KoKo's Canine Pet Club CASE BACKGROUND About a year ago, Christina Magana found herself facing a dilemma. As a result of a chronic illness, Koko, her beloved schnauzer, required medication, a special diet, and daily exercise. While the medication and special diet were easy to accommodate into a busy life style, ensuring that KoKo received daily exercise was another matter. Although KoKo's daily exercise usually took the form of a walk around the neighborhood, Ms. Magana, as a busy executive, had trouble scheduling Koko's daily walks. Ms. Magana's friend lan, would walk KoKo on the days when Ms. Magana was extremely busy. Ms Magana's friends and neighbors liked the pet walking idea so much that they approached Ms. Magana and lan about walking their dogs as well. What began as a neighborhood walking service has now become a fledgling, yet growing, metropolitan area business. Ms. Magana has hired you to build a simple yet effective software program for her business. She needs the system to be able to track data about clients, pets, walkers, and schedules for when the walkers take out the pets. Although the service was only started six months ago, it currently provides pet walking services for 350 pets and is registering on average 5 pets per week. Paperwork is increasing and the owner needs a better record keeping system During a meeting with the owner she explains to you that a new client must register with the service. During the registration process the new client provides basic information about his pet. Chooses a preferred walk time and specifies a walker preference. During this time a dog walking fee is determined and recorded on the pet registration form. The dog-walking fee varies by pet and is based on the pet's size, temperament and the number of pets the owner has. The pet owner can request that his pet be walked in the early morning, late morning, early afternoon, late afternoon, or early evening hours. Available walk times are currently kept on a clipboard by the phone. However, Ms. Magana wants the available walk times, as well as walker, client, and pet information, kept in the system that you are building. Everything now is done on pre-printed paper forms. Because the business grew so fast Ms. Magana has contracted 20 walkers with alternating schedules. She has also hired three full-time college students to help with the record keeping and organization of the files. She is also renting a small storage unit when she keeps all the extra files that she is not able to keep at home. Below are the recurring costs that she is currently paying. As well as the benefits that she anticipates gaining by using the newly developed system. She would like to be able to see how the new system will operate as it is being built because she wants to be able to make some modifications to it at each stage. Benefits Benefit Insurance Savings Storage savings Staff Reduction (1 less person) Increased Business Faster Processing Total Costs Approximate Dollar Value $200 $8,000 $1,000 $2,000 $1100 Development Costs One Time Cost 1 Server 2 New Workstation @ 1,250 1 Printer / Fax / Copier Machine 1 Server Software 2 Workstation Software @ 250 Development Labor Total Costs Approximate Dollar Value $3,000 $2,500 $1,200 $300 $500 $9,000 Operational Costs Cost Hardware Software Operational Labor (maintenance) Total Costs Approximate Dollar Value $950 $450 $1,500 Assume that the interest rate used to calculate PV is 5% Assume that the increase in business will be 7% each year. Assume that the operational cost of the system will increase by 3% each year DELIVERABLES FOR PROJECT I Pick the SDLC Methodology to use. Write a short summary to justify your answer Create a cost benefit analysis using the data provided Write a short summary making a recommendation whether to go ahead with the project or no. Use data to support your recommendation DELIVERABLES INSTRUCTIONS Use a cover page similar to the one at the end of the handout. Include your name and class section Title each page accordingly, 1. SDLC Methodology 2. Cost Benefit Analysis 3. Project Recommendation Save your document as PDF and upload it to blackboard KoKo's Canine Pet Club CASE BACKGROUND About a year ago, Christina Magana found herself facing a dilemma. As a result of a chronic illness, Koko, her beloved schnauzer, required medication, a special diet, and daily exercise. While the medication and special diet were easy to accommodate into a busy life style, ensuring that KoKo received daily exercise was another matter. Although KoKo's daily exercise usually took the form of a walk around the neighborhood, Ms. Magana, as a busy executive, had trouble scheduling Koko's daily walks. Ms. Magana's friend lan, would walk KoKo on the days when Ms. Magana was extremely busy. Ms Magana's friends and neighbors liked the pet walking idea so much that they approached Ms. Magana and lan about walking their dogs as well. What began as a neighborhood walking service has now become a fledgling, yet growing, metropolitan area business. Ms. Magana has hired you to build a simple yet effective software program for her business. She needs the system to be able to track data about clients, pets, walkers, and schedules for when the walkers take out the pets. Although the service was only started six months ago, it currently provides pet walking services for 350 pets and is registering on average 5 pets per week. Paperwork is increasing and the owner needs a better record keeping system During a meeting with the owner she explains to you that a new client must register with the service. During the registration process the new client provides basic information about his pet. Chooses a preferred walk time and specifies a walker preference. During this time a dog walking fee is determined and recorded on the pet registration form. The dog-walking fee varies by pet and is based on the pet's size, temperament and the number of pets the owner has. The pet owner can request that his pet be walked in the early morning, late morning, early afternoon, late afternoon, or early evening hours. Available walk times are currently kept on a clipboard by the phone. However, Ms. Magana wants the available walk times, as well as walker, client, and pet information, kept in the system that you are building. Everything now is done on pre-printed paper forms. Because the business grew so fast Ms. Magana has contracted 20 walkers with alternating schedules. She has also hired three full-time college students to help with the record keeping and organization of the files. She is also renting a small storage unit when she keeps all the extra files that she is not able to keep at home. Below are the recurring costs that she is currently paying. As well as the benefits that she anticipates gaining by using the newly developed system. She would like to be able to see how the new system will operate as it is being built because she wants to be able to make some modifications to it at each stage. Benefits Benefit Insurance Savings Storage savings Staff Reduction (1 less person) Increased Business Faster Processing Total Costs Approximate Dollar Value $200 $8,000 $1,000 $2,000 $1100 Development Costs One Time Cost 1 Server 2 New Workstation @ 1,250 1 Printer / Fax / Copier Machine 1 Server Software 2 Workstation Software @ 250 Development Labor Total Costs Approximate Dollar Value $3,000 $2,500 $1,200 $300 $500 $9,000 Operational Costs Cost Hardware Software Operational Labor (maintenance) Total Costs Approximate Dollar Value $950 $450 $1,500 Assume that the interest rate used to calculate PV is 5% Assume that the increase in business will be 7% each year. Assume that the operational cost of the system will increase by 3% each year DELIVERABLES FOR PROJECT I Pick the SDLC Methodology to use. Write a short summary to justify your answer Create a cost benefit analysis using the data provided Write a short summary making a recommendation whether to go ahead with the project or no. Use data to support your recommendation DELIVERABLES INSTRUCTIONS Use a cover page similar to the one at the end of the handout. Include your name and class section Title each page accordingly, 1. SDLC Methodology 2. Cost Benefit Analysis 3. Project Recommendation Save your document as PDF and upload it to blackboard