Bead Bar Final
The Background
The Bead Bar is a business that has three divisions consisting of studios, franchises, and Bead Bar on Board. The studio division is responsible for overseeing the companies’ six Bead Bar studios located in Connecticut, New York City, Long Island, Washington, D.C., and Massachusetts. The franchise division sells the necessary stock to businesses that license their own individual studios. The Bead Bar on Board division oversees the “portable” end of the business run on board cruise ships. In addition, the company would like to expand their business by creating a web site. “The Bead Bar is now large enough that the paper-based system it currently uses is inefficient and has caused some problems including lost orders, incorrect invoicing, and fulfillment delays” (Malaga, 205).
The Bead Bar has hired our IS consulting firm to create a systems development project that will ease them into the digital world successfully competing in the current marketplace. “An information system is a set of interrelated information technologies that work together to process, store, retrieve, collect, and distribute information” (Malaga, 2005). Information systems can vary from small tasks such as performing basic transactions to assisting senior management with business decisions by calculating trends. As a member of the team, it is my responsibility to outline the steps and tasks required in each phase of the project and create guidelines for a systems review and maintenance schedule. This will be accomplished by using the waterfall method, which ensures the project will be completed by a set date by completing phases. No one phase may begin until the previous one is debugged (corrected) and completed.
The Planning Phase
In the Systems Development Life Cycle (waterfall method), the first step is the planning phase. I have worked with the Bead Bar management to outline a system, set a budget, and develop a...
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