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Gopika Juneja, Lovely Professional University Unit 14: Alternative System Building Approaches

Unit 14: Alternative System Building Approaches Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

14.1 Alternative System Building Approaches
14.1.1 Traditional Systems Lifecycle
14.1.2 Prototyping
14.1.3 Application Software Packages

14.1.4 End-User Development
14.2 Management Opportunities Challenges and Solutions
14.2.1 Unproven Business Models
14.2.2 Business Process Change Requirements
14.3 Summary

14.4 Keywords
14.5 Review Questions
14.6 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

 Understand alternative system building approaches
 Describe Management Opportunities Challenges and Solutions
Introduction

System differs in terms of their size and technological complexity, and in terms of the
organizational problems they are meant to solve. Because there are different kinds of systems,
a number of methods have been developed to build systems. In this unit we will discuss various
alternative system building approaches. Also we will discuss management opportunities
challenges and solutions. Gopika Juneja, Lovely Professional University
14.1 Alternative System Building Approaches

This section describes these alter native methods: the traditional systems lifecycle, prototyping,
application software packages, end-user development, and outsourcing.

14.1.1 Traditional Systems Lifecycle

The system lifecycle is the oldest method for building information systems and is used today for
medium or large complex systems projects. The lifecycle for an information system has stages:
 Project definition
 Systems study

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