You are newly hired to manage an technology informationteam in a company wishing to develop a new employee scheduling system. Your predecessor had already analyzed the functional needs that the system will have to satisfy, as well as the design of the new system. He assured your employer that the IT team could simply build the new system according to the design documents, do the required testing, and then deploy it in the company.

Explain to your employer the dangers of this approach to system development. Then suggest a better way to do it, with reasons.