Exam 14: Project Management, business Value, and Managing Change

The ________ sets policy and priorities for the IS department,including approving budgets for major projects and hearing progress reports on those major projects.

________ IS plans have a shorter focus and concentrate on breaking down the strategic IS plan into more detailed plans that middle-level managers can focus on implementing.

The goal of sociotechnical design is to create systems with better user interfaces and contribute to fewer health issues.

The ________ consists of systems analysts,specialists from the relevant end-user business areas,application programmers,and perhaps database specialists.

Companies should examine their ________ in terms of potential benefits and likely risks.

In nearly every organization,information systems projects take much less time and money to implement than originally anticipated,or the completed system does not work properly.

Which type of planning tool shows each task as a horizontal bar whose length is proportional to the time required to complete it?

When using a capital budgeting method in measuring the worth of an information system,which of the following related costs would you use to assess the cash inflow?

You are the senior project manager for a Web development company with upwards of 100 current client projects.You have been assigned to evaluate two upcoming projects.One project is to develop a time tracking solution that would allow your 20 freelancers to submit daily time sheets and would report on the time spent on each project.The other project is to redesign the client interface to the company extranet to make it easier to use.The extranet allows clients to log in and view their current Web sites under development,as well as view project statistics,documents,and progress reports.Compare the two projects in terms of risk factors.

________ refers to the application of knowledge,skills,tools and techniques to achieve specific targets within specified budget and time constraints.

Current situation,current business organization and changing environments are all part of the ________ section of an information systems plan.

________ benefits are those than can be quantified and assigned a monetary value.

Formal planning and control tools

Requirements,potential savings,and financing are all part of the ________ section of an information systems plan.

List five types of information that should be included in an information systems plan.

Internal integration tools:

An information systems plan contains a statement of corporate goals and specifies how information technology will support the attainment of those goals.

Requirements,potential savings,and financing are all part of the ________ section of an information systems plan.

The ________ is the part of the system with which end users interact.

Transaction and clerical systems that displace labour and save space typically produce more measurable,tangible benefits than management information systems.