recruitment• Effective Training, Retention and Career Planning• Compensation Management and Flexible, Scalable

Payroll• Flexible Organisation Planning

Library

• Membership• Reference• Borrow• Return• Order

Sales and Distribution ApplicationSTOREStore 1 || ColomboStore 2 || Kandy

INVENTORYStore 1 || P1 || 50Store 1 || P3 || 20Store 2 || P2 || 100Store 2 || P1 || 30

ORDERSStore 1 || P3 || 3428 || 0052 || 10Store 2 || P2 || 3428 || 0098 || 7Store 2 || P3 || 3428 || 0098 || 15Store 2 || P4 || 5726 || 0099 || 1

PRODUCTP1 | PrinterP2 | DisketteP3 | Disk DriveP4 | Modem

SUPPLIER3428 || East West5726 || DMS

STOREStore Name || City

INVENTORYStore Name || Part No || Quantity

ORDERSStore Name || Part No || Vendor No || Order No || Quantity

PRODUCTProduct No || Description

SUPPLIERSupplier No || Supplier Name

RelationshipsTo integrate data and provide required information

Use Case Diagram

Sequence Diagram

Data – Product Categories

Data – Product Details

Data - Suppliers

Data - Orders

Hospital IS

• Sorting– By room number

• Selecting– Patients in the intensive care

• Summarising– Summary of patient’s treated by each doctor

• Reporting– Doctor’s report showing their patients

Information - Product List

Information - Employee Sales by Country

Information -