Assignment:
Case Study: Joe's Supermarket
This local supermarket is located in an urban neighborhood and provides customers with a wide array of products to choose from. Over time, the inventory has grown exponentially, but the current information system is not equipped to handle the increase in purchase demand. The company that owns the store opted to go with the "light" versions of the Purchasing and Point of Sale (POS) modules used to manage inventory and request products from vendors. The owner of the organization (Joe Russo) has emphasized that there are critical things on his "wish list" that he believes will move the supermarket into "the new tech age," but he is not sure where to start.
Here is some information he wants the IT consultant to know, but there is more likely additional information he is unaware of:
• Other processes that are part of the enterprise resource planning system are becoming slower, and some of the staff noticed errors in some of the product data coming into the system.
• A centralized database supports the entire system but has not been reviewed or upgraded.
• The time spent on customer transactions is too long! Anyone in management should be able to monitor transactions in real-time, but the point of sale system sends the data "over the wire" to the database slower each day. Some days there is a 2-hour lag in the system catching up on transactions!
Assignment:
You will explore different methodologies used in the design of information system solutions.
Using the resources and a library search, write a paper that includes the following:
1. Discuss the difference between the agile, object-oriented, and waterfall approaches used in the systems analysis and design process. Specifically, discuss the goals for each approach and detail the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
2. Provide a detailed summation of the organization's objectives, structure, and processes as a value-creating collective, using the case study organization (Joe's Supermarket).
Specifically, describe the relevance of the following project-related factors, including size, criticality, environmental dynamics, availability of personnel, and organizational culture.
3. Explain the need in a systems analysis project to ensure a synergistic outcome between organizational structure, people, technology, and tasks.
4. Provide a recommendation (with specific rationale supported by resources and online research) for which specific system analysis and design methodology is most conducive to the case study organization's information system project.
Length: 6 to 7 page paper, not including title and reference pages. APA.
References: Include a minimum of 3 scholarly resources.
Resources:
• Pachory, A. (2019). Mastering the seven dimensions of the business/technology alignment. ProQuest Ebook Central. Chapter 3: The Structure Story.
• Dennis, A., Wixom, B. H., & Tegarden, D. (2012). Systems analysis and design with UML (4th ed.). Wiley.
Attachment:- Case Study Joe’s Supermarket.rar