BUS 362 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Project Charter, Function Point, Critical Path Method

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 362
• Professor: Landon Kleis

Document Summary

Systems analysis and design chapter 2: project selection and management. A process of selecting, prioritizing, and monitoring project results. It has become a critical success factor for it departments facing too many potential projects with too few resources. The process of planning and controlling the project within a specified time from, at minimum cost, with the desired outcomes. Has the primary responsibility for managing the tasks and roles that need to be coordinated. A formalized approach to implementing the sdlc (a list of steps and deliverables) Analysts and users proceed from one phase to the next. Identifying requirements before programming begins and limiting changes to the requirements. design has to be completely specified before programming begins. users may forget the original purpose of the system. A variant of waterfall; instead of doing the design and implementation in sequence, a general design is performed and then the project is divided into subprojects that are designed and implemented in parallel.