Garrix Mar Textiles is a clothing manufacturer that operates 20 plants throughout the United States and in Europe. The Information Systems Department, which reports to the vice president of finance, operates the central datacenter and LAN at the headquarters building in Austin, Texas and the WAN that connects all the plants. The LANs in each plant are managed by a separate IT group at each plant that reports to the plant manager. However, the plant managers report to the vice president of manufacturing. The telephone communications system and long-distance agreements are managed by a telecommunications department in the headquarters that reports to the vice president of finance. The CEO of Garrix Mar has come to you asking whether this is the best arrangement or would it be better to integrate the functions under one new department. Outline the pros and cons of both alternatives.

This assignment continues work on the online booking facility introduced at the end of chapter- 10. the work will be continued in the assignments for chapters 14 and 15 (a) assume that you will produce your online booking facility using an agile approach. i. suggest the kind of user research you would like to conduct for your product before iteration cycles begin. ii prioritize the requirements for your product according to business value, i. e which requirements are likely to provide the greatest business benefit, and sketch out the ux design work you would expect to undertake during the first four iteration cycles, i. e. cycle 0, and cycles 1 to 3. (b) using one of the mockup tools introduced above, generate a mockup of your product's landing page, as developed in the assignment for chapter-11 (c) using one of the patterns websites listed previously, identify suitable interaction patterns for elements of your product, and develop a software-based prototype that incorporates all the feedback and the results of the user experience mapping achieved at the end of chapter-11. if you do not have experience in using any of these, create a few html web pages to represent the basic structure of your website