Your assignment should be a minimum of 15 slides, not including the  title and reference sides, and should include the following elements:

• Title slide: Provide your name, title of assignment that clearly  indicates the topic of the presentation, course and section number, and  date.
• Body: The slides should be easily read, and any images used should be properly referenced.
  • Using the Notes area, include a script on each slide detailing what would be said during an actual presentation.
  • Your responses should reflect professional writing standards, using  proper tone and language. The writing and writing style should be  correct and accurate, and reflect knowledge of advocacy for children and  families.
• Reference slide: Sources listed in APA format.
  • Include a minimum of four scholarly or academic sources to support your responses and conclusions.
• Use Arial or Times New Roman 18-point font.
• Use current APA formatting and citation style.

Social Issues Impacting Children and Families

For the purpose of this assignment, you are going to develop a  presentation that could educate the community on a social issue that  impacts children and their families. You can choose any of the following  social issues that impact children and their families: child abuse and  neglect, teen pregnancy, drug abuse among youth, bullying, teen dating  violence, and suicide among youth. The presentation should be developed  for students in a school setting or for individuals in a community  setting. Please be sure to include specific details in the Notes section  of each PowerPoint® slide.

Assignment Directions

Please be sure to address all of the following in your assignment:

• Introduce the social issues you identified and include a description of the audience of your presentation.
  • Be specific and include details, such as the age of the children the  presentation is intended for. If in a school setting, identify the  types of adults in the community setting (teachers, community members),  etc.
  • This slide should also include a description of why community  education is important with regard to the social issue you chose and an  analysis of the role of community education with the topic.
• Provide background details on the social issue that your  presentation is covering, including reporting statistics about how many  people are impacted by the issue, risk and protective factors related to  this issue, and so forth. Make sure this information is appropriate to  the audience you have chosen.
• Prepare information about what your audience can do about the social  issue you are discussing (for example, behaviors that people may be  able to address).
• Analyze at least four different ways in which the topic you chose is a public health issue.
• Identify at least two resources (websites, articles, etc.) that your  audience can refer to on the topic you are discussing if they want  further information.

***FOLLOW DIRECTIONS TO EACH BULLET POINT***

Problem I – (50 points)

Steve Smith is a restaurant owner who wants to spend his $10,000 to modernize his restaurant by adapting it more closely to the preferences of his repeat customers. Keeping track of his customers’ likes and dislikes. Information such as where they like to sit, what they like to eat, when they normally arrive at the restaurant are all items of interest to him, since he believes that in this way he can better serve his customers. Steve has asked you to develop a system for him that will help make his customers happy while increasing his business.

You have heard what Steve had to say about his customers. There are certainly more preferences that he can keep track of.

Develop a problem definition for Steve…

Next define each area.

Be sure to include ‘several possibilities and not just the minimum’: (10pts. per section)

Issues

Objectives

Requirements

Constraints

Problem II- (50 points) 

Please label each question as either closed question or open-ended question.

1. How many personal computers do you have in this department?
2. How is this task performed?
3. Why do you perform the task that way?
4. How many hours of training does a clerk receive?
5. How many customers ordered products from the Web site last month?
6. What are users saying about the new system?
7. How are the checks reconciled?
8. What added features would you like to have in the new billing system?
9. Is the calculation procedure described in the manual?
10. Is there anything else you can tell me about this topic?

You are going to interview the local manager of LDI, a national tire retailer, who has asked you to work as a system analyst on a management information system to provide inventory information. (45pts…15pts. per pyramid, funnel & diamond shape)

Here are five questions you wrote to prepare for the meeting:

1. What are the five physical strengths and five limitations of the end users with respect to performing the national retail inventory processing on a daily basis?
2. What are the top ten high-level needs to make the new inventory system user-friendly, accurate, reliable, and secure?
3. Do you have year-to-date demand and supply metrics that were gathered in the last three months?
4. How often do you update your tire inventories?
5. How many retail stores do you currently have that carry your tire inventory?

List each above listed question in the proper sequence

(1) pyramid structure

(2) funnel structure, and

(3) diamond-shaped structure

1. You are a project manager at L & D Inc., specialized in information technology and network engineering. One of your junior systems analyst came to you for an advice of a technology to capture user information requirements. He described to you that he had talked with his client several times in the past week to define user information requirements. Each time he thought he had captured user information requirements, they’ve already changed. Finally, he thinks his clients do not even know what they want for their system.

Give your junior systems analyst an advice of several types of technology that he could use to capture user information requirements and explain to him how this technology can help him to better define users’ information requirements.

Problem III- (50 points)

1. What are six fact finding techniques and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
2. What are the types of facts a systems analyst is required to collect?
3. What is a fact-find strategy that will make the most of your time with end-users?
4. How do you develop an interview agenda and a questionnaire?
5. What is the role of ethics in the process of fact finding?

Problem IV – (50 points)

Perfect Pizza wants to install a system to record orders for pizza and chicken wings. When regular customers call Perfect Pizza on the phone, they are asked their phone number. When the number is typed into a computer, the name, address, and last order date is automatically brought up on the screen. Once the order is taken, the total, including tax and delivery, is calculated. Then the order is given to the cook. A receipt is printed. Occasionally, special offers (coupons) are printed so the customer can get a discount. Drivers who make deliveries give customers a copy of the receipt and a coupon (if any). Weekly totals are kept for comparison with last year’s performance. A summary of business activities for taking an order at Perfect Pizza is as follows:

1. Draw a context-level data flow diagram for Perfect Pizza using the following items. Explode the above context-level diagram by drawing the logical data flow diagram 0 showing all the major processes using the following items:

Process names:

(1) Find and display customer record

(2) Take customer order

(3) Send order to cook

(4) Print customer receipt

(5) Deliver customer order

(6) Print weekly totals

Data stores:

(1) Customer master

(2) Product file

(3) Coupons

(4) Sale history

Entities:

(1) Customer

(2) Management

(3) Cook

Problem V: (50 points)

In the following proposed DFD design, there are some typical errors among external entities (E), processes (P) and data stores (DS).

1. Identify and explain errors in the above design. (Use a ‘narrative’ explanation)

2. Propose design modifications. (Use a ’narrative’ explanation)

Exploratory Project #1 (EP-1)

Rough drafts (2 topics) due Wednesday by midnight, Week 3

Final draft (1 topic) due Sunday by midnight, Week 3*

100 points

Assignment:

Considering the breadth of possible topics, draft a topic proposal on two food-related subjects of interest to you. Keep in mind that you will be spending the rest of the quarter researching and writing about one of them. This exercise should help you determine which course of action is best. Please note that I am asking you to draft two proposals for peer-review, but you will only submit one for the final paper.

Audience: 

As you write this proposal, write to an audience of University faculty who are planning to support ten research projects. Write persuasively about the plan for your research and the impact it will have on the local/DU community.

Guidelines:

When writing your proposals, consider the key features of a successful topic proposal (Bullock’s “Topic Proposals” for more detailed explanation of elements 1–4):

1. Concise discussion of the subject, including relevant facts and background information from quality sources
2. Clear statement of your intended food-related focus
3. Rationale for choosing the subject
4. Discussion of key resources (titles of books, articles, etc.)

Additionally, each proposal should

• Identify your research questions
• Define key concepts or terms that relate to your topic
• List who you might interview on the topic (include names and titles of individuals)
• Identify some questions you might ask the DU community in a survey of students
• Indicate how your work will impact the public and identify its primary audience (e.g., the DU community, residents of Denver food deserts, parents of DPS students)
• Identify at least two sources of material on each subject (i.e., a book title, a government website, a specific magazine, or a disciplinary database)

Requirements:

• Approximately 2–3 pages for each proposal, typed and double-spaced in Times New Roman 12-point font
• Draft of BOTH proposals due Wednesday of Week 3
• Final draft of ONE PROPOSAL due Sunday of Week 3
• Post your final topic proposal to Canvas Assignment EP-1 by midnight on Sunday of Week 3.

Assessment rubric: EP-1 Rubric.pdf

Student sample: EP-1 stud