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You have been contacted by a company which specialises in managing software development projects. Projects are commissioned by customers (who could be individuals, but are companies in most cases). The company has several teams of project managers and developers who are experts in a variety of technologies (every team is managed by a team leader). The company's main office is in London and some teams are based there, but others are at geographically dispersed locations (e.g. Germany, China, Brazil). When managing projects which require expertise that is not available within the company’s teams or if all teams are busy, then work is outsourced to other companies (external teams). The current provision for managing the projects is as follows: 1. A project manager is assigned a project 2. The project manager uses Pert and Gantt charts to outline the tasks, responsibilities, timeframes, etc. of the project 3. The project manager instructs the team leaders involved in the project on their tasks and timeframes 4. Communication and progress tracking is done through: a. face-to-face meetings with the local teams b. email/telephone/video conferencing with the geographically distant teams While the current provisions work, they are not very effective and it is often difficult for a project manager to know what the exact state of the project is. To aid the project managers and team leaders in the project coordination, the company has asked you to develop a software system which will facilitate this task. The system will need to provide the following functionality: • Managers can set up projects • Managers can manage team and customer details • Managers can divide projects into tasks • Duration and sequence of tasks can be defined (a task can have none, one or more successor tasks) • Different tasks can be assigned to different teams (working for the company or outsourced to external teams) • The system will provide functionality for team leaders to register task progress. Project progress can be tracked by the project manager • The customer who commissioned the project can get summary information about the structure of the project, distribution of work and progress The different types of user of the system will be: • Project manager (administrator) • Team leader • Customer To sum up: • One system serving geographically dispersed users • Different users require different views (functionality) from the system • While the platforms and working environment used by internal teams are known to and under the control of the company, it has no control over what the external team leaders and customers are using It is envisaged that the system will be developed in three stages, resulting in a basic, intermediate and advanced prototype. There are strict requirements about the technologies and architecture to be implemented. Please read the attached document for full requirement