M1S3 Project Selection 🤷🏻♂️ 1 Flashcards
Determine whether the request is valid and feasible before a recommendation is reached to do nothing, improve or modify the existing system, or build a new one.
Project Selection
Aa document used to propose a project to an organization
User’s Request Form
Sources of Project Request
Internal
Inside the Org
Senior Executives
Analyst
Department Managers
External
Outside the Org
Government Agency
Determining the User’s Information Requirements:
Systems requirements change, and user requirements must be modified to account for those changes.
Systems change, so what users need must change too.
Determining the User’s Information Requirements:
The articulation of requirements is difficult, except for experienced users. Functions and processes are not easily described.
New requirement is challenging except for experienced user.
What are the three Key Asking Methods
- Open-ended or closed Questions
- Brainstorming
- Group Consensus
Determining the User’s Information Requirements:
Heavy user involvement and motivation are difficult. Reinforcement for their work is usually not realized until the implementation phase- too long to wait.
User involvement and motivation is hard to acquire
Determining the User’s Information Requirements:
The pattern of interaction between the user and the analysts in designing the information requirement is complex.
Communication between the analysts and user is complex
What are the Three Strategies for Determining Information Requirements
Asking
Getting information from the existing information system
Prototyping
Differentiate Brainstorming from Group Consensus
Brainstorming Idea generation
Group Consensus General agreement about something
Also known as the *data analysis approach.
Getting information from the existing information system
Asks the user what information is currently received and what other information is required. The user’s input is crucial.
Getting information from the existing information system
The analyst reviews reports, discusses information with the user, and identifies unmet needs.
Getting information from the existing information system
Information needs are directly linked to decision-making and organizational goals.
Decision Analysis Method
Used when the user cannot establish information needs accurately before the information system is built.
Prototyping
