IT Planning and IT Planning and ManagmentManagment

Lecture 6: Information System

for a Volunteer Center:System Design for Not-For-Profit

Organizations with Limited ResourcesPart 2: SETTING THE STAGE

Collage of Information

Technology University of Palestine, Gaza

Prepared by:Prepared by:

Mahmoud Rafeek AlfarraMahmoud Rafeek Alfarra

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Outlines

Project Team

Project Initiation

The system request

Feasibility Study

Open discussion

Project TeamProject Team

Graduate student in Computer Information Systems.

Senior students of Management Information Systems.

Analyst.A director’s assistant. Just as in any project team, different

members of the IS team have have different abilitiesdifferent abilities and personalities

Project TeamProject Team

In terms of capabilities, JeffJeff is skilled in project management, system

analysis, system design, database development, and client-server programming.

LyndsayLyndsay is skilled in project management, system analysis, and systems documentation.

JudyJudy has no prior IS project experience, and requires an extensive amount of coaching on how to accomplish tasks in an IS project.

And so on …

Project Initiation

Early in the project cycle, Jeff and his project team met with Marilynn and others from VCR to initiate the project.

The VCR team was not familiar with the system development life cycle (SDLC) for constructing information systems.

Jeff and the project team explained the concepts behind SDLC and helped Marilynn create a system request.

The system The system requestrequest

Feasibility StudyFeasibility Study

After the system request was developed, Lyndsay and Jeff conducted a feasibilityconducted a feasibility study.

The feasibility study focused on economic, technical, and organizational feasibility.

Lyndsay and Jeff created extensive documentation to support the summary conclusions indicated.

Economic feasibilityEconomic feasibility

Based on the current available financial resources from the Volunteer Center, it has been determined that the proposed solution must be relatively inexpensiverelatively inexpensive.

Even with this budgetary constraint, the project team believed a solution can be obtained.

Technical feasibilityTechnical feasibility With the young technical skills of the

project team consisting of senior MIS students, a certain degree of risk appears certain degree of risk appears to be evidentto be evident.

The faculty resources will guide the student project team in all aspects of the project.

Organizational feasibilityOrganizational feasibilityAn analysis of VCR staff indicates:

All end users are proficient with PCsThe VCR staff appears to be very open to

accepting a new completely electronic system, as the current processes are highly inefficient.

Meets the criteriaMeets the criteria Based on the above analysis, the project team concluded that the project meets the the project meets the criteriacriteria for economic, technical, and organizational feasibility.

Open discussionOpen discussion

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The Current SystemThe Current System

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