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Aquiring IS & Apps
chapter 3 revision
Term | Definition |
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Application portfolio | prioritized list of existing and potential IT apps of a company |
Organization strategic plan | states firm's mission, goals, overall broad necessary steps to reach these goals |
IT architecture | the way an org. information resources should be used to accomplish it's mission |
IT strategic plan | set of long-range goals that describe the IT infrastructure & major IT initiatives needed to accomplish it's missions |
IT operational plan | Contains; mission, IT environment, IT functions, app portfolio, objectives of functions, resources allocations |
Intangible benefits | desirable IT benefits that could be difficult to place a monetary value on it [Net present value, Return on investment, Breakeven analysis] |
NPV | convert future value benefits on their present value equivalent |
Return on Investment | measures the effectiveness of management in generating profits |
Breakeven analysis | determines the point at which the cumulative dollar value of benefits from a project equals the investments made in the project |
SDLC | traditional systems development method for large scale IT projects |
Waterfall approach | task phase has to be completed before the work proceeds to the next stage |
Feasibility study | main task of system investigation stage; 1) do nothing 2)modify/ enhance system 3) develop new system |
SDLC - system analysis | examination of a business problem, gather info to determine requirements, delivers set of requirements |
SDLC - system design | describes how the system will accomplish this task, delivers technical design |
SDLC - programming & testing | translation of a system's design then test to see if the computer codes will produce the desirable outcomes / goals |
SDLC - system deployment | process of |