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The document provides guidelines for a feasibility study project and report. Students must conduct an in-depth study of a new system for a real organization and produce a feasibility report. The report will assess the viability of a project and make recommendations to a board of directors. It must include an analysis of the current system, problems, potential solutions, costs, benefits, and recommendations. The goal is for students to simulate an actual feasibility study and report that they would perform as systems analysts.

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Feasibility Study Notes

The document provides guidelines for a feasibility study project and report. Students must conduct an in-depth study of a new system for a real organization and produce a feasibility report. The report will assess the viability of a project and make recommendations to a board of directors. It must include an analysis of the current system, problems, potential solutions, costs, benefits, and recommendations. The goal is for students to simulate an actual feasibility study and report that they would perform as systems analysts.

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Feasibility Study Notes on requirements and the assessment process

There is no examination for this module and therefore it is tested by the submission of documentation. (100%) The candidate is required to perform an in-depth study for a new system and then produce a Feasibility Report. The report is of the type that would be presented to a Board of Directors in order to discuss whether to go ahead with the project, reject it or choose some middle option. The project must be REAL and not generalised such as the introduction of stock control with no reference to any particular organisation. The new system should be EITHER (i) the introduction of a computer system to replace an existing manual system OR (ii) upgrading an existing system to provide more and better features. It is intended that the project should be one that a Board would be required to approve. This would therefore eliminate projects such as changing software from one brand to another UNLESS this made SIGNIFICANT improvements in the quantity and quality of new features and made SIGNIFICANT differences to the whole organisation. In this latter case, these improvements must be fully justified and explained. ALL CANDIDATES AT A CENTRE MUST CHOOSE DIFFERENT PROJECTS. 1.1 1. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS Start of Course. Select a suitable project to solve. All students at a given centre MUST choose DIFFERENT projects. Ideally, the centre could give each candidate a brief which outlines the requirements for the study as a systems analyst would be given in business. Read the documentation. The candidate must be given a full copy of these notes so that he/she knows precisely what is required. In the first weeks of the course. The candidate should submit proposals to the Centre for approval Explain as fully as possible, the remit of this study. The ICM Centre should provide appropriate feedback to assist the candidate in developing the proposal. The aim of this is to ensure that the project is appropriate - neither TOO simple nor TOO difficult. If it is too difficult and would involve too much time and effort, then the ICM Centre will either advise a change or suggest that only a part of the project is completed. Conversely, some previous projects have been so trivial they could not pass however good the documentation, and therefore the ICM Centre needs to advise the candidate accordingly. During the course. Perform the investigation. Record your findings AS YOU GO ALONG it will be very difficult to remember detail later on. Record details on any interviews you conduct with prospective users. Be sure to investigate the SCALE OF EVENTS. For instance for a mail order company -how many customers the company has, the number of orders received every month, the number of products it sells, the number of current staff currently involved with this application, the number of computer terminals required for the new scheme.etc. End of course. Check that you have documented ALL elements from the attached list. Prepare all the documentation describing your study. DO NOT INCLUDE DISKS. Your work will be sent to ICM for assessment.

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1.2 FEASIBILITY STUDY REPORT This should include: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A clear statement of the terms of reference for the study including the boundaries/limits. Details of the current system. Problems with the current system. Details of the study undertaken interviews, scale of the old and new systems..etc Possible solutions.

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Recommendations. You could recommend a full system AND a cheaper partial system to allow the Board to decide which to implement. Costs and benefits of the solutions you have provided in 5 above.

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This report will be marked at the Institute and will take into account the quality of your report, how well it is set out and how realistic are your solutions. Do not leave the examiner guessing about any aspect of the feasibility study. 1.3 1. 2. OVERALL COMMENTS The candidate should be given a copy of these notes. An honest report will score more highly than one that tries to hide problems or shortcomings in the investigations. These problems WILL be obvious to the examiner. Omissions will be taken to mean that part of the study was NOT undertaken or completed. Insufficient numbers will show that the scale of the problem was not considered - a real Board of Directors would quickly want more answers and further analysis The Feasibility Study report will be assessed on the following basis: ITEM Terms of reference / Overview Description of existing system Problems with the existing system Investigation report interviews etc Possible solutions Benefits of new system Costing for new system Recommendations Overall presentation of the work TOTAL Maximum Mark 10 15 10 15 15 10 10 10 5 100

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