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New Zealand 's Education Payroll System

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1. DETAIL OF SOFTWARE PROJECT New Zealand’s education payroll system is the largest payroll in New Zealand and is one of the top in Australasia. Novopay was a fairly recent system New Zealand had implemented in August 2012 after seven years of planning and development by Australia Human Resource Company Talent2. Novopay is a web-based system for state and state integrated schools within New Zealand. The system’s purpose was to pay 110,000 teachers and support staff at 2,457 schools. These staff are covered by 15 separate collective agreements, resulting in approximately 10,000 possible pay variations. The New Zealand Ministry of Education purchased Novopay for $182 million over ten years. Unlike a normal payroll where employees work for one company, usually in one role and has a small set of employment entitlements that needs to be administered per pay cycle, Novopay was to manage many employees who can work for different employers (schools), and belong to more than one collective agreement. Novopay began on the 1st of February 2013. 2. IDENTIFY THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE MODEL (SOFTWARE PROCESS MODEL) OF THE PROJECT 3. IN YOUR OPINION, WHY THAT PARTICULAR SDLC MODEL WAS CHOSEN We believe that the Novopay system adapted the Waterfall methodology because basically their system was built in a plain and simple way. We also believe they used this methodology because they wanted the payroll system to be easier to manage, and desired each step or phase

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