Exam 9: Systems Development and Project Management: Corporate Responsibility

Which of the following is the least common reason why companies outsource?

Which methodology provides a framework for breaking down the development of software into four gates?

___________ outsourcing is using organizations from developing countries to write code and develop systems.

What is project scope?

______________ implementation discards the legacy system completely and immediately migrates all users to the new system.

Which methodology uses small teams to produce small pieces of deliverable software using sprints,or 30-day intervals,to achieve an appointed goal?

A Pert chart is a simple bar chart that lists project tasks vertically against the project's time frame,listed horizontally.

Requirements management is the process of managing changes to the business requirements throughout the project.

In the analysis phase the firm analyzes its end-user business requirements and refines project goals into defined functions and operations of the intended system.

Which software supports general business processes and does not require any specific software customization to meet the organization's needs?

___________ conditions detail the steps the system must perform along with the expected result of each step in the implementation phase the organization places the system into production so users can begin to perform actual business operations with it.

_________________ management is the process of managing changes to the business requirements throughout the project.

Business requirements include the process of transferring information from a legacy system to a new system.

_________ management is the application of knowledge,skills,tools,and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements.

Projects are typically dynamic in nature,and change should be expected and anticipated for successful project completion.

Who is the person or group who provides the financial resources for the project?

_____________ application development (RAD)methodology (also called rapid prototyping)emphasizes extensive user involvement in the rapid and evolutionary construction of working prototypes of a system,to accelerate the systems development process.

_____________ are defects in the code of an information system.

____________ revenues are a business-related consequence of successful software.

Internal reports present data that is distributed inside the organization and is intended for employees within an organization.Internal reports typically support day-to-day operations monitoring that supports managerial decision making.