COMSIC 2201

• A successful project must be completed on time, within budget, and deliver a quality product that satisfies users and meets requirements
• Project management is the most important aspect of systems development
• Project Management is a controlled process of initiating, planning, executing, and closing down a project
• A project is a planned undertaking of a series of related activities to reach an objective that has a beginning and an end
• System Service Request (SSR) is a standard form for requesting or proposing systems development work within an organization
• Feasibility Study involves determining if the information system makes sense for the organization from an economic, operational, and technical standpoint
• Project Manager, responsible for initiating, planning, executing, and closing down a project, is a systems analyst with a diverse set of skills—management, leadership, technical, conflict management, and customer relationship
• Phases of Project Management Process:

  1. Initiation

  2. Planning

  3. Execution

  4. Closedown
• Project Workbook is an online or hard-copy repository for all project correspondence, inputs, outputs, deliverables, procedures, and standards
• Project Charter is a short document prepared for the customer during project initiation
• Statement of Work (SOW) is a "contract" between the IS staff and the customer regarding deliverables and time estimates for a system development project
• Baseline Project Plan (BPP) contains estimates of scope, benefits, schedules, costs, risks, and resource requirements
• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is the division of a project into manageable and logically ordered tasks and sub-tasks
• Gantt chart: horizontal bars represent task durations
• Project Scope Statement (PSS) is a document prepared for the customer that describes what the project will deliver and outlines
• Business Case is the justification for an IS, presented in terms of tangible and intangible economic benefits and costs and the technical and organizational feasibility of the proposed system
• Assessing Project Feasibility involves economic, technical, operational, and scheduling aspects
• Economic Feasibility involves identifying the financial benefits and costs associated with the development project
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) refers to the cost of owning and operating a system, including IS-related development costs
• Return on Investment (ROI) is a measure to compare the effectiveness of IT systems investments
• Break-Even Analysis (BEA) studies the relation between fixed costs, variable costs, and revenue
• Technical Feasibility assesses the development organization’s ability to construct a proposed system
• Operational Feasibility involves projecting whether the system will be used if developed and implemented
• Schedule Feasibility is the probability of a project to be completed within its scheduled time limits
• Baseline Project Plan (BPP) is a document intended primarily to guide the development team
• Network diagram: boxes and links represent task dependencies
• A successful project must be completed on time, within budget, and deliver a quality product that satisfies users and meets requirements
• Project management is the most important aspect of systems development
• Effective project management ensures:

  • Meeting customer expectations
  • Satisfying budget and time constraints
  • Project Manager, a systems analyst, is responsible for initiating, planning, executing, and closing down a project
• A project is a planned undertaking of a series of related activities to reach an objective that has a beginning and an end
• Project Management is a controlled process of initiating, planning, executing, and closing down a project
• Deliverable is an end product of an SDLC phase
• System Service Request (SSR) is a standard form for requesting or proposing systems development work within an organization
• Feasibility Study involves determining if the information system makes sense for the organization from an economic, operational, and technical standpoint
• Project Manager is a systems analyst with a diverse set of skills—management, leadership, technical, conflict management, and customer relationship
• Phases of Project Management Process:

  1. Initiation

  2. Planning

  3. Execution

  4. Closedown
• Project Workbook is an online or hard-copy repository for all project correspondence, inputs, outputs, deliverables, procedures, and standards
• Project Charter is a short document prepared for the customer during project initiation
• Project Planning involves defining clear, discrete activities and the work needed to complete each activity
• Components of Project Planning include:

  • Statement of Work (SOW)
  • Baseline Project Plan (BPP)
  • Preliminary Budget
  • Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Scheduling Diagrams (Gantt chart, Network diagram)