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This is an individual assignment.

Scenario:

You have been asked by a senior-level executive to write a concise guide in the form of a paper on (1) what systems analysis design and project management (treat these two topics separately in sections with headers) activities entail in organizational workplaces today, and that executive is particularly interested in (2) learning about the typical responsibilities and needed skill sets of a successful system analyst and a successful project manager (treat these two topics separately in sections with headers) in the workplace.

The Task:

Drawing from the information on these topics in your course textbook (in particular, consult textbook chapters 1 and 3; also be certain to include a reference for the course textbook in your References list) and a minimum of three additional sources on this topic located through web-based research, write a four to five page paper (paragraph format, clear and concise, opened with an introductory paragraph explaining the purpose of the briefing followed by the body of your briefing and closed with a high level summary of the topics presented and discussed) in labeled sections. A search on these topics on www://scholar.google.com (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. will help you to identify academic sources, which you should find particularly helpful. For academic articles that locate through this means that do not offer full text, you should be able to access full text by looking up the article through the UNA Library's free electronic data base resource: see http://libguides.una.edu/c.php?g=189087&p=1249352 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (if you access this from off-campus locations you will need to log in with your UNAPortal credentials when prompted to do so).

Completion Requirements:

  1. Compose your paper in a Microsoft Word document.
  2. Carefully use in-text citations and provide a References list (last page of the briefing) in APA format a Microsoft Word document with a minimum length of four pages and a maximum length of five pages, not counting the required Title page, Abstract page and References page (see the sample paper link below in Requirement #4).
  3. Use APA format (this reference site (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and this sample paper (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. will help you with using correct APA formatting) for in-text citations and the entries of the References page. Make certain to absolutely avoid plagiarism in your content! Content from previous semesters in this course will result in a zero assignment grade at a minimum and potentially failure in the course depending on the extent of the violation.
  4. Submit the completed report in a Word document as an attachment to this assignment link.

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Running Head: SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN AND PROJECT MANAGER

System Analysis and Design and Project Manager
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SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN AND PROJECT MANAGER

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System Analysis and Design and Project Manager
System Analysis and Design
System analysis and design deals with development and panning of information systems through
specific understanding of what a system should do and how the components of the systems should be
implemented to work together. A system analyst solves business or organisations problems through
analysis the requirements of information systems and designing such systems by applying analysis and
design techniques. A system analyst works with a team like business and technical experts and it is always
satisfying to see that the system they designed and development are of significance to the organisations.
(Dennis, Wixom & Roth, 2009). The primary goal of a system analyst is to create a system that will add
value to the business or organisation and not just to build a wonderful system. The system analyst has to
understand the organisation to be able to build a value adding systems. System analysts sometimes serve as
change agents as they identify the organisations need for improvement and design systems to implement
the changes required, they also train and motivate the others to use the new systems. (Dennis, Wixom &
Roth, 2009)
A system Analysts is required to have a set of skills to be able to meet the organisations goals and
to build the useful systems for the organisation. These skills include but not limited to; technical skills, a
system analyst has to have technical skills to be able to understand the organisations existing technical
environment, the new systems and how to integrate both to form a technical solution. Due to the fast
change in technology world, Analysts have to keep themselves updated on the latest, t...


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