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comes from the information system practitioners,
which are the study program coordinators, Quality
Assurance Team of Faculty of Engineering and
professional placement administrators in the
department and faculty. Therefore, there is a need of
further research related to the performance of
professional placement management information
system based on the perception of its users to
contribute in the improvement of management and
administration of professional placement
management information system of Faculty of
Engineering of Universitas Negeri Semarang.
2 METHODOLOGY
The method used in this study is RUP (Rational
unified Process) method, which is an interactive
system development stage specifically for object-
oriented programming (Rosa U.S, 2011, p.106). The
description of the 4 working stages of RUP is as
follows: (1) Inception Phase (beginning). This stage
is more about modeling the management and
administrative process needed and defining the
system requirements that will be made (Rosa AS,
2011, p. 109). In determining the problem-related
needs, several data collection techniques are used,
such as: a. Observation Study, it is a data collection
method by observing directly an object to be studied
in order to provide precise and clear information. b.
Interview Study. It is a data collection technique by
conducting Focus Group Discussion to the
information system practitioners which are study
program coordinators, Quality Assurance Team of
Faculty of Engineering and professional placement
administrators in the department and faculty, which is
conducted systematically. c. Literature Study. It is a
data collection technique of collecting information by
studying scientific books that support the research.
(2) Elaboration Phase (Planning). At this stage, the
researchers conduct analysis of problem, needs,
feasibility such as benefit and technical analysis,
makes a display interface design that will be used in
the system improvement, then conducts initial testing
of the new system. (3) Construction Phase
(Construction). At this stage, researchers conduct an
examination of inception and elaboration stages. This
is conducted to find out whether the design analysis
and planning are in accordance with the aimed needs.
In addition, there will also be a problem and needs
analysis which is then put into the programming
language so that it becomes a complete system and
could be used to support the company's activities. (4)
Transition Phase (Transition). At this stage, the
researchers carry out the deployment process, which
is a system installation activity made for the agency
and an activity where the researchers conduct system
usage training made for the prospective users of the
system.
3 RESULT AND DISCUSSION
3.1 System Analysis
3.1.1 Problem Analysis
To identify the problems faced by the practitioners /
users of the professional placement management
information system, the researchers developed a
problem solving framework. The problem solving
framework used is the PIECES framework. Problem
analysis was carried out using the PIECES framework
(Performance, Information, Economics, Control,
Efficiency, Service). The problems occur are
identified using the PIECES framework as follows:
a. Performance
The administration department at the Faculty
level faces difficulty to manage the data of
advisors, because the data is not synchronized
with the one of UNNES. Thus, there needs to be
an edit menu either for name, title and rank.
b. Information
The Study Program Coordinator is not yet able to
obtain data about the places of professional
placement industry that they have cooperated as
well as their addresses, based on their respective
study programs.
c. Economics
To obtain data per study program, they still need
to check it in each study program, due to the
integrated system with the faculty data.
d. Control
The difficulty of the study program coordinators
controls the number of students who have already
implemented and who have not carried out PKL
activities per class
e. Efficiency
The administration section at the department and
faculty level still face difficulty in editing the
correspondence so that the service is still
inefficient.
f. Service
There is a complication in editing student data
into data of students joining professional
placement due to some error done by some
students in registering members in their group.
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