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| Define System development |
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| Process of modifying a portion or all of an IS. |
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| What are the four stages of system development |
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| Planning and investigating, analyzing, designing, implementation followup maintenance. |
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| What does planning/investigating mean |
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| looking at our strengths and weaknesses |
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| Design plans to minimize our weaknesses |
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| Define Implementation, Followup, maintenance |
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| Gather new resources for plan, hire new employees, followup studies, fix little flaws in system. |
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| subsystems in the IS that need extra development. Used to find areas that need improvement now or in the future. |
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| A It specialist, middle-level manager, operational supervisor, accountant, auditor. |
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| Define Steering committee |
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| Group of upper-level management, critical to have backing of management when revising or making a new plan. |
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| Why would you investigate current systems? |
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| Investigate current needs or problems. |
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| What are the four major systems in system analysis? |
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1. Understanding the system goals
2. System surveys
3. Data analysis
4. Evaluating system feasability |
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| Understanding the general system goals: |
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| Cost awareness, outputs make good decisions for management, design a system, Flexibility to changing information needs. |
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| What should AIS provide to top management system goals? |
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| Long-range budget planning data, valuable control information about corporate operations, short-range operating performance. |
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| What should AIS provide to top management system goals? |
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| Long-range budget planning data, valuable control information about corporate operations, short-range operating performance. |
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| What are the operations managers system goals? |
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| What is the objective of a system survey? |
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| Retain systems strengths while eliminating weakenesses |
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| What is an example of data analysis? |
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| Analysis of employee productivity. |
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| The amount of productive work that can be performed within a certain time. |
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| Define work distribution analysis: |
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| focuses on a particular job and looks at efficiency rather than an employee |
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| Can the planned system be created with todays technology |
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| Does the organization have access to people that can design, implement and operate the system. |
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| Define Schedule feasability |
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| How long will it take for a system to become operational. |
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| Define Economic feasibility: |
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| The benefits cover the costs. |
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| Which way should the design team work (outputs to inputs, or inputs to outputs?) |
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| Objective of output design? |
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| determine nature, format, content, and timing of printed reports. |
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| What are some types of reports and their meanings? |
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Scheduled reports: specified content and format on regular basis
Special-purposes analysis reports: no specified content or format and are not prepared on a regular basis. |
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| Define triggered exception reports: |
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| Specified content and format, prepared only in response to abnormal conditions. |
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| Hvae a pre-specified content but are prepared only on request. |
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| What are two designing system inputs? |
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| Using paper to design inputs. |
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| What should designers do should they add controls after system is done or earlier?... also is it a build-in or build on control they want? |
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| During the whole process..... build in rather than build-on. |
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| Simplified working model, to reduce project risk and costs. |
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| Simplified working model, to reduce project risk and costs. |
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| What are the steps in prototyping? |
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1. Identify Is requirements
2. Create the prototype
3. test and revise prototype
4. signoff on approved prototype |
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| When is prototyping useful? |
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| When the end users do not know their information needs. |
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| What should the system design be |
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| It should be in the form of a proposal. |
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| Define system implementation |
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| Getting the HW and SW installed and getting AIS running |
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| Going from old to new system. |
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| What is a typical problem through conversion: |
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| Converting all the old data. |
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| What is a typical problem through conversion: |
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| Converting all the old data. |
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| Going from old to new system. |
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| Going from old to new system. |
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| What is a typical problem through conversion: |
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| Converting all the old data. |
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| Define direct conversion: |
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| immediately terminates the old AIS and starts with new. |
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| Define Parallel conversion |
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| Operates on the old and new for a period of time and then to the new only |
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| Gradually replaces elements of old with new. |
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| Implements only in one part of organization at a time. |
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| Depics major activities, shows actual and planned times. chart treats each activity as if it were its own. |
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