Systems analysis and development CIS210 ch 03

CIS 210Systems Analysis and Development Week 2 Part I Managing the Information Systems Project... Objectives • Upon completion of part I you will be able to: – Understand and be able to

CIS 210

Systems Analysis and Development

Week 2 Part I

Managing the Information

Systems Project

Objectives

• Upon completion of part I you will be able to:

– Understand and be able to explain the concepts

related to managing an information systems project – Understand and be able to explain the concepts

related to the skills required for an effective project manager

– Understand and be able to explain the concepts

related to critical path, scheduling and creating Gantt charts and PERT charts

• Project Management

– Extremely important aspect

– Effective project management

• Customer expectations

• Budget constraints

– Increasingly difficult

– Increasingly critical

– The Project Manager’s role

Managing the Information Systems Project

• Project Management

– Customers

– Budget

• Project Manager

– Diverse skills

– Initiating

– Planning

– Executing

– Closing

• Defining a Project

• Feasibility Study

Initiating a Project

• Project Initiation Activities

– Initiation team

– Customer relationship

– Initiation plan

– Management procedures

– Management environment

– Project workbook

– Review

Planning the Project

• Activities

– Scope, alternatives, feasibility

– Dividing tasks

– Estimate resources

– Prelim schedule

– Communication plan

– Standard and procedures

– Assess risk

– Prelim budget

– Statement of worth

– Baseline of project plan

Executing the Project

• Activities

– Execute baseline project plan

– Monitor progress

– Manage changes

– Maintain workbook

– Communicate status

Closing Down the Project

• Overview

– Natural termination

– Unnatural termination

• Running out of time

• Running out of money

– Activities

• Closing down the project

• Post-project reviews

• Closing the contract

– Importance of closedown phase

Presenting and Scheduling Project Plans

• Depicting and Documenting Project Plans

– Ganntt charts

• Visual depiction of task duration

• Visual depiction of time overlap

• Visual depiction of slack time

– Network diagrams

• Show sequence dependencies

• Show parallel tasks

• Activity rectangles

– Representing project plans

• Resources

• Network diagramming

– Critical path scheduling

Presenting and Scheduling Project Plans

• PERT (program evaluation review technique)

ET= o + 4r + p / 6

Using Project Management Software

• Establishing a Project Starting Date

– Project name

– Project manager

– Starting date

– Ending date

• Entering Tasks and Assigning Relationships

– Define project tasks

– Define relationships

• Selecting a Scheduling Method

– Graphical

– Textual

• Project Management

• Project Initiation

• Project Planning

• Project Execution

• Project Closedown

• Ganntt Charts

• Network Diagrams

• Project Management Software