Initial phases of Financial Management System development project. Case: Diaconia UAS
Kainulainen, Tuukka (2014)
Kainulainen, Tuukka
HAAGA-HELIA ammattikorkeakoulu
2014
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2014112617005
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2014112617005
Tiivistelmä
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.
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.