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  Software Features
       
  Infrastructure Track hardware and software specifications
  Identify needed databases, server applications, and development tools
     
  Premise Start the project off on the right foot by defining an affective business case, vision, and scope
     
  Risks Identify potential trouble spots in the project
  Assign risks to team members and track their mitigation of risks
     
  Team Identify the customers and consultants who will participate in the project
     
  Ideas Collect and verify unstructured customer input
  Review and revise ideas
  Flag ideas as requirements
  Link ideas and requirements to their relevant design components
     
  Actors Identify roles that will be assumed by system users
  Manage group level access
     
  Use Cases Use "Use Cases" as a component of Unified Modeling Language
  Describe functions that will be performed within the system
  Determine CRUD rules for each Object Attribute
  Identify Screens that will implement the Use Case
     
  System Requirements Identify requirements that will be implemented system wide
     
  Glossary Define terms that have a specific meaning within the context of the project
     
  Screens View and manage prototype screens
  Determine the CRUD rules for each object attribute
  Identify use cases to be implemented
     
  Reports Design system reports
  Display a mock-up of the report as any Microsoft Office document
  Identifies the data that will be included in the report along with sort criteria
     
  Objects Manage data objects and their attributes
  Define the datatypes of each attribute for the selected database
  Use Practicum "AutoTypes" which allow for automated entry of attributes with predetermined datatypes, based on suffix of the attribute name
     
  Relationships Define the business and entity relationships between each of the data objects in the system
     
  Anomalies Identify errors and omissions in the system design for each design component.
     
     
     
  Software Requirements  
           
  Operating System   Windows 98, NT, ME, XP, and 2000  
         
  Processor   Pentium 3 - 500 MHz or higher  
         
  RAM   128 MB RAM minimum  
         
  Disk Space   20 MB free hard disk space  
         
  Display 1024 x 768 display resolution recommended