Lecture 14 Ch 13 Flashcards

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What are the communications key to the development of a system?

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Functional, meets needs of company, positively received by users

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What involves information systems planning, development, and implementation of artificial systems.

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Systems analysis

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Ht determines information system requirements;works with users and management; have good listening and communication skills?

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Systems analysts

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What includes representatives from senior management, information systems, and middle management? Provides guidance on key issues

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Information technology steering committee

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What acts as liaison between systems analysts and others?

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Project team

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5
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What manages projects according to plan? What communicates to management strategies

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Project manager

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What provides structure to system development? Seeks to improve system quality? Consists of 5 phases. (Planning, analysis, design, implementation, maintenance.)

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SDLC(Systems development life cycle)

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What is a collection of components organized to accomplish a goal?

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System

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8
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What is deliberately constructed by people to serve some purpose?

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Artificial systems

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9
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What systems are born, live, and become obsolete?

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Life cycle

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What has steps that must be completed before the next one can start? Is simple and easy to use. Is better for small projects with minimal changes.

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Waterfall model

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What has active user involvement? Is used for prototyping and repeating testing, reuses software components, and has less formality in communication

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RAD ( Rapid application development)

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What Conducts SDLC phases 1-4 at the same time and involves intense team member interaction.

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JAD (Joint application development)

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13
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What is an unacceptable results of a problem?

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Symptom

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14
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What is the underlying cause if a symptom?

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Problem

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15
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What identifies activities needed to continue, and uncovers problems not evident in phase 1

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Analyzing the existing system

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What is All the entries in the system as well as their relationships

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ERD (Entity-relationship diagram)

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What is a set of graphic symbols data movement through system.

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Data flow diagram

18
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What explains all terminology relevant to project, develop a data dictionary.

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Project dictionary

19
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Ht automates tasks of documenting entry relationships and data flows in complex systems

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CASE (Computer-aided software engineering)

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What is developed in house? Allows customization, and is often more expensive?

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Bild-or-buy decision

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What is a subset of the systems development that uses PDLC (program development life cycle)

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Developing the software

22
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What assists the programs separately and has a group

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Application testing

23
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What is performed by the users and ensures the system works properly

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Acceptance testing