The PIECES framework, which was developed is intended to be a framework for classifying problems, opportunities, and directives.

Contact one of the systems analysts for your organization, your school, and/or another organization.

Ask them about the information systems used in their organization and to describe what the problems are in general terms. Select three of these systems:

a. Describe the systems you selected, their problems, and the organizations that use them.

b. Use the PIECES framework in the textbook to categorize each system’s problems.

c. Describe the PIECES category or categories you found for each problem. Did each problem generally have one or more categories associated with it?

d. For the systems used by different organizations, what commonality did you find in the categories of problems? If you found a great deal of commonality of categories, do you think this is significant or just coincidental?

e. Where in the systems development life cycle do you think the PIECES framework would be of the greatest value?