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This division of the assessment criteria has five
sections in which you can earn up to a total of 14
marks:
2.1 Action plan [3]
2.2 System Flowchart [2]
2.3 Description of method of solution (designed) [3]
2.4 Hardware [3]
2.5 Software [3]

6 Action plan
plan the order in which the tasks will be carried out, and
assess how long it will take.
To score full marks for this section (3 marks) you must
display your plan as one of the following charts:
• Gantt chart
• Project Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) chart
• Critical Path analysis (which can also be done using a
Gantt chart)

O Level Coursework- System Analysis: Design Phase

A list of things you might want your action plan to
include, is as follows:
• phases – e.g. analysis, design, implementation etc.
• tasks – a basic unit of work
• activity – an optional group of tasks that form a sub-phase
• time allocation – shown in days
• milestones – significant events/dates against which
progress can be measured, such as intermediate and final
deadlines set by your teacher
• dependencies – where the start of one or more tasks is
dependent on the finish of another
• progress of tasks – the amount of a task completed relative
to the planned time or ‘baseline’

how to make this chart…
• Project management software such as Open Workbench or
Microsoft Project allows you to create a project plan and
display it in the form of a chart.
• Open Workbench is open source project management
software that is freely available from
www.openworkbench.org.
• If you do not have access to project management
software, then you can create your own chart using a
spreadsheet or word-processed table with shaded cells .
All you need to do is write your list of tasks and then
include a series of dates as column headings and shaded
cells, like the image above. Make sure you provide a key or
legend so that the reader knows how to read the chart.

2.2 System Flowchart
- to demonstrate how the new
computer-based system will work.
To get full marks, you need to make sure that
you have used the symbols correctly.

key points
• emphasis is on input, processing, storage and output
• more emphasis on the different sorts of hardware than
other sorts of flowchart as there are special symbols
for manual (keyboard) input, three symbols for
different storage hardware and two symbols for screen
and printer output.
• easier to read if the data entry operations are situated
at the let or top; data processing operations are in the
middle and storage and output operations on the right
or bottom
• include START and STOP terminator symbols

Data
processing Manual
Operation-for
datacollection
Input/out
put
operation
Manual
Input
Sort
Merge
colla
te
Visual
Display
Unit
Document
Output
Online
Storage
File on
HDD
File
on
Magn
etic
Tape

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O Level Coursework- System Analysis: Design Phase

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