Project Management Flashcards
Communication skills necessary for dealing with others? /5
- Active Listening
- Conflict Resolution
- Negotiation skills
- Interview Techniques
- Team building
Consequences for groups that fail as a team include: /3
- financial loss
- employment loss
- missed opportunities
Project Management Tools are: /5
- Gantt charts
- scheduling of tasks
- journals and diaries
- funding management plan
- Communication management plan
Advantages of groups that function as a team: /3
- increased productivity
- enhanced job satisfaction
- the development of a quality system
5 Stages of SDLC?
- Understanding the Problem
- Planning or Making Solutions
- Designing Solutions
- Implementing Solutions
- Testing Evaluating Maintaining
Approaches to identify problems with existing systems? /3
- Interviewing/ surveying users and participants
- analysing the existing system (how it works, what it does, who uses it)
Define requirements report and requirements prototype? /3
A requirements report is produced to define the exact nature of the problem to be solved and what requirements needed to implement the new system.
A requirements prototype is a working model of an information system built in order to understand the requirements of the system.
Types of Feasibility Options? /4
- Financial / Economic Feasibility
- Technical Feasibility
- Operational Feasibility
- Scheduling Feasibility
Appropriate Development Approaches for planning the system? /6
- traditional
- outsourcing
- prototyping
- customisation
- participant development
- agile methods
Requirements Report must consist of ? /6
- details the time frame
- details the subproject and the time frame then
- identifies participants
- identifies relevant information technology
- identifies data/ information
- identifies the needs for the users
Tools used in designing
- context diagrams
- data flow diagrams
- decision trees
- decision tables
- data dictionaries
- storyboards
Things in Implementing the System? /6
- acquiring information technology (hardware and software, customised or developed)
- participant training
- method of conversion (parallel, direct, phased, pilot)
- how system will be tested
- conversion of data for new system
- operational manual detailing procedures participants must follow
What is acceptance testing? /2
Formal testing conducted to verify whether or not a system meets the requirements specified in the requirements report. Enables the client to determine whether or not to accept the new system.
Things in Implementing the System? /7
- Acceptance Testing
- Volume Testing
- Live Testing
- Simulated Testing
- Trialling and using operational manual
- Reviewing effect on users of the system, participants and people of the environment
- Modifying parts of the system where problems are identified
