lNFO8003 – Systems Concepts, Analysis and Design

Final Major Project

Developing a Business System

*** To be done in groups of three (not four).

In this project, you will be developing the concept for a business application (web
application, mobile website or stand-alone application – your choice) based on
an idea that your team will develop which is, in turn, based on a project theme
that is provided to you.

In this assignment, you will:

1. Consolidate your skills that you have learned in the course so far.

2. Develop a rather complete and viable concept for a business system.

3. Use a cloud based collaborative tool as a repository for the materials that
your team develops.

4. Explore the use of AI tools.

Note: You will not actually be developing a fully functioning application. You will
be developing the concept, creating the “design” which will include a non-
functional mock-up, modeling the entities and classes, and developing a plan for
the development of the work just as if you were planning to complete it (which
you may decide to do in the future, if you feel the work has merit!).

Project Theme
You will be developing a concept of your own for your project based on the
following theme:

A nonprofit organization management system for event management,

volunteer coordination, donor tracking, grant applications, and impact
reporting.
In order to prepare and to develop a good idea, teams should perform some
quick research into the concepts of:

 Entrepreneurship
 Sustainability
 Facilities planning

and paradigms for development such as:

 pair programming
 mob programming
 test-driven development

and come up with their own innovative ideas to promote development of start-ups
and they should be able to explain how their idea relates to the project
theme. This project theme allows for a very wide range of topics for projects in
terms of business purpose and technology. Once the team has an idea of the
topics that interest them, they may need to do more complete research into some
topics.

**Note: every semester, we get quite a few restaurants, food delivery, UBERing,
dating and dog walking apps as students often want to do something they can
understand easily. In a vacuum, those ideas might be acceptable, but when
judges and visitors are reviewing multiple projects on Capstone Judging Day
with those topics, they seem rather repetitive and uninspired. So, I would avoid
those topics and, of course, they don’t really fit the current project theme.

***NOTES:

1. All aspects of your design, modelling and documentation should be

professional and tasteful with no components that would embarrass the
organization or employees creating the app.

2. You may assume that the web generally will be accessible to users.

** Important: Use of AI
Use of AI tools for development purposes will be permitted in designated
sections and according to the guidelines discussed in class. For the purpose of
your course assignments, always make sure that you are permitted to use AI and
indicate when and how you have used it.

The functionality of the application may include AI, but there should be sufficient
planning for use cases, entities and classes to demonstrate your modelling skills.
Using a collaborative tool (10 marks)
The team is to use a tool such as GitHub, Azure or AWS to collaboratively
develop and record your materials.

At the end of the project, your team will upload a document containing all of the
deliverables, but you will also include in the document a link to your repository
which your instructor will be able to use to view all documents.

Forming a Development Team (10 marks)

Imagine that your team is a small start-up company and you are developing the
system for which you have developed a concept. Your team is now about to work
through all of the tasks that have been identified in Projects 1 through 4.

Identify roles for your team. You will need professionals and developers to work
on each of the following tasks:

 Brainstorming
 Research
 Business Model
 Market Analysis and Personas
 Use Cases
 Entity Relationship Diagram
 Class Diagram
 Content Plans
 Prototype Mockups
 Code Development
 Testing (Unit, Integration, Regression, Acceptance and Usability)
 Documentation

A chart would be a good way to handle this.

**Note: We are not assuming that one individual will do all the work for each task
type, so multiple individuals will be assigned to each kind of task.

In addition, one individual should be identified for each of the following scrum
development roles:

 Product Owner
 Scrum Master

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Preliminary Research (10 marks)
You may use AI tools to help you with this to investigate topics of interest using
the list provided above as a guide (though you are certainly not limited to this). In
an Appendix, please provide the prompts you used for this. Make sure you
understand the results from AI. Correct it, and adapt it to your purposes. Make
sure that you do not make any incorrect claims about work that has, or will be,
done.

Brainstorming (10 marks)

Develop and document some ideas for the benefits of your application concept
and how the application might work. Provide a summary of your ideas – these
can be changed later. AI is permitted with the usual caveats.

Research – Web Market Analysis (10 marks)

Research should be done to investigate the field of application. Do such apps
already exist? Provide links and screenshots wherever possible. If it does not
exist, what are applications that would be of interest to a similar market? What
might people use now to accomplish the same goals, if anything? Describe the
features needed by your app and explain how yours would be different from
existing apps. Why does it make sense to develop this app?

Description (10 marks)

Provide a description of the application, and its various purposes – both business
and social. Delineate the ideas that you are bringing to the application. Also
explain future goals for the app – in other words, if you were to develop the idea
beyond this course, what new features, extensions or purposes would you add to
it. (For example, could the app be adapted for a similar but different purpose?)
Explain how it relates to the theme. Provide:

• a refined description
• a preliminary list of desirable features for the app (might change)
• possible revenue streams
• future goals

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Technical Requirements (10 marks)
 What special device hardware features would the app require, if any? (If
none, please provide discussion.)
 What special input controls would you develop for this application, if any?
(If none, please provide discussion.)
 What constraints or advantages to do with context are involved in this
app?

Personas (10 marks)

Develop three persona descriptions to represent the target market for the
application. They should apply to the application but also be rather distinct from
each other.

Use Cases (20 marks)

Develop a fairly complete listing of the use cases for functional requirements for
this app and create a diagram for them. This list should provide a name for each
use case and a brief description (one or two sentences). Then, from that list,
choose two of the more interesting use cases, and develop use case descriptions
for them. Don’t choose things like “login” use cases as they are not specific to
this app and provide little insight on how the app works.

The two (or more) use cases you chose to pursue will be the ones shown
working in the prototype.

Activity Diagram (10 marks)

Develop an activity diagram for one of the use cases that you are prototyping.

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Entities (20 marks)
Provide a fairly complete of business entities for the application. Identify some
attributes for each entity. A tabular format would work well for this.

Create an ERD for this application that shows entities, attributes, relationships
and cardinality.

Content Plans (10 marks)

Provide a description of the text, features and input controls on each page being
prototyped.

Prototypes (20 marks)

Develop professional mockups of the screens for the two (or more) use cases
you have chosen to develop using JustInMind Prototyper or Figma.

Class Diagram (20 marks)

Using a UML modelling tool such as Visual Paradigm, LucidChart or Mermaid,
develop a class diagram for the application. It should include:

 At least 5 classes with appropriate names (but you may find you need
quite a few more)
 Attributes
 Methods
 Visibility (privacy) of classes, attributes and methods
 Associations between classes
 Inheritance (think, for example, Users of all kinds)

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Implementation - Developing the Agile Plan (20 marks)
You are developing a plan to implement the system in an agile, iterative, scrum
manner. Iterative means developing the system in planned stages in which use
cases are developed several at a time as long as they can be done concurrently.
Agile means that changes can be made quickly and easily to the plan depending
on new information about system requirements that has arisen, or else as a
result of changes in schedule (due to environmental factors, availability of human
resources and the client, etc.). Scrum means you are using the specific
methodology in which development is done in sprints and developers, a
product owner and a scrum master follow the best practices of scrum
development. **Note that Scrum implies iterative and agile development, but
the reverse may not always be true. We are using Scrum development.

Make an assumption that this development for this site will have three sprints
(implementation stages) of three weeks each.

In a spreadsheet template provided for this purpose, record the Agile plan for
implementation that you have developed.

Presentation (10 marks)

In a 5 minute presentation, explain your digital product concept to the class.
Recommendations for a good presentation will be published in a separate
document.

IMPORTANT: This live class presentation must be completed before the Major
Project due date in Week 14. If your team is not ready to make a live class
presentation within the first hour of the regular start of class, your team has an
opportunity to submit a video presentation instead of a live class presentation,
but will incur some penalty. Please see the Major Project rubric for details.

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Final Report (10 marks)
*** Note: To submit your exam, you must incorporate all materials, including
charts, diagrams and prototypes into a single Word or PDF document and
submit it to the Major Project folder on eConestoga. (If the Spreadsheet for the
Agile development plan does not transfer well into your document, you may
submit is separately.) Include:

 Cover sheet
 Table of contents
 Page numbers
 Brief introduction
 All the deliverables
 Brief Conclusions
 Agile Planning Spreadsheet

Submit to eConestoga.

***Note: We reserve the right to assign different marks to different team members
if there is evidence of differential contributions. Each group member will be asked
to meet with their instructor and show evidence of attendance at group meetings,
contributions of track changes to documents, emails or group discussion posts
making suggestions and file creation dates, etc., as appropriate to this
assignment. It would be unacceptable to say that others volunteered to do all the
researching, summarizing or writing. You must maintain evidence of your
contribution.