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.

Follow the structure shown in Figure 5-10                                    

 

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.