Lab Manual
CPIT 250
System analysis and Design 1
1433/1434H
Lab – 2
Managing the Information Systems Project & Starting Planning Phase
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LAB Objective:
Explain the Importance of Project Management and How to manage.
Describe the Project Management Activities.
List and describe the activities of a project manager during project initiation, project planning, project execution, and project closedown.
Planning Phase Tasks
.i. Importance of Project Management:
Project management may be the most important aspect of systems development.
Effective PM helps to ensure
The meeting of customer expectations.
The satisfying of budget and time constraints.
PM skills are difficult and important to learn.
ii. Managing the Information Systems Project:
Project
A planned undertaking of related activities to reach an objective that has a beginning and an end
Project management
A controlled process of initiating, planning, executing, and closing down a project
Project manager
Systems analyst with management and leadership skills
responsible for leading project initiation, planning, execution, and closedown
Deliverable
The end product of an SDLC phase
iii. Project Management Activities
iv. Phases of Project Management Process
Phase 1: Initiation
Phase 2: Planning
Phase 3: Execution
Phase 4: Closedown
Planning Activity Tasks:
1) The purpose of the project
a. The User Business or Background of the Project Effort
A short description of the business being done, its context, and the situation that triggered the development effort. It should also describe the work that the user intends to do with the
delivered product.
b. Goals of the Project
This boils down to one sentence, or at most a few sentences, that say why we want this product. Here is where you state the real reason the product is being developed.
2) The client ,customer and other stakeholders
a. The Client
the client as the person who makes the investment in the product.
b. The Customer
The person intended to buy the product.
c. Other Stakeholder
The roles and (if possible) names of other people and organizations who are affected by the product
3) Feasibility study
a- Problem Definition:
b- Scope Objectives of “new system”:
c- Alternative Solutions:
d- Cost and benefits of Alternatives:- e- Potential Changes in the Organization:
f- Recommended Alternative of the course of Action:
4) Project plan
By using Microsoft Project.
