4-36. Look over the scope statement (PE Figure 4-1). If you were an employee at Petrie’s Electronics, would you want to work on this project? Why or why not?
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4-37. If you were part of the management team at Petrie’s Electronics, would you approve the project outlined in the scope statement in PE Figure 4-1? What changes, if any, need to be made to the document?
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4-38. Identify a preliminary set of tangible and intangible costs you think would occur for this project and the system it describes. What intangible benefits do you anticipate for the system?
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4-39. What do you consider to be the risks of the project as you currently understand it? Is this a low-, medium-, or high-risk project? Justify your answer. Assuming you were part of Jim’s team, would you have any particular risks?
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4-40. If you were assigned to help Jim with this project, how would you utilize the concept of incremental commitment in the design of the baseline project plan?
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4-41. If you were assigned to Jim’s team for this project, when in the project schedule (in what phase or after which activities are completed) do you think you could develop an economic analysis of the proposed system? What economic feasibility factors do you think would be relevant?
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4-42. If you were assigned to Jim’s team for this project, what activities would you conduct in
order to prepare the details for the baseline project plan? Explain the purpose of each activity and show a timeline or schedule for these activities.
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4-43. In Question 4, you analyzed the risks associated with this project. Once deployed, what
are the potential operational risks of the proposed system? How do you factor operational risks into a systems development plan?
