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Design Specifications and Distributed Systems

The student will learn how to provide management for projects that employ the methods of data gathering, fact-finding and input/output design. Using case problems, students will implement the techniques of system development and project management. In preparation for the role of a systems analyst or designer students will be expected to use all of the skills and techniques of an advanced analyst to research a complex project.  
The student will choose one of the subjects and develop a PowerPoint presentation that will contain, a problem statement, facts gathered from the subjects for the project, assumptions based on the project chosen, discussion of the project, a conclusion and recommendations based on the project chosen. The student will formulate the paper as a decision maker preparing to recommend more than one course of action for a corporate board to select.  The selected project will require the student to prepare a request for proposal to be submitted to various vendors that can act as consultants or solution providers for the project.
CHOOSE ONE OF THESE SUBJECTS FOR YOUR PROJECT

Situation #1:    A system for maintaining academic, billing, scheduling, and financial records of some 20,000 students at a major University.
Situation #2:    A medical and dental claims administration and payment system for 14,000 employees of a major appliance manufacturer.
Situation #3:    A system for tracking about 1,000 job applications at six different branches of a nationwide retail chain and matching the applicants to about 50 job openings per month.

The individual project chosen must contain the following PowerPoint slides in the order noted below.

There should be a minimum of 10 slides and a maximum of 15 slides. Be sure you have a slide for each of

the areas shown below:

• Title Page
• Table of Contents

• Executive Summary (This section should be an overview of the total project; it should highlight the significant points of the other sections of the plan. This summary may be in either synopsis or narrative form.)

• Project Overview

• Developing the problem statement.                    
• Facts gathered for the project                        
• Assumptions                                

• Discussion of the project, problem statement, facts and assumptions:

• Conclusion and Recommendations                        
• Appendix of Supporting Documents

90-100%     Project meets all requirements in length and content; shows excellent understanding of the material; AND grammar, structure, and spelling are at college level.
80-89%    Project meets all requirements in length and content; shows a good understanding of the material; AND grammar, structure and spelling are at college level.
70-79%    Project meets all requirements in length and content; shows some understanding of the material; AND/OR grammar, structure, and spelling need some improvement.
63-69%    Project meets bare minimum requirements in length and content; lacks some key understanding of the material; AND/OR grammar, structure and spelling need a lot of improvement.
0-62%    Project does not meet minimum requirements in length and content; OR show little understanding of the material; OR grammar, structure, and spelling are not on college level.

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