. Flashcards

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5 IS components?

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Hardware, software, data, people, processes

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2
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Responsibility of a BA?

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Main communication with stakeholders and gather the stakeholder requirements of the project.

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3
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What is a stakeholder?

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Someone who will be affected by the change within a system.

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4
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Describe the Planning Phase

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Understand the problem and opportunities of for a system and proposing a potential solution. Involves feasibility analysis and fact finding.

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5
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Describe the Analysis Phase

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Understanding the needs and requirements and what the new system should do.

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Describe the Design Phase

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Designing the system components and how the system should be built in order to meet stakeholder needs and requirements.

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Describe the Implementation Phase

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Building the system and all 5 IS Components need to be created.

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What is a Project Champion?

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Informal role, promotes the project and provides resources.

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What is a Project Sponsor?

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Formal role and project owner.

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10
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What does a stakeholder analysis help with?

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Identifying stakeholders as well as how important each of them are.

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11
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Causes of lack of engagement from stakeholders?

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Failure to engage stakeholders
Failure to see project from stakeholder perspective
Allowing a stakeholder group to dominate decisions
New system may lead to fears of being replaced.

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12
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Other types of SDLC Methodologies

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Waterfall, Spiral, V-Shaped, Iterative and Agile

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What is the purpose of prioritising requirements

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To rank requirements in importance of stakeholders and focus on critical requirements.

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14
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3 Factors Influencing requirements prioritisation

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Benefits, Penalties and Cost

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What is Elicitation of requirements?

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Collecting requirements of the system from stakeholders. Also includes functional and nonfunctional requirements

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16
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What are business needs?

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Goals, opportunities and problems that a business is trying to solve

17
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What are business requirements?

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Solution to the problems that a business faces.

18
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What is a Use Case Model?

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A functional requirement of a system from the perspective of the user of the system

19
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What is an Actor?

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The role that a user plays interacting with the system.

20
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What is association?

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A solid line connecting an actor to a use case.

21
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What is does ‘extend’ mean?

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Is a function reaction if a condition is met.

22
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What does generalisation mean?

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Refers to inheritance meaning the child will inherit the capabilities of its parents.

23
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What is a activity diagram

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To model a task and to describe the functions of a system represented by a use case.

24
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What does a SWOT Analysis do?

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Identifies the situation a business is currently in

25
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What is a scope creep

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Tendency for a project to grow beyond their original bounds.

26
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What is purpose of a feasibility analysis?

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Analysing if it is worth doing the project.

27
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What are the 3 types of feasibilities?

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Economic, Technological and Organisational

28
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What is the purpose of a process analysis?

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Assessment of a processes effectiveness and efficiency, and ability to identify opportunities for change.

29
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What are the two types of Data-Flow diagrams

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Context Level Diagram and Level 0 Diagram

30
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What are functional requirements

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Processes the system should perform.

31
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What are non-functional requirements

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Behavioural properties the system must have.

32
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What is the primary actor?

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Uses the system to achieve a goal

33
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What is the secondary actor?

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The system needs assistance to achieve the primary actor’s goals

34
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Why should assumptions be written down

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Show risk or failure, help understand desired outcome.