•Planned series of related activities for achieving a specific business objective
•Application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to achieve targets within specified budget and time constraints
- •Project Management Variables:
•Scope
•Time
•Cost
•Quality
•Risk
- Must select the projects to pursue – evaluate and compare the choices
•Determine project costs and benefits
•Tangible benefits
•Intangible benefits
•Capital budgeting methods – ROI, NPV, IRR
•Evaluate fit with your Information Systems Plan
•Portfolio analysis
•Scoring model
- •Level of project risk is affected by:
•Project size
•Project structure
•Required level of technical expertise
- •Implementation and change management
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Implementation – the more users can be involved in the development of a system, usually the higher the success rate
•User-designer communications gap – can exist and negatively affect project success however ….
- •Overcoming user resistance
•Promote user participation
•Pay attention to user interfaces and ergonomic issues
•Conduct an Organizational Impact analysis
- •Controlling risk factors
•Formal planning and tools
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Gantt Chart – lists project activities along with their start and completion dates – visually represents the timing and duration of different tasks
•PERT chart – graphically depicts the project tasks and their interrelationships/dependencies
•Project challenges for global systems are complicated by international environment
•User info requirements, business processes, work cultures vary from country to country
- •Ways of convincing users to adopt global systems:
•Permitting each country unit in a global corporation to develop one application in its home country first.
•Develop transnational centers of excellence to perform business and systems analysis, design, testing.