Requirement life cycle management for MyRA monitoring system / Habsah Minhat

The Malaysian Research Assessment (MyRA) is an instrument used by Ministry of Education (MoE) of Malaysia to assess the research capacity at the local universities (public and private universities in Malaysia). It measures excellence by assessing the distance of the university is from a profile (benchmark) that is deemed excellent for a Malaysian Research University (MRU). To excel in the MyRA, this university must have better system to manage all the valuable data required in the MyRA. Looking on the implementation of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) in Universiti Teknologi MARA, all the information (data) required by the MyRA instruments are placed in several medium and certain level of accessibility. Some of the data able to capture through a system, some comes in an excel format while the others require an effort to search online. Level of accessibility for each data also is different depending on the data owner. Realizing that directly proceed to the system development activities is a high risk, thus this study aim to verify the requirements of the system prior to development stage. This study narrow down the scope by just concentrating on the sections in the MyRA Instrument Form that capturing data from several system owned by the Research Management Institute (RMI). The requirements were defined by using three requirement elicitation techniques that are ethnography, introspection and observation. Then by using rapid prototyping tool, the prototype of defined requirements was developed after requirement analysis process. From the User Acceptance Test upon the prototype with MyRA Team, found that the prototype of the defined requirements meet stakeholder's need. Due to limitation of this study, future work were suggested to cover sections that capturing data from other system such as STARS, SIMS, IPSIS and FAIS owned by the Office of Information Technology (InfoTech) and also sections that using data from Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet from departments and faculties without any single storage to store their data.