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The shortest time in which a project can be completed.
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A study that determines if the proposed information system makes sense for the organization from an economic and operations standpoint.
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The practice of turning over responsibility for some to all an organization's information systems applications and operations to an outside firm.
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Software tools that provide automated support for some portion of the systems development process.
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An end product of an SDLC phase.
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The provision of computing resources, including applications, over the Internet, so customers do not have to invest in the computing infrastructure needed to run and maintain the resources.
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A diagram that depicts project tasks and their interrelationships.
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The first phase of SDLC in which an organization's total information system needs are identified, analyzed, prioritized, and arranged.
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An object-oriented systems development methodology establishing four phases of development: inception, elaboration, construction, and transition.
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A system that integrates individual traditional business functions into a series of modules so that a single transaction occurs seamlessly within a single information system rather than several separate systems.
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A short document prepared for the customer during project initiation that describes what the project will deliver and outlines generally at a high level all work required to complete the project.
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The use of previously written software resources, especially objects and components, in new applications.
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The property that occurs when entity types or object classes are arranged in a hierarchy and each entity type or object class assumes the attributes and methods of its ancestors, that is, those higher up in the hierarchy.
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The list or hierarchy of activities and tasks of a project; used to estimate the work to be done and to create a detailed work schedule.
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A structure that encapsulates attributed and methods that operate on these attributes. Is an abstraction of a real-world thing in which data and processed are placed together.
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The final phase of SDLC in which an information system is systematically repaired and improved.
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The amount of time that an activity can be delayed without delaying the project.
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A document provided to vendors that asks them to propose hardware and system software that will meet the requirements of a new system.
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A technique that used optimistic, pessimistic, and realistic time estimates to calculate the expected time for a particular task.
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Systems development methodology created to radically decrease the time needed to design and implement information systems.