UNIVERSITI TUN HUSSEIN ONN MALAYSIA

FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

GROUP PROJECT
BIC 21404 DATABASE
SEM II 2022/2023

Evaluation scheme: This assignment carries 20% of total course evaluation marks.
Submission: author.uthm.edu.my in the assignment section (group)

No Document Filename Submission Deadline

1. Project Proposal groupno_proposalDB.docx 22 May 2023

2. Project Report groupno_projectDB.docx 25 June 2023

3. Project Video groupno_projectDB.mp4 to be stated

Task:
1. Form a group of 4 or 5 students
2. Choose an organization as a model (real world model)
2.1 For example: Bookshop, grocery shop, pharmacies, hospitals, libraries and
etc.
2.2 Apply a letter of permission to obtain information from external
organizations (course project)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/
1FAIpQLSfEw2RoI9dTtabZkkj3jhSzEhPZBNQV4hn3DEX4HtknJVhju
w/viewform
2.3 Identify the business operation, business workflow and data flow.
2.4 Identify the current process of data handling in the organization.
2.5 Get the organizations signature/official cop to certify your presence there.
Put it in your report as appendix. You may also include photos of your
members with the organization representative as well.
3. Write a project proposal: a system development
a. The proposal should contain a project background, problem statement,
objective, scope, expected outcome, significant and Gantt chart.
b. Use the project proposal template
4. Write a full report.

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FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

a. The report should contain chapter 1(project background), chapter 2

literature review, chapter 3 (database design), chapter 4 (system design),
chapter 5 (conclusion) and reference
b. Use the project report template
5. Designing Database
3.1 Write a detailed and accurate description of business operations
3.2 Develop an extensive and precisely written business rules based on the
description of business operations
3.3 Define the major transaction modules
3.4 Defines the entities, attributes, relationships, cardinalities and constraints
for each module define in step 3.
3.5 Create ERD segments to model the modules you define in step 4.
Remember that each of the ERD’s entities will be implemented through a
database table.
3.6 Perform the appropriate normalization checks.
3.7 If necessary, modify the ERD segments you developed in step 5 to reflect
the normalization findings in step 6. Must include join table
6. Submission Deadline:
a. Proposal: 22 May 2023
b. Full report and video: 25 June 2023
c. Presentation: 25 June 2025
7. Format
a. Full report:
i. Font: Times New Roman 12
ii. Justify (Alignment) 1.5 spacing
b. Video
i. 1 to 2 minutes presentation by each group members
ii. 10 minutes maximum for project video

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