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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS
YR 11
Establishes the process by which the product will be created.
Focuses on three aspects
Context
Input
Process
Focuses on the product’s environment
Address:
Project name
Client
Problem Identification
Objectives
Audience
Project Name Should be:
Simple
Descriptive
Practical
Good examples Tigers and Emperors’ Promotional Material
St Peter Claver College Wireless Network Expansion
Bad examples Project 1
My L33T Database of Awesome Ownage
Client Who is employing your services?
Who is your contact person / people?
Problem Identification What problem will the project address?
Do not state the solution here
Objectives What the project will do (addressing the problem).
How the project will do this?
Audience
What group(s) of people will use the product? Age
Gender
Ethnic / Cultural Group
Education level
What is their capacity to use the product? Technology native v’s Technology Imigrant
Identify the resources available
Resources:
Equipment
Software
People
Data
Scope What the developer is responsible for.
What the developer is not responsible for.
Time period of project The start time
The end time
Deliverables schedule What needs to be supplied to the client?
When do they need to be supplied?
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Each task of the project broken down into manageable elements (terminal elements).
Expressed as a tree structure
100% rule At each level, the children nodes make up 100% of the parent
nodes
1. Make Coffee
1.1 Boil water
1.2 Brew Coffee
1.3 Flavour
1.1.1 Fill Kettle
1.1.2 Turn on Kettle
1.2.1 Put Coffee in Cup
1.2.2 Add boiled water
1.2.3 Stir
1.3.2 Stir
1.3.1 Add milk & sugar
Identify the main objective (root node)
Establish 1st tier of Children Nodes
Continue until terminal
Project Schedule
Establish the timing for terminal elements.
Consists of a list of a project's terminal elements with intended start and finish dates. These events are taken from the WBS
Expressed as a graphical representation Gantt Chart
Budget
To estimate the cost of project. For our purposes we are only concerned about the labour costs
To calculate Take terminal elements from WBS
Estimate hours required to complete each element
Multiply time by pay rate.
