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title: "25-cost-benefit-analysis"
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- info201
- lecture
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# justifying a project
- of difficult to prove justification
- three criteria
- need
- funds
- strong will
# deciding whether to pursue a project
- what the project address
- a problem
- opportunity
- directive
- time frame
- overall priority
- what options do you have
# Case study
![library web system](https://i.imgur.com/KXOOiQ9.png)
# Feasability analysis
- should we build it (organisational)
- nature and strength of need
- strategic alignment? overall priority?
- stakeholder support? Champion?
- e.g., (otago uni)
- document management system - legislated
- student management system - mission critical
- hard to share multimedia (otago capture) - problem
- online teaching - opportunity
- can we bulid it (techinical)
- complecity (higher complexity -> higher risk)
- familiarity and expertise (low familiarity -> higher risk)
- size (larger -> higher risk)
- compatitibilty (with existing systems; less -> higher risk)
- e.g., IBM police 90's fil
- will it be worth it (economic)
- includes considerations of risk and uncertainty
- may revisit due to uncertainty