Task
PART1:
(a) Prepare at least 8 user stories with rankings and their associated acceptance criteria, and Create a Use Case
diagram with all of the user stories.
(b) In order to create a class diagram, Identify at least five classes from your use case diagram, identifying thei
properties and actions where they are identifiable.
PART2:
(a) Identify the NPV and the project's
eakeven point in an economic feasibility analysis of the project. You
choose to start with a WACC of 7.5% for the discount rate.
(b) Justify in 200 words or fewer if you believe the project is economically feasible in light of the financial
analysis ca
ied out using the information in the System Request.
(c) You find that Mark Anthony's business plans to employ retained earnings rather than obtaining financing
from a bank during your initial phone call with him. Your customer also tells you that his company's return
on equity is 18%. How does this information affect the NPV and
eakeven point?
(d) Find the project's internal rate of return (IRR). The Dow Jones Industrial Index has a long-term rate of
eturn of 10.3%. Would Mark Anthony's business make more money by investing in your idea or the stock
market?
PART3: You started doubting the accuracy of the "cost of development and installation" stated by the custome
when you were doing the economic feasibility research. Your manager has informed you that there are 3 local
developers and 8 developers in India on the development team for this project. Although the organization will be
collaborating with the team in India for the first time, one of the local developers has extensive expertise overseeing
technical development remotely. This will be the team's first effort at creating an automated expert system, howeve
they come highly recommended and have successfully constructed several Python-based systems. All projects are
developed by Prosoft using AWS's cloud servers, networks, and storage facilities.
(a) Make a table with each of the technical complexity variables and environmental complexity factors that
were considered during the Use Case point analysis, your rating for each one, and a one-sentence reason.
(b) To calculate the development effort in person hours, create a Use Case Point analysis using the analysis
from (a) and the use case diagram from (Part 1 b).
(c) You have been advised by Prosoft management that the fully loaded cost of the local developers is
$200,000 per year (they are dedicated to the project full time: 50 weeks per year at 8 hours per week). The
Indian team, which will work on the project full-time as well, has agreed to a $20,000 monthly retainer fo
the length of the project. Consider Mark Anthony's estimation of the development effort to be realistic. In
150 words or fewer, explain your conclusion.
Read the following:
Mini case study
"A group of three college professors has established a notion that one's aesthetic preferences for music and visual art
may be used to forecast one's personality traits with accuracy. They suggest developing a mechanism to verify and
test this notion. The system's specifics are hazy, but it most likely entails developing a website where the people
(users) being evaluated can upload and share music and art files they really appreciate. This could or might not also
entail building a collection of works of art and musical compositions from which users can select, as well as a
system that enables users to submit playlists from their prefe
ed streaming providers.The algorithm to assess a
user's taste in music and art in order to forecast personality already exists, but it is probable that the required strategy
will evolve quickly as the system is originally constructed and tested. The technology that are employed will
probably change as well, incorporating newly developing technologies like virtual reality and artificial intelligence
(AI) (VR). The system will remain tightly concentrated after that. The system won't need to interact with othe
systems or use other functions, for instance. After the system is completed, it should be scalable to hundreds of
thousands or perhaps millions of users, even if the initial volumes of people and data will be minimal. In order to
enable private user data exposed to the internet, the system will also need to be protected.Five seasoned developers
who live and work in the same city have been hired by the lecturers. Because of their extensive knowledge of these
new technologies, these developers were employed.
(a) Create a table detailing each of the 14 home ground qualities, its rating, and a one-sentence justification of
your assessment for that feature. Then, evaluate each of the 14 home ground characteristics for the project
outlined in this case (ratings are between 1 and 5 with 5 being the highest rating)
(b) Utilize a radar chart to plot the features of the home grounds.
adar chart template:
Determine if this project would profit from BDUF or BRUF based on the radar chart. In no more than three
sentences, explain your choice. Choose a project management strategy for this project on the basis of the
adar chart as well. Describe your reasoning for choosing this project method in 200 words or fewer.
Info
System Request: January 8, 2021 Name of project: Automated Expert System For Sales
Department
Project Sponsor: Mark Anthony, Vice President, Sales
Business Need: Build an expert system responder to customer calls fo
our catalog products. This will enable us to fulfill 75%
of our cu
ent order rate automatically. Increases
evenue because we can handle more calls
simultaneously. Reduces cost because no custome
service and order processing operators in the loop.
Business Requirements: The system should greet customers, and then provide a
menu of options (e.g. “To place an order, dial 1”, “To
check order status, dial 2”, etc.). The system should be
able to check inventory for availability of the item,
process an order using a credit card, verify and approve
the transaction, book the order and transmit the orde
to the shipping queue. The system should also provide
an option for the customer to speak to a human being.
Sales increase: Sales increase: Y1: $50K; Y2: $130K; Y3: $240K; Y4:
$300K; Y5: $350K
Cost Savings: Y1: $80K; Y2: $85K; Y3: $87K; Y4:
$90K; Y5: $92K
Cost of Phone Hardware: Y1: $150K
Cost of Computing Equipment (Servers, printers): Y1:
$35K
Cost of Expert System Software: Y1: 150K
Cost of Other Software: Y1: $20K \
Development & Installation: Y1: $575K
On-going maintenance (supplier): $25K per yea
Internal maintenance & support: $60K per yea
Special Issues or Constraints: 1. Customer data security is critical, especially credit
card information. We cannot afford to have the system
hacked resulting in credit card numbers being stolen.
2. If possible we would like to build a database of
customer data that is anonymized for mining useful
information, such as: items typically purchased
together; significant trends (increase, decreases) in
purchasing specific items; time of day co
elation to
purchasing certain items, etc.