HND Group Software Engineering Implementation Project

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HND Group Software Engineering Implementation
Project

• Bob Burdoff

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The Group

• Our Group was made up of
• Carol Robinson
• Sarah Dawkins
• Paul Rhoods
• Myself Bob Burdoff

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Project Selection

• Group ideas had included
• A telemetry system to get onsite data into a data
  base.
• A Graphic editor made using Java
• a Web-admin System for Hart boys

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Reasons for Choice

• Carol had been approached by Hart Boys to produce
  a system for the club. Our other choices were
  purely conceptual without a defined
  specification or requirement seemed more likely
  to have sufficient focus.

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Hart Boys Football club System

• Our meeting with the club revealed requirements
  for
• A secure but remote access system to enable club
  officials to carry out admin,
• A league table that would track all the Hart
  teams progress through the season
• A method of offering kit to members that would
  negate the current problems of lost orders, money
  etc.

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The online store

• Currently the club arranges order for jackets
  other bits of kit for team members that are
  placed through several team managers.
• This is problematical as collections have to be
  made, funds handled poor communication lead to
  frustration recriminations.

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Requirement overview
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Feasibility

• We were aware of several E-commerce software
  packages but were warned about previous problems
  students had.
• There were concerns over the lack of server side
  access at college which meant lecturers were
  limited as to the help they could offer.
• Due to the transient nature of club officials,
  who would take responsibility for it?
• Who would actually manage the orders?

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The Main Problems

• Going live with a full blown E-commerce solution
  required a business account which the club was
  not interested in the the nature of the
  officials was also causing problems.
• The Full blown store was more of a personal want
  than a system need had to be abandoned since
  the club is not in a position to adopt this.
• The software packages werent as easy to use as
  they suggested - lots of time had been lost
  finding this out.
• Finding a suitable alternative to allow the
  customer to place orders.

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The Main Problems 2

• We had a series of group problems in the first
  half of the year lost out club contact before a
  descent rapport had been established with the
  club.
• It was proving very difficult to find a suitable
  replacement to construct the site in, as
  alternatives all required some form of server
  side scripting.

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Time management suffered
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Solutions

• Coding design problems were resolved using
  basic HTML,
• Orders would be mailed direct to the supplier,
• potential time wasters could be filtered out by
  non parity of submitted E mail address the one
  the order comes from although this is not fool
  proof.

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The Final Deliverables

• A front end to the site that is intuitive
  aesthetically acceptable
• Files optimised for quick download.
• A web site that allows potential customers to
  browse the club strip
• The ability for them to place orders
• No problems with business accounts or
  accountability for the club officials.

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Critique

• The specified requirements were met, but my own
  goal of producing a full blown E-commerce
  solution failed
• Also, after careful planning to manage risks
  particularly with losing our group focus, we lost
  our main club contact which didnt become clear
  for some time
• We did manage to recognise early on as a group
  our work was too closely coupled we addressed
  this.

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• A huge amount of time was lost trying to learn
  software packages although I did learn to know
  when to put them down, it still consumed a large
  percentage of available project time.
• Outputs (Orders) are hard to read by the supplier
• a secure login (that would require some server
  side work) would help mitigate orders placed by
  time wasters.

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Possible Developments

• A reader is a must have for the supplier as
• It would remove all the spacing characters from
  the order make it more readable less prone to
  order errors
• It could be used to parity check sent from
  contact Email addresses to find possible time
  wasters
• finally, the supplier might be prepared to
  adopt the store into its own business model.
  this could then become a full blown E-commerce
  solution