Project: Northern Atlantis Cruise Lines

Northern Atlantis Cruise Lines company, has an outdated passenger booking system. This means that the passengers complain of having to hold on the phone for a long time, that sales people lose sales, and generally guests and crew are hassled with slow outdated systems.

  1. How would you go about finding the problems, and

  2. finding the solutions?

  3. Would you use a traditional SDLC (systems development life cycle)?     

  4. Would you use JAD?

  5. Would you use RAD?

  6. Would you use Omnis, Kylix or Visual Studio net?

  7. Would you use CASE or iCASE?

  8. Would you use JIT?

Notes:

Systems development is the set of activities needed to build an information systems solution to a business problem or opportunity.

An 8 stage SDLC

  1. Systems Investigation
  2. Systems Analysis
  3. Systems Design
  4. Programming
  5. Testing
  6. Implementation
  7. Operation
  8. Maintenance

The SDLC provides management with control over the development process.

Control, accountability and error detection are important to management and so is the time, money and personnel devoted to this project..

 JAD Definition: Joint Application Development (JAD) is a management process which helps IS work effectively with users to develop information technology solutions that really work.

RAD Definition: Rapid application development (RAD) is a systems development method, that can combine a high quality system.  

CASE and ICASE Definition: Computer aided Software engineering ( CASE) tools automate many of the tasks in SDLC.

The tools that automate the early stages of the SDLC - systems investigation - analysis - design are called upper CASE. 

The tools that are used to develop the later stages in SDLC - programming - testing - operation - maintenance  are called lower CASE.

CASE tools that provide a link between upper CASE and lower CASE are called ICASE tools.

JIT: Just in Time (JIT) concept minimizes inventory, space, labor, energy and many more and is predominantly used by the manufacturing industries. 

 

JAD  http://www.utexas.edu/hr/is/pubs/jad.html

RAD  http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=rapid+application+development

http://www.omnis-software.com/

http://www.linuxjournal.com/webindex.php

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/nextgen/technology/radserver.asp

CASE http://www.cs.queensu.ca/Software-

ICASE Engineering/tools.htmlhttp://www.att.com/press/0494/940429.fsa.html

1 What is your First Name?
2 What is your Last Name
3 What is your email?
4 How many persons in your group? (Max 4)
5 What are their Names?  
  5.1.
  5.2.
  5.3.
  5.4.
6 Describe below how you would go about investigating the problem, and answering questions I - VIII