Reference no: EM133589928
System Development Methodologies
Group Report and Presentation
Case scenario
The Australian real estate industry relies on a wealth of information for buying and selling properties. Real estate agents and brokers often form cooperative organisations, known as Real Estate Community Associations, to consolidate and share information about the profession, market trends, local properties, historical sales records, and current listings.
Real Estate Community Associations provide a service called the Property Listing System (PLS) that offers local agents information to help sell properties to clients. Agents list properties for sale by contracting with owners and work for real estate offices that send listing details to the PLS. This allows any agent in the community to access listing information.
Key listing information, often available online, includes property address, year built, size, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, owner name and contact, asking price, and status. Details about the listing agent, such as their name, office and mobile phones, and email address, are also important. Agents work through real estate offices, making office name, manager name, phone, and address essential. Agents may contact the PLS for property matches to client requirements, receiving information about the property, listing agent, and real estate office.
Agents might call the listing agent to ask additional questions or contact the property owner to arrange a viewing. The PLS produces a weekly listing book containing information on all listings, sent to some agents who prefer physical books, despite potentially outdated information. Agents and owners may decide to change listing information, like adjusting the price, correcting property details, or marking the property as sold. Real estate offices submit these change requests to the PLS upon agent request.
Report Writing Guidelines:
Your report must include the following.
Title Page - Clearly set out the title of your assessment, your name, your student ID, the unit name, the unit code and the name of the lecturer. There must be no graphics or pictures of any kind on the title page.
Table of Contents - Auto-generated using the word processor.
Introduction - This section should introduce the general aims, backgrounds of the organisation, and areas/issues you will discuss in the report.
Body - Discuss your findings in detail, where appropriate, headings and sub-headings should be included with the logical progression of your report from one idea to the next.
Do not use the word 'Body' as a heading - identify words that relate to your report for the heading.
Body of your report should include:
Use case diagram.
Use case descriptions for 3 of the use cases identified.
Model the data using an Entity Relationship diagram. Make sure you include all the business rules used to complete the diagram as part of your extended scenario.
Design a suitable system architecture for the recommended system.
Design five of the suitable interfaces for the system.
Design a suitable report for the owner.
Recommend a suitable development strategy for the organisation. Justify your recommendation with supporting literature.
Conclusion - In this section, you need to summarise your work and findings. You should introduce no new points in your conclusion.
References - This is a list of all the books and articles you have cited in your assessment. Use APA referencing style for your in-text citations as well as your list of references.