Chapter 3 Flashcards
(28 cards)
What is the most important aspect of an information systems development project?
Project management (PM)
Effective PM helps to ensure that systems development projects:
Meet customer expectations
Are completed on time and within budget
Pine Valley (PV) was organized into the following
functional areas in 2000:
-Manufacturing (fabrication, assembling, finishing)
– Sales
– Orders
– Accounting
– Purchasing
Project manager
systems analyst with a diverse
set of skills—management, leadership, technical, conflict management, and customer relationship— who is responsible for initiating, planning, executing,
and closing down a project.
Project
planned undertaking of related activities to reach an objective that has a beginning and an end
Deliverable
end product of an SDLC phase
System Service Request (SSR)
standard form for requesting or proposing systems development work within an organization
Feasibility study
study that determines
whether a requested system makes economic and operational sense for an organization
Project Management
controlled process of
initiating, planning, executing, and closing down a project
What are the phases of project management?
–Initiating
–Planning
–Executing
–Closing down
Project intiation
first phase of the project
management process in which activities are performed to assess the size, scope, and complexity of the project and to establish procedures to support later project activities
Project Workbook
an online repository for all
project-related documents that is used for performing project audits, orienting new team members, communicating with management and customers, identifying future projects, and performing post-project review
Project Charter
document prepared for the customer during project invitation that describes what the project will deliver
and outlines generally at a high level all work required to complete the project
Project planning
second phase of the project
management process that focuses on defining clear, discrete activities and the work needed to complete each
activity within a single project
Work breakdown structure
process of dividing the
project into manageable tasks and logically ordering them to ensure a smooth evolution between tasks
Gantt chart
graphical representation of a project that shows each task as a horizontal bar whose length is
proportional to its time for completion
Constructive cost model (COCOMO)
automated software estimation model that uses
historical project data and current as well as future project characteristics to estimate project costs
Network diagram
a diagram that depicts project tasks and their relationships
Project execution
third phase of the project
management process, in which the plans created in the prior phase (project initiation and planning)
are put into action
Project closedown
final phase of the project
management process, which focuses on bringing a project to an end
What does Gantt charts show?
-Show task durations
–Show time overlap
–Show slack time in duration
What are network diagrams?
–Show task dependencies
–Do not show time overlap, but show parallelism
–Show slack time in boxes
Resources
any person, group of people, piece of equipment or material used in accomplishing an activity
Critical path scheduling
scheduling technique whose
order and duration of a sequence of task activities directly
affect the completion date of a project
