1. Although the presentation was successful, Rick and Carla ask you to create a checklist of presentation dos and don’ts that would be helpful for IT staff people who deliver presentations.
2. Rick and Carla also want you to review the DFDs that they prepared to see if you have any suggestions for improvement. If you have access to a copier, make a copy of the DFDs shown in Chapter 5 and then write your notes directly on the diagrams.
3. Michael Jeremy, vice president of finance, was interested in the financial analysis tools that Rick and Carla used in the presentation. Rick has asked you to write a memo to Mr. Jeremy explaining each tool, with a specific description of how it is used, and what results can be obtained. Before you do this, you should review the material in Part C of the Systems Analyst’s Toolkit.
4. Although SWL decided to develop the ESIP system in-house, Ann Hon, director of information technology, has requested a report on the trend toward outsourcing software development. Perform Internet research to get up-to-date information about this topic, and prepare a memo for Ms. Hon. Be sure to cite your sources of information.

Systems analyst Rick Williams and programmer/analyst Carla Moore continued to work on a logical model of the payroll system. Meanwhile, the information systems department recently purchased and installed Visible Analyst, a CASE toolkit that supports logical and physical modeling. Rick and Carla traveled to Massachusetts to attend a one-week workshop to learn how to use the package.
After returning from their trip, Rick and Carla decided to create the logical model for the payroll system with Visible Analyst. They felt that the time spent now would pay off in later phases of the project. Rick and Carla used the manual DFDs they created in Chapter 5 to create computerized DFDs using Visible Analyst. Now all related items for the new system are stored in the CASE tool.