Question 2: Planning and executing verification and validation · THE IT PROJECT `Hotel The Cove’ is newly constructed sea resort in the Man-O-War Cay in the Abaco Region of Bahamas. This five star rated resort that has a private beach and a lagoon themed swimming pool, which was a great hit among the foreign tourists who had visited the place. However, as the place was new and most foreigners visit the islands with prior hotel bookings, the last tourist season was not that busy for the resort. In the next tourist season, the resort aims at accommodating more tourists and thus expanding business. The customers, who visited last year, have committed that they would refer friends and family to visit the resort. However, this much of promotion is not enough for the resort to increase their business. Thus the owner of the resort has planned to create a website, which would host all the details of the resort. Information regarding all the suites and rooms available in the resort will be available on the website and the customers will be able to books suites and rooms directly from the website. Online payments will be possible via the website. The resort owner wants that all the bookings and facilities that a tourist visiting Man-O-War Cay might want to use should be either available at the resort’s website or links to departments or other organizations providing those facilities should be available on the website of `Hotel The Cove’. The plan is to involve a team of IT professionals who will perform the procedure of installation of the required network of computers and the relevant software, which the resort needs in order to host the website. The same system will be used by the staffs of Hotel The cove, to update the information about the availability of rooms in the resort. The system will also be used by the foreign tourists for the purpose of booking rooms. The IT workforce will consist of: · 6 IT engineers who will implement the system, install the required IT networks and software in order to host the website and computerize the whole system of booking, logging, payment and record maintenance (Lloyd, 2013). · 2 IT professionals who would provide training to the staff such that they are able to perform very basic functions on the system (Lock, 2013). · 2 IT professionals who will be deployed at the resort in order to maintain the system that is being implemented (Morris, 2013). As the website will make online payments possible, rigorous testing of this particular procedure was made in order ensure safety of the system. The section which enables the tourists to book rooms and suites directly from the website was also verified innumerable times, as any problem in this section of the website would hamper the business of the resort very severely. REFERENCES: Lloyd, G. (2013). Business leadership for IT projects. Farnham, Surrey: Gower Pub. Limited. Lock, D. (2013). Project management. Burlington, VT: Gower. Morris, P. (2013). Reconstructing pro ...