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...