EFFORT TRACKING SYSTEM

ABSTRACT

The Effort Tracking system is a web-based system, which provides information

regarding efforts in software projects, in detail. This product develops a system

that can be used by all the departments of a software organization. In the

conventional method of effort tracking all the efforts are dealt manually .The

progress of the efforts are also checked in person, which is a time taking task. It

fulfills different requirements of administrator and employees of a software

development organization. The specific purpose of the system is to gather and

resolve the efforts rose on different projects handled by the organization.

The key entities of this system are administrator,

efforts, departments,Employees , projects, knowledge elements. The activities

relating to this system are listing efforts, listing projects, listing employees,

listing knowledge elements administration tasks.

A web application has to be developed which would

be implemented in the place of current existing manual system. This project

would automate the operations of the administrator and would retain the present

functionality available in the current system.

The scope of this project is to enable the employees

of an organization to view the efforts through the LAN. Based on the category

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of the user i.e. employee or administrator, the various parts of the system are

made available to the users.

Need for the System:

Every organization maintains the details of the employees,

departments and projects that are associated with it. The administrator of the

organization is sole responsible for the maintenance of the entire system.

If the organization size is average (around 100

employees) then the administrator can manually handle the system but, if the

size increases then managing the work will be cumbersome, tedious and error

prone.

In order to make it a bit easy, a web-based system is need

so that by involving the GUI any authorized employee can access the system for

viewing the efforts And the task of the administrator becomes easy.

The information system is needed to incorporate all factors,

which help the manager to take timely decisions and provide a better and more

efficient service.A proper system is the one that has good management and a

good management always requires the information in all fields in a proper and

effective manner.

Drawbacks in present manual system:

Time consuming

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Maintaining the details of efforts, projects, employees, and

departments manually is a tedious job.

Security

Security in the database cannot be provided, as information is stored

in the logbook

Difficult in coordination

In the manual system it is difficult to have coordination between the

employees of different departments.

Difficulty in maintenance

It would be difficult for an organization to maintain the record of

efforts and to track them.

PROPOSED SYSTEM

The effort tracking system is a web-based system,

which gives information about the efforts and their status. It helps the

administrator for the administration and maintenance of the organization. It

fulfills the different requirements of the employees and administrator of the

organization. The specific purpose of this system is to gather and resolve

efforts.

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In this system about the employees, projects, efforts,

departments, etc. are maintained. The administrator has the privilege to add

employee, department, project, priority and status.

This system helps the administrator in the

maintenance of the organization in an efficient manner. The various tasks

of the administrator are automated that makes the tasks easy.

The various users of the system include the

employees and administrator of the organization. The authorized user is

given permission to view the efforts and can modify / resolve efforts. Any

user can view the knowledge elements (i.e. resolved efforts). The user can

also search for efforts.

Operating Environment

The Required Operating Environment support for this product is:

Operating System: Windows

Database Support: Oracle

Language: J2EE technology (Servlets, JSP)

GUI Design: Microsoft FrontPage, HTML, and JavaScript.

Browser Support: Mozilla Web Browser

Hardware: Processor with 500 MHZ. Speed and with 256 MB Ram.

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