Systems Planning and Project Planning: Is Integration Needed? One of the weaknesses in our current SDLC methodologies is the isolation of system design and project management practice Paul H. Rosenthal California State University, Los Angeles

2 The Poor Status of IT Governance I. Low Usage of Experienced Designers Project Failure reasons stable for 50 years II. Need for Integrated Design – 44% of technology projects are PARTIAL Successes – Our Status Score: C- – The Integration of system design and project management practice can help solve this problem The Standish Group Report

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Quality of our Systems and Project Planning Quality of Systems Planning70% Quality of Sequential Systems & Project Planning30% Quality of Sequential Project Planning (.7 times QPP =.3) 43%* * Our Professional level Project Planning is not this Bad Quality of Systems Planning70% Quality of Project Planning70% Potential Quality of Integrated Systems & Project Planning 49% Success 4

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An Approach to Integrated Systems & Project Planning

1- Logical systems analysis (Initiation - find the underlying problem) 7

My Take on the Underlying Problems 1.Simplistic Physical Design – Typical charting methods do not present true scope and complexity of the systems – All stakeholders do not understand both WHAT and HOW 2.Lack of Design/Cost-Benefit Iteration – Management, technical, staffing, and financial participants in design cannot properly participate in the iterative cost-benefit process 8

Logical Systems Design Process 9

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The Physical Design Methodology For TPS, a physical design is created from a DFD based logical design, by separating processes and data stores by: time (daily vs. monthly, day vs. night...), place (client or server, centralized vs. distributed...), online vs. batch, manual vs. automated, etc. 11

A Physical System Design 12

Physical Project Design 13

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Will Integration Solve these Problems? Top 5 Failure Factors From Systems Management From Project Management Incomplete and/or Changing Requirements, Unrealistic Expectations X Lack of User and/or Executive Support X Unrealistic Budgets and /or Schedules X Lack of Project and/or Technology Management XX Systems and/or Project Planning and/or Implementation Illiteracy XX 16