Project Access Hope BIS 412 Systems Analysis and Design Applications Spring 2004 Project Developers: Philip Kelly Joseph Shaughnessy Daniel Vickers Project Liaison: Joseph Shaughnessy Organization Contact: Jolene Ness

Executive Summary  We worked with New Hope Ministries to design and build a database that would better suit their needs. These needs include reducing duplicates and automatically generating reports.

Project Introduction  New Hope Ministries is a non-profit organization with Branches in Dillsburg, Mechanicsburg, and Dover  New Hope provides services to people in need and has several after-school youth programs.  Using an older database that was took time to create reports.  Had needs for more efficient database.

Planning Phase Milestone 1  Initial meeting with New Hope  Discussed problems  Determined Needs and Wants  Estimated Scope of Project

Analysis Phase Milestone 2  “As-Is” System  Improvements  “To-Be” System Design  BPI  SRS and Use Cases –Increments

Design Phase Milestone 3  Structural Model –Difficulty from complexity  Behavioral Model  Prototyping  Technology Selection  Updated Increments

Implementation Phase Milestone 4  Incremental Functionality  Increment 1 –CRUD for Clients, Children & Youth, and Family members  Increment 2 –Track services, Search  Increment 3 –Generate Reports, Calculate Expenses, Calculate Household Income  System Testing

Demonstration  Database link

Impact  Will project meet goals?

Project Strengths and Weaknesses  Strengths –Better understanding of Analysis and Design Process –Good people to work with –Team unity –Organization skills  Weaknesses –Scope Creep –Complexity of system –Organizational skills

Lessons Learned  Start programming/prototyping earlier  Expect requirements to change  Pick tools you are familiar with  Communicate with organization more often  Etc.