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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. First and most critical phase |
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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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| are the detailed set of business requests that the system must meet in order to be successful |
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| describing the desired features and operations of the system including screen layouts, business rules, processs diagrams, pseudo code, and other documentation |
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| involves 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 errors, bugs, and interoperability and verify that the system meets all of the business requirements |
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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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| involves performing changes, corrections, additions, and upgrades to ensure the system continues to meet the business goals |
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| a sequential, activity based process in which each phase in the SDLC is performed sequentially from planning to maintenance |
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| Rapid application development |
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| emphasizes extensive user involvement in the rapid and evolutionary construction of working prototypes of a system to accelerate the systems development process |
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| a smaller scale representation or working model of the users' requirements or a proposed design for an information system |
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| Extreme programming methodology |
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| breaks a project into tiny phases and developers cannot continue on to the next phase until the first phase is complete |
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| a form of xp, aims for customer satisfaction through early and continuous delivery of useful software components |
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| Information technology infrastructure library (ITIL) |
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| a framework of best practice approaches intended to facilitate the delivery of high quality IT services |
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| the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activites in order to meet or exceed stakeholders needs or expectations |
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| project management software |
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| specifically supports the long-term and day-to-day management and execution of the steps in a project |
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| an organizations key strength, a business function that it does better than any of its competitors |
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| an organization chooses to focus specifically on what it does best and forms partnerships with other specialists to handle non-strategic processes |
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| when 2 or more orgs cooperate by integrating their IT systems |
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| IT based set of tools that supports the work of teams by facilitating the sharing and flow of info |
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| unstructured (information) collaboration |
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| document exchange, shared whiteboards, discussion forums, email |
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| structured (process) collaboration |
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| shared participation in business processes, such as workflow. |
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| involves capturing, classifying, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing information assets in a way that provides context for effective decisions and actions |
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| knowledge management system |
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| organizes knowledge management |
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| social networking analysis |
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| process of mapping a group's contacts to identify who knows whom and who works with whom |
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| content management system |
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| provides tools to manage the creation, storage, editing, and publication of info in a collaborative environment |
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| web-based tools that make it easy to add remove and change online content |
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| wikis that allow users to edit documents share ideas or monitor the status of a project |
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| defines all the steps or business rules required for a business process |
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| workflow management systems |
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| facilitate the automation and management of processes and control the movement of work through the business process |
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| messaging-based workflow systems |
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| send work assignments through an email system |
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| database based workflow systems |
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| store documents in a central location and automatically ask the team members to access the document when its their turn |
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| software that supports team interaction and dynamics including calendaring, scheduling, and videoconferencing |
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| set of interactive telecommunication technologies that allow 2 or more locations to interact via 2-way vidoe and audio transmission |
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| blends audio, video, and document sharing to create a virtual meeting room where people gather at a password protected website |
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| type of communications service that enables someone to create a private chat room with another person |
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| Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) |
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| linking computers using infrared or radio signals |
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| an omnidirectional wireless technology that provides limited range voice and data transmission over the unlicensed 2.5Ghz frequency band |
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| Radio Frequency identification (RFID) |
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| technologies use active or passive tags in the form of chips that can store unique ids and relay info to electronic readers |
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| contain microchip and an antenna and typically work by transmitting a serial number via radio waves to an electronic receiver |
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| commonly used to transmit network signals over great distances, use atmosphere as medium to send signals |
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| Global positioning system (GPS) |
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| device that determines current latitude, longitude, speed, and direction of movement |
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| Geographic information system (GIS) |
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| designed to work with information that can be shown on a map |
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| Insourcing, in house development |
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| common approach using professional expertise within an organization to develop and maintain IT systems |
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| an arrangement by which one org provides a service for another org that chooses not to perform them in-house |
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| Business process Outsourcing (BPO) |
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| contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third party provider |
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| using orgs from developing countries to write code and develop systems |
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