lab

The purpose of this lab is to demonstrate your ability to gather requirements as a part of software system selection.

Current Situation

· Acme manufacturing is located in Kansas City, MO

· Total employees - 200

· 50 office employees, e.g. CEO, Sales, Finance/Accounting, HR, IT, Legal, Engineering

· 150 employees in manufacturing

· Revenue - $50M annually

· Product

· Specialty project used in construction

· Weighs 4 ounces

· Inventory held in 3 warehouses, east, mid-west, west

· Product is $5/unit, average sale is 20 units ($100)

· Product sold via company website (credit cards) or telephone orders (purchase order)

· Products sold in domestically in the US only (no international sales)

· Discounts offered to loyal customers

Assignment

· The head of accounting and finance (CFO) wants a new accounting system for the company as everything is done today is manual

· Assume you are an IT business analyst and you work closely with the CFO and the Finance team. Also assume that you already interviewed everyone in the CFO’s organization to collect requirements for the new accounting system.

· You are getting ready to review the requirements of the new system with the CFO

· In Microsoft Word, write 8 high-quality requirements in the form of bullets . You should feel free to make assumptions in your bullets to build the requirements. Also note that good requirements are often written as below, describing the current problem and the desired future state. For example:

· Our current auditors are Ernst and Young. The current quarterly audit takes 2 days and the annual audit 1 week due to all of the manual processes we have in place. The new system needs to enable Acme to reduce quarterly audits to 4 hours and annual audits to 2 days.

Project Submission

· Name the file YourLastName_YourFirstName_Lab4

· Submit your project on Blackboard before 11:59 PM Pacific Time of the due date.