ASSIGNMENT TITLE
• Data Requirement Gathering
OBJECTIVE
• To help students to understand how important data gathering in the early phase of SDLC is.
• To prepare students to do major project course
ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION
You are required to choose the following information system that you are interested to develop:
• Web based information system
• Mobile based information system
• E-commerce information system
• E-Learning information system
• Expert system or other Intelligent information system
• Other information system that is approved by the lecturer
Since the topics are general, try to choose topic that you are interested to be proposed for major project. Determine more specific system, e.g. a disaster notification through mobile application, learning mathematics with Kinect for kids, etc.
After you choose topic, find out future users of the information system that you build. If you build an e-commerce system, you may consider manager, customer and owner. If you build e-learning system for kids, you may consider teacher, children and parents.
You can conduct the data collection through interview or survey. You can choose one of the methods, but you have to be able to justify the reason. After you choose the method, prepare for questions and write the result. For survey, number of sample that you should get depends on the number of population, but for this assignment, provided that 30 samples are enough. Detail of the report, you can refer to Report Structure section.
DOCUMENTS CHECK LIST
The following are documents that you have to submit in CD:
Table 2. Documents check list
No. Document's Name
1. Report file in doc or docx format
2. Interview documentation in notes, recording or others
3. Questionnaire papers filled by respondents
4. Graphs in xls, xlsx or pdf format
REPORT STRUCTURE
In the hardcopy of this assignment, you have to write according to the following structure:
1. Cover Page
2. Topics
• Brief explanation about the chosen topic, including overview, research motivation
3. Fact Finding Methodology
• Explain the method of data collection: interview or questionnaire
• Explain why you choose the method
4. Fact Finding Preparation
• Write objectives of interview or survey
• Write list of questions
5. Fact Finding Result
• For interview: write answers of the questions and other facts that are mentioned during interview but not stated in the prepared question.
• For survey: write important responses especially for open ended questions and also draw simple graphs represent the categories of responses.
• Draw conclusion
• Determine future steps must be taken after you discover the requirements