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Unit 4: Systems Development Life Cycle - Planning: Lecture Objectives

This document discusses the systems planning phase of the systems development life cycle (SDLC). It begins with strategic planning, which involves a SWOT analysis to understand an organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. A systems request triggers a preliminary investigation and feasibility study to determine if a proposed project is operationally, technically, economically, and schedule feasible. This results in a report to management that concludes the systems planning phase of the SDLC.

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Unit 4: Systems Development Life Cycle - Planning: Lecture Objectives

This document discusses the systems planning phase of the systems development life cycle (SDLC). It begins with strategic planning, which involves a SWOT analysis to understand an organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. A systems request triggers a preliminary investigation and feasibility study to determine if a proposed project is operationally, technically, economically, and schedule feasible. This results in a report to management that concludes the systems planning phase of the SDLC.

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Unit 4: Systems Development Life Cycle - Planning

This part of the module begins with the discussion of strategic planning. Systems
development typically starts with a systems request, followed by a preliminary
investigation, which
includes a feasibility study. Discussions include how systems requests originate, how
they are
evaluated, and how to conduct a preliminary investigation and feasibility study. Fact-
finding
techniques will be discussed and will be carried over into later development phases.
Finally an
examination of the report to management concludes the systems planning phase.
* Activities given in this unit will be related to your business case to help you manage
your
business case. You may start doing Chapter 1 of your case if selection of the company is
done.
Lecture Objectives:
At the end of this module, you should be able to:
1. Explain the concept of a business case and how a business case affects an IT
project.
2. Describe the strategic planning process and why it is important to the IT team.
3. Explain the purpose of a mission statement.
4. Describe the SDLC, and explain how it serves as a framework for systems
development and business modeling.
5. Describe risks and risk management features.
6. List the reasons for information systems projects and the factors that affect
such projects.
7. Explain the initial review of systems requests and the role of the systems review
committee
8. Define operational feasibility, technical feasibility, economic feasibility, and
schedule feasibility
9. Describe the steps in a preliminary investigation and the end product of an
investigation
You can read through the notes, or you can open the presentation, Lesson 04
SDLCPlanning Lesson 04 SDLCPlanning with the same content.
Let us recall again the definition of Systems Development Life Cycle which is a
structured analysis that uses a series of phases: to plan, analyze, design, implement,
and support
an information system. SDLC is a process-centered technique because it focuses on
processes
that transform data into useful information.
SYSTEMS PLANNING
It is the initial stage in the systems development life cycle (SDLC). It is the
fundamental
process of understanding why an information system should be built and determine
how the
project team will go about building it. It describes how IT projects get started, how
systems
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analysts evaluate proposed projects, the feasibility of a project, and the reasoning
behind the
proposed system development = business case. Strategic planning starts with a
management
review called a SWOT analysis.
SWOT Analysis
It is a planning methodology that helps organizations build a strategic plan to meet
goals,
improve operations and keep the business relevant. During SWOT analysis,
organizations identify
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (the four factors SWOT stands for)
pertaining
to organizational growth, products and services, business objectives and market
competition.
The following are the main steps in performing a SWOT analysis:
1.
Collect relevant information and list all current known strengths and weaknesses.
This can be
achieved through talking to others in the organization or through larger brainstorming
sessions. You should come prepared with questions pertaining to the SWOT
objective and
aim to get thoughtful and insightful responses from your team.
2.
Consider all the potential opportunities that exist for the organization, including future
trends
and technologies.
3.
Review the SWOT matrix to build a plan that addresses each area including
everything that’s
working and everything that needs to change.
Questions that needs to be answered:
❏
What are the internal strengths and weaknesses of your company?
❏
What are the external opportunities and threats in your industry and its environment?
❏
Can any weaknesses be converted to strengths? Any threats into opportunities?
❏
How can your company take advantage of strengths and opportunities?
❏
What strategic changes can your company implement as a result of the SWOT
analysis?
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