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Auckland University of Technology
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The requirements for this project
was to design, implement and deploy a Student Hall Facilities
Management System. We went through full SDLC (Software development
life cycle).
The project structure included all stages of the development
- conceptual, logical, physical and finally - modular designs
We applied the MSF (Microsoft Solution Framework) approach,
as the complexity increased with each new round of the development
- envisioning, planning, developing and stabilizing.
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A short project description follows:
There are limited resources and budget - 20K and we can not
compromise on functionality of the application, while developing
a full-blown hotel management system.
It should be flexible enough to handle facilities (student accommodation),
rooms, room inventories and its usage, different payment frequencies,
cost center structures, clients that are not necessarily students,
handle packages: study fee + accommodation fee + meals, produce
full billing across all clients at any time for any period of
the time, should communicate with main billing system (possible
SAP). The user interface should comply with MS Windows standards
(i.e. user can operate it without the mouse, supports drag-and-drop
interface, intuitive)
The code should be robust and well "error" handled.
This project was completed within five weeks using latest MS
tool set and development was approached utilizing COM technology.
The back end was designed using MS Access 8 and then ported to SQL 7. The application can seamlessly switch between these two databases, depending upon DNS settings.
We are proud of our coding technique that is readable even for
a novice, includes most of Object Oriented design elements,
is well commented and structured, the naming convention exists
throughout the application and across different COM components.
The preparation of the proper technical documentation is one
of the main reasons for the success of the entire project which
is why significant amounts of project time, firstly developing
the documentation and lately keeping it up-to-date. The documentation
includes Project Vision Scope, Standard Operating Procedure.
We use Visio Enterprise version 5.0 to document OO design layers.
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Also, We took a part in the fine tuning of the main application business logic- ARION (students management suite), and variety of different small and big projects, utilizing latest techniques available in MS SQL Server 7.
We have provided consultations to senior analyst programmer and team members on different matters related to architectural questions as well as to technical implementation (coding). These consultations and actual work included implementing MS Visual Source Safe for all AIT registry projects (around 20 items)
We have implemented conceptual design of on-line help system utilizing latest Microsoft HTML based Help system (similar to MSDN). The incorporation of Java scripts into HTML code of help files and using it in conjunction with ActiveX object(s) allowed us great flexibility of meeting user demand, that the help should be user sensitive (remember user preferences). We have accomplished the development part of this project as well.
Utilizing the best principles of RAD (Rapid Application Development),
We believe, that the added value for this client justified the
project's expenditure.
The design, implementation, documentation and deployment of
this project was produced quickly, is reliable and came within
budget and time allowed. |
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