Business Systems Development in Manufacturing

             Riordan Manufacturing is an International plastics company with 3
             locations in the United States and a joint venture in China. Over the
             years Riordan has acquired small specialized companies and as such the
             company needs to establish systems and procedures that can be used in all
             locations. The company will benefit in many ways by combining and creating
             business systems that are the same in all locations bringing cohesiveness,
             organization and improved efficiency that will be the foundation for the
             future growth of the company. The company requests the analysis of the
             Human Resource (HR) department systems to begin the process of updating the
             Whenever there are plans to make changes to systems there are people
             that need to be included in the analysis and development of those changes
             and those people are the stakeholders. Riordan is starting with the Human
             Resource department for the initial upgrades to the system so the
             stakeholders will be the director of HR Yvonne McMillan, VP of operations
             Charles Wilson, COO Hugh McCauley, CFO Dale Edgel and the directors of
             plant operations for each branch, all of the employees and last but not
             Using a System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) will help to ensure a
             successful product will be delivered. The first phase will be the
             requirements planning phase using the stakeholders, various information
             gathering methods can be used to achieve this initial step. A one on one
             interview with the stakeholders will help to get each department's needs
             and expectations documented. Putting similar job level groups together can
             help bring out more of the requirements using the collaboration of the
             members of the group helps to spark ideas from each member as items are
             discussed. Using some of the needs and requirements being gathered during
             this initial phase can be the basis for a questionnaire that can be used to
             survey the employees. Survey Monkey (S...

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