Exam 2: The Project Management and Information Technology Context

Three general classifications of organizational structures are _____, project, and matrix.

Describe each of the three major types of organizational structure.

Systems analysis addresses the business, technological, and organizational issues associated with creating, maintaining, and modifying a system.

The Adaptive Software Development (ASD) life cycle model assumes that software development follows an adaptive approach because the requirements cannot be clearly expressed early in the life cycle.

An organizational culture with strong unit integration makes the project manager's job more difficult.

Project managers must have cooperation from people in other parts of the organization.

An organization that uses a project organizational structure earns their revenue primarily from performing projects for other groups under contract.

The same organization can have different subcultures.

In a(n) _____ organizational structure, project managers have little or no authority.

The _____ characteristic of organizational culture describes the degree to which management's decisions take into account the effect of outcomes on people within the organization.

The term _____ describes new approaches that focus on close collaboration between programming teams and business experts.

Which of the following best describes a kill point in the project life cycle?

A(n) _____ is an overall model for thinking about things as sets of interacting components working within an environment to fulfill some purpose.

Project managers in matrix organizations have staff from various functional areas working on their projects.

The best way to sustain a project is to withhold the required money, human resources, and visibility for the project.

_____ refers to the degree to which the organization monitors and responds to changes in the external environment.

A(n) _____ is a framework for describing the phases involved in developing information systems.

A preliminary or rough cost estimate is developed in the _____ phase of the project life cycle, and an overview of the work involved is created.

A(n) _____ refers to a product or service, such as a report, a training session, a piece of hardware, or a segment of software code, produced or provided as part of a project.

_____ life cycle models of systems development assume that the scope of the project can be articulated clearly and the schedule and cost can be predicted accurately.