ChildzPlay’ is a small (fictional) toy and play equipment hire company which hires out toys, dress-ups and backyard play equipment. Covid-19 lockdowns and school closures have resulted in parents seeking alternative child entertainment. ChildzPlay has experienced overwhelming demand for their services and they urgently wish to computerise some aspects of their record keeping. The first phase is to develop a prototype system for storing details of all items for hire.
Notes from interviews with ChildzPlay staff and instructions from your supervisor are given below. You should analyse the interviews and instructions to determine the functional requirements for your program. There are four stages in this assignment (A, B, C and D). Since each stage elaborates on the previous one, you only need to submit one program – the one implementing the highest stage you were able to complete.
For each of the stages A, B, C and D, complete the steps below based on the Double Diamond process:
Discover
‘Go wide’ in the form of reading and thinking about the supplied stakeholder requirements. Find out what the current situation is and understand user behaviours and business drivers.
Fill in the supplied ‘Discover and Define’ Word template with a list of different problems that could be solved.
Define
From your understanding of the overall issues/requirements, narrow down to a single problem and turn that into a problem statement. The problem statement defines what you will develop, and you may start some initial coding to start working out if you can create a solution to the problem you defined.
Fill in the supplied ‘Discover and Define’ Word template with a statement of the single problem you will solve.
Develop
Start coding to create an initial prototype and program logic to address the problem. You may create a few different iterations to get to the best prototype. This is a phase for trying ideas out to see if they work.
