Assessment - Systems Analysis
The tasks
For the purpose of this assignment, you are assumed to be one of the software consultants appointed to shoulder the system analysis responsibilities in, Global Business Systems in the project outlined in the case study.
You will plan and manage the project as well as investigating and documenting its system requirements. For your Assignment 1 submission, you will produce a report that discusses this project based on your understanding of it and the related investigation results through the items below.
Introduction:
- Introduce the case study and define the project objectives.
- Identify the aims of the report.
Task 1:
Approaches to Systems Development
- How would International Charity Foundation (ICF) go about developing its information systems? Which information system development approach would ICF take?
- Justify your choice of your selected approach/ methodology to systems development.
Task 2:
Systems Requirements
- Identify and list all primary functional requirements for the system in the case study.
- Identify and list all non-functional requirements for the system in the case study. Justify why you would like to have these non-functional requirements.
Task 3:
Project Cost Benefit Analysis
- Discuss your Project Cost Benefit Analysis.
- Provide an excel spread sheet with details in a Project Cost Benefit Analysis.
Task 4:
Project Schedule
- Show a work breakdown structure which follows your choice of approach/ methodology and a project schedule as a Gantt chart. Briefly explain both of them and discuss how they relate to each other.
- Given the system goals, requirements, and scope as they are currently understood, is the project schedule reasonable? Why or why not?
Task 5:
System Information Requirement Investigation Techniques
- Who are the stakeholders involved?
- Explain your choice of the 3 most useful investigation techniques.
- Justify the usefulness of these 3 investigation techniques.
Reflections and Conclusions
- Summarize the reports and reflect on the outcomes.
References
- Appropriate references are used and properly formatted Harvard style. References are cited properly in the text where necessary. (5 Marks)
1. Introduction
Add your contents here.
Note: In this section, you introduce the case study and identify project objective and provide a clear definition of the aims of this report.
2. Approach to Systems Development
Please add your contents here.
3. Systems Requirements
4. Project Cost and Benefit Analysis
Add your contents here - Briefly explain what this section is all about.
5. Project Schedule
6. System Information Requirement Investigation Techniques
7. Reflections and Conclusions
Add your work of conclusions with a summary of your findings, as a paragraph here.
Add your reflections about this project (e.g. achievement and constraints), as a paragraph here.
Attachment:- Assignment Template.zip