Feasibility Analysis

Technical Feasibility (risky):

Familiarity with application (moderate)
 The users have a basic understanding of online application due to experience with previous application.
 Project will be an extension of the previous application, which has existed for about a year.

Familiarity with technology (low)

 The developers have had no experience with developing an information system of this scope which makes the project
very risky.
 Development tools and products for application development are available in the marketplace; however, we have very
limited experience with them.

Project size (high)

 We estimate that the project is considerably large in size.
 The project will be integrated with other systems and databases which could cause potential problems down the road.
 There are seven colleges within the university and X number of majors which make creating a graduation plan for
each major complex.
 Even with the number of people on the development team, the complexity of the project makes the project difficult to
manage.

Economic feasibility:
Development Costs
 Database
 Upgrade Software
 Web Site development

Operational Cost
 Support of Database, Hardware, Software & Website
 Services

Tangible Benefits
 Saving Time & Labor for advising staff

Intangible Benefits
 More efficient advising
 More accurate degree audits
 Excellent tool for directing students

Organizational Feasibility (excellent):

Project Champion
 Dr. Christine Salter, ITEC Faculty Academic Advisor

Steering Committee
 There is a strong support of the project within the Steering Committee
 Jim Graham, RU IS Department
 Becky Alls, RU Registrar’s Office
 Susan Underwood, RU CIST Advising Coordinator

Users
 The ultimate users will be RU Students and RU Faculty advisors who have interest in continuing to access student
degree audits.
 The organization should be very accepting of this project.
 Staff and Students should be very accepting of this project.
 Feasibility Analysis
 Staff and Students have shown great interest having an automated graduation plan on the internet.