Complete a small group discussion on sections highlighted below. This process will help you to share your views and approaches with team members as you will also have the benefit of hearing team members' view and approach.
As a group discuss the following:
Stakeholder Requirements
What are the requirements of the application?
Will various modules be developed?
What are the dependencies?
Will system be required to interact with external system resources? For example, databases.
What guidelines must be followed to ensure that system requirements are met?
Discuss Cost and Quality
Based on system design requirements how will cost be affected?
Does the features set based on the design requirement require multiple modules
Business Process
How will the design streamline business process?
Are there redundant processes?
How will streamlining processes affect cost?
Are there design considerations for future upgrade?
Individual Deliverables
Section 7 - System Architecture Aligned with System Requirements
System Architecture is a very important aspect of the system life cycle. Based on results from your group discussion and other information gathering, complete a document showing the Architectural Design of the application to be developed.
Some key factors to include:
How the system will streamline the business process.
Stakeholders' requirements.
Cost, features, and quality.