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Project Planning

Project Planning. Class 7. SDLC. Project Identification & Selection. Project Initiation & Planning ***. Analysis. Logical Design. Physical Design. Implementation. Maintenance. Class today. Project Planning in more depth Define the problem Define the objectives Project Feasibility

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Project Planning

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  1. Project Planning Class 7

  2. SDLC Project Identification & Selection Project Initiation & Planning *** Analysis Logical Design Physical Design Implementation Maintenance

  3. Class today • Project Planning in more depth • Define the problem • Define the objectives • Project Feasibility • Produce the Project Schedule

  4. Defining the Problem • Concentrate on current system • Provide enough information to make it specific to your application.

  5. Define Objectives • Should match to most, if not all, problems • Why might objectives not cover all problems? • Can be both quantitative and qualitative

  6. Assessing Project Feasibility • Economic • Organizational and Cultural (or Political) • Technical • Schedule • Resource • Operational • Legal/contractual

  7. Economic feasibility • Identifying the financial benefits and costs associated with the project (CBA) • At this point, probably do not know enough to complete in detail. • What can be done: list tangible and intangible costs and benefits.

  8. Tangible benefits • Can be measured in dollars and with certainty. • 1. • 2. • 3. • 4.

  9. Tangible Benefit Example • Time spent finding invoices, receipts, and orders… • Assume person spends 10% of time doing this • Assume your new system will reduce the time to 1% • This represents a 9% reduction in time • If person’s salary is $25,000/yr, then savings is $2,250 ($25000 * .09)

  10. Intangible benefits • Difficult to assign dollar amount • Customer-related, societal • 1. • 2. • 3.

  11. Costs • Tangible • One-time costs • Recurring costs • Intangible

  12. Other Feasibility Analyses • Organizational & Cultural (Political) • Technical

  13. Other feasibility analyses • Schedule • Resource

  14. Other feasibility analyses • Operational • Legal / Contractual

  15. Staff the Project • Covered in earlier class

  16. Representing and Scheduling Project Plans • Gantt Chart: graphical representation of a project that shows each task activity as a horizontal bar. • Pert chart: A diagram that depicts project activities and their inter-relationships. • Critical path scheduling: a scheduling technique where the order and duration of the sequence of activities directly affect the completion date of a project.

  17. Steps in Project Scheduling • Identify phases/activities/tasks in project (use SDLC as guide) • Estimate the size of the task • Determine sequence for identified tasks • Schedule tasks

  18. Class Activity • A project has been defined to contain the following list of activities and tasks along with their required times for completion:

  19. ACTIVITY/task Time (weeks) Predecessors ANALYSIS: 1 – collect requirements 2 - 2 – analyze processes 3 1 3 – analyze data 3 2 DESIGN: 4 – design processes 7 2 5 – design data 6 2 6 – design screens 1 3,4 7 – design reports 5 4,5 IMPLEMENTATION: 8 – program 4 6,7 9 – test and document 8 7 10 – install 2 8,9

  20. Lab • Using Microsoft PM to create a project schedule (Gantt and PERT)

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