Daniel Austin W. W. Grainger, Inc. W3C / WSAWG Spring 2002 Overview of CSF Analysis CSF analysis is: A method developed at MIT's Sloan school by John Rockart to guide businesses in creating and measuring success Widely used for technology and architectural planning in enterprise I/T A top-down methodology that is especially suitable for designing systems as opposed to applications A reductionist method for going from an abstract vision to concrete requirements What Is a Critical Success Factor? A key area where satisfactory performance is required for the organization to achieve its goals A means of identifying the tasks and requirements needed for success At the lowest level, CSFs become concrete requirements A means to prioritize requirements The CSF Method Start with a vision: mission statement Develop 5-6 high level goals Develop hierarchy of goals and their success factors Leads to concrete requirements at the lowest level of decomposition (a single, implementable idea) Along the way, identify the problems being solved and the assumptions being made Cross-reference usage scenarios and problems with requirements Results of the Analysis Mission statement Hierarchy of goals and CSFs Lists of requirements, problems, and assumptions Analysis matrices Problems vs...
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Daniel Austin W. W. Grainger, Inc. W3C / WSAWG Spring 2002 Overview of CSF Analysis CSF analysis is: A method developed at MIT's Sloan school by John Rockart to guide businesses in creating and measuring success Widely used for technology and architectural planning in enterprise I/T A top-down methodology that is especially suitable for designing systems as opposed to applications A reductionist method for going from an abstract vision to concrete requirements What Is a Critical Success Factor? A key area where satisfactory performance is required for the organization to achieve its goals A means of identifying the tasks and requirements needed for success At the lowest level, CSFs become concrete requirements A means to prioritize requirements The CSF Method Start with a vision: mission statement Develop 5-6 high level goals Develop hierarchy of goals and their success factors Leads to concrete requirements at the lowest level of decomposition (a single, implementable idea) Along the way, identify the problems being solved and the assumptions being made Cross-reference usage scenarios and problems with requirements Results of the Analysis Mission statement Hierarchy of goals and CSFs Lists of requirements, problems, and assumptions Analysis matrices Problems vs...
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The Seven Phases Of The Systems Development Life Cycle During Implementation several approaches can be taken to begin actual use of the new system; these range from direct cutover where the company using the system immediately stops using the old system in favor of the new one, to staged conversion where sections of the new system are used to gradually implemented to replace the existing system...	2 / 372
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