Tutorial 2: IS development

1 Instructions
The primary objective of this tutorial exercise is to help you understand the key ISD
concepts through a practical exercise. Another objective is to test your basic web-based
application development skill.
Form into pairs. Each pair is to propose a simple web-based IS solution for a hypothetical
company named SAD329 Pty Ltd. In the rest of this paper, we will use the term product to refer
to both product and service.
Let us assume company SAD329 is a new start-up and is looking for new product and
service ideas. You have been hired by the company to come up with one product and to develop
a simple web site to promote this product to the potential customers. Although you are free to
choose the product and the customers for which it serves, you must decide these before
developing the web site.
To understand the available technologies, you have decided to visit the free Google's
web site development environment (WSDE) at http//:www.sites.google.com.

2 Requirements
Each pair is to complete the following requirements:
1. If none of you has got a Google email account then register for one. We only need one
account per pair.
2. Visit WSDE and create a web site that you intend to use for the new product. To avoid
conflicts, you should name your site as follows SAD329HANU-X where X is a student ID.
Familiarized yourself with the structure and the look-and-feel of your web site. Look also at
other relevant Google application features that can be inserted into your site. You will need these
to complete all the requirements.

Steps 1 and 2 should only take you 10-15 mins (do not spend more than 15 mins on these steps).
Steps 3 7 are to be performed on paper, NOT on the computer.

3. Think of a product and its customers. Note that it does not need to be a new concept.
The product can be an existing product that you already know.
4. Brainstorm the product features and its functions and use these to write a brief
description for the product. Focus on the values that it brings to the customers.
5. Think of an interactive function that you would like the potential customers to try with
the product. This really depends on the nature of your product and on the availability of the
application features that are available on WSDE. Write a brief description of this function in
terms of people, technologies, data, processing and output.
However, if this proves to be too difficult then proceed to Step 6.
6. [Do this step only if you could not complete Step 5] As part of marketing, you want to
obtain some feedbacks about the product from the potential customers. Think of a function that
would allow you to achieve this. Relate to your experiences in how businesses usually carry out
this function and to the application features that are available on WSDE.
Write a brief description of this function in terms of people, technologies, data,
processing and output.
7. Organise the descriptions that you produced in Steps 3 6 into a document so that you
can present them to the company's management. Important: clearly define the document
structure; that is how you will present it.

Assuming that the company's management has approved your proposal, you are now to
implement it on the web site that you created in Step 2. Follow Steps 8 9.
8. Compose at least one web page for the document that you prepared in Step 6.
Implement the interactive function and test that it works.
9. Present your web site to the tutor.

Finally, proceed to Steps 10 11.
10. Write in your own words a brief description of the process that you have gone
through in this exercise. Pay particular attention to the main stages and the correspondences
between these and the stages of the ISD process described in the lecture.
Did your description of the process conform to that of the water-fall method? Why or
why not?
11. Submit this process description and the proposal document as well as link of the
webpage that you created to course portal. Label your submission with the student names and
class.


Deliverables
You will need to submit your answers via submission box in course portal before 5.30pm
Saturday 06/09/2014 (class 123C12) and 5.30pm Monday 08/09/2014 (class 4567C12)