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| when the work keeps piling up and before you know it, the tasks are too great to handle |
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| CSF: Critical success factor (CSF) |
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| a factor that is critical to an organizations success |
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| -Defining processing, requirements, constraints, costs, and benefits. -Developing functional specifications and prototypes. -Reviewing specifications and prototypes. |
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| Putting together the parts (software, hardware, people, procedures, data) to provide the functionality with the right operating characteristics within budget and on schedule. |
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| input forms -output reports; screens -data files; procedures -data security; data controls -contingency plans |
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| ERD : Entity Relationship Diagram |
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| diagram that shows the relationship between entities and shows the attributes of the entities |
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| illustrates the movement of information between external entities and the processes and data stores within the system |
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| What functions (tasks) the system must be able to do. |
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| How `well does the system perform those tasks. |
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| GUI: Graphical User Interface |
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| is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and office equipment |
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| Build Technical architecture; Build the database and programs; Programmer teams; Structured Walkthroughs |
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| -Functions performed correctly -Usability / acceptance -stress (e.g., enough ummph to handle all users) |
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| Install system into the organization. User Documentation and Training |
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| Define the system to be developed; ??CSF; Set the project scope; Key aspect of SDLC, difficult to do
scope creep; Develop the project plan including tasks, resources, and timeframes |
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| Build a help desk to support system users; Provide an environment to support system changes |
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| tests if a system satisfies its acceptance criteria |
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| maintains information about various types of objects (inventory), events (transactions), people (employees), and places (warehouses) |
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| Increased flexibility; Increased scalability and performance; Reduced information redundancy; Increased information integrity (quality); Increased information security |
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| DBMS: Data manipulation component |
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| allows users to create, read, update, and delete information in a database |
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| identify the various entity classes (tables) in the database; a field (or group of fields) that uniquely identifies a given entity in a table |
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| a primary key of one table that appears an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship among the two tables |
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| criterion used in the process of data validation, carried out after the data has been encoded onto an input medium and involves a data vet or validation program |
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| a person, place, thing, transaction, or event about which information is stored |
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| Attribute: (fields, columns) |
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| characteristics or properties of an entity class. The columns in each table |
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| Average, Min, Max, Total (Sum/ count), only include the attributes that you want to use to count by |
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| modeled by placing the primary key from one table and putting it into many table. |
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| A student may be enrolled in many classes, a class may have many students |
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| users can graphically design the answers to specific question |
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| the abstraction of a set of associations that hold systematically between different kinds of things in the real world. |
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