History and current practice

Question 1

IS’s 5 elements

Answer 1

Data, people, telecommunications, software & hardware

Question 2

IS and Porters competitive forces

Answer 2

How IT influences these 5 forces

Question 3

What is IS Development?

Answer 3

Decomposing large and complex problems

Question 4

What is a method?

Answer 4

Tells us what to do

Question 5

A mythology

Answer 5

When we talk about methods

Question 6

What is a mythology?

Answer 6

When we talk about methods

Question 7

What is a technique?

Answer 7

How to do something

Question 8

What is a tool?

Answer 8

An instrument to perform a technique

Question 9

What is a developer?

Answer 9

All people that are involved in the development of a software

Question 10

What is System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)?

Answer 10

A development process model

Question 11

Explain the Framework for ISD (Fitzgerald)

Answer 11

Formalised method, method in action, roles of method, development context, developers and IS

Question 12

Describe the essential difficulties of ISD

Answer 12

Complexity, Conformity, Changeability, Invisibility

Question 13

Describe the system development history

Answer 13

Pre-methodology era, Early methodology era, Methdology era, Post-Methodology Era

Question 14

What is the point of “No silver bullet in software engineering”?

Answer 14

Essence vs. Accident

Question 15

Describe the current practice

Answer 15

New approaches to methodologies in practice