Factors that contribute to a successful development process

Factors that contribute to a successful development process

1. careful management by being produced on time and within the allocated budget

2. Management and end user involvement at appropriate times

   • projects will usually have a project sponsor (senior manager) who have asked for problem to be solved
     • people ICT staff report to
     • give information on existing and new system
       • including what it must be able to do
     • set up budget and time scale
       • take on active role to ensure not exceeded
   • end users- the people who will use system day to day
     • useful input on ideals
   • How it helps
     • clear about objectives for project
       • clear on scope and requirements before its started
     • agree budget and timescale
     • agree on milestones and deliverables
     • consulted during analysis phase
       • development team full understand area of buisness
     • check system supply management info as well as deal with day to day transactions
     • managers involved in areas of projects can be consulted on how things work
     • project sponsor present at progress meeting
     • ensure development team producing system they actually need

3. Effective ICT teamwork

   • large and cannot be completed by one person in reasonable time
     • completed by team
       • each memeber given proportion of overall task
       • unequal division in work cause problems
         • may have to work harder than others
         • may work as individuals
       • could work with someone you don't like
   • need to reach consensus on overall aims and goals
   • reasons for working in a team
     • may ICT tasks far to big to be performed alone
     • brings people with different expertise together
     • can bounce ideas off one another
     • effective teams produce work superior to individual work

4. clear timescales

   • once small tasks have timescale, easy to work out overall time
   • milestones can be used where comleted by certain date
   • review project to ensure on track

5. deliverables

   • smaller tasks that make up project
   • agreed in advance
   • meet with user/sponsor to sign off deliverables
   • agree before starting