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Chapter 4 – Project History
How the project began:
The project was presented to this author by way of management at ARC.
Following the phases of the Prototyping Life Cycle it was necessary to meet with ARC
management, herein known as the owner of the project, on a few occasions to gather the
requirements of the project. Upon the initial meeting with the owner of the project it was
clear that the application needed to adhere to the following requirements:
• The application must be accessible to the sales staff of ARC via the Internet and
not by means of third party applications such as Citrix Metaframe or Microsoft
Windows Terminal Server.
• The application must contain its own user database and not rely on the network
security (Microsoft’s Active Directory) of ARC.
• The main purpose of the application is to gather information about the housing
needs of potential customers of ARC. The pertinent customer information ARC
would like to collect can be seen in Figure 7. This figure is the data collection
screen as envisioned by ARC.