Administrivia

• Review Exam 3

Chapter 5

• Identifying and Selecting Systems Development Projects

• Exercise #1.  Create a conceptual data model for the following organizational terms:

  • Locations

  • Units

  • Functions

  • Processes

  • Data

  • Information Systems

   

• Exercise #2.  Create a few matrices using the above terms as rows and columns.  What do the cells tell you?

• Exercise #3.  Suppose you are employed by an IT vendor.  Your boss asks you to visit a new client and “find out as much as you can about them”.  Would the above terms help you?  In what order would you ask about them?

Chapter 6

• Initiating and Planning Systems Development Projects

• ROI Example

• P&E 6.4

Chapter 7

• Determining System Requirements

Assignment(s) due next week

• Prepare for final exam.  Here is a study guide for the exam.