The Task

Your job is to develop a prototype for this new system, which after an evaluation phase is to be further developed into a stable building block of the new system. Your piece of the action is to be a rudimentary accounting system. Other offices are to develop compatible inventory and annual accounts modules, and they together with your accounting module are to be presented to company management. A number of users from the various divisions must be able to use the system simultaneously. Since your company is planning on introducing telecommuting, the system must also be usable from outside the company, over the Internet, for example. In order to avoid bottlenecks during critical periods (such as the end of a quarter or year) the system must be able to operate under heavy usage. Furthermore, anticipated growth in the number of employees must also be taken into account.