MIS 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Deliverable, Systems Analysis, Rapid Application Development

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Management Info Systems Main
• Course: MIS 111
• Professor: Mark Patton, William Neumann

Document Summary

It planning: organizational strategic plan, must meet three main objectives. It must be aligned with the organization"s strategic plan. It must provide for an it architecture that seamlessly networks users, applications, and databases. It must efficiently allocate is development resources among competing projects so the projects can be completed on time and within budget and still have the required functionality. It steering committee: typical is operational plan contains the following elements. Is environment: mission statement, objectives of the is function, constraints of the is function, the application portfolio, resource allocation and project management, it architecture, it strategic plan. Evaluating and justifying it investment benefits, costs, and issues: assessing the costs, assessing the benefits, conducting a cost-benefit analysis. Four common approaches to costs-benefit analysis: analysts use the net present value (npv, return on investment (roi, breakeven analysis, business case approach. Application service providers and software-as-a-service: application service provider (asp, software-as-a-service (saas) The five major steps of acquisition need doesn"t exist.