...Week 1 Reading * Chapter 1: The Systems Development Environment * Chapter 2: The Sources of Software Problems and Exercises * Chapter 1, Problems/Exercises, Questions 1 and 8. * Chapter 2, Problems/Exercises, Questions 3 and 4. Submit your assignment (in a single MS Word document) to the Dropbox located on the silver tab at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these step-by-step instructions or watch this Tutorial Dropbox Tutorial. The dropbox for this assignment is called "Week 1: Problems and Exercises". See the Syllabus section "Due Dates for Assignments & Exams" for due date information. Course Project Company Overview Package Petrie's Electronics Case * Petrie's Electronics Case, Chapter 2, Questions 1, 2, and 4. See Course Project tabs underneath this week and the Course Home. Submit your assignment to the Dropbox located on the silver tab at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these step-by-step instructions or watch this Tutorial Dropbox Tutorial. The dropbox for this assignment is called "Week 1: Petries' Electronics Cases Ch 2". See the Syllabus section "Due Dates for Assignments & Exams" for due date information. Week 2 Reading * Chapter 3: Managing the Information Systems Project * Chapter 4: Systems Planning and Selection Problems and Exercises * Chapter 3, Problems/Exercises, Questions 2 and 4. * Chapter 4, Problems/Exercises...
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...CASE: PETRIE’S ELECTRONICS Systems Planning and Selection Now that the “No Costumer Escapes “project team has been formed and a plan has been developed for distributing project information, Jim began working on the project scope statement,workbook,and baseline project pan. He first drafted the project scope statement and posted it on the project’s intranet (see PE Figure 4-1).Once posted on the intranet, he sent a short e-mail, Jim’s office phone rang. “Jim, it’s Sally. I just looked over the scope statement and have a few comments.” “Great, “replied Jim, “it’s just a draft. What do you think?” “Well,I think that we need to explain more about how the system will work and why we think this new system will more than pay for itself.” “Those are good suggestions; I am sure many others will also want to know that information. However, the scope statement is a pretty high-level document and doesn’t get into too much detail. Basically, it’s purpose is to just formally announce the project, providing a very high-level description as well as briefly listing the objectives, key assumptions, and stakeholders. The other documents that I am working on, the workbook and the baseline project plan are intended to provide more details on specific deliverables, costs, benefits, and so on. So, anyway, that type of more detailed information will becoming next.” “Oh, OK, that makes sense. I have never been on a project like this, so this is all new to me,” said Sally. “Don’t worry, “replied...
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...This page intentionally left blank Download at www.Pin5i.Com Essentials of Systems Analysis and Design Download at www.Pin5i.Com Editorial Director: Sally Yagan Editor in Chief: Eric Svendsen Executive Editor: Bob Horan Editorial Assistant: Ashlee Bradbury Director of Marketing: Patrice Lumumba Jones Executive Marketing Manager: Anne Fahlgren Senior Managing Editor: Judy Leale Production Project Manager: Kelly Warsak Senior Operations Supervisor: Arnold Vila Operations Specialist: Cathleen Petersen Creative Director: Blair Brown Senior Art Director/Design Supervisor: Janet Slowik Text Designer: Michael Fruhbeis Creative Director/Cover: Jayne Conte Cover Designer: Suzanne Duda Cover Art: Fotolia/3d mosaic/©Redshinestudio Manager, Rights and Permissions: Hessa Albader Media Project Manager: Lisa Rinaldi Media Editor: Denise Vaughn Full-Service Project Management: Tiffany Timmerman/S4Carlisle Publishing Services Composition: S4Carlisle Publishing Services Printer/Binder: Courier/Kendallville Cover Printer: Lehigh-Phoenix Color/Hagerstown Text Font: ITCCentury Book Credits and acknowledgments borrowed from other sources and reproduced, with permission, in this textbook appear on appropriate page within text. Microsoft® and Windows® are registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation in the U.S.A. and other countries. Screen shots and icons reprinted with permission from the Microsoft Corporation. This book is not sponsored or endorsed by or affiliated with the Microsoft...
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...facing Harvard Management Company (HMC). The HMC Board would soon be reviewing the Policy Portfolio – the long-term asset mix that was designed to balance Harvard’s aversion to risk against its needs for long-term endowment returns. The Policy Portfolio was the cornerstone of endowment management at Harvard, the “neutral” portfolio mix that anchored the central tendency of actual asset allocations over time, as well as the benchmark against which actual performance was measured and incentive compensation was calculated. The Board was also interested in a variety of related issues, including the complexity of the investment strategies employed, the effectiveness of their risk controls, and the design and administration of their compensation systems. The Role of the Endowment Harvard University had been founded in 1636, and from the beginning its endowment played an important role in the financial structure of the institution. As of June 2000, the endowment managed by HMC totaled approximately $18.2 billion. Each of the various schools within the University owned “units” in the endowment, much like an individual would own shares in a mutual fund. Spending from the endowment was distributed pro-rata to all schools on the basis of the units each school owned. The annual spending from the endowment represented approximately 27% of the total budget of the University, ranging from 16% for the Business School (because it had only a small endowment relative to its operating budget) to a high...
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