Unit 3 Assignment
· Break-even Analysis
· Project Scope Statements
· Group interviews and JADS
Points Possible: 50 total Due: by Sunday of the unit week, by midnight.
I. Break Even Analysis (10 points)
Assume you are put in charge of launching a new website for a local nonprofit organization.
· What costs would you need to account for?
· -Make a list of expected costs and benefits for the project. You don’t need to list values, just sources of expense.
· Create numeric cost estimates for each of the costs you listed, you are free to make up numbers.
· Calculate the net present value and return on investment.
· Include a break-even analysis. Assume a 10 percent discount rate and a five-year time horizon.
II. Project Scope Statements (15 points)
Create a sample Project Scope Statement for the website project for the nonprofit organization.
III. Interview preparation (25 points total -- complete both tasks below)
Group interviews and JADs are very powerful ways to collect system requirements, but special problems arise during group requirements collection sessions.
TASK A: Write a one page essay summarizing the special interviewing and group problems that arise in such group sessions and suggest ways that you, as a group interviewer or group facilitator, might deal with these problems.
TASK B: Adapt the following interview guide to create a new template suitable for a group interview. The new “group interview outline” should be no more than one page.