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The Analyst as a Project Manager

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• IS Projects: Success and Failure • Role of the Project Manager• Project Management Tasks in SDLC• Project Initiation and Project Planning

Lecturer details

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• Project management is important for success of system development project

2000 Standish Group Study

Only 28% of system development projects successful

72% of projects cancelled, completed late, completed over budget, and/or limited in functionality

Thus, project requires careful planning, control, and execution

Why project management

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• Clear system requirement definitions• Substantial user involvement• Support from upper management• Thorough and detailed project plans•Realistic work schedules and milestones

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Project success factors

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• Incomplete or changing requirements• Limited user involvement• Lack of executive support• Lack of technical support• Poor project planning• Unclear objectives• Lack of required resources

Project Failure factors

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• Project management – organizing and directing people to achieve a planned result within budget and on schedule

• Project manager – a person has primary responsibility for the functioning of the team.

Success or failure of project depends on skills of the project manager

Beginning of project – plan and organize

During project – monitor and control

Responsibilities are both internal and external

Role of project manager

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• Identify project tasks and build a work breakdown structure• Define the milestones• Develop the project schedule• Recruit and train team members• Assign team members to tasks• Coordinate activities of team members and sub-teams• Assess project risks• Monitor and control project deliverables and milestones• Verify the quality of project deliverables

Internal responsibilities

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• Report the project’s status and progress• Establish good working relationships with those who identify the needed system requirements

The people who will use the system

• Work directly with the client (the project’s sponsor) and other stakeholders• Identify resource needs and obtain resources

External responsibilities

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Participants in a system development project

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Project management task in SDLC

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• Overlap with SDLC phases

• Beginning of project Overall project planning

• During project Project execution management

Project control management

Project closeout

• Project management approach differs for Predictive SDLC (linear, concurrently with SDLC activities)

Adaptive SDLC (in cycle, planning is distributed across the entire SDLC)

Project management task in SDLC

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Project management and SDLC tasks for predictive project

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Project management and SDLC tasks for adaptive project

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There are three ways to initiate a project

• Top-down projects- This method is through the long-term IS strategic plan• Bottom-up projects. Through Individual department managers or process managers are close to the daily work• Outside-forces project. Projects can be initiated to respond to outside forces

Project initiation

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Project planning

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End

Thank you

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