Unit 1 IS 401 Flashcards
What is a project?
A temporary endeavor to create a unique product, service or result
What is the main purpose of creating personas?
To focus on the needs, behaviors, and goals of users
Why is this discrimination?
“A company designs a new fitness app but excludes users over 60 yrs because they believe older adults won’t use it.”
Age is a protected class.
What are all the protected classes against discrimination?
race, color, national origin
religion
age
sex, gender identity, sexual orientation
pregnancy, familial status
veteran status
disability
What is a Product?
An artifact that is produced, is quantifiable, and can be either an end item in itself or a component item.
What is Product Management?
The integration of people, data, processes, and business systems to create, maintain, and develop a product or service throughout its life cycle.
What is Project Management?
The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements. Project management refers to GUIDING THE WORK to deliver the intended outcomes.
What is Systems Analysis?
The activities that enable a person to understand and specify WHAT the new system should accomplish. (cengage)
What is Systems Design?
The activities that enable a person to describe in detail HOW the information system will actually be implemented to provide the needed solution. It specifies in detail all the components of the solution system and how they work together. (Cengage)
User Experience
A person’s PERCEPTIONS and responses resulting from the use and/or anticipated use of a product, system or service
User Interface
All COMPONENTS of an interactive system (software or hardware) that provide information and controls for the user to accomplish specific tasks.
A user journey map is created for a specific persona, not a general audience
True
How many emotion lines should a user journey map have?
2
One for how things currently are
One for how they will be with the solution
Based on the following persona & product, which problem statement is most accurate?
- Persona: Susan, a 58-year-old beginner trying to stay active but overwhelmed by high-intensity workouts.
- Product: a fitness app that provides age-friendly, low-impact workout plans
A. As for an older adult, I want a fitness app with low-impact exercise options so that I can stay active without risking injury.
B. As a user, I want different workout options so that I can exercise.
A. As for an older adult, I want a fitness app with low-impact exercise options so that I can stay active without risking injury.
Which flowchart symbol is used to represent a decision point?
diamond
Which flowchart symbol is used to represent a process?
rectangle
Which flowchart symbol is used to represent inputs/ outputs?
parallelogram
You can have more than 2 choices coming out of a decision box in a flowchart?
False
Only one line into a decision box, then 2 (yes/no) outputs
What is a happy path
Scenario where everything works as expected. Your best-case scenario
What is the correct structure for a use case diagram?
Verb + Noun
“Log-in to website”
“Schedule activity”
“Exercise arms”
What’s the purpose of an alternative box in a sequence diagram?
Acts as an if/else statement
T/F: Every message needs a reply in a sequence diagram?
False
The three flow chart structures
Repetition: go back and do again
sequence: Do this, then this
selection: simple decision branch
What are sequence diagrams?
How the user and the different systems talks to itself
Sequence Diagrams: What are actors?
external to the system. Stick figures
Sequence Diagrams: What are objects?
Parts of the system.
Rectangles.
!n order left to right
Sequence Diagrams: What are lifelines?
Dashed vertical lines that show object over time
Sequence Diagrams: What are messages?
Solid line. Connect sender and receiver’s lifelines
Sequence Diagrams: What are Replies?
Dashed line. Reply to a message
Alternative frame?
Represents an if/else
Activation boxes?
- Show when and how long an object is performing a process
- Actors don’t need an activation box since they’re not part of the system
- Rectangle on top of the lifeline
How do you start sequence diagram code?
```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
Sequence Diagram: difference between “-»” and “–»”
-» Message
–» response
What’s an ERD?
- Entity Relationship Diagram
- Each entity is a table
- Cardinality is read at the entity you’re going to
What is “location” in terms of an ERD, Database, and Workbook?
Workbook = worksheet or table
DB = table
ERD = entity
What is “Houston Office” in terms of an ERD, Database, and Workbook?
Workbook = row
DB = record
ERD = instance
What is “Office Phone” in terms of an ERD, Database, and Workbook?
Workbook = column
DB = field
ERD = attribute
