Week 12/ Chapters 8 & 9 21
Assigned Problems
Problems One, Five, and Eleven
1. Match the following terms with the appropriate definitions:
i. Request for proposal (RFP)- A report that is used to tell vendors what the requirements are and to invite them to provide information about how they might be able to meet those requirements
ii. Systems benchmarking- A way to evaluate a proposed system by testing a portion of it with the system workload
iii. Alpha testing- Testing performed by the development organization to assess whether the entire system meets the design requirements of other users
iv. Systems development life cycle
v. Productivity paradox- The observation that productivity increases at a rate that is lower than expected when new technologies are introduced
vi. Prototyping- A systems development methodology that uses a trial-and-error approach for discovering how a system should operate
vii. Pilot conversion- Using a new system in one location before rolling it out to the entire organization
viii. Systems analysis- The second phase of the systems development life cycle
ix. Outsourcing- The practice of turning over responsibility for some or all of an organization’s information systems development and operations to an outside firm
x. External acquisitions- The process of purchasing an existing system form an outside vendor
xi. Data flows- The movement of data through an organization or within an information system
xii. Requirements collection- The process of gathering and organizing information from users, managers, business processes, and documents to understand how a proposed information system should function