Managing Systems Projects and Requirements Modeling

Overview

Project management is a key component of any successful system development project. This week we look at how to plan, schedule, monitor, and report on IT projects.

Next, we look at the requirements modeling process which includes:

• gathering facts about a systems project
• preparing documentation
• creating models that will be used to design and develop the system

Objectives

At the end of this week, you will be able to:

• Illustrate project priorities in the form of a project triangle.
• Explain project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting.
• Create a work breakdown structure.
• Identify task patterns.
• Calculate a project’s critical path.
• Describe project monitoring and control techniques to keep a project on schedule.
• Explain how project status is reported.
• Describe project management software and how it can be of assistance.
• Create a risk management plan.
• Describe why projects sometimes fail.
• Explain system requirements and the challenges associated with the requirements engineering process.
• Compare and contrast functional and non-functional requirements.
• Apply team-based requirements engineering techniques, including joint application development (JAD), rapid application development (RAD), and agile methods.
• Develop a fact-finding plan for gathering requirements.
• Conduct an interview to gather system requirements.
• Use other requirements gathering techniques, including document review, observation, questionnaires and surveys, brainstorming, sampling, and research.
• Explain how requirements are gathered in agile projects.
• Utilize different requirements representation techniques, including natural language, diagrams, and models.
• Explain how to validate and verify requirements.
• Explain how tools can help with requirements engineering activities.

Learning Activities

1. Read Module 3: Managing Systems Projects.
2. Work through Module 3: Appliance Warehouse Case.
3. Read Module 4: Requirements Modeling.
4. Work through Module 4: Appliance Warehouse Case.
5. Watch GANTT Charts Video.
6. Watch Manager of Software Engineering, Optum Video.
7. Watch Senior Business Analyst, Optum Video.
8. Watch Requirements Engineering Video.

Assignments

1. Submit Module 3: Appliance Warehouse Case.
2. Submit Module 4: Appliance Warehouse Case.
3. Take the Module 3 Quiz.
4. Take the Module 4 Quiz.