ICS project analysis and design of a computerized grant and project management information system (GPMIS)

Abstract

The objective of this documentation is to define and record in detail all aspects and handicaps therein of the existing semi-computerized AMREF Grant and Project Management Information System (AHREF-GPMIS) and to formalizemy impression of the system. , The analysis phase had as its ~ltimate objective, the determination of the following:a) the goals and objectives of the system b) how well the existing system meets these goals and objectives c) what aspects of the existing system hamper the fulfillment of these goals and objectives Asa first step in the analysis, facts were collected during July -August 1986 by analyzing procedures, report forms and existing file structures. Interviews were also conducted with the people who work with the system. Second was the tracing back of system output reports to the processing by means of systems flowcharts and narration; This enabled the entire system to be viewed in a better perspective. Lastly, resources and constraints were isolated before a problem definition was evolved from the foregoing.