For the purpose of this assignment, you are assumed to be one of the consultants appointed to shoulder the system analysis responsibilities in, Australia Wide System Integration Group (AWSIG) in the project outlined in the case study. You will plan and manage the project as well as investigate and document 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 tasks below.
Approaches to Systems Development.
- How would Broadway Book Shop go about developing its information systems?
- Justify your choice of your selected approach to systems development.
Systems Requirements.
- What are the primary functional requirements for the system in the case study?
- What are the non-functional requirements for the system in the case study?
Project Cost Benefit Analysis.
- Discuss your Project Cost Benefit Analysis.
- Provide an excel spread sheet with details in a Project Cost Benefit Analysis.
Project Schedule.
- Show a work breakdown structure and a project schedule as a Gantt Chart. 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?
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.