BDV6223: Planning and Managing the Information System Project: Business Applications Development, Group Assignment, MMU, UK

PART TWO: Planning and Managing the Information System Project

As with most project initiation, numerous activities or tasks must be planned as the project commences. During project planning, the team members are tasked with the following:

Describe the project scope
The team members have divided the entire project into manageable activities and logically arranges them in order. For each of the activity identified below, explain comprehensively what needs to be done.

• Initiation
• System Concept Development
• Planning
• Requirements Analysis
•  Logical Design
• Physical design
• Development
• System Testing
•  Integration
• Implementation
• Operation and Monitoring

Develop a preliminary schedule
Use the above set of activities and estimate appropriate duration for each activity. These time estimates (in weeks) will then enable you and your team members to set the start and end dates for each activity in the project. The official start date is 8 April 2024.

You are given the liberty to estimate the duration required to complete each activity. However, the organization wants the new system to be completed within a year. As such, the project manager must ensure that the total duration does not exceed 52 weeks.

The project schedule is to be visualised into a (1) Gantt Chart and (2) Network Diagram. In the network diagram, calculate and display the earliest completion time (TE), latest completion time (TL), and highlight activities on the critical path. You are required to plan which activities can be concurrently executed, and which activities must be completed before starting other activities.

Assessing project feasibility During this stage, you and your team members need to create a preliminary budget that outlines the planned expenses (costs) and revenues (benefits) associated with the development and use of the MIS
in the organization over a five-year time period.

Provide estimate monetary amount for the following tangible benefits

Provide estimate monetary amount for the following one-time costs:

Provide estimate monetary amount for the following recurring costs:

Based on the estimated total tangible benefits, total one-time costs and total recurring costs, perform a cost-benefit analysis for this project using a spreadsheet software.

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