CT026-3-1

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

Week 8: Feasibility Study

Tutorial Work in pairs

Oakwood Community College needs a new Student Registration System to replace the
current manual way of handling the tasks. During the early stage, your team leader
suggested that a feasibility study needs to be conducted.

1. Explain FOUR (4) types of feasibility study that can be conducted by your team
members before proceed to the development stage. (8 Marks)

2. In the operational feasibility, your team members suggested to use PIECES

framework. Discuss the PIECES framework. (12 Marks)

3. One of the team members did not agree with the suggestion to conduct feasibility
study. Discuss the importance of feasibility study to this project. (3 Marks)

4. It is important to estimate all costs and benefits before starting to develop the new
Student Registration System. Explain when would the team members be able to
perform cost-benefits analysis? (2 Marks)

5. The team leader has asked you to provide detail of the cost classifications which
need to be considered for this project. Explain and list ONE (1) example for each
cost classifications that are related to the project: (10 Marks)

i) Development Cost and Operational Cost.

ii) Tangible Cost and Intangible Cost.
iii) Direct Cost and Indirect Cost.
iv) Fixed Cost and Variable Cost.

6. Your team member was a bit confused with positive benefits and cost-avoidance
benefits. Explain the difference between positive benefits and cost-avoidance
benefits. (5 Marks)