Initial phases of Financial Management System development project. Case: Diaconia UAS
Kainulainen, Tuukka (2014)
HAAGA-HELIA ammattikorkeakoulu
2014
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2014112617005
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2014112617005
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The purpose of the study was to go through initial phases of financial management system development project. The case eterprise was chosen to be Diaconia University of Applied Sciences (further - Diak).
The current Financial Management system of Diak is at its end due to the fact that the support for the system will end early spring 2015. The primary objective was to produce a solid foundation of information to the project team and to guide them with detailed analysis which direction the development project should proceed.
The model for this thesis is considered as a development project -based thesis. It includes an introduction, an overview of the case University of Applied Sciences using the financial management system environment, theory section, functional and nonfunctional requirements section, methods and empirical section. This case relies substantially on PMBOK (Project Management Book of Knowledge) Guide in overall project management and SWEBOK (Software Engineering Book of Knowledge) Guide for more specific information regarding eliciting software requirements. In addition, research information around feasibility study was gathered from various sources. The empirical part of the thesis shows the actual project documentation and the overall processes in this case project along with the authors analysis and suggestions based on the survey, that was conducted in early autumn 2014 with the end-users and IT-department.
This study reveals the end-users and the IT-departments different requirements for the new system which are to be used when the project advances. Due to sudden changes during the project the schedule for the project was noted to be extremely thin to complete all the necessary steps. That forced Diak to accept the update to the current system and postpone the development project to be reviewed after the update implementation.
The current Financial Management system of Diak is at its end due to the fact that the support for the system will end early spring 2015. The primary objective was to produce a solid foundation of information to the project team and to guide them with detailed analysis which direction the development project should proceed.
The model for this thesis is considered as a development project -based thesis. It includes an introduction, an overview of the case University of Applied Sciences using the financial management system environment, theory section, functional and nonfunctional requirements section, methods and empirical section. This case relies substantially on PMBOK (Project Management Book of Knowledge) Guide in overall project management and SWEBOK (Software Engineering Book of Knowledge) Guide for more specific information regarding eliciting software requirements. In addition, research information around feasibility study was gathered from various sources. The empirical part of the thesis shows the actual project documentation and the overall processes in this case project along with the authors analysis and suggestions based on the survey, that was conducted in early autumn 2014 with the end-users and IT-department.
This study reveals the end-users and the IT-departments different requirements for the new system which are to be used when the project advances. Due to sudden changes during the project the schedule for the project was noted to be extremely thin to complete all the necessary steps. That forced Diak to accept the update to the current system and postpone the development project to be reviewed after the update implementation.