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Surveying Current Systems Performance

Often, it is useful to review how well current systems satisfy business needs, assessing those systems that are part of the project scope.

Inevitably, users will comment on these systems during facilitated sessions or interviews. Conducting a more formal analysis to help decide:

• Whether to replace all or part of a system and its data
• Whether to reuse all or part of a system and its data
• What aspects of system performance and data quality are important to the business, for example, is accurate and complete data available when needed?

When the current systems environment has been assessed as part of an Information Strategy Plan, that assessment may be reviewed and reused where it is still valid.

A survey can be conducted using the following steps: