...Service Request SR-rm-022 - Part 1 Antonio Walden BSA/375 December 8, 2014 Bill Schuyler Service Request SR-rm-022 - Part 1 This paper will identify key stakeholders in Riordan Manufacturing who can provide requirements for the service request, and describe information gathering techniques and system analysis tools that can be used for the project. It will also identify key factors that assist in tracking necessary information for the project, the scope of the project, and the areas of project feasibility that will be focused on. Key Stakeholders There are many stakeholders of this project at Riordan Manufacturing. These stakeholders include the requester of service and COO Hugh McCauley, CEO Michael Riordan, Executive Assistant Jan McCall, HR department employees, and IT service managers. Stakeholders would also include any end users of the HR tools and applications involved in this project. Any supporters and opponents of the project should also be identified. Information Gathering The identification of the system requirements involves eliciting information from stakeholders (Mochal, 2008). There are multiple information gathering techniques to use to gain a complete view of the requirements from different perspectives. These are not procedural, can occur in any order and revisited multiple times to obtain a clear picture of system requirements. 1. One-on-One interviews: This is a method where the analyst will sit down with stakeholders on a one-on-one basis...
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...is a worldwide plastics manufacturer employing 550 persons with projected yearly earnings of $46 million. The company is entirely owned by Riordan Manufacturing Industries, a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues in excess of $1 billion.” (Baihaqi, 2009) Riordan has a corporate office located in San Jose, CA this office includes both the research and development departments. Riordan also has a plant located in Albany, GA which produces their plastic beverage containers, a plant in Pontiac, MI which produces customized plastic parts, and in Hangzhou, China they have a plant the manufactures plastic fan parts. The Service Request SR-rm-022 has been issued asking to integrate the existing Human Resource tools into a single integrated application. This will be done using the existing tools found in the Human Resource System. This request will have an impact on all the listed locations of Riordan Manufacturing: Georgia, Michigan, San Jose, and China. Riordan is looking to update and become more advanced from the current information systems technology in the Human Resources department. The expected results will define business requirements in the development of the Human Resource system allowing the support of the objective of the above listed service request. The objective here is to create a system design that is detailed and a project implementation plan to complete the project. The Human Resources Department (HR) plays an important role in Riordan Manufacturing. The Human Resource...
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...Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 BSA/375 Anjit Bose Service Request SR-rm-004, Part 1 Table of Contents Introduction.........................................................................................................3 * Information-Gathering Techniques and Design Methods................................................................................................................3 * Business Requirements for an HR System.................................................................................................................5 * Scope and Feasibility.............................................................................................................5 * Detailed Plan for Riordan Manufacturing....................................................................................................6 * Conclusion...........................................................................................................7 * Reference ............................................................................................................8 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Introduction * The COO, Hugh McCauley, of Riordan Manufacturing, wants to combine the existing variety of tools in use into a single integrated application. The business wants to take advantage of the more sophisticated state-of-the art information...
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...Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 The COO of Riordan Manufacturing, Hugh McCauley, wants to combine the current assortment of tools in use into a single integrated application. Riordan Manufacturing wants to take advantage of the most sophisticated, state-of-the art information systems technology that already exists in the human resources department (Riordan Manufacturing, 2006). In the development phase, it is important for one to gather information from various sources to ensure the project efficiently performs its preferred job. To begin the information-gathering process, one will need to meet with the key management personnel, IT staff, and users to talk about what tasks are involved. Through this collaboration, the developers will be allowed to ask questions, as well as invite comments, ideas and acknowledge concerns. This collaboration will help to brainstorm and to comprehend better what the corporation needs to do to improve the overall process. Another method that will be used to gather information for this project is conducting interviews. By interviewing selected individuals, it would help to figure out what works best for the company and what can be done to improve the human resources department in the future. After all the information is collected, documented, and studied, then the design phase can begin. The design method that would be used for Riordan Manufacturing would involve the use of Joint Application Development (JAD). Joint application design ...
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...Service Request SR-rm-022 Edwin Moreno BSA/375 May 22, 2015 Eric Secrist Riordan Manufacturing Riordan has sent a request for service with to the IT department hoping to benefit their company. The request for service involves changing the HR department for the better. Riordan wants to integrate and change the HR applications with a new state-of-the-art information system. The company wants to have the HR department to have the ability to assesses resources and tools all in one application. Who are stakeholders? In the IT and business field, the stakeholders can be many different people. Talks of tech have a great definition of stakeholders stating that: "Any person who has interests in an existing or proposed information system. Stakeholders may include both technical and non-technical workers. They also may be the internal ones or may be the external one.”( The Players of an Information System, 2013) In our project with Riordan, the stakeholders are can be the HR department managers, the owner of the company, Or even the top investors of the company its self. Anyone interested in the production and the improvement of the new integrated application system. The Project Scope The Project definition is identifying the problem. The project scope and the feasibility study are both part of the analysis stage of the system development life-cycle. As the saying goes "the problem well stated is half solved". Tim Bryce wisely said: "It is also...
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...Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 Crystale Wyche BSA/375 September 4, 2014 Prescott Lerch Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 This paper will the discuss the key stakeholders in Riordan Manufacturing who will provide requirements in the human resources project, describe information-gathering techniques and system analysis tools used for the project, explain what project scope is and the importance of it and describe the areas of project feasibility that are examined in the analysis phase of the SDLC. Key Stakeholders There are many stakeholders at Riordan Manufacturing, the key stakeholders that requirements would be gathered from are as follows: President and CEO Dr. Michael Riordan, Executive Assistant Jane McCall, SVP-R&D Kenneth Collins, Chief Operating Officer Hugh McCauley, VP International Operations Charles Williamson and the IT service managers. The stakeholders who can directly use the new system are also important as well. Information-Gathering To complete the system will require a set of information that will be categorized into numerous parts. This will make sure the system and processes are doable to the demands set by the SR-rm-004. SR-rm-004 is an analysis request for Riordan Manufacturing current human resources system for future integration. "Many techniques are available for gathering requirements, sometimes multiple techniques are needed to gain a complete picture (Mochal, 2008)." 1. One on one Interviews: A sit...
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...ervice Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 BSA/375 Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer employing 550 people with projected annual earnings of $46 million. All though Riordan Manufacturing Industries is a Fortune 1000 enterprise and a global manufacturer of plastic they currently do not have an integrated system that brings all the sites together as one.Currently, there are three sites that they manufacture from in Hangzhou China, Pontiac, Michigan, and Albany, Georgia. Riordan’s headquarters are located in San Jose, California, here the research needed to maintain Riordan’s success is done. Riordan Manufacturing, like any company, would not be able to experience any success without their loyal customers and the company’s steak holders. The key stakeholders within the Riordan Manufacturing Company that I would gather requirements from first would be would be management. After the management I would gather information from the employees. No one knows a company better then its staff. I would hold a meeting with the entire staff to decipher what the company’s current business challenges and future requirements this will as help me identify the company’s current and future business process flow. Once this is done key requirements which were gathered during the focus group will be consolidated into what will be foundation of the new system Riordan Manufacturing Company. The analysis tool I would propose for this project would be...
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...Individual: Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 Name BSA375 August 3 2015 Individual: Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 In this service request we look at the organization, Riordan Manufacturing. We will look at the stakeholders in this corporation. We hope to gather information that will benefit in the development of a system for this corporation and we will discuss how we went about gathering said information. We hope to identify the key factors of the information that we have gathered for this system to ensure the information’s validity and that it was gathered correctly. We will explain what the projects scope is and why it is important by describing the areas of project feasibility that are examined in the analysis phase of the SDLC. In the end we will have gained a better understanding of how a system analyst does their job. * Looking over the human resources side of the pillar at the Riordan manufacturing it seems that there is a good representation of each group that is a part of the Riordan family with there being four different locations three in the continental United States and one abroad in China. With that tidbit of information there is not a consistent system that like communications from the China facility to any other but the corporateeadquarters in fact the corporate head quarters is the only way there is any communication from one sister company to the other it is like a giant game of telephone. For instance what if a shipment from MI went to the China...
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...Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 Your name here University of Phoenix Online BSA 375 Insrtuctor Date Service Request SR-rm-004, Part 1 Riordan Manufacturing is an international plastics manufacturer that currently employs 550 people with projected annual earnings totaling approximately $46 million. The company is completely owned by Riordan Industries which is a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues of up to $1 billion. The company’s merchandises consists of plastic beverage containers that are produced at its plant in Albany, Georgia; custom plastic parts are manufactured at its plant in Pontiac, Michigan; and plastic fan parts are created at its facilities in Hangzhou, China ("Riordan Manufacturing", 2013). Hugh McCauley, COO of Riordan Manufacturing, wants to integrate the existing variety of tools in use into a single integrated application. I have received a request from Hugh McCauley to develop an approach to replace the current HRIS. The current system was created in 1992 ("HRIS", 2013). With a new and improved system, Riordan will be able to become much more efficient, save time, and most importantly, save money. An advanced human resource management system can improve the company. According to the Service Request SR-rm-022, Riordan plans to put into place many of the existing HR tools into one integrated application so the company is able to benefit from a more refined information system within the Human Resource Department. ...
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...Riordan Manufacturing Service Request SR-rm-022 (Section 1) Seth Stafford BSA/375 May 11, 2015 Todd Feuerherm Riordan Manufacturing Service Request SR-rm-022 Riordan Manufacturing was established in 1991 by Dr. Riordan. He started this company in San Jose, CA where currently the corporate office is and where the Research and Development Department is located. Riordan is a global plastics manufacturing company that is now employing 550 people. The annual revenues are 46 million and they have plants in Albany, GA, Pontiac, MI, and Hangzhou, China. The plant in Albany produces plastic beverage containers. The one in Pontiac products custom plastic parts and the one in China produces plastic fan parts. Riordan Manufacturing is a subsidiary of Riordan Industries, Inc a global plastics manufacturing company that is a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues that will exceed 1 billion (Apollo Group, 2011, 2013). The C.O.O. of Riordan Manufacturing Hugh McCauley has submitted a service request SR-RM-022 the goal to improve the human resources information system. This request will affect all plant locations throughout the company. Riordan wants the system to be state of the art and will take advantage of the newest technology out there. The expected results will define the business requirements needed to me this proposed enhancement. The overall objective is to create a detailed system and an aggressive project implementation plan that Riordan Manufacturing can plan to utilize...
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...t Service Request SR-rm-022 - Part 1 Joshua Proctor BSA/375 November 4, 2013 Laura Smith Service Request SR-rm-022 - Part 1 This paper will describe each of the key stakeholders or stakeholder groups in Riordan Manufacturing who provide requirements for the service request, explain two separate information gathering techniques used during proposed projects, identify two factors that are necessary to ensure that the information required for the project is gathered successfully, define the scope of the project by specifying business functions that will be included in the project, describe the project’s operational, technical, and economic feasibility areas that are examined in the SDLC analysis phase summary. Key Stakeholders Riordan Manufacturing has many stakeholders and most of its stakeholders that would remain influential to the change process would gain the focus and those who can directly use the new system are also given importance. The stakeholders of the firm include CEO Michael Riordan, Executive Assistant Jan McCall, SVP-RD Kenneth Collins, COO Hugh McCauley, VP international operations Charles Williamson and the IT service managers. Further, before the input and revisions as per the information gathering steps are finalized, the individual users of the final app will be consulted for advice. Information-Gathering The completion of the system requires collection of information and it is categorized into ten parts that makes sure that system and processes...
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...Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 According to "Smith Services Consulting Incorporated" (2011), Riordan Manufacturing requests that we provide them with a “more sophisticated, state-of-the art, information systems technology” in their Human Resources department (SR Number, SR-rm-022). To ensure that we reach our goal, we will need to interview all of the key stakeholders and look at all the current systems that Riordan Manufacturing is using to consider what information will be required and needs to be collected. We have to make sure that we discuss the key factors and provide the best information to them in an effort to receive the required information back from the stakeholders. This will help get us the tools we need to create a project management system that will help us organize the information properly so that everything is covered. Key stakeholders in Riordan Manufacturing we would gather requirements from? To ensure success we would first start by collecting information from the very top of Riordan management, including; President and CEO, Dr. Michael Riordan; COO Hugh McCauley; Director of Human Resources, Yvonne McMillan. She will be instrumental in helping us know exactly what is expected of the new system, how it will be implemented, who made the request and what deadlines will need to be met. Next, we will gather information from the Director of Human Resources Yvonne McMillan, who directs and coordinates human resources activities. Her feedback will help...
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...Service Request SR-RM-022 Part 2 BSA/375 Service Request sr-rm-022 Part 2 Riordan Manufacturing is a research and development company that specializes in the production of polymer materials. The company is currently “employing 550 people with projected annual earnings of $46 million. The company is wholly owned by Riordan Industries, a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues in excess of $1 billion.” (University of Phoenix, 2013) Hugh McCauley, the COO of the company, wants to develop a new application for the human resource department in order to keep up with changing technology. He would like to have a system that integrates all of the existing HR tools the company uses into a single, modern information systems application. This project will need to consist of several different stages in order for it to potentially be successful and will require an analyst to ensure all key points of the project are met. One of the first areas we need to look at when transitioning from analysis to design is the application software. “Software application architecture is the process of defining a structured solution that meets all of the technical and operational requirements, while optimizing common quality attributes such as performance, security, and manageability.” (Microsoft, 2014) Taking into account the requirements of the new design, a thin client-server architecture, where the server performs the application logic, makes the most sense to use. One of biggest benefits to a thin...
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...Service Request SR-rm-022 BSA357 January 29, 2014 Service Request SR-rm-022 Riordan Manufacturing an international plastics manufacturer employs 550 personal and has estimated annual earnings of $46 million. Riordan Manufacturing has a plant in Albany, GA that produces plastic beverage containers, a plant in Pontiac, MI that produces custom plastic parts, and a plastic fan parts facility in Hangzhou, China. Riordan Manufacturing’s corporate office is located in San Jose, CA along with the corporations Research and Development Department. Mr. Hugh McCauley, the current COO of Riordan Manufacturing has submitted a Service Request (SR-rm-022) to Smith Services Consulting Inc. requesting to combine the existing Human Resource (HR) tools into a single application using today's existing tools in the HR system. This request will affect all plant locations. Riordan Manufacturing is looking to benefit from a more state-of-the-art information systems in its HR department. The service request will include information gathering about what the new system should include, the current system needs to be analyzed, the information gathered needs to be verified, and the scope of the work needs to be determined. A. What key stakeholders in Riordan Manufacturing would you gather requirements from? To gather all the proper requirements for the new HR system all the key stakeholders within the Riordan Manufacturing must be asked. The key stakeholders are the upper management of Riordan...
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...Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 Clarence D. Spence BSA / 375 May 12, 2015 Charles Bocage Service Request SR-rm-022, Part 1 Riordan Manufacturing’s COO Hugh McCauley would like to merge the accessible selection of tools in use into a single integrated application. The business would also like to take advantage of the more advanced state-of-the art information systems technology that readily exists within the company’s human resources department. The information gathering techniques and the planned design methods that will be utilized will be outlined. The business requirements for the improvement of an HR system to maintain the intention of this request will also be defined. Significant points that will assist in making sure that the information required for this project is collected effectively will be identified and a thorough project plan will be produced. This plan will make available a list of all day to day tasks, resources, and a schedule coupled with a financial plan required to complete the project. Information Gathering Techniques and Design Method Developing a plan is important to Riordans success, it is very crucial to gather information from numerous sources to make sure the designed plan performs its intended application. Initiating the information gathering process will begin with an essential meeting with key management personnel, the end user and most important the IT staff to discuss the project. This business meeting will consist of a question...
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