Riordan Manufacturing Case Study

Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 Hugh McCauley the COO of Riordan Manufacturing is requesting help with taking advantage of the more sophisticated state-of-the-art information technology systems that are already implemented in the Human Resources department. Mr. McCauley would like to combine these existing Human Resource tools into one integrated application. Riordan Manufacturing spans multiple locations including San Jose CA, Albany GA, Pontiac MI, Hangzhou China and all locations are accessing confidential information that needs to be shared between them. This paper is going to explain the information- gathering techniques and design methods that are planned to be used in this project. Business requirements will be gathered from
The President and CEO Michael Riordan is an important stakeholder because the performance of the company directly affects him. The Director of Human Resources Yvonne McMillan is another important Stakeholder because she works with the systems that are currently in place and will be working directly with the new application. The Manager of IT Services Patricia Miller will be a great resource having an understanding of the current systems and also to provide support after the new system is put in place. The new users that will be using have to use the software will be trained by Yvonne McMillan as she currently does the employee
The requirements are to be defined by the stakeholders and after the information has been discussed and agreed upon it can be documented to define the scope. " In the project scope definition, the elements within the scope and out of the scope are well defined in order to clearly understand what will be the area under the project control. Therefore, you should identify more elements in detailed manner and divide them among the scope and out of scope." ("Tutorialspoint", n.d.). The project scope is defined so that scope creep may be avoided and deadlines can be met. In the analysis of the scope the financial resources required to complete the work will be discussed. Then the positive and negative impacts to the company will be analyzed as the feasibility. In conclusion this paper explains service request SR-RM-022 from Hugh McCauley the COO of Riordan Manufacturing. The need to integrate the current Human Resources department systems into one application is the basis of this request and will be analyzed in the first phase of the Software Development life cycle the analysis