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0 Personal Trainer, Inc.: Successful Business Strategy in the Fitness Industry Shakib Sinha Southern New Hampshire University IT-510-Q2514 Advanced Info Technology 23TW2 Professor Nicholas Cain December 22, 2023
1 Iterations can fix any incorrect requirements interpretation. Several important elements are included in the system requirements checklist. First, under Membership Management, the system must store member information such as names and contact information, differentiate between full and limited members, allow limited members to select and pay for additional services, and allow all users to charge privileges. Second, all sales transactions should be recorded daily to the sales and billing department. Costs for goods and services should be reported on signed charge slips. It’s also essential to input daily cash sales and charges into the BumbleBee accounting program. The local bank should receive daily cash receipts, which should then be deposited, and the company's account updated. Thirdly, payments from members should be sent to designated accounts; member statements have to be created and distributed; and a monthly report ought to be sent to the headquarters under the heading of accounts receivable. Additionally, the system needs to be enhanced such that member preferences, past activity logs, and interaction information are preserved. It should monitor sales, discounts, and trends in order to conduct analysis. Daily operations should be summed up in the current report, and quarterly profit-and-loss reports should include a breakdown of income and expenses by activity. To be clear, additional elements might include the use of email, fitness blogs, Facebook, Twitter, scannable ID cards, senior fitness coaching, digital health and activity records, and so on. A number of strategies can be used to mitigate the issues caused by ambiguities when designing systems. First and foremost, it is of the utmost importance to use simple syntax in unambiguous documentation for every requirement. Moreover, regular stakeholder validation of requirements guarantees that standards and knowledge are in accord. By enabling stakeholders to offer early feedback through system diagrams or prototypes; prototyping is a useful tool. It becomes essential to include end users in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in order to find
2 discrepancies between the system as it is and the specified requirements. Agile development is an effective strategy that offers numerous significant business advantages to the client in addition to benefits to the development team (8 Benefits of Agile Software Development, Segue Technologies on August 25, 2015). By using an iterative (for example: Agile) development strategy, requirements may be refined and re-evaluated at all stages, allowing for errors to be corrected. In addition, implementing a methodical change control process is essential for efficiently managing requirement changes, guaranteeing that they are recorded, assessed, and approved by proper authorities. Misunderstandings and misinterpretations throughout a project are a result of the challenges involved in translating complex business requests into technical specifications. All of these problems are addressed in full by adopting iterations in requirements. It is stressed that continuous development is key, with requirements being refined over multiple iterations. Broad, high-level basic requirements are the beginning point, and details are added gradually as the project progresses. Feedback loops involving developers, managers, and end users are essential because they reveal and address misunderstandings early in the development process. As a crucial component of iterative development, mockups and prototyping help stakeholders visualize system functionality and spot design flaws. In order to detect and address differences in later cycles, verification (before development) and validation (after development) procedures are implemented at each iteration to guarantee alignment with stakeholder needs. In order to adapt to shifting business needs and improve comprehension, agile approaches- especially Scrum, JAD (Joint application development) and RAD (Rapid application development) are solid methods on incremental and iterative development. Through the recording, inspection, and approval of requirement modifications, formal change management in iterative approaches guarantees that
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