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Feasibility Study: The First Step
It never pays to just jump into developing a system. Usually, it’s a good
idea to do a feasibility study rst. e easiest part of the feasibility study is
determining whether the system is technically feasible. Sometimes, how-
ever, it might not be feasible because the company doesn’t have the techni-
cal expertise to do the job. A good system analyst will go one step further
and see if it’s feasible to outsource the project to people that can do the job.
Sometimes, you’ll nd that the technology is just not robust enough. For
example, many years ago I wanted to deliver voice-recognition devices to
the oor of the New York Stock Exchange. e technology at that time was
just too prim ...