Module1 - 3 - System Development Life Cycle

Systems Development Life Cycle
•The Analysis Phase

•Introduction to process modelling
What is the System
Development Cycle?
What is an information system (IS)?
Hardware, software, data, System—Set of components

people, and procedures that that interact to achieve
work together to produce common goal
quality information
Businesses use many types of
systems
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What is the System
Development Cycle?
What are the phases of the system development
cycle?
Phase 2. Analysis
 Conduct preliminary investigation
Phase 1. Planning  Perform detailed analysis activities: Phase 3. Design
 Review project requests Study current system  Acquire hardware
 Prioritize project Determine user requirements and software, if
requests Recommend solution necessary
 Allocate resources  Develop details of
 Identify project system
development team
Phase 5. Support Phase 4. Implementation

 Conduct post-implementation  Develop programs, if necessary
system review  Install and test new system
 Identify errors and enhancements  Train users
 Monitor system performance  Convert to new system
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What is the System
Development Cycle?
What are guidelines for system development?
Arrange tasks into phases

(groups of activities)
Involve users (anyone for whom
system is being built)
Develop clearly defined standards (procedures

company expects employees to follow)
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What is the System
Development Cycle?
Who
participates in
the system
development
life cycle?
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What is the System
Development Cycle?
What is a systems analyst?
Responsible for designing

and developing
information system
Liaison between users

and IT professionals
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What is the System
Development Cycle?
What is the project team?
Formed to work on project from beginning to end
Consists of users, systems analyst, and other IT professionals

Project leader—one member of the team who
manages and controls project budget and schedule
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What is the System
Development Cycle?
What is project management?
 Process of planning, scheduling, and controlling
activities during system development cycle
 Project leader identifies elements for project
Goal, objectives, and
Time estimates for each
expectations, collectively Required activities
activity
called scope
Cost estimates for each Activities that can take

activity Order of activities
place at same time
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What is the System
Development Cycle?
What is a Gantt chart?
 Popular tool used to plan and schedule time
relationships among project activities
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What is the System
Development Cycle?
What is project management software?
 Program (such as Microsoft Office Project 2003) used
by project leaders to plan, schedule, and control
projects
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What is the System
Development Cycle?
What is feasibility?
Operational
feasibility
Measure of
how suitable Four feasibility
system tests:
development Schedule
feasibility
will be to the
company
Economic
feasibility Technical
(also called feasibility
cost/benefit
feasibility)
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What is the System
Development Cycle?
What is documentation?
Collection and summarization

of data and information
Includes reports, diagrams,

programs, and other deliverables
Project notebook contains all

documentation for single project
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What is the System Development
Cycle?
What are six data and information gathering
techniques?
 Review documentation
 Observe
 Questionnaire
 Interview
 Joint-application
design (JAD) session
 Research
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Planning Phase
What is the planning phase?
Begins when steering committee receives project request
Steering
committee—
decision-making
body for the
company
Function of committee:
Form project
Review and development
Prioritize Allocate
approve project team for each
project requests resources
requests approved
project
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Analysis Phase
What is the analysis phase?
Conduct preliminary Perform detailed

investigation, also analysis
called feasibility
study
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Analysis Phase
What is the preliminary investigation?
 Determine exact nature of problem or improvement
and whether it is worth pursuing
 Findings are presented in feasibility report, also known as a feasibility study
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Analysis Phase
What is detailed analysis?
1. Study how current system
works
2. Determine user’s wants, needs,

and requirements
3. Recommend solution
Sometimes called logical design
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Analysis Phase
What is an entity-relationship diagram (ERD)?
 Tool that graphically shows connections between
entities in system
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Systems Development Life Cycle

•The Analysis Phase

Hardware, software, data, System—Set of components

Phase 5. Support Phase 4. Implementation

Arrange tasks into phases

Develop clearly defined standards (procedures

Responsible for designing

Liaison between users

Formed to work on project from beginning to end

Consists of users, systems analyst, and other IT professionals

Cost estimates for each Activities that can take

Collection and summarization

Includes reports, diagrams,

Project notebook contains all

Conduct preliminary Perform detailed

2. Determine user’s wants, needs,

Sometimes called logical design

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