MGIS 317 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Systems Development Life Cycle, Critical Success Factor, Scope Creep

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MGIS 317
• Professor: Catherine Heggerud

Document Summary

Three primary choices as to who will build your info systems; 1: selfsourcing aka end user development, development and support by knowledge. Insourcing in house it specialists within the organization workers: outsourcing delegation of speci c work to a third party. Sdlc a structured step-by-step approach for developing info systems: waterfall methodology; a sequential, activity-based process in which one phase of the sdlc is followed by another, from planning through implementation. Develop project plan (tasks, resources, timeframes: analysis. Gather and prioritize the business requirements: design. Critical success factor; allows the organization to strategically decide which systems to build. Project scope document; a written document of the project scope, no longer than a paragraph. Scope creep; when the scope of the project increases beyond its original intentions. Feature creep; developers/ end users add extra features that were not part of the original requirements.