What Facts Does the Systems Analyst Need to Collect and When?
• When do you perform fact-finding? • Fact-finding is most crucial to the systems planning and systems analysis phases. • It is during these phases that the analyst learns about the vocabulary, problems, opportunities, constraints, requirements, and priorities of a business and a system. • During systems design, fact-finding becomes technical as the analyst attempts to learn more about the technology selected for the new system. • During the systems support phase, fact-finding is important in determining that a system has decayed to a point where the system needs to be redeveloped.
