Since Nexus Distribution deals primarily with film spotting, building networks in the film show business, marketing and finally distribution of the films the business profile will be as follows.
Business Name: Nexus Distribution
Contact Information: Sydney Arcade Fourth Floor, email: [email protected]
Mission: To connect the community with the best media across the world
Vision: To be the best film and media distribution company in Australia
Functions: spotting the best films for our clients, linking fans with their favorite actors, conducting film reviews and bringing film content from across the world to our clients.
Organizational structure. Nexus Distribution CEO is Joy Moody. The Chief Operations Office is Deane Jackson and our two spotters namely, Louise Taylor and Elizabeth Page (Broemmel 2016).
Our Products: We offer a wide variety of products in film and media. These include the best DVDs, VOD, television, film, and media. We also bring you shows featuring your favorite actors.
Our services. We acquire and distribute the best films, offer information on latest films, review the films for you and build networks to keep you entertained (Curtis & Cobham 2013).
Our Customers. Our customers include all film fans, families and television viewers across the country.
Next, you define the project’s scope and constraints.
The project Nexus Project Scope is to develop an application that enables acquiring movie distribution rights, do film marketing and distribute the films to customers within specified times and costs. The constraints include resource constraints, time constraints, costs, technological constraints, resource constraints and technical constraints (Sai 2018).
Nexus Distribution is committed to linking their customers with the best films from across the world. This will be achieved by only networking with movie producers outing the best films in the category of comedy, action, thriller and horror genres as well as the best DVDs, VODs, and television shows. To achieve this Nexus Distribution will only deal with companies hosting A-list Actors in their movies or those movies nominated for various awards. Nexus distribution will not feature documentaries or live shows as part of the company products. We are restricted by the human resource that we could use to cover more films worldwide. The assumption is that currency exchange rates for film distribution remain unchanged and that government regulations on the business won’t change (Shelly & Rosenblatt 2011).
The success of the Nexus Project is anchored on the truthfulness of the underlying facts, processes, and activities involved in the day to day running of the business. For this reason, various methods will be used to extract the most information to guide the application development. These include;
Tangible
Intangible
Beyond the fact-finding, planning of the system, and identification of requirements for the new system, these tasks are necessary for modeling. These are:
Table 1: Estimated time to complete the tasks
|
Task |
Time Required |
|
Fact-finding |
2 weeks |
|
Planning the system |
1 week |
|
Checking outputs and inputs for current system |
2days |
|
Identifying processes |
4days |
|
Implement the system |
1 week |
|
Analyzing performance |
1week |
|
Analyzing security concerns |
1 week |
|
Maintenance and support |
2 months |
|
The estimated total time required |
Approximately 3 months |
IT Foundry costs your services at $80 per hour. Derive a cost estimate from your time estimates in the previous question.
Cost estimates =
Finally, you present your findings to your manager and to Nexus. Your manager and clients have requested a 15-minute meeting.
The second issue where the ethical problem was identified and there is hesitation in deciding whether to report. This is because Elizabeth may not be aware there was an ethical issue and may need a mentor to identify the problem whereas I know the ethical problem clearly (O’Boyle 2002) and (Oster 2018).
In this stage, deciding whether there are complexities in resolving the ethical issue without bringing harm to Elizabeth or breaking the law presents a dilemma. However, since Elizabeth may not know of the ethical issue, approaching her to explain her expenses to arrive at a logical conclusion is the best approach since it does not harm anyone or break law(O’Boyle 2002).
I am qualified to act in accordance with my resolve. This is because by asking Elizabeth to explain herself, there are no choices to be made and for this reason, I have the freedom to choose to resolve the ethical issue without jeopardizing Elizabeth’s position.
My professional duty in the situation is to first to know the ethical issue to be able to make a moral decision. For this reason, the ACM code depicts that I should inform the management of the ethical issue. This is because before taking on the job there were instructions given as per the computing profession and duty to the employers to be above board in making conflicting ethical decisions (O’Boyle 2002).
As this depicts the free will to make the right decision and to balance moral action and ability to follow one’s intellectual capacity, I am candidly sure that I would first seek to have Elizabeth clarify the expenses and if her explanation is inadequate, bring it to the attention of my employer. This stage, therefore, allows me to form a commitment to action.
If the constraint map is incomplete, then Nexus distribution will not have an idea on the scope of the project to, for instance, monitor the cost of their activities or enable seamless marketing of their product to the customers.
The Nexus customers will not be aware of the new films that the company intends to distribute to the market. They would also not be aware of the time-frames when the films or television shows would premiere. This would lead to customer dissatisfaction and possibile migration to competitors.
If the constraint map was incomplete, then my own future works would decrease due to negative publicity from a non-satisfied client. In marketing, a satisfied customer tells only none or two people about one’s services while dissatisfied customer tells hundreds. This would reduce the number of projects I would be invited to do and my employer at IT Foundry would be inclined to deny me future projects.
Note: future assessments will ask you to reflect on the answer you give.
System planning is very critical in system design. This is because, without articulate and rigorous planning, a client may end up losing business due to customer failure to connect with their system and also dissatisfaction on the part of the customer as they are not able to get the information they seek.
Peer review support development of professional skills by highlighting new information during the discussion and also by critiquing the work done. For this reason, it becomes necessary to make improvements on identified wanting areas.
Peer reviews also act as test subjects in system development and can help to disclose any problems with applications before they are distributed to final users.
No. Learning outcomes would not be meaningful. Learning outcomes would definitely be meaningless if the peer reviews are untruthful. To begin with, one might change codes on an application that was efficient and input less efficient changes. It would also lead to loss of time and eventually lead to poor development of an application.
The three things the peers did well are
The three things the peers did not do well
The learning outcomes gained project planning include
As noted above, my first learning outcome is a deep understanding of a well-executed project scope. This learning outcome correlates to UniSA graduate quality number 1 which depicts that “A UniSA graduate operates effectively with and upon a body of knowledge of sufficient depth to begin professional practice.” (University of South Australia [UniSA] 2018).
My second learning outcome is coming up with a business process model. This learning outcome correlates to UniSA graduate quality number 3 which states that “A graduate is an effective problem solver, capable of applying logical critical and creative thinking to a range of problems.”(UniSA 2018).
On graduate quality number one which states that ” A UniSA graduate operates effectively with and upon a body of knowledge of sufficient depth to begin professional practice” I find that the skills gained in project planning and scope are quite adequate to enable me to understand business processes well and scope them to effectively design services that professionally suit them.
On graduate quality number 3 which states that “A graduate is an effective problem solver, capable of applying logical critical and creative thinking to a range of problems”, I find that effectively coming up with a business model elaborates my reasoning capacity to be able to not only think logically but also put my thoughts on a creative activity that can help businesses in their daily operations.
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