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This guide covers identifying, selecting, and planning IS development projects. Learn about corporate and IS planning, project feasibility assessment, and building baseline project plans. It also includes a group project on understanding project nature and creating a baseline project plan.

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  1. OUTLINE OF CLASS • Discussion • Identifying and Selecting IS Development Projects • Initiating and Planning System Development Projects • Video (“Making the Business Case”) • Broadway Entertainment Co. Inc., Case • Group Discussion (Handout)

  2. Identifying and Selecting IS Development Projects • Sources of projects • Management and business units • Managers who want to make a system more efficient or less costly • Formal planning groups • Top-Down Identification • Senior management or steering committee • Focus is on global needs of organization • Bottom-up Identification • Business unit or IS group • Don’t reflect overall goals of the organization

  3. Corporate and Information Systems Planning • Need for planning • Improperly planned projects result in systems that cannot be shared across an organization • As business processes change, lack of integration will hamper strategy and business process changes

  4. Corporate and Information Systems Planning • Corporate Strategic Planning • Process of developing and refining models of the current and future enterprise as well as a transition strategy • Three-step process • Current Enterprise • Future Enterprise • Strategic Plan (Competitive Strategy)

  5. Corporate and Information Systems Planning • Information Systems Planning (ISP) • An orderly means of assessing the information needs of an organization and defining the systems, databases and technologies that will best satisfy those needs • Three key activities: • Describe the Current Situation • Describe the Target (or Future) Situation • Develop a Transition Plan and Strategy

  6. Corporate and Information Systems Planning • ISP must look at information systems and technologies in terms of how they help the business achieve its objectives defined during corporate strategic planning. • Parallel activities of CSP and ISP (Figure 4-10, p. 113)

  7. Initiating and Planning System Development Projects • Project Initiation • Establishment of project team • Development of relationship with customer • Project Initiation Plan • Establishment of Management Procedures • Establishment of Project Workbook and Project Management Environment • Project Planning • Defining clear, discrete activities and the work needed to complete each activity

  8. Initiating and Planning System Development Projects • Deliverables and Outcomes • Baseline Project Plan (BPP) • Scope • Benefits • Costs • Risks • Resources • Statement of Work (SOW) • Describes deliverables • Outlines work needed to be performed

  9. Assessing Project Feasibility • Six Categories • Economic (Cost-Benefit) • Technical • Operational • Schedule • Legal and contractual • Political

  10. Building the Baseline Project Plan • Objectives • Assures that customer and development group have a complete understanding of the proposed system and requirements • Provides sponsoring organization with a clear idea of scope, benefits and duration of project

  11. Building the Baseline Project Plan • Four Sections • Introduction • System Description • Feasibility Assessment • Management Issues

  12. Video • “Making the Business Case”

  13. Group Project • Objectives • Understand the nature of the project • Baseline Project Plan

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