ITEC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Critical Path Method, Extreme Programming, Records Management
3 Apr 2016
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Chapter 8
1. Project manager: The person assigned by the
organization doing the work of the project to
achieve the project objectives.
2. Stakeholders: People who ultimately will be
affected (for better or worse) by the systems
development project.
3. Users: People who will regularly interact with the
system.
4. Systems analyst: A professional who specializes
in analyzing and designing business systems.
5. Programmer: A specialist responsible for
modifying or developing programs to satisfy user
requirements.
6. Steering team: A small group of senior managers
representing the business and IS organizations
that provide guidance and support to the project.
7. Project sponsor: A key member and leader of the
steering committee who plays such a critical role
that lack of this essential individual raises the
distinct probability of project failure.
8. Information systems planning: The identification
of those information systems development
initiatives needed to support organizational
strategic goals.
9. Traditional systems development life cycle: A
sequential multistage process where work on the
next stage cannot begin until the results of the
previous stage are reviewed and approved or
modified as necessary.
10. Systems investigation: The purpose of this
phase of systems development is to gain a clear
understanding of the specifics of the problem to be
solved or the opportunity to be addressed.
11. Feasibility analysis: Assessment of the
technical, economic, legal, operational, and
schedule feasibility of a project.
12. Systems analysis: This phase of systems
development involves gathering data on the
existing system, determining the requirements for
the new system, considering alternatives within
identified constraints, and investigating the
feasibility of alternative solutions.
13. System design: The stage of systems
development that creates a complete set of
technical specifications that can be used to
construct the information system.
14. System construction: The phase of systems
development that converts the system design into
an operational system by acquiring and installing
hardware and software, coding and testing
software programs, creating and loading data into
databases, and performing initial program testing.
15. Integration testing: Testing that involves linking
all of the individual components together and
testing them as a group to uncover any defects
between individual components.
16. Systems implementation: Involves successfully
introducing an information system into an
organization.
17. System operation: Use of a new or modified
system under all kinds of operating conditions.
18. Systems maintenance: A stage of systems
development that involves changing and
enhancing the system to make it more useful in
achieving user and organizational goals.
19. System disposal: Those activities that ensure
the orderly dissolution of the system including
those activities required to closeout any contracts
in place, dispose of all equipment in an
environmentally friendly manner, and to safely
migrate information from the system to another
system or archive it in accordance to applicable
records management policies.
20. Joint application development (JAD): A
structured meeting process that can accelerate and
improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the
investigation, analysis, and design phases of a
systems development project.
21. Functional decomposition: A technique used
during the investigation, analysis, and design
phases to define the business processes included
within the scope of the system.
22. Data-flow diagram (DFD): A diagram used
during both the analysis and design phases to
document the processes of the current system or
to provide a model of a proposed new system.
