Project Progress Reports

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Use Case: Project Progress Reports One of the biggest problems with project management is updating, monitoring, and communicating the progress of a project. How often should progress be updated? How often should progress reports be distributed? To whom should the progress reports be distributed? In what form should the progress reports be distributed? What software programs can or should be used? What is the security level of project progress? As part of developing the need in the initial investigation step in the systems development life cycles (SDLC) process, a constructive method is use case. Use case is a technique for capturing requirements with written scenarios in non-technical terminology that describe how a system interacts with a user or another system (University of Phoenix, Course Syllabus, 2006). There are two fundamental pieces, along with how they relate, to bear in mind: the actors and the goals. The actors are everyone and everything that will use (or be used) by the project progress reports, and the goals, which are what the actors want to achieve. The use case will describe the goals achieved by the actors who perform tasks (Carr & Meehan, 2005). Use Case Application to Project Progress Reports Project progress reports allow those bringing about the progress on a project to record what and how much has been accomplished on the project, managers to monitor the progress for decision-making, and those that rely on the status of the projects progress for interrelating tasks, to inform and be informed about the projects progress. The actors tasks include accomplishing project work, recording and editing project work accomplished, and reviewing project progress for goal accomplishment, along with administra... ... middle of paper ... ...oject progress? were addressed. References Carr, N. & Meehan, T., (2005). What¡¦s the Problem? Retrieved October 14, 2006, from http://alistapart.com/articles/whatstheproblem Cockburn, A. (2006). Use Case Fundamentals. Retrieved October 14, 2006, from http://members.aol.com/acockburn/papers/AltIntro.htm Stair, R. & Reynolds, G. (2003). Fundamentals of Information Systems, Second Edition. [University of Phoenix Custom Edition e-text]. Boston. MA: Course Technology, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc. Retrieved October 1, 2006, from University of Phoenix, Resource, CIS564 ¡V Information Management in Business Course Web site. University of Phoenix. (2006). Course Syllabus. Retrieved September 26, 2006, from University of Phoenix, CIS/564.4 - Information Management in Business Web site, https://classroom.phoenix.edu/afm203/secure/view-thread.jspa?threadID=1176244

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