Justin Taylor
University of Phoenix
BSA
385
CHARLES STEEPLETON
June 24, 2013
Kudler Fine Foods Frequent Shopper Program
Kudler fine foods are a high level specialty food store with the finest series of food and wine. The storehouse is dedicated to offering top class foods to their consumers. Kudler fine foods would love to make an innovative program to follow any customer acquisition through a frequent shopper program. The frequent shopper program would gift loyalty points and give the chance to convert those points towards Kudler fine food products. The frequent shopper program will store customer purchase behavior, demographic information, which will assist in any promotions and store events, and add customer contact information helping Kudler to offer the best experience to their customers.
Smith systems consulting would like to explore different methods in order to complete the Kudler fine foods frequent shopper program. The following methods will go over the advantages and disadvantages of the frequent shopper program. Market research will be conducted by Kudler Fine Foods in the field of development and testing to make a correct decision about, which program will be developed by smith systems consulting.
Throughout the testing process smith systems are looking at several development methods for the frequent shopper program (Melonfire, 2006). The first method under consideration is the waterfall development method (Melonfire, 2006). Waterfall development is a software development model, which comprises of a phased succession of actions leading to the delivery of a software product. In essence, it is a framework for software development in, which development continues successively through a cycle of phases, opening with system requirements analysis and advancing up to product delivery and maintenance (Melonfire, 2006).
Feedback loops subsist between every stage, so that as additional information is
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