Chapter 8, Problem 1LO

Program Plan Intro

Different participants involved in System Development Process.

Explanation of Solution

A system development process goes through many stages with the participation of some members. Different participants that are involved in the development of System process and their role is discussed below.

Project Manager: Project manager plays an important role in the system development process. The project manager ensure that all the objectives are met during the development process. He is also responsible with coordinating all people and resources needed to complete the project successfully. The main tasks of project manager include project scope, ensuring project quality, training personnel, facilitating communications, risk management and acquiring necessary equipment.

System Analyst: System analyst hold expertise in analyzing and designing business systems. System analysts continuously interact with stakeholders, users, management, vendors and suppliers to architect the blueprint for the proposed system. Their main role is to analyze the requirements and design the system to meet those requirements.

Programmer: The main role of programmer is to develop programs for the system according to the requirements of their clients or users. They take system designs as input from the system analysis teams and build necessary modules based on them.

Users: Users are the personnel for which system is developed or people who will continuously interact with the system. They play an important role in this process as they interact with the system and use the system.

Stakeholders: Stakeholders make investments for the development of the system and make benefits from the system after its development.

Technical specialists: Technical specialists might include database and telecommunication experts, hardware engineers and software or hardware suppliers who deal with the data base and the hardware issues respectively.