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| Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) |
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| the overall process for developing information systems from planning and analysis through implementation and maintenance |
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| establishing a high-level plan of the intended project and determining project goals |
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| analyzing end-user business requirements and refining project goals into defined functions and operations of the intended system |
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| describing the desired features and operations of the system, including screen layouts, business rules, process diagrams, pseudo code, and other documentation |
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| taking all of the detailed design documents from the design phase and transforming them into the actual system |
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| bringing all the project pieces together into a special testing environment to test for erors, bugs, and interoperability and verify that the system meets all of the business requirements defined in the analysis phase |
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| placing the system into production so users can begin to perform actual business operations with the system |
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| performing changes, corrections, additions, and upgrades to ensure the system continues to meet the business goals |
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| an activity-based process in which each phase in the SDLC is performed sequentially from planning through implementation and maintenance |
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| uses small teams to produce small pieces of deliverable software using sprints, or 30-day intervals, to achieve an appointed goal |
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| application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements |
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| a common approach using the professional expertise within an organization to develop and maintain the organization's information technology systems |
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| an arrangement by which one organization provides a service or services for another organization that chooses not to perform them in-house |
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| engaging another company within the same country for services |
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| contracting an outsourcing arrangement with a company in a nearby county |
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| using organizations from developing countries to write code and develop systems |
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| blending computers and wireless telecommunications technologies with the goal of efficiently conveying information over vast networks to improve business operations |
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| Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) |
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| technologies use active or passive tags in the form of chips or smart labels that can store unique identifiers and relay this information to electronic readers |
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| a technique for identifying and tracking assets and individuals via technologies such as radio frequency identification and smart cards |
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| a smaller-scale representation or working model of the user's requirements or a proposed design for an information system |
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| a path from the start to the finish that passes through all the tasks that are critical to completing the project in the shortest amount of time |
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| defines the work that must be completed to deliver a product with the specified features and functions |
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| a simple bar chart that depicts project tasks against a calendar |
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| occurs when developers add extra features that were not part of the initial requirements |
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| Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) |
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| a graphical network model that depicts a project's tasks and the relationships between those tasks |
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| occurs when the scope of the project increases |
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