Software Systems Engineering Processes

Software Systems Engineering Processes
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Software Systems Engineering Processes
St. Johns University is a tertiary education institution in the United States of America. With a student population of around 20,000, the university needs well-developed student information system software in the management of all students’ details. The software handles the following;
The admission process to the university
Handling of examination records and transcript generation.
Management of student health records.
Accommodation services-including allocation of accommodation.
Financial information concerning students-this includes generation of invoices.
Production of study timetables for all departments in the university.
This software will be designed and maintained by the University’s software engineers in the I.T department. It is student information system (SIS) software that has been in place since the establishment of the University. With the ever-increasing student population, the university wishes to develop a new student information system software with capability of offering online learning, real-time update of financial information after fee deposit to banks, online application for accommodation and a student information system that is integrated with the student clinic system for better and convenient management of the students’ health records.
In coming up with such an advanced software, it may be necessary to conduct an improvement of the software development process adopted by university’s software engineers (McFeeley, 1996).

A Software Development Process Improvement Plan describes the approach taken for improvement of a software development process. It outlines the plans for implementing the stipulated actions (McFeeley, 1996). This project will involve coming up with a complete software development process improvement plan that will be adopted for the development of the new student information system software for St. Johns University (Dangle et al., 2005).
References
McFeeley, B. (1996). IDEAL: A User’s Guide for Software Process Improvement (No. CMU/SEI-96-HB-001). CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST.
Dangle, K. C., Larsen, P., Shaw, M., & Zelkowitz, M. V. (2005). Software process improvement in small organizations: a case study. IEEE software, 22(6), 68-75.