Week 8: 12 ITGS (29th Sep to 3rd Oct)

Planning for Week 8:


P1:

0. The system development life cycle (SDLC)Analysis of current situation
• Organizational requirements
• Methods of data collection: questionnaires, interviews, observation, literature searches
• Feasibility study

P2:

• Identification of possible IT solutions
• Requirements specification
• Justification of preferred IT solution
  
  
  • Project plan (who, why, what, when and how part of the project)
  • Project goals, scope and constraints, such as financial, time, technical, human-resource-related, risks, communication, procurement, quality

P3 & P4: Paper 2 practice test
P5:

• Project initiation document
• Design considerations
• Inputs, data structure, processes, outputs, user interface
• Prototyping
• Development of the IT solution
• Initial testing, alpha testing
• Quality assurance and quality control
• Implementation
• Training and support of staff, documentation to support the new IT system
• Changeover methods: direct, phased and parallel running
• Beta testing
• Maintenance
• Phase out

p6:

0. Project management issues
   
• Need for project management
  
• Development methodologies: agile development and waterfall development
  
• Project management methodologies: for example, PRINCE2 (projects in controlled environments 2),