1. Develop a requirements gathering plan for the class Business Case Scenario. Include all activities and stakeholder involvement. Include a plan for organizing, analyzing and presenting the requirements.

2. Develop a requirements document for the class Business Case Scenario. Include complete functional and non-functional requirement, with priorities, constraints, and conflicts. Organize the requirements and prepare a formal requirements specification suitable for the business managers in the case.

Healthy is Happy

AnyCo is a medium-sized company that manufactures small plastic toys. You may have seen some of them the last time you bought a Happy Meal for a child. It has about 1,000 employees that have full-time benefits, including healthcare. Jay Mante is the company owner. He is interested in making sure he has the best employees he can find – and keep. Jay knows that one way to do this is to offer competitive salaries and good benefits. But of course, that can have an impact on operating expenses, and the bottom line. Nevertheless, Jay thinks there are things that can be done to help reduce overall employee costs and keep the troupes happy. Malinda Dibbert is Jay’s head of finance, who knows more about keeping the accounting books than about keeping employees, but she generally agrees with Jay. Her concern now is the recent news about major increases in health insurance plans, and wonders how that might impact profitability. She and Jay have been talking to Clarabelle Waters, who heads up the Human Resources department, about how to decrease those costs. Clarabelle has been looking into insurance discounts for companies with “employee wellness” programs. It looks like Employee premiums could be reduced by $80 per month per employee over the next four years if the program has the expected results. If AnyCo can put one into place, with all the right reporting, it could have not only a positive impact on healthcare premiums, but also on absenteeism and employee retention. AnyCo could actually make it fun for employees to live a healthier lifestyle!

Clarabelle has done her research and recommended a new system that will support the program. It should include:

• Allow employees to register for company-sponsored recreational programs, like soccer, softball, bowling, etc.
• Allow employees to register for company-sponsored classes and programs, like stress reduction, healthy cooking, or yoga
• Help match employees with similar interests who want to share healthy activities, like power walking at lunch, or weekend bike trips
• Track data on employee involvement in these activities, and possibly provide data to the heath insurance vendor.
• Offer incentives for people to join the program, and for achieving personal health goals like weight loss or smoking cessation.
• Track the cost of operating the program and compare this to its benefits over time.

Jay sees a big win in this one. Here is a program that he thinks his employees can get excited about, and will save him money in the long run. He and Brennan Zemlack, his CIO, have met to open up a new project to create the web-based information system to support the program. Jay, jolly guy that he is, came up with the name “Healthy is Happy”.

Jay and the managers would like to have the new software up and running in 6 months. Brennan isn’t sure the application can run on the existing company infrastructure because there are other pressing initiatives that need to use those resources. But he thinks this might be a good opportunity to find a Cloud infrastructure provider for some of the company’s IT needs. The company has not done new development for mobile apps, but they do have a very skilled IT staff supporting the company web pages.