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Analysis Methods
There are many analysis methods organization use to collect data such as interviewing, questionnaires, directly observing users, and analyzing procedures and other documents. One of the most effective ways to collect data is interviewing. Interviewing is one of the primary ways to gather information about an information system. According to "Analysis Methods" (2010), A good system analyst must be good at interviewing and no project can be conduct without interviewing. There are many ways to arrange an effectively interview and no one is superior to others. However, experience analysts commonly accept some following best practices for an effective interview. (p. 1) Some of the ways to …show more content…
People often do not have a completely accurate appreciation of what they do or how they do it. This I especially true concerning infrequent events, issues from the past, or issues for which people have considerable passion. Since people cannot always be trusted to reliably interpret and report their own actions, analyst can supplement and corroborate what people say by watching what they do or by obtaining relatively objective measures of how people behave in work situation. However, observation can cause people to change their normal operation behavior. (p. 1)
The fourth one is analyzing procedures and other documents. By examining existing system and organizational documentation, system analyst can find out details about current system and the organization these systems support. One of the best systems is joint application design (JAD). JAD is a facilitated, team-based approach for defining the requirements for new or modified information systems. JAD was started at IBM in the late 1970s. According to "Analysis Methods"