Introduction
This project is specifically initialised to develop BETTER Taxi Cab System for each individual branch of BETTER Taxi Cab. Developing the swift and smart work-shift schedule per day for drivers in the branch is the major objective of the project. In addition, the project also covers the details of drivers and vehicles of the organization. The main head office the organization of BETTER Taxi Cab is in Toowoomba, Queensland and the owner of the organization Ms Alice Carter can view all the data of 30 branches around the Australia immediately via internet.
This document specially focuses on the overall processes in the system including required data and information. The types of data are also considered during this document preparation with along with specific necessity. The document reveals the key major events with their types, triggers, sources, primary actors, activities, system outputs, and destinations. The document also reveals how these events are practically used by different objects along with their happening schedule and time duration. However the project doesn’t include any business information regarding customers. The project is developed assuming just two types of taxi cab, either standard sedan or modified in a various ways. However, the modified taxi cab always needs to be check for safety requirement. The project assumes that every work-shift is developed at the morning on the same day before 8 am. The project also needs external Licensing system to check the validity of the driver’s licence.
It is also assumed that the project begins from 1 March, 2008. And within every 15 days, it has targeted to review every step. The project is also assumed to be finished by end of the year.
System Requirements:
Event Table
Event Event Type Trigger Source Primary Actor Activity/Use Case System Response/
Output Destination
Initialization of branch office E New branch office Branch office manager Branch office manager Create branch New branch details Administration
Update branch changed details E Update branch Administration officer Administration officer Update branch Updated branch details Administration
Enter new taxi cab details E New taxi cab Administration officer Administration officer Create taxi cab New taxi cab details Administration
Update taxi cab changed details E Update taxi cab Administration officer Administration officer Update taxi cab Updated taxi cab details Administration
Taxi cab safety check S Modified taxi cab Nil Branch office manager Confirm safety Accept / Reject flag Administration
Enter new driver E New driver Administration officer Administration officer Create driver New driver details Driver
Update driver changed details E Update driver Administration officer Administration officer Update driver Updated driver details Driver
Schedule work shift T Every day Booking clerk Booking clerk Create work-shift Developed shift rosters for drivers Administration & driver
Allocate driver to taxi cab E Scheduled work-shift Booking clerk Booking clerk Allocate driver to taxi Ready for service Administration & driver
Licence clearance verification E New/Update driver External Licensing system External Licensing system Check licence Accept / Reject flag Driver
Time to generate driver work shift report T Each week Nil Time/Clock Produce driver work shift report Work shift report Administration
The two main issues in this case are the project analysis and financial forecasting. The project should be analyzed before doing the forecasting, because any recommendations on the project will affect financial forecasting for the next two years.
This phase is the main focus of the project managers and stake holders. Meetings with managers, stake holders and users are held in order to determine the requirements like; Who is going to use the system? How will they use the system? What data should be input into the system? What data should be output by the system? These are general questions that get answered during a requirements gathering phase. After requirement gathering these requirements are analyzed for their validity and the possibility of incorporating the requirements in the system to be development is also studied.
Initial projections show that the current schedule will take 50 weeks to finish with a final budget estimate of $3.152 million. Although the project estimate comes in under budget, the time frame for completion extends beyond the acceptable 45 weeks. Therefore, the following discussion takes a closer look at the project's conditions by developing a project priority matrix, project network, and a Gantt chart to help Bjorn Ericksen and his team reduce the project duration. The author then offers a project closure approach.
The book contains the most effective methods of completing a project within its budget, schedule, and the resource constraints. It briefly explains all the stage process of every major project goes through. From creating the plan to monitoring and evaluation, there is a lot for project managers and supervisors to learn.
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This case describes company’s facilities, vehicle pickups and return processes, pricing, promotional strategies. Furthermore, It also describes a number of significant changes that the company has made in the last year, including a move to allow rentals for as little as an hour that was designed to position easycar as a competitor to local taxis, buses, trains and even car ownership. The case also explores several legal challenges the firm faced, including a ruling that threatened one of the core elements of its business model.
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...e SMS will be sent) who can go to the branch to get his car. The shipping system records information about the sender such as the sender car, truck number, etc.. and it also records information about the client. Then these information are linked together. Reports about each product with information about client and sender are written (let us say weekly) and these reports are sent to the top management so that every process is monitored to follow any problem if found and try to enhance the procedure. Also this information can provide which branch is working the best and which is working the least so to enhance the quality of work. This is a strategy that the company is following in order to reach its objectives found in the mission.
Within the analysis phase a set of goals are needed within the domain. From this there are three perspectives which are taken; the object model the Ronald LeRoi Burback (1998) states “dynamic model, and a functional model. The object model represents the artifacts of the system. The dynamic model represents the interaction between these artifacts represented as events, states, and transitions. The functional model represents the methods of the system from the perspective of data flow.” After the analysis phase the system design phase takes place. Here the system is sub-categorized and appointed tasks and persistent data storage is established, also within this phase the architecture is formed. Lastly the object design phase starts and is where the implementation plan is established and algorithms and object classes are also
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