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| A problem-solving process of investigating a situation, designing a system solution to improve the situation, acquiring the human, financial, and technological resources to implement the solution, and finally evaluating the success of the solution |
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| An organizational group that may be formed to decide which projects should be considered first. |
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| A person who uses the information system directly or uses the information produced by a system. |
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| An information technology professional primarily responsible for developing and managing the system |
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| Hiring talent for selected activities on a contract basis |
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| SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) |
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| A sequence of seven steps or phases through which an information system passes between the time the system is conceived to the time it is phased out. |
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| Animated features in which one or more of the characters are controlled by the viewers; in the systems development life cycle, the phase to study the existing business problem or opportunity and determine whether it is feasible to develop a new system or redesign the existing system if one exists. |
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| Investigation, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Maintenance, Retirement |
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| The phase of system development life cycle in which details are fleshed out before design begins |
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| The phase in system development life cycle that focuses on how the problem will be solved |
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| A limited working system or subsystem that is created to give users and managers an idea of how the complete system will work |
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| The phase of system development life cycle in which the system is built and tested |
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| Initial testing of a system by member of the system development team to locate and eliminate bugs |
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| Testing of an almost-finished software by potential end users who will report bugs to the developers |
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| The phase of system development life cycle that involves evaluating, repairing, and enhancing the system |
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| The phase of system development life cycle in which the system is put into use |
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| The final phase of system development life cycle, in which a system is phased out |
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| A graphical depiction of the physical system that exists or is proposed, such as to show the relationship among programs, files, input and output in a system |
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| Areas to consider to determine feasibility |
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| technical (hardware/software), economic, perational requirements (meets clients needs), organizational requirements (copyrights, etc) |
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| After Feasibility (options) |
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Keep system
Modify system
Create new system |
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| Analysis System Requirements |
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| Input/output, processing, storage, control (accuracy/security) |
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| Common data gathering techniques |
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| document review, interview, questionaire, observation, sampling |
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