Business Case for Investment
Business Case for Investment
Business Case for Investment Learning Team A has been assigned to put together research, facts, and supporting documentation for how an organization should consider, plan for, and implement new technology within the business. The paper will examine different technologies that are available to existing businesses and whether it is worth the effort, time, planning, training, and mostly importantly cost, for the organization to implement any of these new technologies. The assignment will consists of four major parts; prototyping environments and processes, testing design to include procedures and standards, sources of accessibility, and integration. A business case for investment will be made in favor of the new technologies.
Prototyping Environments and Processes Prototyping is typically used as an alternative to the software development life cycle, or SDLC. Prototyping is used, as a trial-and-error method to establish and determine how a system should operate. The trial-and-error method works by collecting the requirements for the software, developing and refining the prototype, reviewing the prototype with the user, and if the user accepts the prototype, then the next step can be taken to implement and use the system. If the user does not accept the prototype, then the steps must be re-evaluated, and changes made from there. This process is typically done through a focus group, or even interviewing individual users about the system, so that the designer or design team are able to get a better understanding of what the users want and need, so that the proper system is able to be built and designed based on that information. The users may request changes, which the designer can make and then take back to the users and see if the revised product is more what the user was originally looking for (Valacich & Schneider, 2012). The next step in the development process is called end-user development. This is
Business Case for Investment Learning Team A has been assigned to put together research, facts, and supporting documentation for how an organization should consider, plan for, and implement new technology within the business. The paper will examine different technologies that are available to existing businesses and whether it is worth the effort, time, planning, training, and mostly importantly cost, for the organization to implement any of these new technologies. The assignment will consists of four major parts; prototyping environments and processes, testing design to include procedures and standards, sources of accessibility, and integration. A business case for investment will be made in favor of the new technologies.
Prototyping Environments and Processes Prototyping is typically used as an alternative to the software development life cycle, or SDLC. Prototyping is used, as a trial-and-error method to establish and determine how a system should operate. The trial-and-error method works by collecting the requirements for the software, developing and refining the prototype, reviewing the prototype with the user, and if the user accepts the prototype, then the next step can be taken to implement and use the system. If the user does not accept the prototype, then the steps must be re-evaluated, and changes made from there. This process is typically done through a focus group, or even interviewing individual users about the system, so that the designer or design team are able to get a better understanding of what the users want and need, so that the proper system is able to be built and designed based on that information. The users may request changes, which the designer can make and then take back to the users and see if the revised product is more what the user was originally looking for (Valacich & Schneider, 2012). The next step in the development process is called end-user development. This is
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