Question

Personal Trainer, Inc. owns as well as operates fitness centres in a dozen Midwestern cities. The centres have done well, and the company is preparation an international expansion by opening a new "supercentre" in the Toronto area. Personal Trainer's president, Cassia Umi, appointed an IT consultant, Susan Park, to help develop an information system for the new facility. Throughout the project, Susan will work carefully with Gray Lewis, who will accomplish the new operation.

Background

During data as well as process modelling Susan Park developed a logical model of the proposed system. She drew an entity-relationship diagram as well as constructed a set of levelled as well as balanced DFDs. Now Susan is prepared to consider various development strategies for the new system. She will investigate traditional as well as Web-based approaches and weigh the pros as well as cons of in-house development versus other alternatives. Beforehand you begin, you must review the background information and facts contained in the case study.

Tasks

1) What choices does Personal Trainer have for developing a new system? What are some precise issues as well as options that Susan must consider in making a decision?

2) Susan has been requested to prepare a system requirements document as well as deliver a presentation to the management team. What must be the main elements of the system requirements document?

3) Based on the suggestions in Part A of the Systems Analyst's Toolkit what visual aids must Susan use during her presentation?

4) Susan wants to make a presentation that will compute the total cost of ownership for the system. What financial analysis tools are obtainable to her and what are the advantages (and possible disadvantages) of each tool?