CMPSCI 520/620

Fall 2003

Project I

September 23, 2003

Documents:

1. AIS Implementation Analysis, Version 1.41 19 November 2001 UC Santa Cruz
2. Project Components Definition Draft 6 December 1999 UC Santa Cruz
3. Request for Proposal Academic Information System 17 April 2000 UC Santa Cruz
4. Peoplesoft Bid 10 May 2002
5. Request for Bid Student Information System #SG97-40 3 March 1997 University of Massachusetts Amherst

1. Discuss the strategy, justification, risk analyses, etc. in documents 1 & 2
2. Identify (and categorize) the stakeholders in the AIS/SIS systems proposed by UMass and UCSC
3. For each of documents (the UMass RFB and the UCSC RFP documents 3 & 5 above), from the perspective of your team stakeholder assignment:
1. Describe and contrast the “notation” used
2. Discuss whether functional and non-functional specifications are given.
3. If provided, discuss the proposed system architecture.
4. Describe the “conceptual decomposition” explicit/implicit in the specifications, down at least two levels (e.g. the UMass RFB identifies Bursar activities, and within that “cashiering”)
5. Discuss how well external and internal functions, behavior and communications are defined for the system level
6. Pick a subset of the specifications (either UMass or UCSC or some combination that includes the functions included in Maciaszek’s example, e.g., course enrollment), define the included components, and discuss how well the functions, behavior and communications are defined for the component level
7. For this subset, assess the completeness and consistency of the specifications.
8. Provide an overall assessment of the specification included the RFP and RFB from the perspective of your team stakeholder assignment:
4. Discuss if the Peoplesoft bid on the UCSC AIS system was responsive to the RFP. Did it provide any additional insight?
5. Prepare a 5-10 minute presentation for the whole class summarizing 1-4 above

Group 1: Buyers (Campus & System Administration, CIO)

Atenasio,Chris M.

Bahree,Nidhruv

Bansal,Saket

Cardillo,Jeff D

Group 2: Developers

Flint,Megan W.

Holbrook,Adam J.

Kay,David J.

Sunderkoetter,Malte

Group 3: Validation & Verification

Swallow,Steven R

Wedig,Guido

Weinger,Samuel M.

Williams,Thomas H.

Group 4: Users (Students, Faculty, Academic Staff)

Dragon,Toby D.

Frederick,Kimberly A.

Ritzinger,Bernd

Zhu,Minhua

Group 5: Users (Bursar, Registrar, FA, Housing, etc.)

Bellissimo,Anthony John

Caron,Jeremy R.

Kumela,Dula

Maxwell,Morgan Tyler

Miller,David