Key Assignment Outline

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Week 1: System or Application Overview

Peak AV needs a new payroll system application. Peak AV is a low volt service company based out of Colorado Springs, Colorado serving 8 new construction builders from Colorado Springs to Windsor, CO. They have a South team with 12 employees, and a newly expanded North team that has 2 full-time employees. S ervices Peak AV is able to provide include: home automation, monitor and install home security, surround sound/ zone sound, central vacuum, as well as standard network and cable installation, termination, and troubleshooting. These services are primarily done with new construction homes that have the studs (framing) exposed. Peak AV uses Apple products such as IPhones and IPads for communication between the builders and employees, for clocking in/ out for the day, as well as employee’s personal Android mobile devices, and PCs when needed.

Week 1: Requirements Specification

Week 2: System or Application Design

Use Case Diagram

Functional Decomposition Diagram

E-R Diagram

Sequence Diagram

Mock-up

Week 3: Test and Quality Assurance Plan

Unit Testing

Verify users are able to sign-in/ out

Verify biometrics are able to be turned on/ off, and login with them

Verify the punch in/ out feature operates

Verify-drop-down menu is functioning

System Testing

Verify the punch function populates data to current week timecard data section

Verify the users are able to print previous pay data

Verify that data can be updated by the user within the application

Error tracking and reporting

User Acceptance Testing

Quality Assurance Plan

Process Checklists and Punch Lists

Project Audits

Lean Six Sigma

Week 4: Development Strategy

TBD – 12/13/17

For this assignment, you will develop 3 proposals for your development strategy, which include outsourcing (buy), insourcing (make), or a combination of both. You will present the pros and cons of each, along with a financial analysis. Finally, you will make a recommendation on which is the best proposal or strategy.

Develop a proposal for each of these approaches: insourcing, outsourcing, and a combination of the two.

Present the pros and cons or benefit analysis for each of the 3 proposals.

Perform a financial analysis of the total costs for each proposal that includes ongoing support and maintenance.

Recommend 1 of these proposals and your reason for selection of that proposal.

Week 5: Integration and Deployment Plan

TBD – 12/20/17

In the final week, you are given the assignment to craft an integration and deployment plan for your selected application or system that includes the required resources and work breakdown structure of implementation tasks (you may use Visio Software Application where needed).

Develop an overall work breakdown structure (WBS) for the 7 system development life cycle (SDLC) phases:

o Preliminary Analysis

o System Analysis or Requirements Definition

o System Design

o Development

o Integration and Testing

o Acceptance, Installation, and Deployment

o Operation Support and Maintenance

Add activities under the first 5 phases that you already performed in Weeks 1–4.