Individual Assignment: Frequent Shopper Program

BSA/385 – Intro. To Software Engineering

University of Phoenix

Kudler Fine Foods: Frequent Shopper Program

Introduction

Kudler Fine Foods is a local upscale specialty food store committed to providing customers with the finest selection of specialty foods and wine. Kudler Fine Foods is interested in developing a system to track customer purchases through a Frequent Shopper Program to award loyalty points for redemption. The customer purchase behavior patterns will help Kudler refine its processes and offerings to best satisfy their valued customers. Smith Systems Consulting is the firm that has been contracted by Kudler Fine Foods to go about the development of the Frequent Shopper Program (FSP).

Smith Systems Consulting is proposing alternative methods for consideration to complete the Frequent Shopper Program. These alternative methods are addressed along with the advantages and disadvantages for each method relative to the Frequent Shopper Program project. Kudler Fine Foods will conduct market research in the form of testing and development to make an appropriate decision as to which program proposed by Smith Systems Consulting shall be incorporated into their business.

Alternative Methods for Frequent Shopper Program

The Waterfall Process Model is one of the oldest models known. This process has many weakness factors and disadvantages because it requires the requirements to be known upfront, difficulty of reliability estimations, no feedback from stakeholders until after testing phase, major issues are discovered late, lack of parallelism, and inefficient use of resources. For these reasons, Smith Systems Consulting is considering a few alternative methods to the waterfall process model for the development of the Frequent Shopper Program for Kudler Fine