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Analysis and Design
Technical Feasibility, Economic Feasibility, Operational Feasibility, Legal
In technical feasibility the following issues are taken into consideration.
Whether the required technology is available or not
Whether the required resources are available -
- Manpower- programmers, testers & debuggers
- Software and hardware
Once the technical feasibility is established, it is important to consider
the monetary factors also. Since it might happen that developing a particular
system may be technically possible but it may require huge investments and benefits
may be less. For evaluating this, economic feasibility of the proposed system
is carried out.
For any system if the expected benefits equal or exceed the expected costs,
the system can be judged to be economically feasible. In economic feasibility,
cost benefit analysis is done in which expected costs and benefits are evaluated.
Economic analysis is used for evaluating the effectiveness of the proposed system.
In economic feasibility, the most important is cost-benefit
analysis. As the name suggests, it is an analysis of the costs to be incurred
in the system and benefits derivable out of the system. Click on the link below
which will get you to the page that explains what cost benefit analysis is and
how you can perform a cost benefit analysis.
Cost Benefit Analysis
Operational feasibility is mainly concerned with issues like whether the system
will be used if it is developed and implemented. Whether there will be resistance
from users that will effect the possible application benefits? The essential questions
that help in testing the operational feasibility of a system are following.
Does management support the project?
Are the users not happy with current business practices? Will it reduce the
time (operation) considerably? If yes, then they will welcome the change and the
Have the users been involved in the planning and development of the project?
Early involvement reduces the probability of resistance towards the new system.
Will the proposed system really benefit the organization? Does the overall
response increase? Will accessibility of information be lost? Will the system
effect the customers in considerable way?
It includes study concerning contracts, liability, violations, and legal other
traps frequently unknown to the technical staff.
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