Barchester City Council Car Park System

Discuss about the Barchester City Council Car Park System.

Introduction

The aim of this assessment report is to analyze the overall functionality of Barchester City Council Car Park System case study. In this case study, the Barchester City Council wants to introduce a new system in its car parking system. The council wants such a system that will be able to provide services to the daily operations of each car park.

For this assessment, Software Development Life Cycle analysis is used for understanding the overall system functionality. As per the regular HRM system, it is used to determine the resources required for the project and a former feasibility report is used for identifying the possible risks of the projects along with possible outcomes (Wasson, 2015, pp.45).

Analysis of Functionality

The analysis of functionality is done with the help of the following steps of SDLC in the car parking system of the case study. The parts of the system involved are recording parking and other problems, automated ticketing system and managing agreements with the security company that provide security personnel for guarding the car parks (Chemuturi, 2013, pp.169-175).

Purpose: The purpose of the project is to devise a new parking management system that will have a number of new features necessary for controlling a car parking system. For this purpose, new resources and planning are to be used for changing the existing parking system.

Project Scope: This project has a number of scopes. Firstly, the current parking management operations are all done manually. With the new proposed system, computerized operations are to be incorporated. This will make the system more efficient and easy to manage. Instead of manual communications, simple USB sticks can be used to transfer information (Chemuturi, 2013, pp.169-175). Moreover, the current manual ticketing system can be used to computerized ticketing system that will provide more reliable and fair service to the regular users.

Overview: The council wants such a system that will be able to provide services to the daily operations of each car park. These services include computerized ticketing system (season and daily tickets), payment systems and the management of the parking space that also includes recording and monitoring of the problems in the parking space and issuing agreements with the private company (security) that provides security personnel for guarding the car parks.

Overall Description:

Product Perspective: The new parking system should be such that all the activities can be recorded easily using automated monitoring devices. The new system also demands computerized ticketing system for issuing season and daily tickets for car parking (Ji et al., 2014, pp.14). Another system proposed is the security system for security personnel will have to be hired and CCTV cameras are to be installed.

Product Functions:

The employees should have their own login portals secured with a password.

The employees will conduct all their tasks in their own portal only.

Every action in the parking space will have to be recorded by computer controlled security cameras. An alarm system will have to be installed in case of emergency.

Computerized ticketing system will have to be implemented.

Outsourcing should be done for hiring security personnel. CCTV cameras should also be used for keeping watch over the security of the car parking space.

User Characteristics: Each user of the parking space will have to login to his portal in order to use the space. Only after providing valid id and password, he will be allowed to access the parking space (Venkatchalapathy et al., 2015, pp.6-10). This will prevent misuse and unauthorized access of parking space.

Constraints: There are many constraints in this project. Too much user login will increase the traffic in the service resulting in the breakdown of the server (Kianpisheh et al., 2012, pp.55-58). In case of outsourcing, hiring of too many security personnel without proper agreements will result in the loss of significant amount of funds of the company.

Assumptions: The server is expected to work even with high traffic. The parking management system will be compatible with the computer systems installed (Polycarpou et al., 2013, pp.1-6). Finally, appointing security personnel will be sufficient for maintaining the security of the parking space.

Resources Required

The resources required for the project are given in the table below.

System Segments	Types of Resources	Types of Personnel/Component
Problem Recording System Resources	Human resources	Activity recorder, security personnel, helpers
	Hardware resources	CCTV cameras, alarm system, monitoring computer device connected to the cameras
	Software resources	Windows operating systems, Microsoft office package, web browser, alarm detection and location software
Season Ticket Issuing System Resources	Human resources	Ticket issuer, accounting team, resource manager
	Hardware resources	Personal computers, electronic ticketing devices, debit/credit card payment device
	Software resources	NetSuite, Windows operating system, RackSpace dedicated server software, web browsers
Monitoring Service Resources	Human resources	Recruiters, outsourcing manager, hired security guards
	Hardware resources	Personal computers, CCTV cameras, defense equipments
	Software resources	Windows operating system, Microsoft office packages, web browsers, monitoring systems

Broad Feasibility of the Project

The feasibility of the project with respect to different factors is analyzed as below.

Financial Feasibility - The financial feasibility of the task demonstrates that the project is conceivable with execution under expense and benefit management. The financial feasibility investigation is crucial for expense and advantage examination (Geng & Cassandras, 2013, pp.1129-1139). The financial attainability report is embraced with unmistakable and in-substantial advantage investigation. In the event that the return on investment is more than one, then the task is considered as monetarily attainable (Khan et al., 2013, pp.171-173). This particular project is more or less feasible economically if the council spends the funds in the right place.

Operational Feasibility - Operational feasibility investigation is the key for working under reasonable operation and administration work under appropriate rules. The operational procedure includes legitimate human resources in appropriate configuration for administration of the project (Brown et al., 2013, pp.64). The resources have been identified in each of the sections of computerized ticketing system (season and daily tickets), monitoring system and security guards appointment. Presently, the essential emphasis ought to be depicted on contracting such personnel in the association (Trusiewicz & Legierski, 2013, pp.865-869). In this manner, the staffs are to be made do with a legitimate payroll framework for keeping up the financial balance.

Technical Feasibility – Technical feasibility is necessary in a project where a large number of technical aspects are involved (Gopalan et al., 2013, pp.43). In this particular project, the technical resources like CCTV cameras, alarm systems, necessary softwares and computer systems that can perform tasks like locating the exact place of alarm, monitoring services, ticket issuing system, and others are to be installed as a part of the development project (Venkateswaran & Prakash, 2014, pp.123). Most of these systems are to be installed in a proper way to maintain technical feasibility of the project.

Proposed Outcomes of the Project

The proposed outcomes of the project are depicted in the table below:

System Segments	Types of Outcomes	Specific Outcomes
Problem Recording System Resources	Automatic alarm system in case of hazards	Immediate hooting of alarm in case of emergency problems
	24 hours of recording for locating any problem in the car park	Provide up to date records of activities going on in the car park
Season Ticket Issuing System Resources	Season and regular ticketing system	Issue of season tickets (first come first serve basis), issue of daily tickets
Monitoring Service Resources	Outsourcing	Security personnel from other companies/associations
	Payroll system management	Fixing target and wages of security personnel
	Internal Monitoring Service	CCTV footages, internal monitoring system of the company

Conclusion

The case provides many components of the car parking system under the ownership of the Barchester City Council. In this report, the service details, resources, feasibility and expected outcomes of the project have been discussed. After analysis of the requirements of the project, the desired outcomes of the project have been determined and will include a computerized problem recording system in the car park, computerized ticketing system for the issue of season and daily tickets, hiring of security personnel and installation of monitoring systems. Analysis of required resources and the feasibilities with respect to the expected project outcomes have also been discussed.

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