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Information Systems in Organization-DQ

Information Systems in Organization-DQ

Q Analyze organizational processes to identify information systems requirements Before responding to this discussion, read both Requirements and Developing Requirements for an IT System assigned for Week 5. For your Stage 3 assignment, you will analyze the hiring process at Maryland Technology Consultants (MTC) to identify the essential requirements for the hiring system. For this discussion, you will practice analyzing processes to identify user requirements for a system to improve a process. Some students may still have difficulty identifying processes; be sure to refer to the Week 3 readings that describe various processes and review the Week 3 discussion. Keep in mind that a process is a set of specified steps to accomplish a task. This week’s discussion topic focuses on system requirements that need to be clearly written so that the people who are developing the system or evaluating a system for use can discern whether the requirements are met or not. The requirement statement: • Is a complete sentence, with a subject (system) and predicate (intended result, action or condition) • Identifies only one requirement; does not include the words "and," "also," "with," and "or." • For User Requirements, states what tasks the system will support or perform • Includes a measure or metric that can be used to determine whether the requirement is met (time or quantity), where appropriate • Is stated in positive terms and uses "must" (not "may" or "should"); e.g., "the system must xxxx" not "the system must not xxx" • Avoids the use of terms that cannot be defined and measured, such as "approximately," "robust," "user friendly," etc. • Must be testable; that is, there must be some way to test the system to determine whether the requirement is met Group 1: 1. Drawing from your own experience, select a process used at your place of work or in your interaction with an organization that you would like to see improved. Explain why you picked that process. 2. Imagine that a system is to be implemented (or an existing system improved) to make that process better and write five (5) user requirements that the system would need to satisfy. Each requirement is one sentence in length and addresses one thing the system must do. Here we are interested in user requirements – the activities the system must perform to support the identified process. We are not including system performance, quality or security requirements that express how the system would perform. Use the information above to create your requirements statements.

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1. In simple words, the user requirements can be defined as the requirements of the end users from the process. The user requirements data can be collected through the survey, interviews, and focus group and field studies ("User requirements analysis", n.d.). Poorly defined user requirements are one of the biggest factors behind the failure of the project. For this discussion, I have chosen the process of ordering food from the restaurants. I order frequently from the restaurants and have found that ordering food over the phone is a cumbersome job, mainly when the person on the other side is not fluent in English.