Exam 9: Systems Development and Project Management: Corporate Responsibility

Which gate is transition?

Process modeling illustrates the movement of information between external entities and the processes and data stores within the system.

What is loose coupling?

Onshore outsourcing occurs when contracting an outsourcing arrangement with a company in a nearby country. Often this country will share a border with the native country.

Control objects for information and related technology (COBIT) are software suites that automate systems analysis, design, and development.

Gate four is transition and the primary questions answered in this phase address ownership of the system and training of key personnel.

Project scope statement links the project to the organization's overall business goals. It describes the business need (the problem the project will solve) and the justification, requirements, and current boundaries for the project.

What is a technique for generating ideas by encouraging participants to offer as many ideas as possible in a short period without any analysis until all the ideas have been exhausted?

What measures how well the solution will be accepted in a given opportunity?

Scrum methodology, uses small teams to produce small pieces of software using a series of "sprints," or 30-day intervals, to achieve an appointed goal.

Scripting languages group data and corresponding processes into objects.

Pilot implementation is a small group of people use the new system until it is verified that it works correctly then the remaining users migrate.

Summarize the different software development methodologies.

Exception reports organize and categorize data for managerial perusal.

SOA promotes a scalable and flexible enterprise architecture that can implement new or reuse existing MIS components, creating connections among disparate applications and systems.

It is important to understand that SOA is not a concrete architecture; it is thought that leads to a concrete architecture. It might be described as a style, paradigm, concept, perspective, philosophy, or representation. That is, SOA is an approach, a way of thinking, a value system that leads to decisions that design a concrete architecture allowing enterprises to plug in new services or upgrade existing services in a granular approach.

What is the analysis phase in the SDLC?

Project assumptions represent key dates when a certain group of activities must be performed.

The scrum methodology uses small teams to produce small pieces of software using a series of sprints, or 30-day intervals, to achieve an appointed goal.

Which gate is inception?