The first step will be to select an organization as the target for your Software Design document.

Throughout this course, you will be working on several aspects of software design that will result in a complete Software Design Document for a project of your choosing. You will not be developing any software, but you will work extensively with the concepts of good software design practices. Each week, you will complete a part of the Software Design Document, with the final draft due at the end of the course.

You will select an organization, and apply your research to the design of a software application that would be appropriate for the organization and that will fulfill a need that it has for its system. Additional information and the deliverables for each Individual Project will be provided in the assignment description for the project. This is the course Key Assignment that you will make contributions to each week.

Project Selection

The first step will be to select an organization as the target for your Software Design document. This organization will be used as the basis for each of the assignments throughout the course and should conform to the following guidelines:

• Nontrivial: The selected organization should be large enough to allow reasonable exercise of the software design process.
• Domain knowledge: You should be familiar with the organization to allow the focus to be on the project tasks without significant time required for domain education.
• Accessibility: You should have good access to the people and other information related to the organization because this will be an important part of the process.
• Note: The selected organization might already have the software implemented and may still be used as the basis for the projects in this course.
• Note: The selected organization must have a need for some kind of software as part of its operation. Therefore, feel free to identify a hypothetical organization that meets the requirements. Any necessary assumptions may be made to fulfill the requirements of organization selection.

Select a real or fictitious organization that fits these requirements and submit your proposal to your instructor before proceeding further with the assignments in the course. Approval should be sought within the first several days of the course. Your instructor will tell you how to submit this proposal and what notification will be given for project approval.

Part 1

Assignment:

For the assignments in this course, you will not be implementing the actual project, but rather, you will be developing a comprehensive Software Design Document. Your first task in this process will be to select an organization or identify a hypothetical organization to use as the basis of your projects. You will also create the shell document for the final project deliverable that you will be working on during each unit. As you proceed through each project phase, you will add content to each section of the final document to gradually complete the final project delivery. Appropriate research should be conducted to support the development of your document and assumptions may be made when necessary.

The project deliverables are as follows:

• Submit the organization proposal to your instructor for approval.
• Software Document Shell
  • Use Microsoft Word
  • Title Page
    • Course number and name
    • Project name
    • Your name
    • Date
  • Table of Contents (TOC)
    • Use an auto-generated TOC
    • Separate page
    • Maximum of 3 levels deep
    • Be sure to update the fields of the TOC before submitting your project.
  • Section Headings (Create each heading on a new page with “TBD” as content except for sections listed under New Content below.)
    • Project Outline (Week 1)
    • Software Design Methodology (Week 1)
    • Requirements Analysis and Software Architecture (Week 2)
    • Sequence and State Transition Diagrams (Week 3)
    • Class and Activity Diagrams (Week 4)
    • Verification and Validation (Week 4)
    • Multithreading opportunities (Week 5)
    • Constraints (Week 5)
  • New Content
    • Project outline and requirements
      • Briefly describe the organization (can be hypothetical) where the software will be implemented.
        • Include the company’s size, location(s), and other pertinent information.
      • Briefly describe the organization’s software needs and an overview of the target software intended to meet the organization’s needs.
      • The overview should identify and describe 3–4 key features of the software to become the basis for the design.
      • The material can be taken from the approved proposal that was submitted to instructor.
      • Make sure that this project is approved by the instructor.
    • Design methodology
      • Select and describe a design method to use for designing this software application project.
      • Explain why the design method is best for the project.

Include a description of the organization’s software development environment and practices and other factors that might influence the approach that is used to design the software