 | Cornerstones Unified Database Design ProjectSYST 699: Fall 2014 |  | | | About Our Project
In the Cornerstones Unified
Database Design Project (CUDDP), the GMU team completed a systems engineering
project to address a problem faced by Cornerstones, a nonprofit organization focused
on providing support and advocacy for those in need of human services such as
food, shelter, affordable housing, and quality childcare. The main focus of the
project was to provide Cornerstones with an alternative way of tracking their
clients and the services provided. The legacy system in place consisted of
maintaining client records using pen & paper forms, and a variety of
electronic spreadsheets. Having multiple repositories for client data made it
difficult for Cornerstones to accurately track client information, history, identification,
and demographics. Cornerstones uses the client data to report to local
governing agencies and to their financial sponsors. Because of the urgent need
for an effective system, the GMU team performed a rapid development of a
unified database following systems engineering principals.
The GMU team completed the
following phases of the systems engineering life cycle – definition, design,
integration, test, validation, and operations. A working prototype of the Cornerstones
Unified Database was delivered to Cornerstones, and staff was trained in its
use. This website provides a description of the completed phases of
this project.
Overall, this was a very
fulfilling project for each of the GMU Team members. Cornerstones’
mission was one that we valued and we were honored to be able to work
on such a meaningful final project. We hope that the unified database
we delivered will be useful to Cornerstones, and that the work we
captured here will be useful to future teams as they improve upon the
database’s capabilities.
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