Bsa 375 Wk 5 Team

The CanGo organization is lacking a Project Budget. The group is disorganized and unsure if the project can afford necessary equipment and resources required to complete the project. CanGo’s project team or the project manager needs to develop a project budget, including the goal of the project budget. The project manager will use this budget to help determine if the project is on track and the budget will be used by a number of personal as a guideline to fulfill project milestones. Aspects that need to be considered and included in the project budget are employee compensation, contract services such as hardware and software, equipment and supplies, and the budget should include overhead expenses. Overhead and indirect costs allow the project to absorb part of the administrative costs of the organizations daily operations. Many software options are available on the market today, such as

The objective of this project request is to track purchases of individual customer 's. The customer purchases will be tracked and accumulated as loyalty points for redemption by the customer for gift items, specialty foods and other products or services as made available through partnerships with other external companies. The strategic purpose of the Frequent Shopper Program is described on the Sales & Marketing page of the Kudler Fine Foods Intranet site.

Kudler Fine Foods has had great success in the past and present with its mission and sales. Since its first upscale store opened in 1998, Kathy Kudler (Founder) has expanded and opened stores in two other locations. So, to further expand its operation, Kudler has decided to express interest in designing Kudler Fine Foods Frequent Shopper Program. This shopper program should

Kulder Fine Foods wants to create a frequent shopper program to help their customers by rewarding them, but also wanting them to be protected by malicious entities that might want to do them harm. In developing a Frequent Shopper Program, Kudler ne Foods (hereby known as Johnson) will need to implement, and adhere, to strict policies and guidelines that will protect the patrons that shop at the establishments of Kudler. We can also use different modeling structures to find what kind of Frequent Shopper Program works best for Kudler. By contacting an outside agency, such as Management Science Associates, Inc., (MSA) we are able to look at data that will tell us the demographics of who is

Kudler is gathering data from an outside organization which is considered external secondary data (Kerin et al, 2006). Benchmarking data from Nordstrom department stores is used to improve service to the customer (University of Phoenix, 2007) by developing an employee training program and implementing new software to assist in the effort. Kudler Fine Foods will benefit from improving survey results in the category of courteous employees.

Nonetheless, when prioritizing the project requirements whether they are business rules, functional and nonfunctional requirements, or business risks, it is important to correlate the requirements with their technological feasibility, in other words, their ability to be implemented with the current facilities technology or if the technology has to be completely acquire. Next, we examine the financial feasibility, which encompasses any reason for failure based on the cost or its risk. Finally, we scrutinize the cultural feasibility, which entitles the acceptance degree among the Scale end-users and key

Since R.Ryan Nelson’s conclusions (2007) are based on the persuasive research report and many typical case of IT projects that have great bad side-effects or loss, his suggestions convinced me a lot. I will following R.Ryan Nelson ‘suggestions (2007) in the following ways:

To owner, Rocky Aoki and his team, their understanding on consumer patterns became their advantage; the consumer’s distrust of exotic food and their enjoyment of eating in exotic surroundings, and the customer’s interest in watching their food cooked. Though unique, this system allows the business for greater control on the flow and options given to the customer.

Organizational feasibility evaluates whether the system is likely to be accepted and used by the organization. Included in this assessment will be the strength of the sponsor 's and management 's support for the project and the enthusiasm or resistance of the users for the project.

Thus, 216 computers will need to be networked utilizing the new resources. The estimated set up of 20 users is $2500 (Walker, 2015). Although only one organization is being referenced this cost estimate is roughly the same with several other entities. The estimates, which are rounded up, of networking all the computers within the organization is $27,500. This will come with an additional server with storage ability of approximately $4000 (Walker, 2015). This leaves a total cost of $31,500 to update the current system and establish a network to reduce the use of paper. The project will be given the 6 month timeframe in order to have it completed by the end of the fiscal year and the installation will not require the company’s employees as the network set up cost are estimated from an outside contractor. Business will continue uninterrupted as the paper processes can continue until the network is established. Although this equipment is costly it has been found that setting up an organization to be more electronic can have long lasting, cost saving benefits (“Paper or Electronic”, 2003). Moreover, reducing paper usage is environmentally sound. Thus, by fulfilling the moral obligation to protect the environment the organization will be bettering the public’s opinion on the company while fulfilling best practices of “going green” (Walonick, 1993).

At the start, the main contract stated that it allowed the development of the system for a period of 3 years from 1st February 2002 to 7th December 2004. One of the main reasons for the delay was due to the scope changes. A delay of 2 years was due to revising milestone dates in order to accommodate additional functionalities, changes in the migration plan and additional hardware requirement and additional sales. Furthermore, the original cost of the project was R354,7 million but after revising fixed contract price adjustments for the consumer price index and foreign exchange variations, the cost of the project has gone up to R410,8 million. This failure can be related to the Process Failure based on the Lyytinen and Hirschheim theory as the cost of developing the system has exceeded above the original budget and also the project deadline has exceeded the original deadline based on the initial contract which stated till 7th December 2004 but instead, the system was completed on 11th April 2007 which is nearly 3 years later. It can also be related to Ineffective Schedule Planning and/or Management in the Process-Related Risk by Leon A. Kappelman as the originally planned schedule development of the system was not followed and had to be revised all over again which took 2 years for them to

A feasibility study will need to take into consideration the different forms of feasibility that are associated with the project. Legal, human resource, economic, technological and operational factors should all be considerations in the feasibility study (Shelley, Cashman & Rosenblatt, 2003). At the conclusion of the study, the costs and benefits for the organization as well as resource requirements and which subject matter experts should play roles in different elements of implementation will be known. This is the point where the IT organization will be able to come to a conclusion regarding what is needed in the development of a new system.

do we need to lay off the current human resource to implement the solution? if yes, how many and its financial implications?

do we need to lay off the current human resource to implement the solution? if yes, how many and its financial implications?

Economic feasibility attempts 2 weigh the costs of developing and implementing a new system, against the benefits that would accrue from having the new system in place. This feasibility study gives the top management the economic justification for the new system.