Tasks: Development Strategies

1. Determine whether vertical software packages exist for training operations management.
Search the Internet and draft a message describing the results.
2. Investigate the possibility of outsourcing the TIMS system. List the options, together with advantages and disadvantages of each.
3. Perform three tasks to analyze in-house development of TIMS:
1. Visit the SCR Data Library and review the questionnaire summary and costbenefit summary;
2. Organize this data into a spreadsheet with columns for years 0, 1, 2, and 3, and rows for the items. Be sure to group developmental costs, operational costs, and revenues separately;
3. Use the spreadsheet data to calculate payback, ROI, and NPV for the TIMS project.
4. Jesse wants my thoughts on how we can use prototyping for TIMS. She also wants me to prepare a system requirements document and a management presentation.

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