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Chapter 9 (2)
Chapter 9 (3)
Chapter 9 (4)
Chapter 9 (5)
100

Specific business requests the system must meet to be successful

What are business requirements?

100

Technique for generating ideas by encouraging participants to offer as many ideas as possible in a short period without any analysis

What is brainstorming?

100

Process of transferring information from a legacy system to a new system

What is conversion?

100

Measures the cost-effectiveness of a project

What is economic feasibility?

100

Modifies software to meet specific user or business requirements

What is software customization?

200

Graphical network model that depicts a project's tasks and relationships between those tasks

What is a PERT chart?

200

Capability of two or more computer systems to share data and resources

What is interoperability?

200

Series of activities that determine the earliest time by which the project can be completed

What is the critical path?

200

Difficult to quantify or measure

What are intangible benefits?

200

Person or event that is the catalyst for implementing major changes for a system to meet business changes

What is a change agent?

300

Company uses organizations from developing countries to write code and develop systems

What is offshore outsourcing?

300

Programming languages that look similar to human languages

What are fourth-generation languages?

300
Specific factors that can limit options

What are project constraints?

300

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?

300

Involves graphically representing the processes that capture, manipulate, store, and distribute information between a system and its environment

What is process modeling?

400

Discards the legacy system completely and immediately migrates all users to the new system

What is plunge implementation?

400

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?

400

Verifies that separate systems can work together passing data back and forth correctly

What is integration testing?

400

Outsourcing option that includes the closest location and direct customer control

What is onshore outsourcing?
400

Activity-based process in which each phase in the SDLC is performed sequentially from planning through implementation and maintenance

What is waterfall methodology?

500

Uses C+ and Java

What are third generation machine languages?

500

SMART criteria include

What are specific, measurable, agreed upon, realistic, and time framed?

500

Questions answered in this phase address ownership of the system and training of key personnel

What is gate four?

500

Three primary variables (or triple constraints) in any project

What are time, cost, and scope?

500

Primary reason why companies outsource

What is tap outside sources of expertise?

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