Development of Information System for Alvarado Street Bakery

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Development of information system for Alvarado Street Bakery
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Table of Contents
1. Identify the problem...............................................................................................................3
1.1 Problem description.........................................................................................................3
1.2 System Capabilities..........................................................................................................3
1.3 Expected business benefits...............................................................................................3
2. Quantify project approval factors...........................................................................................4
2.1 Estimated time for project completion.............................................................................4
2.2 Development cost of the project......................................................................................7
2.3 Estimated annual operating costs...................................................................................10
2.4 Cost benefit analysis......................................................................................................10
2.4.1 Anticipated benefits................................................................................................10
2.4.2 Table for estimated annual benefits........................................................................11
3. Perform a risk and feasibility analysis.................................................................................12
3.1 Determine organizational risks and feasibility...............................................................12
3.2 Evaluating technological risks and feasibility................................................................12
3.3 Asses resource risks and feasibility................................................................................13
3.4 Identify schedule risks and feasibility............................................................................13
4. Establish project environment..............................................................................................14
4.1 Table outlining the information.................................................................................14
4.2 Describe the work environment.....................................................................................14
4.3 Describe the processes and procedures that will be used...............................................15
5. Schedule the work................................................................................................................16

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5.1 Work breakdown structure.............................................................................................16
5.2 Gantt chart......................................................................................................................21
Bibliography.............................................................................................................................22

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1. Identify the problem
1.1 Problem description
The paper mainly focuses on the organization named “Alvarado Street Bakery” that is
one of the worker owned bakery which generally helps in producing certified organic whole
grain breads as well as bagels. The organization used manual system in order to manage all
the functions as well as operations of the organization. Due to the utilization of manual
system, the organization faces lot of difficulties and issues due to inconsistent data entry,
duplication of data entry as well as large ongoing costs. In addition to this, the organization is
not able to share proper information as well as services to the customers in a shorter period of
time. In order to resolve the issue, the organization wants to develop an information system
so that they can be able to manage the operations as well as functions of the organization
properly. It is found that with the development of information system, the organization will
be able to reach the customers quite easily.
1.2 System Capabilities
The capabilities of the system are as follows:
 Generation of database management system for storing data and information of
the organization
 Registration by new users by providing user ID and password
 Collection of food items that will be served by the Alvarado Street Bakery
 Providing simple and easy access to the customers
1.3 Expected business benefits
The expected benefits that can be achieved due to the development of the information
system are as follows:

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 Maintaining the competition levels with other organization of its type
 Enhancing online experience of the customers
 Reaching the customers widely
 Serving the customers of the organization 24x7
 Storing data as well as information about the sales
 Maximizing the chances of attracting more number of customers
 Reaching to maximum number of customers
 Decreasing the work requirement in context to management system.
2. Quantify project approval factors
2.1 Estimated time for project completion
The estimated time for the completion of entire information system is provided in the
table below:
WBS Task Name Duration Start Finish
0 Development of information system 179 days Tue 19-06-18
Wed 27-
02-19
1 Project initiation phase 43 days Tue 19-06-18
Thu 16-
08-18
1.1 Analyzing requirements of project 8 days Tue 07-08-18
Thu 16-
08-18
1.2 Project plan development 4 days Tue 19-06-18
Fri 22-06-
18
1.3 Feasibility testing 5 days Mon 25-06-18
Fri 29-06-
18
1.4 Milestone 1: Completion of 0 days Fri 29-06-18 Fri 29-06-

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initiation phase 18
2 Project planning phase 37 days Mon 02-07-18
Tue 21-
08-18
2.1 Scheduling activities of project 4 days Mon 02-07-18
Thu 05-
07-18
2.2 Estimation of resource 6 days Fri 06-07-18
Fri 13-07-
18
2.3 Allocation of resources 9 days Mon 16-07-18
Thu 26-
07-18
2.4 Communication plan development 9 days Fri 27-07-18
Wed 08-
08-18
2.5 Project team allocation 9 days Thu 09-08-18
Tue 21-
08-18
2.6
Milestone 2: Completion of
planning phase
0 days Tue 21-08-18
Tue 21-
08-18
3 Project designing phase 40 days Wed 22-08-18
Wed 17-
10-18
3.1 Blueprint development 7 days Wed 22-08-18
Thu 30-
08-18
3.2 Assigning IT needs 6 days Fri 31-08-18
Fri 07-09-
18
3.3 Assigning necessary software 7 days Mon 10-09-18
Tue 18-
09-18
3.4 Website development requirement 20 days Wed 19-09-18 Wed 17-