Lecture 1: Overview of the SDLC Project Management

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Lecture 1 Overview of the SDLCProject
Management
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SDLC

• The step by step process followed during systems
  analysis and design
• Steps
• Definition of the Problem
• Requirements Analysis
• System Design
• Build the System/Resource Acquisition
• Implementation and Maintenance

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Todays Software Analysis and Design SAD
Environment

• Failures
• Productivity gap
• Backlogs
• Maintenance bound
• Shortage of IT personnel

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SADs Sad Record

• A 1995 Standish Group study found that only 16.2
  of IT projects were successful
• Over 31 of IT projects were canceled before
  completion, costing over 81 B in the U.S. alone
• Yet, the demand for IT projects is increasing

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Dimensions of Complexity

• magnitude of effort
• number of groups and organizations to be
  coordinated
• diversity in skills or expertise needed
• usually the MORE COMPLEX, the more time and
  resources required

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Principles of Successful Systems Development

• Get the user involved!! (See Text, page 47)
• Use a problem-solving approach
• Establish phases and activities
• Establish standards for development and
  documentation
• Justify systems as capital investments
• Don't be afraid to cancel or revise scope
• Divide and conquer
• Design systems for growth and change
• Proper planning and project management

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What is Project Management?

• Project management is the application of
  knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to
  project activities in order to meet or exceed
  stakeholder needs and expectations from a
  project (PMI, Project Management Body of
  Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), 1996, pg. 6)

The Project Management Institute (PMI) is an
international professional society. Their web
site is www.pmi.org. Over 213,000 copies of the
PMBOK Guide were in circulation by Nov. 1998
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What is Project Management?

• Creating a work plan staffing the project
  and controlling and directing the project.

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Phases

• Planning
• Analysis
• Design
• Implementation

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Planning

• Project Initiation
• System Request (pages 33 and 36)
• Feasibility Analysis (pages 38 and 47)
• Project Management
• Create work plan (pages 69, 79, and 80)
• Staffing the Project (pages 73 and 74)
• Controlling and Directing the Project (pages 79,
  80, 81 and the Syllabus)

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The IS Project Team
INPUT
PROCESS
OUTPUT
Environment-level factors
Task performance
Group dynamics
(Nature of task and technology, rewards,
policies, and organization structure)
(Quality and quantity of work done and speed
with which it is done)
(Patterns of interaction, activity, and
sentiment including informal cliques, norms,
unofficial practices, etc.)
Group-level factors
(Size and structure)
Member satisfaction
Individual-level factors
(Satisfaction of survival, affiliation,
power, achievement, and self- actualization needs)
(Abilities, motives, and other characteristics
of members)