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System Analysis and Design
ASSIGNMENT
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What are information systems, and who are the stakeholders in the information systems game?
Define systems analysis and relate the term to the preliminary investigation, problem analysis, requirements analysis, and decision analysis phases of the systems development methodology.
What are the six general skills all project team members should have?
Describe a number of systems analysis approaches for solving business system problems.
Describe the preliminary investigation, problem analysis, requirements analysis, and decision analysis phases in terms of your information system building blocks.
Describe the preliminary investigation, problem analysis, requirements analysis, and decision analysis phases in terms of purpose, participants, inputs, outputs, techniques, and steps.
Describe the three dimensions of feasibility analysis.
What factors are used to determine project size?
Describe a "risky" project in terms of technical feasibility. Describe a project that would not be considered risky.
What are the steps for assessing economic feasibility? Describe each step. List two intangible benefits. Describe how these benefits can be quantified. List two tangible benefits and two operational costs for a system. How would you determine the values that should be assigned to each item?
MINI CASE
Barbara Singleton, manager of western regional sales at the WAMAP Company, requested that the IS department develop a sales force management and tracking system that would enable her to better monitor the performance of her sales staff. Unfortunately, due to the massive backlog of work facing the IS department, her request was given a low priority. After six months of inaction by the IS department, Barbara decided to take matters into her own hands. Following the advice of friends, Barbara purchased a PC and simple database software and constructed a sales force management and tracking system on her own. Although Barbara's system has been "completed" for about six weeks, it still has many features that do not work correctly, and some functions are full of errors. Barbara's assistant is so mistrustful of the system that she has secretly gone back to using her old paper-based system, since it is much more reliable. Over dinner one evening, Barbara complained to a systems analyst friend, "I don't know what went wrong with this project. It seemed pretty simple to me. Those IS guys wanted me to follow this elaborate set of steps and tasks, but I didn't think all that really applied to a PC-based system. I just thought I could build this system and weak it around until I got what I wanted without all the fuss and bother of the methodology the IS guys were pushing. I mean, doesn't that just apply to their big, expensive systems?" Assuming that you are Barbara's systems analyst friend, how would you respond to her complaint?
COURSE PROJECT
Design a multidisciplinary research project applying the concepts and principles of Advanced System Analysis and Design with Quality Control. ( Submit research title for discussion and approval)
The project must be industry-based, you are required to write a formal letter asking for the approval of the industry you wish to conduct the study.
A memorandum of agreement must be signed with the industry as a proof of acceptance to have a collaborative research with the industry partner identified. After completing the project, implementation will take place. You will also monitor the implementation of the project.
The project can be done in tandem. (You can select your own partner)
The research project will be presented in a research colloquium (your class will organize research colloquium for your presentation.