Riordan Manufacturing HR System

January 3, 2012

Riordan Manufacturing is a company that produces plastic items. It has several locations and every location serves a different purpose. The corporate location is located in San Jose which is also where research and development is done. Currently Riordan’s HR department has a variety of HR tools which need to be integrated into one application. This project will be done using the SDLC for success.
Stakeholder Requirements The requirements for the integrated HR system will come from various people. The head stake holder would be COO Hugh McCauley. He is the requester of the service and has final say to go ahead with the project. Since Riordan has multiple locations with multiple HR offices it is important to keep in mind the users in all offices. For requirements it would be best to consult the director of HR and users under her. Yvonne McMillan is the director of human resources and is the person of interest for user requirements. The analysis team will need to speak with users under Yvonne such as the Employee Relations Manager, Compensation & Benefits Manager, Payroll Manager, Employee Relations Specialist, Compensation Analyst, Benefits Manager, Payroll/Tax Clerk, Recruiters, Training and Development team, Safety Manager and Safety Techs. These users are vital to understand how the HR system works for them day to day. Requirements from this list of users can be used to determine how the new integrated system will be used at every Riordan location.
Information Gathering and Analysis Tools Information gathering is very important in defining the requirements. Knowing how the HR system currently works and how the system needs to work is the objective of the gathering phase. According to Valacich, George and Hoffe (2007), the analysts need to understand the following components of a business to build