(Case study). The Academic Services department inside a multi campus university consists of two units in each campus Students affairs unit and Academic Affairs unit, both of them are facing difficulties with the capabilities of their current information system being outdated as it has been used for more than 15 years The director of the Academic Services and during a meeting with the president of the university highlighted the effect of these challenges and problems on the operational excellence of the Academic services department and the quality of its services to faculty, admin staff and students Examples of problems addressed were related to registration of courses, timetabling of courses among others The existing system involved The student filling five identical forms called yellow forms which contain student's personal details as well as the courses he/she has to register during the next semester, The academic services director also reported that the unique requirements of his department go beyond the commercially available software in the market, in addition to the effect of few recent changes in academic policies over some tasks in the department The president of the university asked the Strategic Planning Committee to work on this task for a new Information System as he realised the time is an issue due to an international marketing campaign that is expected to lead to a large number of new students I be recruited in the university in the coming semester He emphasised on engaging all employees in this matter. You are working in the university as the director of the IT department in the university Your IT department consists you as a System Engineering Manager, two (2) Software engineers, two (2) software developers, (2) programmers (2) Network Administrators and one (1) System Analyst You and your team are called to meet with the Strategic Planning Committee where they ask you to prepare a proposal for the Information Systems Steering Committee that formed recently. Question 1: In relation to waterfall and Agile methodologies for developing new systems and according to the above scenario. a. What is the difference between these two methodologies? b. Which methodology will work better for the previous case and why? Explain your answer Question 2: Discuss the options you could have to solve the challenges (problems) of the current system with the Pros (advantages) and Cons (disadvantages) of each option. Question 3: Assuming you and your team have completed the development of a new system and the Academic Services department will convert to the new system a. Describe the strategies for the system conversion? b. Which strategy should your team choose to use and why? c. What do you need to do with the system user before starting the conversion? Question 4: If your team to develop the new system, describe in detail what would you do for the new system analysis and system design? (Case study). The Academic Services department inside a multi campus university consists of two units in each campus Students affairs unit and Academic Affairs unit, both of them are facing difficulties with the capabilities of their current information system being outdated as it has been used for more than 15 years The director of the Academic Services and during a meeting with the president of the university highlighted the effect of these challenges and problems on the operational excellence of the Academic services department and the quality of its services to faculty, admin staff and students Examples of problems addressed were related to registration of courses, timetabling of courses among others The existing system involved The student filling five identical forms called yellow forms which contain student's personal details as well as the courses he/she has to register during the next semester, The academic services director also reported that the unique requirements of his department go beyond the commercially available software in the market, in addition to the effect of few recent changes in academic policies over some tasks in the department The president of the university asked the Strategic Planning Committee to work on this task for a new Information System as he realised the time is an issue due to an international marketing campaign that is expected to lead to a large number of new students I be recruited in the university in the coming semester He emphasised on engaging all employees in this matter. You are working in the university as the director of the IT department in the university Your IT department consists you as a System Engineering Manager, two (2) Software engineers, two (2) software developers, (2) programmers (2) Network Administrators and one (1) System Analyst You and your team are called to meet with the Strategic Planning Committee where they ask you to prepare a proposal for the Information Systems Steering Committee that formed recently. Question 1: In relation to waterfall and Agile methodologies for developing new systems and according to the above scenario. a. What is the difference between these two methodologies? b. Which methodology will work better for the previous case and why? Explain your answer Question 2: Discuss the options you could have to solve the challenges (problems) of the current system with the Pros (advantages) and Cons (disadvantages) of each option. Question 3: Assuming you and your team have completed the development of a new system and the Academic Services department will convert to the new system a. Describe the strategies for the system conversion? b. Which strategy should your team choose to use and why? c. What do you need to do with the system user before starting the conversion? Question 4: If your team to develop the new system, describe in detail what would you do for the new system analysis and system design