SEG 3430 Tutorial 4

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SEG 3430 Tutorial 4

• Review on Chapter 3

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Evaluating Project Potential

• Criteria
• Potential Organizational Benefits
• Strategic Fit egY2K crisis
• Level of Resource Allocation
• Value Chain Analysis

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Evaluating Project Potential
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Project Selection
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ISP(Information System Planning)

• Step 1 Assess and document the current state of
  affairs with regard to IT assets.
• Step 2 Create a set of blueprints to represent
  the desired state of affairs for the organization
  in terms of the relationship among the various
  IT-related assets.

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The Corporate IS Plan
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Project Initiation and Project Planning

• Preliminary Project Feasibility Analysis
• Technical Feasibility
• Operational Feasibility
• Human Factors Feasibility
• Legal and Political Feasibility
• Economic Feasibility

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Project Initiation and Project Planning
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The Baseline Plan
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The Project Flow Model
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Review on Key Terminology

• Baseline plan
• COTS (commercial off-the-shelf)
• Corporate IS plan
• Creeping commitment
• Current physical system
• Feasibility assessment section
• Formal problem definition

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Review on Key Terminology (2)

• Implementation-independent model
• ISP(information system planning)
• IS planning process
• Logical model of the current system
• Logical model of the new system
• Logical modeling
• Measurable benefits

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Review on Key Terminology (3)

• Project feasibility
• Resource allocation
• Scope creep
• Structured walkthrough
• Support of senior management
• System narrative section
• Value chain ananlysis