What are sources of risk in a system analysis and design project? How does a project manager cope with risk during the stages of project management?
Question 3
3. How does a project manager cope with risk during the stages of project management?
Question 4
The following question will be answered in Canvas.
A project has been defined to contain the following list of activities along with their required times for completion:
| Activity No. | Activity | Time in Weeks | Predecessors |
| 1 | Collect requirements | 3 | |
| 2 | Analyze processes | 2 | |
| 3 | Analyze data | 2 | 1 |
| 4 | Design processes | 6 | 2 |
| 5 | Design data | 3 | 3 |
| 6 | Design screens | 2 | 3, 4 |
| 7 | Design reports | 4 | 4, 5 |
| 8 | Program | 5 | 6, 7 |
| 9 | Test and document | 7 | 7 |
| 10 | Install | 2 | 8, 9 |
Using Visio and/or Project, (contact Nishit Derade tuk05160@temple.edu for help obtaining and/or installing) or any other drawing tool of your choosing, create a PDF and upload to Canvas in Assignment Unit#4.3 with the following:
4.A Draw a network diagram for the activities
4.B Calculate the earliest expected completion time
4.C Show the critical path
4.D What would happen if activity 6 were revised to take six weeks instead of two weeks?
4.E Construct a GANTT chart for the project (with tasks as specified in the table above)
4.F Look again at the activities and create a new diagram that is updated to reflect the following: Your team is in first week of the project and has discovered that each of the activity duration estimates is wrong. Activity 2 will take only one week to complete. Activities 4 and 7 will each take three times longer than anticipated. All other activities will take twice as long to complete as previously estimated. In addition, a new activity number 11 called “Stabilization” has been added. It will take one week to complete, and its immediate predecessors are activities 10 and 9. Adjust the network diagram and recalculate the earliest expected completion times.
(Be sure to put your name at the top left hand corner of your Assignment 3 document and add the title to the document “Unit#4 Question 4”. Name the file Unit#4-Question4_YourName.pdf and upload to Canvas.)
Write about one thing of interest you took way from: MSAD Chapter 13 “System Implementation”
Write about one thing of interest you took away from the following reading:
• ISACA “Auditing Risks in Virtual IT Systems”
• ISACA “IT Audits of Cloud and SaaS”
All Questions
For the values, use the values under “Problems and Exercises, #5.43, on page 62 of the MSAD textbook 9th Edition, Global Edition.
- Practice using the CalculateProjectNPV_B.xlsx spreadsheet to calculate costs and benefits for the Customer Tracking System (Pine Valley Furniture) as you read Chapter 5 in Modern Systems Analysis and Design (MSAD). Apply the spreadsheet to illustrate cost/benefit analysis, including: Cash flow analysis, use of Net Present Value (NPV) in calculating Return on Investment (ROI), and break-even analysis
Post your answer(s), with explanation(s) in a single PDF file to Unit #3 Case Study 1 in Canvas by the published due date. Use the following naming convention: Unit-3_Assignment_My-Name.pdf where MyName is your name. E.g. “Unit-3_Assignment_William-Bailey.pdf”. Be sure to put your name in the top section of your document, and explain your answer(s) in the body of your assignment document.
Write about one thing you took away from reading MSAD Chapter 12?
- MSAD Ch. 12 “Designing Distributed and Internet Systems”