Exam 12: Systems Planning and Development

Discus when Agile methods should be typically used.

List the steps included in IT planning.

Organizational culture includes issues such as tendency to share or not to share information among units and people,willingness to team-play,and the proclivity of employees to experiment with new ideas and technologies.

If a small-system development employing agile methods takes longer than planned,the overall cost is still likely to be smaller than if a full___________ were performed.

It is difficult,if not impossible,to devise a way to measure software development competence.

A(n) ___________uses only four symbols: external entities,processes,data stores,and the direction in which data flows.

The concept of extracting business intelligence from large data warehouses often involves___________ of several information systems.

___________takes place when an operation switches from using an old system to using a new system.

Agile methods developed out of ___________,an application development approach that emerged in the 1980s aimed at cutting costs and time.

___________is a traditional approach to systems development.

___________describes the role of IT in an organization.

While the SDLC or any other waterfall approach requires users to sign off on their requirements and then wait for the system to be completed, ___________encourage users' involvement throughout the process.

A data store is any event or sequence of events in which data is either changed or acted on.