Specific business requests the system must meet to be successful
What are business requirements?
Technique for generating ideas by encouraging participants to offer as many ideas as possible in a short period without any analysis
What is brainstorming?
Process of transferring information from a legacy system to a new system
What is conversion?
Measures the cost-effectiveness of a project
What is economic feasibility?
Modifies software to meet specific user or business requirements
What is software customization?
Graphical network model that depicts a project's tasks and relationships between those tasks
What is a PERT chart?
Capability of two or more computer systems to share data and resources
What is interoperability?
Series of activities that determine the earliest time by which the project can be completed
What is the critical path?
Difficult to quantify or measure
What are intangible benefits?
Person or event that is the catalyst for implementing major changes for a system to meet business changes
What is a change agent?
Company uses organizations from developing countries to write code and develop systems
What is offshore outsourcing?
Programming languages that look similar to human languages
What are fourth-generation languages?
What are project constraints?
Software that supports general business processes and does not require any specific software customization to meet the organization's needs
What is off-the-shelf application?
Involves graphically representing the processes that capture, manipulate, store, and distribute information between a system and its environment
What is process modeling?
Discards the legacy system completely and immediately migrates all users to the new system
What is plunge implementation?
Defines the specifications for product/output of the project and is key for managing expectations, controlling scope, and completing other planning efforts
What is the project requirements document?
Verifies that separate systems can work together passing data back and forth correctly
What is integration testing?
Outsourcing option that includes the closest location and direct customer control
Activity-based process in which each phase in the SDLC is performed sequentially from planning through implementation and maintenance
What is waterfall methodology?
Uses C+ and Java
What are third generation machine languages?
SMART criteria include
What are specific, measurable, agreed upon, realistic, and time framed?
Questions answered in this phase address ownership of the system and training of key personnel
What is gate four?
Three primary variables (or triple constraints) in any project
What are time, cost, and scope?
Primary reason why companies outsource
What is tap outside sources of expertise?