Access Projects - Evaluation

1. Access Projects - Evaluation

2. The evaluation is an important part of your project. It involves looking at the user’s original requirements and seeing if they have been met and if they have been met well. It will include how the system you have created could be improved or enhanced in the future. Evaluation

3. Go back to each original user requirement. Check that each requirement has been covered. The results of your testing with the end user should provide you with the information needed. Give evidence where possible. Evaluation

4. Evaluation • Consider whether there are any problems with your solution. • How could you get round these limitations? • What could you do to improve the system further? • Are there any extra features that might be useful to the user? • Be honest, no solution is perfect.

5. Evaluation don’ts • Don’t say: • ‘I haven’t prevented double bookings because I didn’t have the time.’ • It is up to you to manage your time. • Don’t suggest enhancements that were in the user requirements but you have not managed to do.

6. Before you start implementing the project, you may be expected to state evaluation criteria. To do this you need to understand what your solution is intended to do. Many of these will arise from your requirements specification. For example you will look at: the ease of use of the system (user friendliness) Evaluation Criteria

7. the look and feel of the system (user interfaces) quality of output from the system (the reports) features in the system that will save time functionality in the solution that will improve working practice the accuracy of output from the system the speed of certain functions in the system. Evaluation Criteria

8. In The Pass IT Driving School: the system should be able to reduce the time taken on the phone when dealing with a booking all user interfaces should be easy to use with common layouts, icons and styles the system should produce daily timetables for each instructor within a minute weekly income reports should be calculated accurately and produced quickly recording student contact details should be quicker than the five minutes it took previously all timetables should be professional looking in company house styles. Evaluation Criteria