Lecture 14 Ch 13 Flashcards
What are the communications key to the development of a system?
Functional, meets needs of company, positively received by users
What involves information systems planning, development, and implementation of artificial systems.
Systems analysis
Ht determines information system requirements;works with users and management; have good listening and communication skills?
Systems analysts
What includes representatives from senior management, information systems, and middle management? Provides guidance on key issues
Information technology steering committee
What acts as liaison between systems analysts and others?
Project team
What manages projects according to plan? What communicates to management strategies
Project manager
What provides structure to system development? Seeks to improve system quality? Consists of 5 phases. (Planning, analysis, design, implementation, maintenance.)
SDLC(Systems development life cycle)
What is a collection of components organized to accomplish a goal?
System
What is deliberately constructed by people to serve some purpose?
Artificial systems
What systems are born, live, and become obsolete?
Life cycle
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.
Waterfall model
What has active user involvement? Is used for prototyping and repeating testing, reuses software components, and has less formality in communication
RAD ( Rapid application development)
What Conducts SDLC phases 1-4 at the same time and involves intense team member interaction.
JAD (Joint application development)
What is an unacceptable results of a problem?
Symptom
What is the underlying cause if a symptom?
Problem