Exam 13: Business Process and Project Management

Which is not one of the benefits of Autotrader.com's electronic sales order system and BPMS?

The advantage of the __________ is that any tier can be upgraded or replaced independently as business requirements or technology change.

End-user development has risks and limitations, which include each of the following except:

List and describe the triple constraints of project management.

In a __________ conversion, the old system and the new system operate simultaneously for a period of time, which is the most expensive, but also the least risky approach.

__________ testing is important because it determines whether the app meets the original business objectives and vision.

In the long term, business process management BPM) helps companies __________.

During the implementation stage, __________ tests are conducted by technical experts who attest that the process is integrated correctly with inputs and outputs of other processes and data sources and data stores

To add rigor to the programming process, programmers use __________ that improve the flow of the program by decomposing the computer code into modules.

A process has inputs and outputs that are __________, which is necessary so it can be managed.

Sketch or list the four stages of the business process lifecycle.

A business process, such as the credit approval process, accomplishes or produces something of value to the organization.

Many JIT implementations in the U.S. actually increased inventory costs because JIT is based on the assumption that warehousing costs are extremely high, as they were in Japan where JIT was initiated by Toyota.

Business processes integrate __________.

The BPM approach has its roots in just-in-time JIT), which is the radical redesign of an organization's business processes.

The first stage of the SDLC is __________ to understand the business problem or opportunity.

The BPR and JIT approaches were both based on assumptions. And if those assumptions are not met, then they will fail to achieve the great expected results.

List and briefly describe the four tests performed on modules that have been installed before going live.

Not only is the development of the process important, the testing is equally as critical.

Systems development involves __________, which is the revising of results of any development process when new information makes revision the smart thing to do.