Information Technology Reference
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PROBLEM-SOLVING EXERCISES
1.
You are developing a new information system for The Fit-
ness Center, a company that has five fitness centers in your
metropolitan area, with about 650 members and 30
employees in each location. This system will be used by
both members and fitness consultants to track participation
in various fitness activities, such as free weights, volleyball,
swimming, stair climbers, and aerobic and yoga classes.
One of the performance objectives of the system is that it
must help members plan a fitness program to meet their
particular needs. The primary purpose of this system, as
envisioned by the director of marketing, is to assist The
Fitness Center in obtaining a competitive advantage over
other fitness clubs. Use a graphics program to develop a
flowchart or a grid chart to show the major components of
your information system and how the components are tied
together.
2.
You have been hired to develop a payroll program for a
medium-sized company. At a minimum, the application
should have an hours-worked table that contains how many
hours each employee worked and an employee table that
contains information about each employee, including
hourly pay rate. Design and develop these tables that could
be used in a database for the payroll program.
TEAM ACTIVITIES
1.
Your team should interview people involved in systems
development in a local business or at your college or uni-
versity. Describe the process used. Identify the users, ana-
lysts, and stakeholders for a systems development project
that has been completed or is currently under development.
Web pages that you would recommend. Make sure to show
the important features and the hyperlinks for each page.
3.
Your team has been hired to determine the requirements of
a new medium-cost coffee bar to compete with higher-
priced coffee shops such as Starbucks. The new coffee bar
will offer computer kiosks for customers to surf the Internet
or order coffee and other products from the coffee bar.
Using RAD and JAD techniques with your team, develop
requirements for this new coffee bar and its computer
system.
2.
Your team has been hired to determine the requirements
and layout of the Web pages for a company that sells fishing
equipment over the Internet. Using the approaches dis-
cussed in this chapter, develop a rough sketch of at least five
WEB EXERCISES
1.
Cloud computing, where applications such as word pro-
cessing and spreadsheet analysis are delivered over the Inter-
net, is becoming more popular. You have been hired to
analyze the potential of a cloud computing application that
performs payroll and invoicing over the Internet from a
large Internet company. Describe the systems development
steps and procedures you would use to analyze the feasibility
of this approach.
2.
Using the Internet, locate an organization that is currently
involved in a systems development project. Describe how
they are using project management tools. Is project man-
agement software being used?
CAREER EXERCISES
1.
Pick a career that you are considering. What type of infor-
mation system would help you on the job? Perform tech-
nical, economic, legal, operational, and schedule feasibility
for an information system you would like developed.
applications or a new information system that would be the
most useful to you in your new career. Describe the IS per-
sonnel that would be needed to build the application and
the best way to interact with them to get what you want.
2.
For a career you are considering, describe how you would
interact with various IS personnel to acquire computer
