Success in Your Project: A Guide to Student System Development Projects

✍ Scribed by Weaver, Philip

• Publisher: FT Press; Pearson
• Year: 2005;2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Final year projects are an important feature of most undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in business information technology, information systems, software engineering and business computing. This book has detailed guidance and support in preparing for, conducting and evaluating a system development project.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Success in Your Project......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Project preparation and set-up......Page 14
What is a student system development project?......Page 16
Why do a project?......Page 17
The main activities and stages of a project......Page 18
Types of project......Page 19
Critical success factors......Page 28
Assessment criteria......Page 32
Summary......Page 35
The project selection process......Page 36
Producing a project checklist......Page 37
Generating ideas......Page 40
Investigating and short-listing ideas......Page 47
Making the final selection......Page 55
Documenting your project topic......Page 57
Summary......Page 63
The System Development Life Cycle......Page 65
Development life cycle models......Page 68
Development approaches and methods......Page 76
Selecting and customising your approach......Page 93
Summary......Page 96
Research objectives......Page 97
Introduction to literature reviews......Page 100
Planning your literature search......Page 104
Searching for data......Page 106
Evaluating the literature......Page 112
Recording references and data......Page 113
Research strategies......Page 116
Summary......Page 118
Getting organised......Page 119
Project planning......Page 121
Creating a project plan......Page 122
Team organisation......Page 130
The Project Initiation Document......Page 132
Summary......Page 138
Project execution......Page 140
Introduction......Page 142
Working with your project supervisor......Page 143
Working with a client......Page 148
Working in project teams......Page 150
Project tracking and control......Page 154
Record-keeping and good housekeeping......Page 160
Summary......Page 162
Investigation and information sources......Page 163
Analysing documents......Page 166
Interviewing......Page 167
Observation......Page 177
Questionnaires......Page 181
Workshops......Page 182
Defining and recording requirements......Page 191
Modelling system requirements......Page 204
Early prototypes......Page 210
Investigating potential solutions......Page 211
Summary......Page 213
Introduction......Page 215
Conceptual specification and design......Page 216
User interface design......Page 219
Application prototyping......Page 224
Data design......Page 226
Infrastructure design......Page 229
Program specification......Page 233
Summary......Page 234
Software programming and production......Page 236
Testing......Page 239
User and system documentation......Page 241
System implementation......Page 244
Planning for maintenance......Page 250
Summary......Page 251
Project completion......Page 254
What are analysis and evaluation?......Page 256
Writing a literature review......Page 257
Analysing data......Page 260
Evaluating the success of your project......Page 267
Summary......Page 270
Introduction......Page 271
Interim reports and poster presentations......Page 272
Final report contents......Page 273
Report writing......Page 280
Software demonstrations......Page 288
Viva voce examinations......Page 294
Summary......Page 295
Bibliography......Page 297
Index......Page 299