General Idea of the Client's Business

Aksel Industries (Pvt.) Ltd is a rubber products manufacturing company. Customers provide customized molds of the required product and are supplied with the required quantity of items. Usually there is some negotiation leading up to the agreement on the final design of the mold between the customer and manufacturer. Factors like rubber quality, density and thickness are also considered along with the shape of the design.

Customers consist mainly of foreign companies such as car factories and furniture dealers. Most customers are from European countries. Local customers are not catered to. Most orders are in large quantities and are produced on mass scale.

The Search for Hosts

Our first step in implementation begins with the search for a proper site host. We plan to do implementation directly on a free hosting server. This way development is cot-effective and more productive as team members can develop together from any location via the internet.

As an initial step we created an account on http://www.110mb.com. However, there is the issue that the server does not support ftp. We hope to find a more suitable host in the future

Requirement Revision

Client was confirmed as Aksel Industries (Pvt.) Ltd. Mr. Gayan Wanniarchchi was contacted again for a revision of requirements. A more detailed idea of the required system was obtained during this session. The requirements were published in a new revised version of the project proposal.

The link to the revised proposal:

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3BoHjahZhLKZmFjMTcyMWUtZGIwMy00NDkwLWJjNzQtZmE5MmJjYzRlMWU1&hl=en

Creation of Gmail group

For the purpose of easy online communication between the team we created a gmail group ucsc09radg11 the group mail address is ucsc09rad11@googlegroups.com. Through this group we plan to enhance the productivity of our online development of the site and also improve the cooperation between our team members.

Requirements Gathering

Mr. Gayan Wanniarachchi, Director of Aksel Industries was contacted for requirements gathering. Due to the distant location of the client correspondence was carried out via phone.

Obtained requirements were documented along with a basic outline of what we intended to deliver as the software solution.

The proposal is available at http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AXBoHjahZhLKZGdxaGs5ZmtfNWZ2NzRybWY2&hl=en

Alternate Client

In addition to Aksel Rubber(Pvt) Ltd we also chose an alternate client. This project consisted of developing an out-sourced system from Just In Time Holdings(Pvt) Ltd.

This project aimed to design a crime management system for the Sri Lankan Police. Basic requirements indicated that crimes locations and details should be updated and recorded and nearby police stations must be alerted of current incidents.

However, we were advised not to take up this project as the security component was considerably vast and also due to the fact that a lot of programming logic would be involved making it unsuitable for a component based Rapid Application Development project.

Contacted Client

Aksel Rubber Industries(Pvt)Ltd was contacted regarding the development of a online computerized system to automate their customer relations necessities .

A general idea of the user's requirements was obtained. It was negotiated with the client that further details would be negotiated later.