Description
Please see the attachments, and follow instructions closely due to the importance of this project. I will need a written script for the video, and Video file and poster. There will be no room for incorrect answers, so please don’t bid on this post unless you are a professional expert on this class, because if you provide wrong work, I’ll be asking for a full refund.
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MIS 306
Project Instructions
Table of Contents
Heading
Content
Project At a Glance
Learning Objectives, What You Will Do, Grading (from Syllabus)
Full Project Description
Work Solo, Role of Your Team, Good Kinds of Processes to
Analyze
Project Milestones and Deliverables
How to Submit Deliverables, What Is In Milestones 1-7
What Is Business Process Redesign
and Gap Analysis?
Defining these terms and the activity you’ll do
Primary Deliverable: Video
Presentation
How To Do the Parts of the Poster and Script
Project At A Glance
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this project, you will be able to:
• Do gap analysis in a real organization
• Gather requirements with several techniques, all involving direct work with a real organization
• Develop a business requirements statement
• Report on your analysis and findings in the form of a script and a recorded 3-5 minute video.
• Design and manage a systems analysis project
• Work as a virtual team
What You Will Do:
Each student will conduct a gap analysis project in an organization (of any type) of your choosing. Ideally, one
where you know a manager who will be happy to host you for the next 7 weeks. A gap analysis is when you
look at the way the organization does something now (called a current or “as is” business process), find the
problems or missed opportunities, and then you redesign the process to be faster, better, cheaper, or at least one
of those (called a proposed or “to be” business process). Your final deliverable to your client is an analysis and
recommendation. You will not deliver the new process or a new computer system. (Feel free to look up “gap
analysis” on the web.)
To do this, you will each work with your own client, but will also be part of a 3-4 member team whose purpose
is to share ideas, work through difficulties, and otherwise support each other during the project. As a team, you
will work virtually through cloud collaborative services such as Google Drive, Microsoft One Share, Zoom,
Skype, etc. You and your team will choose the suite of tools you want to use.
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You will complete a series of tasks and deliver milestones to assure your progress.
Project Grading:
• The project is worth 40% of your total course grade.
o Individual work makes up 100% of that project grade. If a teammate doesn’t turn in one of their
milestones or doesn’t turn in their portion of a team milestone, then only they will lose points. If
you turn all of yours in on time, then you’ll get all the points coming to you.
• Independent of the project grade, 7% of your course grade will be based on how engaged you are in
supporting your teammates. Your teammates will grade you at the end of the course. All of your
projects will be much better if you help each other figure stuff out, try ideas, and generally all work to
improve all of your individual projects.
See the Syllabus Grading section if you are unclear how this works.
Full Project Description
I’ve always been leery of business students who only learn in the classroom: business is, after all, a hands-on
endeavor. So, for my way-too-long career as a business professor, I’ve always assigned field projects for nearly
all of my advanced classes. Systems Analysis is PERFECT for these projects for two reasons:
1. Because meaningful and fun projects can be accomplished fairly quickly (in an academic cycle).
2. Because a huge part of doing systems analysis like a pro in organizations means you know how to deal
with people, chaos, teammates, and incomplete knowledge. Consultants get big bucks for this, even if
they don’t know the answers. In fact, figuring out a good answer is where the value lies, not in knowing it
beforehand.
So, for this course you will do a field project in just 7 weeks with a virtual team of students also taking this
class. It doesn’t matter where you are or what your hours are, you can DO this! Here’s how it will work.
Work Solo In Your Own Organization:
You will each work with an organization you choose, and you arrange. It could be a company you work with or
one you have a solid contact in. On Day 1 of the course, start contacting people you know, or can get
introduced to, who work in your target organization. You will work alone with that client. Your organization
can be any type: big or small (but not less than 3-4 people full time employees), for-profit or not-for-profit or
public institution (like a school). More on good organizations later.
Role of Your Team:
In the first week of class, I will form teams based as closely as possible on your career interest. You will then
contact your assigned teammates and create a virtual organization for your team. Then you will each find a real
organization to work with as individuals, and get started. I am happy to strategize with you on how to find an
organization if you need that help.
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As a team, you will work together to help each other design a project and approach to doing systems analysis
with your respective companies. As a team, you will support each other on how you are doing your respective
projects and to support each other in developing solutions. Individually, you will do on-site or Zoom
interviewing with your respective organizations, and then bring your analysis back to your team get their
feedback in order to make your project work and solution Very High Quality.
Project Hacks:
To make this work in just 7 weeks, I recommend you look for shortcuts to make your learning faster.
The first shortcut, I think, would be for your team to agree on a similar business process to work with from one
of these business functions: marketing, sales, finance, accounting, operations, human resources. Based on past
MIS 306 teams, I recommend you agree on one of the following business processes (but you are welcome to do
a different one).
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selling /sales / marketing processes (online or offline)
customer / client registration processes
customer / client service processes
Inventory management processes
Accounts receivable, accounts payable or other payment processes
Bookkeeping process
Recruiting / Hiring / Onboarding processes
Financial reporting processes
Shipping (inbound or outbound) process
Reporting (of all kinds) processes – marketing, operations, HR, accounting, etc.
Transaction processes – like helping an organization collect order transactions better
IF your team can all manage to work on the same process, you will enjoy tremendous synergies and benefits.
However, if, after a week or so of trying, you just can’t find a common business process because the
organization you’re working with is interested in you working on a different project, then go with that.
It’s more important to get started quickly on some process than it is to work on the same process as your
team.
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Project Milestones and Deliverables
See the Course Schedule for calendar deadlines. You’re welcome to turn in milestones any time before the
deadline. You’re also welcome to turn in your final video, poster and script before the deadline.
How to Submit Deliverables
When you have a Project Milestone (MS) ready, submit it to the appropriate Canvas Assignment. Please do not
email it to me.
• All submitted files must be in .pdf format (except for MS6). You can Save As .pdf from Microsoft
Word.
• After the MS number below, if you see Solo, that means it is up to each individual student to do and
submit the milestone individually. Where you see a Team, it means that you will submit the milestone
as a team, only one submission per team (you decide among yourselves who will submit it).
• Wherever you see X, insert your team number.
• YOU MUST NAME YOUR FILES EXACTLY LIKE THIS IF YOU WANT CREDIT. I need to do
this because I have so many students to serve.
Milestone
Career Interest
Survey – Solo
Link in Canvas Assignments tab
(Find the link to the Career Interest Survey in
the Canvas Home tab)
MS 1 – Team
Canvas Assignments : Milestone 1
MS1.TeamX.pdf
MS 2 – Team
Canvas Assignments : Milestone 2
MS2.TeamX.pdf
MS 3 – Solo
Canvas Assignments : Milestone 3
MS3.TeamX.LastNameFirstName.pdf
MS 4 – Team
Canvas Assignments : Milestone 4
MS4.TeamX.pdf
MS 5 – Solo
Canvas Assignments : Milestone 5
MS5.TeamX.LastNameFirstName.pdf
MS 6 – Solo
Canvas Assignments : Milestone 6
MS 7 – Solo
Canvas Assignments : Milestone 7
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Filename Format
Just fill out the survey, I’ll use your
responses to set up teams
Two Files
• MS6.TeamX.LastNameFirstName.mp4
or .mov
And
• MS6.TeamX.LastNameFirstName.pptx
MS7.TeamX.LastNameFirstName.pdf
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1) Milestone 1. Team Launch (TEAM: One per team)
a. What to submit: A .pdf document, identifying what you and your team will do, named MS1.TeamX.pdf
b. What to Include:
1) Team Number (I assign and post in Project Central), team member names, email addresses and a
paragraph (as many words as you like) from each of you on your potential projects.
2) For each project, the name and title of the people in your target organizations that you have
contacted (or are in the process of contacting).
3) A URL/link to your virtual office site. No need to include me as a member at this time.
4) A description of the technologies you’ll use for your Virtual Office: Microsoft Team, Google
Workstation, Skype, Facetime, Discord, text, phone, Zoom are all examples.
5) A regular day and time at which you can all have a synchronous (same time) meeting online (For
example, Sundays at 4pm PT). You may or may not use it every week, but it’s Good Planning to
set aside a designated time for when you do need it. Once you agree to a time, do NOT schedule
anything else on top of it for the duration of this course. You don’t have enough time to keep
negotiating for a time to meet. You may also want to schedule two times, since this is a short
course.
I will be happy to write or call any organization to explain the project and encourage them to support you.
Just give me the name and phone number of someone to call.
2) Milestone 2. Team Contract (TEAM: One per team)
a. What To Submit: A .pdf document that is your Team Contract, named MS2.TeamX.pdf
b. What to Include:
1) A contract based on the Sample Team Contract that you’ll find Canvas, under Project Central /
Milestone 2. Be careful about what you agree to. This evaluation, at the end of the project, will
have an impact on your grade if you don’t live up to this contract. You may change the content
of the contract criteria, in fact I encourage you to do so to adapt to your team’s style of work.
However, it should have the same structure as the Sample Contract: measure only observable
behaviors (not things like intention or attitude). Each score must be anchored with brief
description, you have 4-8 criteria. If you wish, you may use the contract I provide exactly as it
appears, no plagiarism issues.
3) Milestone 3. Progress Report (SOLO: One per student)
a. What To Submit: A .pdf document named MS3.TeamX.LastNameFirstName.
b. What to Include:
• Your name, team number, and the snappy title that you have given your project. Something like
Biff Surfboard’s Customer Service System
• The name, title, phone number, and email address of your organization contact. Also, the
organization name, and name of the division/business area that your contact works in.
• One or two paragraphs describing what your organization does
• One or two paragraphs describing the business process you’re analyzing.
• One or two paragraphs describing the problem or opportunity you are working on, with some
evidence that this is, indeed, a problem or opportunity. This should be a statement of scope.
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c. Side Notes
• All that you write for this Progress Report can be used in your video script.
• If you haven’t told me about problems you’re having with the project, do it here, now. If you
ARE having problems that you need my help in, please email me directly after submitting your
Milestone. In your email put this in your subject line so I’m sure to see it:
• MIS 306 GC Project Problems
• There is no word count requirement for this. Just be complete and clear and write well.
4) Milestone 4: Gap Analysis Completion Statement (TEAM: One per team)
a. What to Submit: A .pdf document named MS4.TeamX.pdf
b. What to include:
• A list of all team members with a Yes or No next to their name. Yes, if you’ve completed Step
10, No if you have not. That’s it. REAL simple.
• If any team member has NOT completed Step 10 by this date, then they should individually
send me an email explaining why. Put “MIS 306 GC Milestone 4 Problem” in the email subject
line so I see it.
5) Milestone 5: Video Script (SOLO: One per student)
a. What To Submit: A .pdf of your video script , named MS5.TeamX.LastNameFirstName
b. What to Include:
• “About” 1,000-2,000 word script for your video. Format it as a regular prose business report, or
as a script for a play. But it must not be just a list of bullet points. I’m not going to count words,
but I expect it to be solid, polished, business English writing that fully covers your project goals
and scope.
• Your headings must correspond to the headings on the sample poster: Background, Current
Process, Problem, Solution, Proposed Process, Rationale
• While this isn’t officially a “paper,” your script ought to answer the key questions in each heading
in complete sentences and coherent thoughts.
c. Possible Hack:
I haven’t tried this yet, but you might consider recording your video first then running the audio portion
through an online transcriber that provides written text. Then format and clean up the script. If you do
this, please tell me how it works! Key here, though, is to make the final version read as well-written
prose that follows English grammar carefully, okay? (And if you don’t know what “prose” is, look it
up!)
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6) Milestone 6. Project Video + Poster (SOLO: One per student)
a. What To Submit – two files:
• A video file, named MS6.TeamX.LastNameFirstName.mp4 or .mov. Must be in the format
of .mp4 or .mov.
• A Powerpoint (.pptx) file that has your poster on it. Name it
MS6.TeamX.LastNameFirstName.pptx
Pro Tip: If you create your poster with Google Slides or Apple Keynote, then download it
as a Powerpoint file and send it as .pptx. Do not submit a Google Slides or Apple Keynote
file or link.
b. What to Include:
• A 4-7 minute video / audio recording using Zoom or another app to record and edit your video.
• Your video will look like our class lectures, without the cheesy jokes provided by your
instructor.
• Open with a full-face introduction of you and your project, as if you’re greeting your
client. They want to see your face to get started!
• Move into the poster template or a short PowerPoint presentation with voice over. Your
face doesn’t have to be on the screen.
• Close with a summary of your project showing your full face, as you would with a
client you were trying to persuade.
• Your communication objective is to explain one aspect / story / thread of what you did with
your client. You probably won’t be able to discuss everything you did in your project, so
choose one thread or story to tell. See the Poster Templates in the Project Central module on
Canvas for the kinds of content I’m looking for.
• Speak directly to your client, not to me, your instructor.
7) Milestone 7: Project Post Mortem – Team Member Evaluation Form (SOLO: One per student)
a. What To Submit: A .pdf of your completed Confidential Team Member Evaluation form, named
MS7.TeamX.LastNameFirstName.pdf .
b. This is NOT the Team Contract, although you are using the Team Contract to fill this out. This is the
form that shows your grades for each of your team members.
c. What to Include:
• The Team Member Evaluation Form (NOT the Team Contract)
• If you are giving a team member less than 7 our of 10 points overall, then write why you are
doing that so I can justify giving them a lower grade.
• If you are giving a team member less than 7 out of 10 points overall then you MUST include the
word PROBLEM in your file name. Like this:
MS7.TeamX.LastNameFirstName.PROBLEM.pdf
Otherwise I may not see your concerns and give everyone full credit.
CLARIFICATION: The 3 points in this milestone is for you submitting your evaluation of your teammates’
engagement in the team. The information from all of this will then help me create the 7 point Collaboration
grade. It’s a two-step process! You do the first step, I do the second.
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What is Business Process Redesign and Gap Analysis?
All organizations deliver value by doing continuous step-by-step processes such as sales support, inventory
management, new employee onboarding, and financial reporting. As we will learn in class, all processes “fail”
over time (entropy) and so business professionals spend a lot of time and money on fixing broken processes.
This can also mean upgrading the process to take advantage of new technologies. This activity, for which you
can be paid handsomely to do, is called many things: systems analysis, business process redesign, business
process reengineering, change management and gap analysis are a few. In this project you will do such a
project for an organization of your choosing. You will find a company or not-for-profit to host you, and you
will work with them to identify a business process that needs “fixing”. By fixing I mean faster, better, cheaper.
The client will provide you information and resources to analyze their existing process (“as is” process) and you
will use your curiosity and brilliance to do “gap analysis” and design a new process (“to be”) to replace it. You
will argue for why your new design is plausibly better than the existing process in some valuable, measurable
way.
For example, you could interview a sales manager to analyze their sales rep support process and decide to
design a database system or dashboard that they could use to improve that process by reducing the time it takes
for a sales rep to properly approach a new client. In such a situation, you could ask the manager and users
which features their present system handles poorly or which business needs are unmet. You could then analyze
these needs and design a system to meet them.
The organization you choose should have enough complexity to require a robust design. For example, avoid
one-person businesses such as a single lawyer’s office, and simple retail businesses such as a coffee shop. As a
rule of thumb, the process you choose to redesign should involve 2 or more users that you can interview to learn
how to deal with different perspectives and priorities: such as a manager and a line worker.
You will not program or implement a system for this project. In MIS 306, I specifically want you to spend your
time on planning, analysis and partial design rather than coding and implementation. I will give no points for
programming code or creating prototypes.
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What You Will Turn In
Your deliverable for your grade will be a 3-5 minute video presentation, narrated by you, that walks the client
through a poster you’ve created as a visual aid to your presentation… plus the script you write for that
video…plus your poster. That is: Video + Script + Powerpoint slide of your Poster = Total Deliverable!
Orient this poster – your script and your video – to your client as if you were presenting it to them. Not to me as
your professor. They need to decide if they will go forward with your ideas after you’re done, and this is where
you help them understand their options. Present as if they were learning about this process and technology for
the first time. I know they know their process, but they might not know it as you do, from a systems analyst
point of view. So, give them a complete analysis, don’t assume they know things.
This is the template you should work with: find it as a PowerPoint file in Module 8 on Canvas and adapt it to
your project.
For your written script, use the same section headings as appear on the Poster. Let’s go through the sections.
Background:
In this section, you’ll report what the organization does, how it earns revenue, and what its overall strategic
goals are. You’ll report on two levels: enterprise level (overall company) and business area level (such as
marketing, finance, sales, customer service, shipping). It should include 1-2 quantitative performance measures
(measurable goals, CSFs, or KPIs) for each level.
For this section, useful analytical tools we’ll discuss in class include SWOT (see “SWOT Analysis” on web
site), and Critical Success Factors (CSFs).
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You can prepare the poster, starting with the Background section, by using a device that journalists often use the inverted pyramid or funnel introduction. You start off general, discussing the enterprise. Then focus on the
business area. Then focus even more on your target business process and the problems and opportunities in it.
This will lead you into your analysis of the process and system in the following sections.
Enterprise
Business Area
Business Process
Target System
Here are some examples of the different levels:
Level
For Profit
Not For Profit
Enterprise
Qualcomm
San Diego Blood Bank
Business Area
Administrative Support
Fundraising
Business Process
Order and Install Office Computers
Contact Donors
Application
Online Ordering System
Online Contact Maintenance System
Each level will have its own set of quantitative performance measures that should relate or support the
performance measures of the level above it (e.g., the IT System performance measures should support the
Business Process measures, which should support the Business Area goals, which should support the Enterprise
goals). I really require at least a few concrete business performance measures and will mark points off your
final score if you fail to provide good ones. Almost all business cases in the real world are supported by
concrete performance measures. The structure is a baseline measure followed by a target measure.
For example, let’s consider the Sales Department as a Business Area. They might have a Business Area goal of
“our reps need to (a) meet with more prospects per month and (b) more effectively close new deals with those
prospects”. A baseline might be “sales reps meet on average 20 new prospects a month”. A target might be
“Sales reps meet on average 30 new prospects a month”. Notice that how they do that depends on a variety of
things (value of the product offering, information available to the sales rep, effectiveness of the advertising and
promotion function to generate leads, etc.). Your focus is going to be on one of those, a subsystem, of the
Sales Department business area. But you need to have business area performance measure, baseline and target,
to set that up.
A baseline measure is what is happening now, in the current system. A target measure is what the business
needs that same metric to be to succeed, and what your system design should enable. Here are some examples:
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Metric / KPI (key performance indicator)
Baseline
Target
Customer Response Time
2 working days
4 hours
Time to Create the report
40 hours
1 hour
200
1000
Time wasted doing a task
4 hours / week
1 hour / week
Number of data sources for the report
5 spreadsheets
1 database
3
1
20 minutes
1 minute
Right 50% of the time
Right 90% of the time
Number of customers served per day
Number of people required to do the task
Time to find an item in inventory
Accuracy of the forecast
Problem:
In this section, you will describe the business or technical problem(s) or opportunity that you are addressing.
Make sure you use concrete evidence ($ loss per month, % too slow per transaction, quote from user about
qualitative problem) to justify it. Fixing this problem should tie directly to the enterprise and business area
goals you identified in the Background section.
For example, let’s consider that sales support process again. In the current process, a sales rep takes 2 hours to
prepare for a new prospect meeting. Baseline then is 2 hours per rep per prospect. The target, or goal of your
proposed process could then be either “a sales rep takes 30 minutes to prepare” or “a sales rep takes 75% less
time to prepare”. Both are quantitative. The purpose of having explicit baseline and target measures is to give
you guidance for what kind of system you’ll propose. In essence, with good metrics, you and everyone else
involved in the project knows – before you do the project -what “success” will mean. This is huge as we’ll talk
about in class.
Notice how the process performance measure, “less time to prepare” directly supports the business area’s goal
of “more prospect meetings per month”. See that? This is critical!
You can use PIECES to identify a few problems with the current process. Choose one big one or 2-3 smaller
ones. You want to make some impact!
Technical Solution Section:
Describe the technology you’re recommending for your new process. Start off by characterizing your solution
(e.g., “Cloud-based inventory management system from Oracle called Inventory Management Cloud that costs
$350 per month per user”). Since this is an MIS course, I encourage you to get as techie as you possibly can in
describing the technology. I realize many of you have limited learning in tech stuff but give it your best shot.
Do some extra research to learn how vendors describe their offerings, and then use that language. Use the
logos of the solution vendors as a visual element.
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Current Process Section:
Show on your poster a visual representation of how the current, as-is, process works, drawing off what you’ve
learned from process modeling but using something more visually informative for a poster than the Gane and
Sarson notation, which is not intended for poster views. Think clip art with well-drawn data flow arrows. In
your script, you should write a narrative similar to the Green Acres or Open Road examples we covered in the
Process Modeling class. Talk the client through the current process, step by step, and identify where the
problems that you talked about in the Problem section appear.
Proposed Process Section:
Same idea as for as-is process, use visual elements to explain the new to-be process. In your script and voice
over, you should identify where in the process your changes will happen. You should also use highlighter or
something to visually identify where in the process the changes are happening. Then describe how your
proposed design changes the current process. Don’t just repeat what you said in Section 2 but highlight the
differences (although you should briefly mention where things don’t change). You will highlight, on your “to
be” process models, how the process changes with your solution.
Rationale Section:
Here you argue for WHY and HOW your proposal fixes the problems you identified.
For example, in the sales support process we’ve been using, you could propose a Customer Relationship
Management (CRM) system to replace Excel spreadsheets to hold and present information about prospects. A
CRM would reduce the time it takes for a sales rep to prepare for a new prospect because all the data exists in
one place and the reps don’t have to search through multiple Excel spreadsheets looking for and formatting the
information they need. That would move the average rep from the 2 hours prep time to 30 minute prep time,
because 75% of the 2 hours is just assembling information, while 25% (i.e., 30 minutes) is analyzing it.
That’s an example of how to talk about your rationale. You need good “becauses” to argue why your idea is
good. The poster may have a bullet point, but your script and voice over should explain it in full sentences.
In this section, you should also provide the financial rationale for doing this project: specifically provide Return
on Investment (ROI) as a % and payback period as a time (e.g., months it will take for accumulated benefits to
exceed accumulated costs).
Outcomes Section:
Here you present precisely what operational outcomes your proposal will give to the enterprise. You’ll include
your baseline and target metrics. Answer these questions.
• What can the business do with your system that they couldn’t do before?
• How will the process work differently now that is a benefit?
• How will your system affect the target KPIs that you identified?
Important: You MUST prove to me, through concrete evidence (e.g., numbers and stakeholder quotes) that
your proposed system makes the business process faster, better and/or cheaper. You can’t just say “it’s faster!”
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with no supporting evidence. Almost every semester I mark points off because people fail to include concrete
evidence in their reports. Please don’t make that mistake on your report!
A Word about “Concrete, Specific Evidence”: Sometimes the idea of concrete, specific evidence confuses
students. Let me give you some examples.
• Real numbers ($, %, time) are concrete.
• “Will save $50,000 / 10 hours a week per clerk”
• “will reduce the order error rate by 15%”.
• Expert testimony in the form of quotes and citations is concrete.
• “We have a real hard time quantifying customer satisfaction,” whined Bob the Manager.
• “If we don’t get these things out the door faster, we’ll lose our competitive edge,” warned Sheila the Exec
V-P.
• Dave Burke, Google’s vice president of engineering for Android, predicted, “We think these new
capabilities will help power a next generation of on-device speech processing, visual search, augmented
reality, and more.” (Computerworld, date, -shortURL- ).
• Artifacts are concrete. Artifacts are things that the organization has produced and that you can include in
the appendix of your report to show me what you’re talking about. Examples are a poorly designed report,
or two webforms that have very similar information that require redundant data entry.
• A well-constructed argument is concrete.
• “They waste time because they have to enter the same data three times.”
• “Customer satisfaction has always been tough to get in this industry which affects the availability of
useful and affordable marketing management systems.”
Obviously real arguments are longer than one statement, but the point is that you should be able to write
about real cause-effect relationships.
Finally, the whole point of any information system development project is to get the organization to do
something faster, better and/or cheaper. You should be able, through your interviews and research, to get
concrete evidence that demonstrates to us that your design could do just that. Otherwise I (as a hypothetical
boss) won’t give you the money or time to do the project. So, keep on the look-out for concrete evidence as you
work with your client from the first interview.
Final Thoughts
Finally, a remark about the time to spend on this. As you might envision, this project could easily take up most
of the 8-weeks, even if you had no other commitments which, of course, you do. Such as work, families, Life,
etc. I get that. Coordinating group work takes lots of time. So, on average, I expect you to spend about 1-2
quality hours a week together and 2-3 quality hours a week alone on this project. That’s in addition to other
MIS 306 coursework. Now, I’ve said “on average”. If you, and your team, do not get started on this right away,
then you will find yourself with a very busy weekend late in the course, which would cause you much anguish
and recrimination. It wouldn’t make me happy either because the quality and your grade will suffer. It is
fundamentally impossible for you to do a good job on this project if you wait until the end of the first
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month to really get started, because key people will not return your phone calls on short notice. So
please, heed the advice of systems analysis students who have passed before you: START EARLY! Even if
you don’t know what you’re doing! (Which, you don’t. Yet.)
Ready! Set!
Go!
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MIS 306
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• Post Questions throughout the course on Canvas / Discussions / Project Q&A
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Project Highlights
• Read the Project Instructions and Step By Step Guide.
• You will
