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Bead Bar Final Systems Development Project

The Bead Bar is a rapidly growing company that allows customers to make their own bead jewelry.   In 1998, Meredith S. opened the first Bead Bar Studio in New Canaan, Connecticut.   Since then, The Bead Bar has grown into three Divisions: Studios, Franchises, and Bead Bar On-Board.   The Bead Bar currently has 15 full-time employees and about 20 part-time employees, and has averaged annual revenues over the past three years of $1.5 million.  

This paper will discuss the seven phase systems development process that will be used to implement an Information Management System product for The Bead Bar.   This Information Management System will address the company’s need to improve communication between the locations, including remote locations, maximize efficiencies, streamline processes, and ultimately lead to increases to the bottom line.   Additionally, this system will take The Bead Bar from a paper-based company into the digitally advanced world, where it will be able to tap in to the global market via the internet and other sources.  

The first phase in the systems development process is the planning phase.   In this phase, a team consisting of The Bead Bar’s management and a system analyst or IT consultant, will determine the desired outcome of the system, outline the proposed system design, develop a budget for the work to be done, and create a development schedule.   The result of this planning phase will produce a Project Plan.   This plan will define every aspect of the project, including milestones to monitor the progress of the project, and keep it, as much as possible, on time and on or under budget.

The team will then move on to the planning phase.   During this phase the team needs to determine the feasibility of the project.   A four type feasibility analysis should be done.   The analysis should include technical, economic, operational and schedule reviews.   The technical feasibility analysis will determine if there is already technology available to...