Service Request SR-rm-004 part2
JOE BLOW
BSA/375
December 12th 2010
Mr. Swallows Service Request SR-rm-004 part2
Riordan Manufacturing human resources information system project has reached the end of the current systems analysis phase of the system development life cycle. The information gathering process has been completed and we must move on to the next step in our SDLC. Riordan’s executive management has made clear that they wish to make the system more efficient and secure. While conducting our analysis of the Riordan Manufacturing we found many issues that need to be addressed and several inefficiencies. We also found many security concerns that need to be addressed in the interest of the company and its personnel.
Application architecture and process design
Designing forms and reports is a user-focused activity that typically follows a prototyping approach (Dennis, Wixom, & Roth, Chapter 8, 2009). Prototypes may help to model desired behavior, design the user interface, or analyze resource utilization (Bass, Clements, & Kazman, Chapter 1, 2003). The analyst will take in to consideration the data we compiled during part one of the service request to design a prototype of the system. This prototype will be heavily based on the needs and goals of Riordan Manufacturing executive management and take in to account some of the input from the human resources department management and staff.
We learned in part one of this service request that Riordan Manufacturing’s current system and practices are unsecure and inefficient. This project must also evaluate current processes and determine how they can be streamlined. It makes little sense to automate an already inefficient system (Ashkenas, 2011). From our time with the managers at Riordan we know currently they keep an employee file for each of the employees they manage. We know that attendance information