Remnants, Inc., with headquarters in St. Louis, manufactures designer clothing. The company markets and services its products by region, with each functioning as a profit center. Each region has a manager, an accounting department, a human resources department, and several areaoffices to market and service the products. Each area office has sales, service, and administrative departments whose managers report to an area manager. The New York area office departedfrom the standard organizational structure by establishing a branch office to market and service the firm's products in Boston. A branch manager who reports directly to the New York area manager heads the local office. The Boston branch manager is encouraging the New York areamanager to consider a new information system to handle the local branch's growing information needs. The New York area manager and the eastern region manager want to establish a projectteam with employees from the region, area, and branch office. The team will assess theinformation needs at the Boston branch office and develop system recommendations. Thefollowing employees have been appointed to the project team, with Keith Nash as chairperson:

Eastern Region Office Kurt Johnson, Budget Supervisor Sally Brown, Training Director New

York Area Office Keith Nash, Administrative Director Boston Branch Heidi Meyer, Branch andSales Manager Bobby Roos, Assistant Branch and Service Manager Joe Gonzalez, SalespersonJuana Martinez, Serviceperson

a. What is System Analysis? What is a Feasibility Analysis? What are the components of afeasibility Analysis?

b. Project team members contribute their skills to help accomplish a given objective.

Characteristics of group members can influence the functioning and effectiveness of aproject team. Identify some of these characteristics.

c. Given the team's composition, what sources of conflict can you see arising among its

members? Do you think the group will succeed in its objective to develop an IS for the

Boston branch office? Why, or why not?

d. What contribution would a budget supervisor make in a project team?

e. Discuss the relative merits of the Gantt chart and PERT as project planning and controltools.