computer science

Your mindset for this assignment You are working in the Development Division of Pinnacle Software Inc. Your company creates tailor-made software solutions for corporate clients. Pinnacle Software’s head office is in Sydney, Australia and the company has development teams in Brisbane (Australia), Perth (Australia) and Bangalore (India). The main business of your organisation is to develop tailor-made software solutions based on the client requirements. In your division, you work in a team that has experts in various technical aspects such as database design and development, systems analysis and design and project management. Providing tailor-made software solutions is a very competitive business, with many companies providing such services. In this competitive market, it is vital for Pinnacle Software to win as many clients as possible and provide them with quality software solutions, which are delivered on time and within budget. The marketing division of Pinnacle Software seeks client projects and consults your division before signing any contracts with the client. They put together a client outline for your review and analysis based on a tender they are vying for. This client outline is a result of initial discussions with the tender contact. At this point, the main responsibility of your team is to undertake an analysis of the client outline and to prepare a Project Specification Document & a Project Proposal to submit in response to the tender. If the tender is won, the agreed project is then handed over to a development team in one of the branch offices and managed by your team at the head office.

As experts in the area and to win the tender, your team is required to provide a professional level specification document and a project proposal with a recommended solution chosen from 3 alternative solutions that have been evaluated.

Instructions – Project Specification Document - Part 1 – 10%

For the first part of this assignment your team is to Project Specification Document for your group’s case study (project brief). You MUST complete this assignment with the case study assigned to your group. The case studies are separate to this document and are provided on vUWS. If your group creates a Specification Document for the wrong case study you will receive zero (0) marks and will fail the assessment. A template is given on vUWS outlining the different sections of the specification document (part-1- template.docx). In this template is guidance for the required sections.

The outline is master headings (sections) of your assignment, you may give these sub-headings if you feel you need to break each master heading down into smaller sections. The case studies given are incomplete. There are some questions you must ask to provide a valid project proposal. Work with your team to formulate questions (3 only) to ask, just like you would ask a real client, to ensure you have enough information to provide a feasible project proposal. This means you need to have a thorough understanding of what is required for every section of the project proposal, in relation to your particular case study. It is vital to understand the answers to your questions will be from a client perspective and the client is only considering your company for its expertise and capability. Poorly formulated or irrelevant questions could lead to an unfeasible project proposal (Part 2) for the client. An unfeasible project proposal will lead to significant loss of marks for Part 2.

The questions will be answered by the marker who will be acting as the client. The questions are to be in a professionally written email to the client, asking the client to review the attached specification document, and if they could address the questions you have in relation to their project. This email must be professional. The questions cannot just be bullet points. They must explain to the client why you are asking them, and to provide context and understanding why the answers are required for your proposal. This email is to be submitted along with the specification document – it must be added as an additional page before your specification document title page.

The specification document will outline all the functional and non-functional requirements of the project derived from the case study allocated to your group. The document must be of a professional standard. Your group will use this specification document to show your understanding of the requirements of the project described in the case study.

For feedback, the marker will provide a client email in return (as part of the marking feedback) which will answer your questions, together with their judgement of the specification document. This feedback must be acted upon and any changes incorporated into the requirements sections in the final project proposal.