The assignment brief and volere requirement template to be use to document the functional and non-functional requirements as stipulated on the assignment brief.
Task 1. Please study the case study carefully.
The case study should be use as an example when answering task 2 questions where necessary.
Tasks
Please read the case study below.
With reference to Part 1:
1. Produce a set of functional and non-functional requirements (e.g. look and feel, usability and humanity, performance, operational and environmental, maintainability and support, security, cultural and legal requirements). You must have at least 5 functional requirements and at least 5 non-functional requirements covering at least 4 different sub categories.
2. Using the provided template, document your requirements.
3. Produce a risk register for this project.
With reference to Part 2:
4. Review and update the requirements. Change request documentation must be used.
5. With reference to the requirements engineering lifecycle and the literature, and using examples from this case study, discuss the management of requirements.You should make specific reference to the following:
a. Explanation of the term "requirements management"
b. The stakeholders for this project, the techniques for eliciting requirements, and and explanation of which technique/s you would recommend or reject for these particular stakeholders
c. Approaches that could be adopted to understand the problem
d. Approaches that could be adopted to derive a solution
e. Explanation of how management of detailed requirements differ in an agile project
f. Ensuring requirements quality
g. Requirements qualification and acceptance
h. Requirement management and change control
i. Requirement management and risk management
j. How a requirement management tool can assist with the capture, trace, analysis and management of changes to requirements. (Discuss, using annotated screen shots with examples from your own project).
6. You must submit the following:
- Report complete with citations and references in Harvard format.
- Supporting documentation e.g. screen shots, risk register/issues log, change control documentation, completed requirement templates, etc.
Case Study: Marvellous Memorabilia Ltd
Part 1
Marvellous Memorabilia Ltd (MML) is a thriving business founded in 2009 by Martin James. He is the owner and managing director of the company, supported by Tricia Strong who is the Sales Manager, RaxitRamani who is responsible for finance functions such as invoicing, purchasing and payroll, and Richard Downs, the warehouse manager. These are in turn supported by a team of telephone sales staff and warehouse staff.
MML provides products to commemorate events such as ‘significant date' parties and weddings, catering for both private and wholesale customers. Its reputation for high quality products and excellent attention to detail has resulted in a threefold expansion in enquiries over the last year.
Items such as table decorations (e.g. table confetti, crystals and centre pieces) and ‘trinkets' (e.g. a tiny box containing a heart shaped chocolate, a key ring, mini soaps) are sourced from a number of global suppliers (all vetted by MML to ensure that they are ethical employers, providing their employees with a fair living wage and working conditions). These suppliers ship their products to a London East End warehouse where MML staff package the goods up into ‘party packs' each containing ‘trinkets' for 6 guests. A minimum stock level is recorded for each product and as soon as the stock falls below this level, a purchase order is raised to replenish stock.
MML offer a standard range of around 90 different party packs with prices ranging from £3.99 to £399.99), but new party packs are frequently put together for special occasions, for example, most recently a ‘Princess' wedding pack including tiara place card holders and Princess carriage-shaped Belgian chocolates. Full details of the contents of each party pack are provided in MML's sales catalogue.
Each individual product (place card holder, confetti bag, etc.) is supplied by a single supplier and is given a unique product number by MML. However, each may be produced in a number of different colours (gold, silver, black, white, pink or blue).
Products are only sold as part of a party pack, never individually, and the packs often have interesting themed names to reflect their themed contents. For example, the Ladies' "Nifty at 50" box consists of:
6 x mini boxes containing 2 chocolates (silver)
6 x Ginger and Ginseng Rejuvenating Bath Bombs (pink)
1 x 14g pack of ‘50' confetti (silver)
1 x 50th birthday weighted table centrepiece (pink)
The boxed goods are sold via a team of sales operatives who work on commission that is calculated each month as follows:
Total monthly sales up to £4999 in value: attract a commission of 8% of sales value.
Monthly sales above £5000: attract an additional 6% commission (i.e. 14% of sales value).
From small beginnings, the business has enjoyed rapid growth but this has resulted in an ad-hoc collection of computerised and manual systems to control various aspects of the business. Martin now wish to set up an integrated, computerised information system and to that end has asked you to design and implement a system to cope with their day to day purchase, sales and marketing operations. They hope the system will also be able to produce a range of "useful management reports" (e.g. total sales, commissions, etc) and also a sales catalogue showing the contents of each of their party packs, which could be instantly updated when new packs are introduced.
The company uses Windows PCs and wishes to remain on this platform. There is also one Windows PC in the warehouse which connected to a local printer and is used to produce picking lists for the orders.
Part 2
One of the sales operatives is visually impaired. Martin is aware that he has to make ‘reasonable adjustments' to support disabled workers and he has requested that the font can be adjusted to support this. In addition, his warehouse workers have asked that the system can be designed to also run on a tablet as this will make their stock control much easier, and remove the need to produce picking lists.