You are an IT manager tasked with assisting your business colleague stakeholders to acquire a new internet-based "order-to-cash" sales system. You are new to this organization and will start this software acquisition process with a clean slate.
Develop a well-written and well-organized paper that addresses the following:
- With offshore and ERP in mind, outline your approach to gathering and structuring requirements for this new system, including which roles you plan to engage and how you plan to collect, validate, and represent the requirements you elicit.
- Considering the offshore and ERP approaches, will you perform data modeling as part of your requirements gathering and structuring process? Will you include process models, such as data flow diagrams? What about human interface specifications? How will you balance the requirements effort?
- Discuss alternatives and defend your decisions on what you include in your requirements specification.
You may write in the first person for this assignment, taking the perspective of an IT manager. Your paper should meet the following requirements: