Question

System Analysis and Design

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Question One

What are the roles of a project sponsor and the approval committee during the different SDLC phases?  

Question Two

As the project sponsor, you suggested that your company that runs multiple local supermarkets should provide an online shopping service to increase sales during COVID-19 pandemic. Write a system request to propose this project.

System request
Project Sponsor
Business Need
Business Requirements
Business Value
Special Issues or Constraints

Question Three

Assume the following scenario:

A small company needs to develop an information system for the Finance and Accounting Department. As an analyst which process model would you prefer and why?  

Question Four

There are three techniques which help users discover their needs for the new system, list and compare these techniques in terms of impactful changes. Also, explain BPR.  

Answer 1

Roles and Responsbilities of a Project Manager in Software Development Life cycle

• A Project Sponsor is a person who provide financial and other resources for the project. He works alongwith the project manager to ensure the delivery of quality Project
• Generally a Project sponsor falls under the project execution party but he may also fall under the customer depending on the contractual agreement between the customer and Project execution Party
• Let us understand the second point by an example.If there is a Job Portal site and they want to upgrade or enhance their site , they give a contract to xyz software companywho is expected toproduce social media plugin for job portl site and The development head from xyz is the one who is providing all clarification, time estimates and cost estimate..He assigns the delivery head who in turn appoints Project manager and assigns necessary resources and authorities to develop the social media Plugin.The owner of job portal is the Customer hereThe delivery head provide authories and resources to move ahead.The delivery head is the Project Sponsor and something goes bad the owner of job portal will catch delivery head.
• The Project Sponsor is the powerful person in this scenario .If he runs shortage of money for software development he may ask owner job portal for more funds or he may spend from his own pocketHe may change strategies ,management decisions
• The Roles and resposilities of Project Approval Committees
• The committee on one hand can approve new Projects and project resources on the other they can also rule out possibilities of projects that are unfit from business point of view.
• They progumblate planning of management and project execution
• They approve project move on forward plans in all the phases of SDLC
• Approval of Project phase is done by them
• The members of Approval committee are basically the senior mangement officials who have the authority to allocate resources and approve Projects and prioritize new  projects .