Systems analysis and development CIS210 ch 03

CIS 210
Systems Analysis
and Development
Week 2 Part I
Managing the Information
Systems Project


Objectives
• Upon completion of part I you will be able to:
– Understand and be able to explain the concepts
related to managing an information systems project
– Understand and be able to explain the concepts
related to the skills required for an effective project
manager
– Understand and be able to explain the concepts
related to critical path, scheduling and creating Gantt
charts and PERT charts


Overview
• Project Management
– Extremely important aspect
– Effective project management
• Customer expectations
• Budget constraints

– Increasingly difficult
– Increasingly critical
– The Project Manager’s role

Managing the
Information Systems Project
• Project Management
– Customers
– Budget

• Project Manager
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Diverse skills
Initiating
Planning
Executing
Closing

• Defining a Project
• Feasibility Study


Initiating a Project
• Project Initiation Activities
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Initiation team
Customer relationship
Initiation plan
Management procedures
Management environment
Project workbook
Review


Planning the Project
• Activities
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Scope, alternatives, feasibility
Dividing tasks
Estimate resources
Prelim schedule

Communication plan
Standard and procedures
Assess risk
Prelim budget
Statement of worth
Baseline of project plan


Executing the Project
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Execute baseline project plan
Monitor progress
Manage changes
Maintain workbook
Communicate status


Closing Down the Project
• Overview
– Natural termination
– Unnatural termination
• Running out of time
• Running out of money

– Activities
• Closing down the project
• Post-project reviews
• Closing the contract

– Importance of closedown phase


Presenting and
Scheduling Project Plans
• Depicting and Documenting Project Plans
– Ganntt charts
• Visual depiction of task duration
• Visual depiction of time overlap
• Visual depiction of slack time

– Network diagrams
• Show sequence dependencies
• Show parallel tasks
• Activity rectangles

– Representing project plans
• Resources
• Network diagramming
– Critical path scheduling


Presenting and
Scheduling Project Plans
• PERT (program evaluation review technique)

ET= o + 4r + p / 6


Using Project
Management Software
• Establishing a Project Starting Date
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Project name
Project manager
Starting date
Ending date

• Entering Tasks and Assigning Relationships
– Define project tasks
– Define relationships

• Selecting a Scheduling Method
– Graphical
– Textual


Summary
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Project Management
Project Initiation
Project Planning
Project Execution
Project Closedown
Ganntt Charts
Network Diagrams
Project Management Software