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Central Pacific University:On a warm, sunny day in late October, Chip Puller parks his car and walks into his office at CentralPacific University. It feels good to be starting as a systems analyst, and he is looking forward tomeeting the other staff. In the office, Anna Liszt introduces herself. “We’ve been assigned to work asa team on a new project. Why don’t I fill you in with the details, and then we can take a tour of thefacilities?”“That sounds good to me,” Chip replies. “How long have you been working here?” “About five years,”answers Anna. “I started as a programmer analyst, but the last few years have been dedicated toanalysis and design. I’m hoping we’ll find some ways to increase our productivity,” Anna continues.“Tell me about the new project,” Chip says. “Well,” Anna replies, “like so many other organizations,we have a large number of microcomputers with different software packages installed on them. Fromwhat I understand, in the 1980s there were few personal computers and…

Problem Statement: A famous product photographer Xavier is in high demand and is being approached by various companies to get their products photographed. Xavier does all of this product shoots at his studio and wants to make sure that he maximizes his returns by covering as many photoshoots in a day as possible. For a product shoot to be conducted, the product first has to be staged and then photographed. He has a team who stages the products and he does the photoshoots. Depending on the product, it takes different amounts of time to stage and varied time to complete the shoot. His team can stage another product in another part of the studio while Xavier is busy with a photoshoot of a previously staged product. Assuming that his team can work on only one product at a time before they move to staging another and Xavier also finishes one product photoshoot before moving to the next, you are expected to help Xavier make best use of his team and his time by deciding the order in which the…

Q3:Your company has just acquired a smaller company that sells office automation software. The smaller company's spreadsheet software has a large market share, with many satisfied users (the major reason for the acquisition was that these existing users are potential customers for your company's other products). Unfortunately, no documentation for the spreadsheet software can be found, and the source code is not commented. How would you go about maintaining this software to keep the customers happy?