Time and Attendance Management

AcknowledgmentsI owe a coarse m any(prenominal) give give thankss to great many people who helped and supportedme during the couch. I would wish to express my deepest gratitude to my mentorsDr. Hiral Shah, Dr. Ben Baliga, and Prof. Gary Nierengarten for all their support and encouragement at every criterion end-to-end my course of study at St. Cloud StateUniversity.First and foremost, my deepest thanks to my advisor, Dr. Hiral Shah, myGuide for this purpose. I would like to take this opportunity to thank her for herguidance and support throughout the couch.I would also like to express my thanks to Dr. Ben Baliga, Prof. GaryNierengarten, and Dr. Balsubramanian Kasi for their precious sequence in c arefullyreviewing my project.I am grateful for their valuable suggestions and comments.Finally, I would like to thank my family and all my friends for constantlyencouraging and supporting me in this endeavor. It is with their help that I have beenable to successfully complete my M asters Program in Engineering Management.IntroductionChapter I IntroductionEmployee clock time and attendance is a vital part of the bunkplace as it dispense withs forbetter workforce heed. meter and attendance management facilitates HumanResources to better understand employee attendance, and are infallible forcollecting reading for payroll (Time Well Scheduled, n.d.). It is important forcompanies to assemble, categorize, and utilize workforce info, which will allow themto make critical decisions (Data Management Services, Inc., n.d.).In this ever evolving and technologically sympathy century, companies are oftenforced to adapt to the needs and requirements of the market. Companies preferportability, flexibility and access to industriousnesss they rehearse from anyplace and across all platforms, so that work and management become easier and little complex.Agile methodology is the most widely used project management proficiency by several organizations for their bundle p roduct phylogeny projects.This methodologyworks great in environments where requirements transport rapidly throughout theproject scope and has been proven to achieve high project success rate for manyorganization (Battagiri, 2015). There are several computer software development techniqueswithin the mobile methodology. This project demonstrates the use of agile methodologyto create wind vane-based reports for employee Time and Attendance. business StatementABC application is currently a desktop applicationwhich facilitates lymph nodes to use the software on the local system where the boniface is located. This is a drawback8since the client notifynot access the application on a removed(p) device. Clients nowrequire flexibility to use the application from across any platform and any devicewithout having to personally be present at the localization and the local system wherethe Application is hosted.This can significantly reduce time and effort and increa portionhe productivi ty of the workforce.Nature and Significance of the ProblemFor any company, it is necessary to manage its time and attendance and thework schedules of the employees who are the number one capital expense. Improperscheduling and attendance management can lead to a host of issues, includingoverscheduling a shift, costly extra time pay, and even litigation (Data ManagementServices, Inc., n.d.).With the change in dynamics of the work environment in the present day world, employees have the option to work from remote locations. A lot of companiesallow their employees to work from remote locations and to manage their time andattendance, it becomes an with child(p) task to keep track of the Human resources, whichcan lead to billing issues and corrections which can become costly.Currently, ABC company TC-1 software is only hold to systems that have the database running on theirservers.If employees of any of the clients are requiredto work from a remote location, or if the manager wants to access employeeinformation, payroll, scheduling, they have to be physically present at theirworkstation where this application is hosted. An effective solution which can provideaccess to the application on any device would help the management in accurately9tracking employee work time and also reduce managerial time spent on timekeepingand payroll tasks.Objective of the ProjectTo identify the tools and technologies required for the development of thisapplication and create a web enabled application that interfaces with theserver on the backend and presents a browser-based client interface to theuser in an agile environment.2. Identify the means areas of business and implement them in phases andrelease for production.Project QuestionsAfter successfully accomplishing the project, the quest questions wereanswered based on the results obtained from the projectWhat current drawbacks of thedesktop application have been firm in the wind vane based application and up to what extent?How was scrum agile methodology useful in developing this project?How effective would the proposed solution of bringing in a web basedinterface help in resolving the clients needs?What are the factors of scrummage which were helpful in identifying any threatsin this project?Can new changes and modifications be made during the implementation of the web-application? 11evolutionary development, ahead of time delivery, and continuous improvement,and it encourages rapid and flexible response to change (Wikipedia, n.d.).c)Scrum methodologyScrum is a management and control process thatcuts through complexity to snap on building software that meets businessneeds. Management and teams are able to purport their hands around therequirements and technologies, never let go, and deliver working software, incrementally and by trial and error (Scrum.org, n.d.). d) Socket Programming Sockets provide the communication mechanismbetween two computers using TCP.A client program creates a socket on its end of the communication and attempts to connect that socket to a server. When the connection is made, the server creates a socket objecton its end of the communication (Tutorialspoint.com, n.d.).e) ServerA server is a computer program or a machine capable of accepting requests from clients and responding to them.Their purpose may be to share data or hardware and software resources among clients(Quizlet.com, n.d.). f) Web ApplicationA Web application (Web app) is an application program that is stored on a remote server and delivered over the Internetthrough a browser interface (Jdsofttech.com, n.d.).g) Desktop ApplicationA desktop application is a self-contained programthat performs a defined set of tasks under the user control.Desktopapplications run from a local drive and do not require a network or 12connectivity to operate or function properly, though if attached to a networkdesktop application might use the resources of the network (Socmedtech,2014).f) TheSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)is the process of developing or modifying software systems by following softwaredevelopment methodologies. People, process and technology play a vitalrole in success of the software development lifecycle (Battagiri, 2015).g)Pair programmingis an agile software development technique, where twoor more programmers work together on a software development task. One,thedriver, develops the code while the other, the commentator, reviews thecode developed by the driver. The driver and the observer switch roles to achieve better results (Battagiri, 2015).h)Best practicesare the set of rules followed in software developmentwhich can help in developing software which is effective as well as efficientand within the budget. A combination of best practices can be used to bestfit a specific software development environment. The core agile softwareprogramming practices (versionone.com) are the followingIterative development,Test driven development,Quality testing,Requirement chang e management,Following pattern coding practices,13Software version control.Project management best practices help us successfully initiate,plan, execute, monitor, control and close our projects.Best practicesrepresent the practical application of the concepts, processes, andtools defined in the project (Battagiri, 2015).SummaryThis chapter introduces the problem statement and objective of the project.The nature and significance of the project are discussed. Limitations of this projectimplementation are also addressed. Important terms and keywords are brieflyexplained, which are necessary to understand the project. The next chapterdiscusses the framework and research methodologies used to conduct the project in detail.