ICT115
Introduction to Systems Design
Assignment Task 2
Marks 25% of the total assessment for the course
Due Date – Friday 5 October at 5 PM
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Executive Summary
This document provides a case study for Assessment Task 2 of ICT115 – Introduction to
Systems Design. The document includes the assessment topics, marking criteria and
guidelines for completing the assignment. Please read the document entirely to understand
the submission requirements.
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………………………………………i
Table of Tables ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………ii
1 Introduction ………………………………………………………………………………………………………..1
2 Submission and Assessment Details ……………………………………………………………………….2
2.1 Submission Details …………………………………………………………………………………………2
2.2 Report Structure and Formatting……………………………………………………………………..2
2.3 Referencing …………………………………………………………………………………………………..3
2.4 Assessment Details…………………………………………………………………………………………3
3 Report Content ……………………………………………………………………………………………………4
3.1 System Brief…………………………………………………………………………………………………..4
3.2 Topics to be addressed……………………………………………………………………………………5
3.2.1 Topic 1……………………………………………………………………………………………………5
3.2.2 Topic 2……………………………………………………………………………………………………5
3.2.3 Topic 3……………………………………………………………………………………………………5
4 Recommendations and Conclusions……………………………………………………………………….6
5 Bibliography ………………………………………………………………………………………………………..7
Table of Tables
Table 1 – Marking Sheet ……………………………………………………………………………………………….3
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1 Introduction
This document provides details for completing and submitting Assignment 2 for the course
ICT115 Introduction to Systems Design. Section 2 describes the submission and assessment
details. Section 3 describes the system brief and specific questions that require addressing.
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2 Submission and Assessment Details
This section outlines important information regarding submitting the assignment and how it
will be assessed.
2.1 Submission Details
This assignment must be submitted as a single document in Microsoft Word format via the
assessment module of the course web site on Blackboard. All assignments will be checked for
plagiarism and/or collusion between individuals. Note that multiple files will not be accepted.
• The suggested length for the report is: 1500 words
• The due date for submission of this report is: Friday 5 October at 5 PM
Submission extensions will only be made using the official Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Guidelines. Requests for an extension to an assignment extension must be made prior to the
date of submission.
Please note that each student needs to make a second copy of the assignment and this copy
must be produced within 24 hours of it being requested by the Course Coordinator.
2.2 Report Structure and Formatting
A fundamental skill of an analyst is to prepare professionally prepared business reports for
clients. As such this assignment will not only assess your research and analytical skills, but also
your report writing skills. You are to prepare a structured formal business report, for details
on report structure refer to the “Communication Skills Handbook” (Summers & Smith, 2014).
The report must be formatted using the following guidelines:
• Paragraph text 12-point Calibri single line spacing
• Headings Arial in an appropriate type size
• Margins 2.0cm on all sides
• Title Page is not to contain headers, footers, or page numbering
• Header is to display the Report Title (excluding the title page)
• Footer to display your name and the page number (excluding the title page)
• Page numbering
o Title Page to be unnumbered
o Executive summary to the last page of Table of Figures / Table of Tables to use
roman numerals (i, ii, iii, iv)
o Introduction and onwards to use conventional numerals (1, 2, 3, 4) starting at
page 1 from the introduction
The report must use the built-in features of Microsoft Word to create page numbers, section
numbers, citations, cross referencing of sections, figures and tables, table of contents, table
of figures, table of tables, and bibliography.
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2.3 Referencing
The report is to include appropriate references and these references should follow the Harvard
method of referencing. Note that ALL references should be from journal articles, conference
papers, technical papers or a recognized expert in the field.
2.4 Assessment Details
This assignment will be marked out of 100 and contributes towards 25% of the total
assessment for this course. The marking sheet for this assessment is provided in Table 1 –
Marking Sheet.
Table 1 – Marking Sheet

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3 Report Content
This section details the content that must be contained in the body of the report. Section 3.1
System Brief contains details on the project, and Section 3.2 describes specific questions that
require addressing.
3.1 System Brief
The Scene Brokers is an Australia wide venue booking company that acts as a go between
amongst customers and venues, matching customers including businesses to suitable venues
based on supplied criteria. The company has conducted a strategic review of its operations as
part of its annual strategic business planning process. In the course of doing SWOT analysis,
they identified an opportunity to extend their business to individuals requiring venue
reservations with an automated website (and an associated App) taking advantage of their
contacts and special rate deals available to them.
The Scene Brokers is proposing a website and App called FindYourVenue and are requesting a
systems design solution to support its current operation targeting businesses and its new
operation targeting individuals. It will be in the same vein as other existing popular customer
to service matching websites such as HotelsCombined, except that its focus will be on
matching customers to suitable venues Australia wide. FindYourVenue can be used for both
medium to large corporate functions and small to medium private functions such as wedding
receptions and birthday parties. Some constraints include that (1) for business customers the
system will deal with only approved customers who has at least 100 attendees per booking,
and (2) for individual customers the system will not deal with very large functions, i.e., it offers
venues for not more than 500 attendees per private function. To become an approved
business customer, a business must first apply for registration online and pay a $100 annual
fee to receive a username to use the system – the username/password and the payment
receipt are sent in a registering confirmation email. Individual customers can create an online
profile and select a username/password by filling out a simple online form and providing their
details – individual customers will also receive a welcome email including the customer’s
registered details. Customers need to login into the system using their credentials and provide
booking details such as number of attendees, desired location, food menu, music genres, date
and time, and price range, to see the list of available venues. After selecting a preferred
venue, both types of customers must ultimately pay the full amount due to finalize their
bookings. Once the booking is finalized, customers will receive a booking confirmation email
in their registered email address which includes the tax invoice for the booking. The details of
each booking are kept in customers’ records and can be viewed online. The Scene Brokers’
venue providers are registered as business contacts and are given access to the system to
update the FindYourVenue database with their latest availability and pricing schedules.
The CEO of The Scene Brokers has commissioned your consultancy firm, ABC Consultancy, to
prepare a formal business management report to identify a system design solution and
explain the benefits of developing such a system to support their business and their service.
In particular The Scene Brokers is interested in topics detailed below in section 3.2.
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3.2 Topics to be addressed
3.2.1 Topic 1
Briefly describe how would you obtain the information needed for the development of a use
case model to analyse the requirements of the proposed system. Draw a Use Case Diagram
and document use case descriptions to represent the required functionality of the system.
Note that any associated systems such as financial systems which are not detailed in the brief
may be treated as a black box when drawing the use case diagram.
Suggested length: 500 words
3.2.2 Topic 2
Establish a scholarly supported argument, discussing the benefits of offering a mobile
application in addition to the website. You may start by exploring perceptions of, and
behaviours related to, the use of mobile apps in similar businesses. You must use at least five
references to support your argument.
Suggested length: 750 words
3.2.3 Topic 3
Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) – organized by product and in at least three
levels of details – for the front-end of a mobile application, which helps the management to
understand the scope and complexity of the development project. You are required to
demonstrate how the suggested WBS can be used by the management.
No cost and schedule estimation is required at this stage.
Note: The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) defines WBS as a “deliverable
oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team”.
Suggested length: 250 words
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4 Recommendations and Conclusions
This document has described the tasks required to complete and submit Assignment 2 for
ICT115 Introduction to Systems Design. This assignment has been created to assess students
analytical, research, and report writing skills.
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5 Bibliography
Summers, J. & Smith, B., 2014. Communication Skills Handbook. 4th ed. Australia: Wiley.

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