Imagine you have been hired as an information systems (IS) consultant for Healthy Harvest, a grocery store that sources most of its products from local farmers and producers in the surrounding counties.

Assessment Preparation

Imagine you have been hired as an information systems (IS) consultant for Healthy Harvest, a grocery store that sources most of its products from local farmers and producers in the surrounding counties. Healthy Harvest operates in two locations and wants to expand its services online via a mobile app customers can use to order their groceries ahead for pickup or local delivery.  

Healthy Harvest’s owner, Joan, doesn’t know much about the process of developing an information system. She balks at the estimated time it will take to have the app ready for public use, which also translates into time for which she needs to pay you to complete the product. You realize that you need to explain to her the benefits and value of approaching the project using systems analysis and design methodologies, so you decide to prepare a presentation to help illustrate the process and concepts.

You will continue this project with Healthy Harvest in Weeks 4 and 5.

Assessment Deliverable

Create an 8- to 10-slide PowerPoint presentation. In your presentation:

• Explain the SDLC and the methodology you plan to use to develop Healthy Harvest’s store app.
• Include diagrams, images, or other visuals that illustrate the processes. You may create your own or use source materials. Remember to properly cite and reference your source materials.
• Explain the importance and benefits of using a structured systems analysis and design approach on this project. Provide an example to explain each point. 
• Describe 2 tasks or deliverables in each SDLC phase you would work on for this project. Explain why each is integral to the project. Please note this will include 10-12 different tasks, depending on the number of SDLC phases presented.

Thoroughly explain each slide's content in the speaker notes section. The text explanation for all slides should contain the equivalent of a 3–5-page Word document assignment. A page of text includes 250 words. So, plan for a total of 750 to 1,250 words. The list of references is not included in that total. It is okay to include more information than this recommendation.

Using PowerPoint: For those of you who are not familiar with how to use PowerPoint, below are 3 attached documents: PP Instructions, PP Template Example, and PP Presentation Explanation. Slides should contain bullet points or talking points, with the majority of the text located in the speaker notes section.