Organizing the work for the SDLC:
SDLC Phase | Project Team |
| Systems Planning | steering committee project team formed |
| Systems Analysis | business systems analysts |
| General Systems Design | business systems analysts & some technical support people |
| Systems Evaluation and Selection | same as above & accounting |
| Detailed Systems Analysis | systems & technical designers |
| Systems Implementation | systems analysts, programmers & technicians |
Organizing the Work for People- and Technical-Oriented Phases (Fig. 3.3)
- Enlist End Users as Team Members
- Encourage Involvement and Support from Senior Management
- Keep Key Participants Informed on the Progress
- Allay Fears of Job Security and Status
- Controlling
- Prepare Weekly Progress Reports
- Prepare Monthly Progress Reports (for senior management & steering comm.)
- Leading
What makes a good leader?
- Emotional maturity & ability to handle crises and conflicts
- Ability to get along well with otherws
- Self-assurance and self-control
- ability to motivate people
- ability to delegate responsibility
- loyality to and ability to support team members
B) Project Management Techniques
- GANTT Chart (Fig. 3.4)
- Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) Chart
- Identify Tasks
- Determine Proper Sequence of Tasks
- Enter the Time Required to Perform Each Task
- Prepare a Time-Scaled Chart of Tasks and Events and the Critical Path
C) Computer-Aided Systems and Software Systems (CASE) (Fig. 3.5)
Central Repository (DBMS) contains:
- models derived from the modeling tools (Fig. 3.6)
- project management elements
- Systems Plan Report
- Project Schedule Report
- Project Team Communication
- Progress Reports
- documented deliverables
- screen prototypes & report designs
- software code produced by an automatic code generator
- modules and object libraries of reusable code
- reverse engineering, reeingineering, and restructured features
Exercises: look over 1-25 ; turn in 3.26, 3.27, 3.33, 3.34
