• Specifies the general requirements of the system, develops broad system alternatives and identifies their administrative, economic and technical feasibility and practically as well as associated policy and organizational change requirements;
• Analyses and evaluates each alternative based on make/buy, impact and cost/benefit considerations, and proposes, justifies, plans and costs the implementation of the selected alternative;
• Produces overall plan, a detailed plan for the functional analysis phase, and obtains approval of preliminary analysis;
• Plans, directs and controls the activities of a system development team within scheduled time and cost parameters;
• Evaluates proposed computer applications to determine technical, operational and economic feasibility;
• Designs and tests systems to ensure that the objectives of the system are met and that the outputs produced are in accordance with client requirements;
• Monitors the design, implementation and operations start-up of the proposed system against established goals, objectives and milestones.

Supervision:

For smaller informatics projects, the project leader is responsible of the preliminary analysis and the supervision of systems analysts, programmer-analysts and programmers.