For the purpose of this assignment, you are assumed to be one of the consultants appointed to shoulder the system analysis responsibilities in ABC Information Services in the project as in the case study.
You will plan and manage the project as well as investigate and document the system requirements. For your Assignment 2 submission, you will produce a report that documents that discuss this project based on your understanding of it and the related investigation results through the tasks below.
1. Approach to Systems Development
(a) Compare the use of SDLC and agile development approaches?
(b) Justify your choice of your selected approach to systems development?
2. Systems Requirements
(a) What are the primary functional requirements for the system in the case study?
(b) What are the non-functional requirements for the system in the case study?
3. Project Cost Benefit Analysis
(a) Discuss your Project Cost Benefit Analysis?
(b) Provide an excel spread sheet with details in a Project Cost Benefit Analysis?
4. Project Schedule
(a) Show a work breakdown structure and a project schedule (as a Gantt Chart). Explain each of them and discuss how they relate?
(b) Given the system goals, requirements, and scope as they are currently understood, is the project schedule reasonable? Why or why not?
5. System Information Requirement Investigation Techniques
(a) The stakeholders involved?
(b) Explanation of your chosen 3 most useful investigation techniques?
(c) Justify the usefulness of the 3 investigation techniques?