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It applies to individuals working as systems analyst developers and project team leaders, and managers responsible for gathering data to identify business requirements.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

The student is required to write, document and submit a written report which is to identify business requirements. The report must cover the following tasks:

·       Task 1: Identifying key information sources of business requirements

·       Task 2: Gathering data of business requirements

·       Task 3: Analysing the collected data to identify the business requirements

·       Task 4: Documenting the data analysis according to organisational standards

The student is required to correctly answer questions to demonstrate their knowledge in identifying, gathering, analysing and documenting business requirements.

–     Assessment Competency Mapping

–     Assessment Methods

–     Assessment Task Summary

–     Specific Resources required/Conditions and location of assessment

–     Evidence gathered

–     Marking guides/Checklist/Expected Responses

–     Assessment Summary Sheet(s)

–     VT252 Post Assessment Assessor Feedback Form

Save your file(s) in acceptable format (please refer to the student’s handbook)

Save the file name in the format: StudentID_Unitcode

If you are caught cheating/plagiarism, the test will be marked “Not Satisfactory” and you will be subject to the penalties stated in ATMC’s Academic Conduct policy regarding cheating and plagiarism

The student is required to write, document and submit a written report which includes the data collection, analysis and documentation process to identify business requirements. The report must cover the following tasks:

·        Task 1: Identifying key information sources of business requirements

·        Task 2: Gathering data of business requirements

·        Task 3: Analysing the collected data to identify the business requirements

·        Task 4: Documenting the data analysis according to organisational standards

The assessment conditions are as follows:

·        Assessment method: this assessment is in the form of a written report.

·        Assessment mode: this is an open book assessment. Students can refer to learning resources and other relevant sources to produce the written report.

·        Writing and referencing requirements:

ü  Word count: minimum 1000 words

ü  Referencing: All references (source of information) must be included in the written report and cited using the Harvard citation style.

Note: The student must include student name, student ID, unit code and unit name in the report.

 Scenario:

You (the student) are hired as an IT support engineer by ATMC college located in Melbourne CBD, to perform some upgrades to the current network.

ATMC college is a registered training organisation which offers students different courses ranging from Certificate IV to Advanced Diploma level of study in Business and IT streams.

You need to develop requirements for a Learning Management System (LMS). The LMS will be used by the trainers and off-campus students. The purpose of this is to add an online learning environment for the students who are currently attending.

The college has released their strategic plan as followings:

·        Main aim of ATMC in planning LMS is to offer complete range of courses nationally through the implementation of a highly collaborative online teaching environment

·        ATMC targets to increase their student base to 5,000 students through use of this environment

·        LMS will play a role as a platform for providing resources online to its learners. They can interact with academic assistance and can access third party materials and modules.

 Requirements:

As an IT support engineer, you are responsible to gather data for identifying business requirements. The data collection, analysis and documentation process must be recorded in a report.

The report must contain all of the following tasks:

Task 1: Identifying key information sources of business requirements, including:

·        Name information sources which are needed to identify business domain.

·        Name information sources which are needed to identify the current and future directions of the organization

·        Review existing organisational documentation. At least 2 of the following documents must be reviewed.

o   annual report

o   brochures

o   business forms

o   current systems

o   facilitated group sessions or group discussions

o   financial statements

o   performance reports

o   policy documents including quality assurance practices

o   website

·        Describe the current industry accepted hardware and software products, general features and capabilities suited to the project.

·        Examine the system’s current hardware, software and communication functionality.

·        Identify the stakeholders in the scenario, their roles and their degree of involvement in the process.

·        Use a wide range of questions to elicit the information from key stakeholders

·        List critical questions to elicit information from key stakeholders

Task 2: Gathering data of business requirements, including:

·        Demonstrate use of a variety of techniques to collect information. At least 2 of the following techniques must be used.

o   Observation

o   workshop

o   questionnaires

o   surveys

o   interview

·        Specify current and future directions of the organization

·        Review reports, statistics, other information sources for business requirements

·        Review quality assurance practices

·        Outline the business-critical factors relating organization vision with key stakeholders. Business-critical factors may include:

o   customer confidence

o   customer demographics

o   data knowledge and management

o   expectations

o   response times

o   scalability

o   security

o   traffic

Task 3: Analysing the collected data to identify the business requirements, including:

·        Define the client business domain, so that the business needs are understood by project team and client.

·        Analyse organizational documentation and all other related data sources to identify business priority based on business strategy and current and future directions.

·        Analyse the group as well as individual responses of stakeholders to define business priorities

·        Describe the information gathering techniques and processes used.

·        Review the current industry accepted hardware and software products and related functionalities to identify the one which best suits the current system’s hardware, software and communication functionality.

·        Specify quality assurance practices required when determining the requirements.

Task 4: Documenting data analysis to identify business requirements appropriately according to organisational standards*.

·        Document data analysis to identify business requirements appropriately according to the standards of the organization you are working with. Document may include:

o   Business requirement specifications

o   Textual documentation, such as system-requirement specifications

o   Case diagrams

o   Wireframes

*Note:Details for documentation standards is as follows:

·        May include but are not restricted to policy relating to sign-off, storage, distribution, revision

·        Standards may include ISO/IEC/AS standards, organisational standards, project standards (for further information refer to the Standards Australia website at: www.standards.com.au)

·        May include tools for documenting (e.g. word processing packages, desktop publishing packages)

·        In written tests and multiple-choice tests, students must answer all questions correctly to achieve a satisfactory result for the assessment.

·        In observation tasks, written projects, or presentations, students must satisfactorily meet the expected performance requirements, and achieve a satisfactory result for all items on the assessor checklist to receive a satisfactory result for the assessment.

·        Students must achieve a satisfactory result for all assessments in a unit of competency to be deemed competent for the unit.

·        Students have up to three (3) attempts to complete each assessment task. If after the third attempt for any assessment task, the student does not achieve a satisfactory result, he/she will receive a result of “Not Satisfactory” for the assessment and will be deemed “Not Yet Competent” for the unit.

·        If a student is not satisfied with any aspect of the assessment process, he/she may lodge a formal complaint or appeal by submitting the form SS116 Student Complaint & Appeal Form available on ATMC’s website (www.atmc.edu.au) to ATMC’s student support email address at e.support@atmc.edu.au or at the support centre(s).Where an appeal relates to an assessment decision, ATMC will appoint the course coordinator/alternate assessor to validate the assessment judgement and evidence gathered. If the student is still not satisfied with the internal appeal outcome, he/she may lodge an external appeal with an external body in accordance with the complaints and appeals policy.

·        For information about reasonable adjustments, see the section ‘Reasonable adjustments’.