Chapter 11
Systems Analysis
Principles
• Effective systems development requires a team effort from
stakeholders, users, managers, systems development specialists,
and various support personnel, and it starts with careful planning.
• Systems development starts with investigation and analysis of
existing systems.
Systems Development
Overview
• Systems development involves analyzing problems, designing and
building information systems to solve those problems.
In other cases, systems development might involve
purchasing or leasing a system such as an enterprise
resource planning (ERP) package.
Systems Development
Overview
Systems Development
Overview
Participants in Systems Development
Systems Development
Overview
Participants in Systems
Development (cont. )
Systems Development
Overview
Systems Development
Overview
• Information systems planning: Translating strategic and
organizational goals into systems development initiatives.
• IS planning should ensure better use of IS resources
including funds, personnel, and time for scheduling specific
projects.
Systems Development
Overview
Systems Development
Overview
Establishing objectives for systems development
(Cont. )
Systems Development
Overview
Establishing objectives for systems development
(Cont. )
Systems Development
Lifecycles
Traditional Systems Development Life
Cycle
• Traditional systems development (also known as the waterfall
approach) is a common SDLC
Phase 1
System
Investigation
System Investigation
System Investigation
System Investigation
System Investigation
Feasibility Analysis: Assesses technical, economic, legal,
operational and schedule feasibility.
Technical feasibility: Can hardware/software/other system
components be acquired or developed to solve the problem?
Economic feasibility: Does the project make financial sense?
Legal feasibility: Can laws or regulations prevent or limit a
systems development project?
Operational feasibility: Can the project be put into action?
Schedule feasibility: Can the project be completed in a
reasonable time?
System Investigation
Phase 2
System Analysis
System
•
Analysis
After a project has been approved for further study, the next step
is to answer the question, ‘What must the information system do
to solve the problem?’
• Overall emphasis of system analysis:
System
Analysis
System
Analysis
System
Analysis
• Data Analysis: The manipulation of collected data so that the
development team members who are participating in systems
analysis can use the data.
• Data flow diagrams and entity-relationship diagrams
are useful during data analysis to show data flows and
relationships between various objects and activities.
System
Analysis
System
Analysis
System
C.
Analysis
If systems analysis report
shows that it will be beneficial
to develop one or more new
systems or to make changes
to existing ones → Systems
design begins.