Chapter 11

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Agile Methodology

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aims for customer satisfaction through early and continuous delivery of useful software components developed by an iterative process with a design point that uses the bare minimum requirements

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Analysis phase

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involves analyzing end user business requirements and refining project goals into defined functions and operations of the intended system

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Business Requirement

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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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Change Control Board

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that is the responsible for approving or rejecting all change requests

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Change Management

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is a set of techniques that aid in evolution composition, and policy management of the design and implementation of a system

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Change Management System

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includes a collection of procedures to document a change request and define the steps necessary to consider the change based on the expected impact of the change

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Critical Path

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is 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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Dependency

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is a logical relationship that exists between the project tasks or between a project task and a milestone

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Design Phase

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describing the desired features and operations of teh system including screen layouts, business rules, process diagrams pseudo code and other documentations

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Development Phase

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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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Executive Sponsor

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as the person or group who provides the financial resources for the project

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Extreme programming

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broken into tiny pieces and the first part has to be complete before moving on to the next one

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Feature Creep

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occurs when when developers add extra features that were not part of the initial requirements

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Gantt Chart

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is a simple bar chart that depicts project tasks against a calender

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Implementation Phase

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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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In sourcing

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using professional expertise inside the organization to develop and maintain the IT

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Iterative Development

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consists of a series of tiny projects

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Kill Switch

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a trigger that enables a project manager to close the project prior to completion

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Maintenance Phase

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invovles performing changes corrections, additions and upgrades to ensure the system continues to meet the business goals

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Methodology

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is a set of policies procedure standards, processes, practice tools, techniques, and tasks that people apply to technical and management challenges

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Nearshore OutSourcing

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outsourcing with a nearby country

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Offshore Outsourcing

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using organizations from developing countries to write code and develop systems

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Onshore Outsourcing

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engaging another company within the same country for services

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Outsourcing

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choosing a oragan. outside the company to do work

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Pert

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is a graphical network model that depicts a projects tasks an the relationships between those tasks

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Planning Phase

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high level plan of intedend project to deteremine project goals

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Project

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temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result

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Project Assumption

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are factors that are considered to be true, real, or certain without proof or demonstration

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Project Charter

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is a document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authroizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with teh authority to apply organizational resources to project activities

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Project Constraint

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factors that limit options

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Project Deliverable

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are any measurable, tangible , verifiable outcome, result , or time that is produced to complete a project or part of a project

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project Mangetout

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is the application of knowledge skills, tools , and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements

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Project Management Office

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is a internal department that oversees all organizations projects

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Project Manager

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is an individual who is an expert in project planning and management, defines and develops the project plan and tracks the plan to ensure its completed on time

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Project Milestone

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key dates of when things are suppose to be performed

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Project Objective

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what must be meant to state if its a success

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Project Scope

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defines the work that must be done for the product to be completed

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Project Plan

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is a formal approved document that manages and controls project execution

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Project Stakeholder

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people that will be effected by the outcome of the project

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Prototype

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proposed design for a IT system

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Rapid Application Development

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rapid and evolutionary construction of working prototypes of a system to accelerate the systems development process

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Rational Unified Process

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provides the framework for breaking down the development of software into four gates

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Scope Creep

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occurs when the scope of the project increases

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Scrum Methodolgy

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uses small teams to produce small bits of the project to reach the goal

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Systems Development Life Cycle

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is the overall process for developing information systems form planning and analysis through implementation and maintainence

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Testing Phase

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involves placing the system into production

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Waterfall Methodology

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each method the SDLC is performed sequentially