Analyzing Procedures and
Other Documents
Types of information to be discovered:
Problems with existing system
Opportunity to meet new need
Organizational direction
Names of key individuals
Values of organization
Special information processing
circumstances
Reasons for current system design
Rules for processing data
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Analyzing Procedures and
Other Documents (cont.)
Four types of useful documents
Written work procedures
• Describes how a job is performed
• Includes data and information used and created in
the process of performing the job or task
Business form
• Explicitly indicate data flow in or out of a system
Report
• Enables the analyst to work backwards from the
report to the data that generated it
Description of current information system