Exam 13: Project Management and SDLC

The SOW breaks a project down into the tasks or activities that must be performed,and in what order,to produce the deliverables at each milestone.

Postproject reviews,or postmortems,identify the reasons the project was successful or not,strengths and weaknesses of the project plan,how problems were detected and resolved,and how the project was successful in spite of them.

Once the new system's operations are stabilized,________ are performed during operation to assess the system's capabilities and determine if it is being used correctly.

After the project plan in the SOW is reviewed,a go or no-go decision is made;and if a go decision is made,the project is initiated.

Projects are subject to unanticipated and uncontrollable events so they need to have slack built into the schedule and budget.

Changes to a project tend to have a trickle-down effect because of task dependencies and shared resources.

A project plan is specified in a __________.

The ________ defines the project plan and is a legal contract used to document the agreement between parties after the business terms have been accepted and a go decision is made.

Michelle Symonds suggested a set of seven deadly sins of project management,that is,the common mistakes that companies commit that contribute to project failure.Which is not one of these deadly mistakes?

The __________ is critically important to the system development process because,when done properly,the study can prevent companies from making expensive mistakes,such as creating systems that will not work,that will not work efficiently,or that people cannot or will not use.

Once the new system's operations are stabilized,________ are performed during operation to assess the system's capabilities and determine if it is being used correctly.

System testing verifies that apps,interfaces,data transfers,and so on,work correctly under standard or expected conditions.

The system development life cycle (SDLC)is the traditional system development method for ________.

The baseline is used for monitoring and controlling.Any change to the baseline is a deviation,or variance,to the plan-and it needs to be documented.

Project management is a structured methodology to plan,manage,and control the completion of a project throughout its life cycle.

Projects have a defined start date and finish date that determine the project's ________.

Explain project milestones and their importance.

During project analysis,IT projects should be examined holistically-that is,in combination to identify investment synergies.This approach is known as ________.

Each task or activity has a start date and ________,which determines its finish date.

The major take-away from the triple constraint being represented as a triangle is that you cannot change one side without changing the other sides.