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This project has shown me the value of using a relational database package to keep track of data relating to the functions of an organization. Although I had previously used Microsoft Access at a basic level in Higher Information Systems, it wasn’t until tackling this project that I began to fully understand the wide range of users that Access has. As well as learning how to use Access, my teamwork skills have also benefited. Time management was a crucial factor in successfully completing the project and it was important that all group members helped out and concentrated on specialised tasks, such as inputting the data, drawing up plans to solve the various user requirements, or working on the overall presentation of the project by adding various macros into the forms. Additionally, I also learned the value of ‘planning’ things out on paper as our initial attempt to ‘dive straight in’ and try and solve the problem as we went along quickly found us lacking purpose and direction. However, once we met as a group and carefully went through details of the system and user requirements, highlighting key information and identifying a full list of tasks which needed to be done, the overall picture became clearer and subseq