d.). In this case the Jefferson County School system administrators did not do well at all. They did not develop at project team nor assign a project manager in order to oversee the implementation. They had no real implementation plan in place that laid out all the steps that needed to be done. There was no risk management plan developed so as risks presented themselves they had no idea how to handle them. There was no real testing phase in order to work through any of the bugs that the system had. They just put the system into production and then discovered that it didn't work. They had no plan in place to keep the old system up and running so that work could continue if the new system did not work. The implementation of the new software was basically a disaster.

Critique the performance of JCSS management in the purchase of this system.

The performance of JCSS management in the purchase of this system was a failure. They did not evaluate each system to the extent that they could guarantee that it would do what they needed it to do. Although they had many people on the team and each had ideas that were vital to the process they did not seem to have the right people on the team in order to make this process successful. There was not enough participation from the IT department from the beginning so that they knew whether what they were buying was going to be useable in the end.

The implementation problems illustrated in this case may occur when the system is built by the IS department and they build it using the SDLC methodology. Do the lessons of this case apply...

The SDLC is basically the part of process in which the coding/programming is put to use solving the problem in regards to an existing or planned application. The stages of SDLC can vary somewhat but generally include the following: conceptualization, requirements and cost/benefits analysis, detailed specification of the software requirements, software design, programming, testing, user and technical training, and maintenance (SDLC Resources, 2009).
Yes, the lessons in this case definitely apply to SDLC. These phases are all ones that need to be done in order to be successful. If just one of these phases is skipped or not fully thought through disaster is sure to occur. Each step is important and dependent on the step before it. Without proper planning, testing, training and maintenance there is no way that a software implementation will work in the end.

References

Implementing Your Technology. (n.d.). Retrieved January 28, 2010, from National Center for Education Statistics Web site: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/tech_suite/part_4.asp

SDLC Resources. (2009). Retrieved January 28, 2010, from MKS Web site:

http://www.mks.com/sdlc

Select the Enterprise Software Best Matching Yours Needs. (2010). Retrieved January 28, 2010,

from Tool Box for IT Web site:

http://it.toolbox.com/wiki/index.php/Select_The_Enterprise_Software_Best_Matching_Y

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