1. IT Planning and Managment Lecture 6: Information System for a Volunteer Center: System Design for Not-For-Profit Organizations with Limited Resources Part 2: SETTING THE STAGE Collage of Information Technology University of Palestine, Gaza Prepared by: Mahmoud Rafeek Alfarra

2. قالوا قال أفلاطون: من يأبى اليوم قبول النصيحة التي لاتكلفه شيئا فسوف يضطر في الغد إلى شراء الأسف بأغلى سعر

3. Outlines  Project Team  Project Initiation  The system request  Feasibility Study  Open discussion

4. Project Team  Graduate student in Computer Information Systems.  Senior students of Management Information Systems.  Analyst.  A director’s assistant. have different abilities  Just as in any project team, different members of the IS team have different abilities and personalities

5. Project Team  In terms of capabilities,  Jeff  Jeff is skilled in project management, system analysis, system design, database development, and client-server programming.  Lyndsay  Lyndsay is skilled in project management, system analysis, and systems documentation.  Judy  Judy has no prior IS project experience, and requires an extensive amount of coaching on how to accomplish tasks in an IS project.  And so on …

6. Project Initiation  Early in the project cycle, Jeff and his project team met with Marilynn and others from VCR to initiate the project.  The VCR team was not familiar with the system development life cycle (SDLC) for constructing information systems.  Jeff and the project team explained the concepts behind SDLC and helped Marilynn create a system request.

7. The system request

8. Feasibility Study conducted a feasibility  After the system request was developed, Lyndsay and Jeff conducted a feasibility study.  The feasibility study focused on economic, technical, and organizational feasibility.  Lyndsay and Jeff created extensive documentation to support the summary conclusions indicated.

9. Economic feasibility relatively inexpensive  Based on the current available financial resources from the Volunteer Center, it has been determined that the proposed solution must be relatively inexpensive.  Even with this budgetary constraint, the project team believed a solution can be obtained.

10. Technical feasibility certain degree of risk appears to be evident  With the young technical skills of the project team consisting of senior MIS students, a certain degree of risk appears to be evident.  The faculty resources will guide the student project team in all aspects of the project.

11. Organizational feasibility  An analysis of VCR staff indicates:  All end users are proficient with PCs  The VCR staff appears to be very open to accepting a new completely electronic system, as the current processes are highly inefficient.

12. Meets the criteria the project meets the criteria  Based on the above analysis, the project team concluded that the project meets the criteria for economic, technical, and organizational feasibility.

13. Open discussion

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15. Thank You … Question ?!