Chapter 11

Question 1

What are the Reasons for failure?

Answer 1

o Undefined project management practices
o Poor IT management and poor IT procedures
o Inadequate executive support for the project
o Inexperienced project managers
o Unclear business needs and project objectives
o Inadequate user involvement

Question 2

What are the additional project stakeholders called?

Answer 2

• Client
  o The person or group that funds the project
• Oversight Committee
  o Clients and key managers who review the progress and direct the project
• Users
  o The person or group of people who will use the new system

Question 3

What does PMBOK stand for?

Answer 3

Project Management Body of Knowledge

Question 4

What is the cost/benefit analysis?

Answer 4

Comparing costs and benefits to see if the net result is plus or minus

Question 5

What is Net Present Value (NPV)?

Answer 5

The present value of dollar benefits and dollar costs of a particular investment

Question 6

What is break-even Point?

Answer 6

Point in time at which benefits and costs are equal

Question 7

What is the payback period?

Answer 7

the time period after which the dolar benefits have offset the dollar costs

Question 8

What is Tangible Benefit?

Answer 8

A benefit that can be measured or estimated in terms of dollars

Question 9

What is Intangible Benefit?

Answer 9

A benefit that accrues to an organization but that cant be measured quantitively or estimated accurately

Question 10

What is OO Design?

Answer 10

Process by which a set of detailed OO design models are built to be used for coding

Agile approach says create models only if they are necessary. Simple detailed aspects don’t need a design model before coding

Question 11

What does the Object Oriented prgram flow consists of?

Answer 11

• Instantiation
• Method