System Analysis and Design?

Question

Situation: Your boss, the IT manager, was ready to explode. "Why can't we get our priorities straight," he fumed. "Here we go again, working on a low-value project, just because it is a favourite of the marketing group. I wish we could get away from departmental politics! I want you to draft a memo that proposes a system review committee for this company. Explain the advantages.

Above is my assignment question, but i am not too understand about that. what mean is that? Can somebody tell me? what mean of priorities straight?

Answer 1

At one point in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer[apostrophe]s Stone, Hermione says, ". . . before you do something to get us killed, or worse yet, expelled." Ron comments, "She needs to get her priorities straight."

Priorities are the ordering of things into their relative importance or urgency. Sometimes a thing goes to the top of the priority list for a reason that is not really valid, such as because it is more fun to work on, or someone influential has ordered that it be given top priority even though they do not even know what the competing priorities are. To get your priorities straight, then, is to have a priority list -- an order in which you will work on them, give them attention -- which is the most efficient and productive possible. Sometimes that means getting a lot of little junk out of the way which are not in themselves that important, but which are urgent. That is, have very close deadlines after which there are negative consequences for not having gotten them done.

An example would be to get out the publicity for a charity fund-raising event, which may not be all that critical to the success of the company, but which needs to get out in the next day or two in order to have any value at all to the event. Then concentrate on the profit-making project that will have the most long-term benefits, and work your way down the list, getting time-critical stuff out of your way as it comes along.

[Sorry, my apostrophe is on the fritz again. Can anyone really fix this Firefox bug?)