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You need to conduct fact-finding for more information about the proposed system for your plan. Make a list of people whom you might want to interview.

1. Considering internal and external factors that affect information systems, which factors do you foresee will have the greatest impact on the system proposed for Learn Well? Defend your answer.
2. What other fact-finding techniques should you consider?

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Learn Well Task 2 ~ Text-2

Learn Well

Task 2

Learn Well has retained your services as a project manager to assist in the development of a new information system for the schools administrative needs.

Background

After an initial conversation with Regina and Nancy, the schools administrators, they have decided that pursuing the possibility of an information system is a good idea. Mildred, the administrative assistant in particular, is feeling the strain of the increased workload associated with the rapid growth in the student population. The system that she has been using, of spreadsheets and word processing documents, worked well when enrollments were smaller, but now the amount of time spent copying information from one place to another is overwhelming, and the possibility of errors is increasing. An information system is necessary to cope with the growing administrative workload. After your meeting you developed a business profile, organization model, business process model, and began to identify information and processes for Learn Wells new information system.

Based on your initial conversation and the work that you prepared from task 1, you begin planning to conduct a preliminary investigation. You call Regina and discuss with her the strategic plan for the school including its mission and vision. You explain to her that planning IT systems and projects requires a similar approach to strategic planning as the school likely took when it initially created its mission, vision, and strategic plan. She starts by asking you questions about the next steps for developing the information system. You tell Regina that you will put together a memo for detailing the need for strategic planning and describing the stages of preliminary systems investigations.