Problem VI- (10 points)

Scientifico, Inc., a manufacturer of precise measuring instruments for scientific purposes, has presented you with a list of criteria that its managers think are probably important in selecting a vendor for computer hardware and software supporting their operations. The criteria are not listed in order of importance.

1. Low price.

2. Precisely written software for engineering applications.

3. Vendor performs routine maintenance on hardware.

4. Training for Scientifico employees.

a. Critique the list of attributes in a paragraph.

b. Using its initial input, help Scientifico, Inc. draw up a more suitable list of criteria for selecting computer hardware and software vendors to purchase from.

Problem VII- (10 points)

Were a progressive company, always looking to be ahead of the power curve. Well give anything a whirl if itll put us ahead of the competition, and that includes every one of us, says I. B. Daring, an executive with Michigan Manufacturing (2M). You are interviewing him as a preliminary step in a systems project, one in which his subordinates have expressed interest. As you listen to I. B., you look around his office to see that most of the information he has stored on shelves can be classified as internal procedures manuals. In addition, you notice a PC on a back table of I. B.s office. The monitors screen is covered with dust, and the manuals stacked beside the PC are still encased in their original shrink-wrap. Even though you know that 2M uses an intranet, no cables are visible going to or from I. B.s PC. You look up behind I. B.s massive mahogany desk to see on the wall five framed oil portraits of 2Ms founders, all clustered around a gold plaque bearing the corporate slogan, which states, Make sure youre right, then go ahead.

List the elements of STROBE that you have observed during your interview with I. B.

Next to each element of STROBE that you have observed, write a sentence on how you would interpret it.