Congratulations

Well done everyone,

Its done and dusted and handed in.


Cake and ice cream for everyone :D

Moving swiftly on..

Hey everyone,

As we are already aware we've handed the elicitation techniques report to Mary.

So next stage is to get a move on with getting the actual project.

Things we need to do..:

Create a glossary
The goal of the glossary is to provide a common vocabulary on which all of the stakeholders agree. The glossary defines all the meaning of the terms relevant to the system being built. These serve as the foundation for all requirements models and business rules.


Create a Business Rules Document
Business rules or business rules sets describe the operations, definitions and constraintsthat apply to an organization to achieving its goals.

Create a prototype of the proposed system
This should be used to illustrate all main usage scenarios.

Create Use Case Diagram

This is used to illustrate functional requirements.

Create a data Dictionary

For each entity list the attributes of that entity and for each attribute give the following information

• Attribute name
• Attribute description
• Attribute data type, i.e number, text, etc
• Attribute Nullability, i.e. wether the attribute is required or optional
• Attribute default, i.e. the default value for the attribute if applicable

Create a supplementary specification

This is used to document all non functional requirements

We need to save all versions of our work so dont save over something if u got it corrected/checked, save as a new draft.

Interview

Hey,

I took the questionnaire that we all came up with and brought it into centra and interviewed this store manager John O'Sullivan.

I met up with him and we went through the questionnaire, there were certain parts that required further explanation, but thats why combining the two processes together was worthwhile..

I gathered documents from the shop which will help us to define business rules for the project..

I got good information about how to produce the various financial reports that our system will be required to generate..

im working on the evaluation and summay at the moment...

I'll see ye in the morning :P

slán :)

questionnaire first draft

Well...i've come up with a questionnaire which will mainly narrow down the business rules of the company, it's only a rough draft however, which mainly focuses on the delivery section of the proposed new system, i think peter will take elements of the questionnaire to help out with his interview questions but alas it's up to him if he wants to use it or not....if there's anyway ye think i can improve the questionnaire, please don't hesitate to give me a shout...anyway it's one am here so i'm gonna hit the hay and attempt another part of the project tomorrow...don't know what yet but i'll figure something out :D

ps the questionnaire is up on dropbox as i can't figure out how to put it up on the blog here

questionnaire

i'm now in the process of coming up with questions for the questionnaire that i will set out in order to get the business rules, which will act as the constraints or non-functional requirements for the new online system, the main topics i will include in the questionnaire will be

1) online discounts

2) times that the delivery service will / should be in operation

3) delivery area i.e. 2 / 3 / 4/ 5 mile radius of store

4) printed invoices or receipts

5) methods of payment ie. charging customer accounts / pay by laser / pay upon delivery etc.

6) etc..

any other topics that you think i should include lads, don't hesitate to post a comment or two...

@peter at the weekend man can you get a copy of a delivery receipt / invoice that we can use for our documentation? If i have to order something and have it delivered to your house i will :P

Work

I have emailed the documents to mary to review what we have done so far.... I also requested a full description of what must be included in the topic just in case we are missing anything.

Group Meeting Thurs 28/10

We met up for a group meeting today, we discussed any problems we were having with our assigned work.

We came up with some sample questions to get the ball rolling for the questionnaire.. i will upload them later...


We agreed that each of us should have a draft of our work done for the next meeting which will be on wednesday.. so that we each know we are on the right track..

Information Eliciting

For the part of the project that is worth 25% - researching information eliciting techniques, Each member of the gropup has been assigned a method of information eliciting.

The techniques each member is researching is as follows

Peter Fleming: Interviewing
Jason O'Sullivan : Questionnaires
Hugh Desmond: Work Shadowing
Kevin Moynihan: Internet and viewing other online systems


Each of us will be doing in depth research into the method they have been assigned, we will then bring each of our findings and put it into one document and do an evaluation on all the techniques to decied which is the best method for us to use.

First Group Meeting

We met up outside of class to properly set out what our project is going to be on.

As myself and jason both work in a retail shop it was decided that we were goin to do it on a supermarket as we have access to people who we can talk to about there.


We have decided that were going to base our project around a "Centra" supermarket.
the premise of our project is that the Centra in question has asked us to design an online shop for their particular store.

I have worked in centra at home for the last 6 years and have been trained in all departments of the shop so it was decided based on my knowledge of the business that i will be Project manager.

Requirements Engineering 101

Soooooo, What do we do?

Blast Off!!

The Blog is set up.

Each member has received an invite to the be an author on the blog.