Week 5 Assignment
Jack Harrison INF 620 Management of Information Systems
Professor Chiji Ohayia
January 14, 2013

WEEK 5 ASSIGNMENT
This paper is to fulfill the requirements for week five assignment, specifically to analyze a business task that could like to computerize. To show how one could use the steps of the information systems development life cycle as illustrated in Figure 12.3(O’Brien, p.486), to include operational feasibility, technical feasibility and legal/political feasibility (Fig. 12.4) as it applies to the business. This paper will also discuss the five phases of project management as shown in figure 12.20 (O’Brien, p.507). This paper will include possible task as an example of computerizing a process used in the author’s present company.
A Project Life Cycle History has shown time and time again that the possibility successful project is directly related to the amount of planning and preparation that is taken place. One valuable tool is the project life cycle. It does not matter how simple or complex the project is the project life cycle is a way to organize and successfully complete a project. The project life cycle refers to a sequence of activities to complete one’s goals or objectives. Life cycle can be broken up into a series of steps; most common are four or five steps. This paper will discuss the project life cycle as shown in the text, which uses the five components as shown in figure 1.
Figure 1
Identify problems, determine if there is a need for a solution, and if the possible solution is feasible

Analyze needs of company and their stakeholders, why is there a need for a solution. Is it possible to install a solution?

Develop procedure changes to meet functional objectives, define the procedure changes required to gain objectives. Test the solution to see if the solution will perform