Project Identification and Selection
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Figure 5-1
SDLC Phase 1
Project Identification and Selection
Introduction
• Trends
– Islands/stove-pipes => integrated, enterprise-wide
systems
– Solve today’s problems => future strategic planning
• Purpose
– establish control & impose a sense of order & planning
on software projects
– Identify & prioritize projects that will return most value
to the corporation
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Three Primary Activities
• Identifying potential development projects
• Classifying and ranking projects
• Selecting projects for development
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Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down Characteristics
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One Corporation’s Opinion of the
Advantages of Top-Down Planning
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Information Systems Development Projects Come
from Both Top-Down and Bottom-Up Initiatives 7
Service Request
Often this is all you
have to go on
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Classifying and Ranking
• Criteria
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Strategic alignment
Benefits
Resource availability
Risks
Competitive analysis
Enterprise Modeling
Critical success factor
analysis
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Potential Project Selection Decision Outcomes
Missing: Conditional Acceptance
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Deliverables & Outcomes
• Prioritized list of selected project
• Selected projects turned over to project
leaders for next phase (initialization and
planning)
• Not all selected projects end up as
production systems
– Incremental commitment (limits risk)
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Information System Planning
• Three step process
– Identify and describe the current situation
– Identify and describe the desired situation
– Focus on the differences and how to get from
current to desired
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Information Systems Planning &
Corporate Strategic Planning
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