This is a group coursework assignment. You are required to work as a team to complete the required tasks to the specified requirements. It will be necessary to hold group meetings outside of your weekly timetabled sessions. You are required to keep brief minutes of these meetings (use the given meetings log) showing the progress of the work and the task allocation among the different group members. These minutes should be attached as an appendix to your final report. At the end of the assignment you are required to carry out a self and peer assessment using the templates below. Task 1: Law, ethics and professionalism Information Systems project failures may arise due to individuals and organisations failing to follow good practice. This in turn may be due to a lack of individual or collective professionalism in the IT industry. Find a copy of the British Computer Society Code of Conduct. Identify six professional responsibilities that a computer professional must discharge in their everyday working lives. You must present arguments explaining how the failure to fulfil each duty may well lead to IS project failure. Any organisation processing personal data is obliged to comply with the Data Protection Act. The present Act became law in 1998. In YOUR OWN WORDS summarise each of the eight principles of the Data Protection Act. The Disability Discrimination Act requires organizations to provide "reasonable" access to services and education for those with disabilities. How would you meet the requirements of this legislation? Focus on the various assistive technologies that are available. Identify six of these technologies and describe how they work. Your answer should be as full as possible and approximately between 1500-2000 words in length. You must cite all sources for the information you use, i.e. list ALL references Task 2: Data Flow Diagram A Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) is one type of schematic model, which can be used to reveal the processing requirements of the organisation. A DFD shows the flows of the data from users (externals) into the system, the flows of data within the system, the processing and storage of that data and the flows of information out of the system to the users. Read the following narrative description of a process performed by academics and administration in a university: "For the process of setting an examination paper that students will sit at the end of a semester, a Lecturer will author and submit the first draft of the exam paper to the school office. This first draft is stored in a filing cabinet and a copy sent to the Internal Moderator, who may make a number of corrections or suggestions. This internally moderated copy of the first draft is sent back to the school office with an accompanying Internal Moderator's Form. The school office keep a copy of this internally moderated exam paper in the filing cabinet and forward a copy to the Lecturer for the appropriate amendments to be made. Once the Lecturer has made these changes the revised exam paper is sent back to the school office, again filed away in the filing cabinet and a copy sent to the External Moderator. The External Moderator will look at this paper and send back to the school office formal comments. At the end of the semester students will take this examination paper. Each exam paper is graded and moderated. The Lecturer then begins the process of entering the grades into the school system, which is a spreadsheet. The lecturer enters the student number and the corresponding grade into the spreadsheet. These spreadsheets are stored by the school administration staff ready for them to be presented at the Exam Board. The Exam Board, having received the spreadsheets may make any required amendments. This revised spreadsheet, containing finalised student grades, is then taken back by the school administration staff and stored. The following day the school administration staff retrieve the spreadsheets, ready to begin the next process of entering the finalised student grades into the university system (MISIS). In this process the Student record is updated and the system presents the student with their final grade for the examination they sat". Using the Data Flow Diagram (DFD) notation, presented in Lecture 3, produce a DFD model of the narrative described above. You must also discuss what process modelling is and its function in the development of Information Systems. This discussion should be as full as possible and approximately 500 words. You must cite all sources for the information you use, i.e. list ALL references. These should be wide ranging, including Books, Journals and Websites. Task 3: Critical Success Factors in the IS Development Lifecycle Read the following case study, which outlines how one particular organisation assures that their IT projects are completed successfully and support the goals of the business: Bill Morris, the Managing Director (MD) of ATP Life Assurance, talks of the successful management of IT projects: "We apply all of the analytical rigour and financial Return-On-Investment (ROI) tools against each of our IT projects as well as other business projects. The use of tools is very important, as well as risk analyses on every investment." The MD describes how the company monitors each IT project to measure its efficiency and effectiveness during the course of development and applies a red / yellow / green coding system to reflect the current health of a project. Senior line managers, the Managing Director and chief operating officer are all given a monthly report about the status of projects that are valued at more than £250K and those that deal with important strategic content. Also ATP Life Assurance makes use of an investment-tracking database for every IT project to monitor costs on a rolling basis. The approach gives the advantage of permitting the company's IT and business managers to quickly determine whether a project should be accelerated, delayed or cancelled and assists the finance organisation in forecasting requirements. Source: Adapted from O'Brien and Marakas "Avon Products and Guardian Life Insurance: Successful Management of IT Projects" in Management Information Systems, McGraw-Hill International. What are the key ways that ATP Life Assurances assure that their IT projects are completed successfully and support the goals of the business? If you were the manager of a business unit at ATP Life Assurances, identify six more things you would like to see their IT groups do to assure the success of an IT project for your business unit? Your answer should be as full as possible and approximately between 1000-1500 words in length. You must cite all sources for the information you use, i.e. list ALL references Task 4: Privacy On-Line From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address) in order to receive or use on-line services on a website. Most organisations (business corporations and government agencies) have a privacy policy that covers the organisation's use of personal information that they collect when you use their website. Select three of your favourite websites and print out their privacy policies. List what they share in common? How do they differ? On the basis of what you have found out, from above, write your own website privacy policy. Your answer should be as full as possible and should also contain a discussion on Cookies (what they are, how they work and what ethical and legal issues are raised by their use). You must cite all sources for the information you use, i.e. list ALL references