ICT393 Advanced Business Analysis and Design
Worth: 20%
This is an INDIVIDUAL assignment
Submission instructions: You should submit your assignment via the ICT393 LMS site. You can receive email notification that your assignment has been received. Late submissions will be penalised at the rate of 5 marks per day late or part thereof unless prior approval for an extension has been gained.
You should submit the report as a Word document and ensure that you include your name in the document. You must keep a copy of the final version of your submission and be prepared to provide it on request.
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Background
Some organisations use very ad hoc approaches to selecting and acquiring software that may result in them not being aware of appropriate products, or in choosing non-optimal software. Using a systematic approach to software evaluation is important to ensure that software that meets organisational requirements.
Later this trimester you will analyse and model a business process from a real organisation and then design improvements to it. The modelling will be done using a visual modelling language for representing processes called BPMN 2.0 (see Topic 5). Undertaking business process modelling and improvement requires appropriate modelling software. This assessment is intended to give you practical experience with evaluating software and also with report writing to document the evaluation process.
To do
To successfully complete this assignment, you should:
Read the Topic 8 material on software evaluation and acquisition. This will introduce you to the notions of evaluation criteria and the weighted score approach.
Investigate criteria that might be important in making a decision about which modelling software package to recommend. You should consider what you will need to do to complete the modelling in the Business Process Management and also what has been written by others about selecting this kind of software.
Choose the set of criteria to be used in the evaluation (note: there must be at least 6). You will need to justify the choice of each criterion in your report.
Determine the relative importance of each of these criteria for choosing a tool to undertake the Business Process Management. The outcome of this will be a relative weighting for each criterion.
Identify 3 possible modelling packages that support BPMN 2.0 – these will be your alternatives. Microsoft Visio must be one of them. You must be able to get access to all of them for the purposes of the evaluation – this could be by downloading a full copy (e.g. obtain Visio from Azure Dev Tools), obtaining a trial copy or getting permission to test it on someone else’s machine.
Use the weighted score method to evaluate your alternatives using the criteria and weightings you have specified. An Excel spreadsheet should be used to support the evaluation and identify which product has the highest ranking. This should use the variation of the weighted score method that includes raw scores and final scores for each criterion (see Topic 8 slides).
Determine which modelling software package you recommend.
Create a report based on your evaluation. This must follow the specified structure (see below).