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| PMC1 | Definition |
|---|---|
| Best of Breed | The best product on the market in that category</Flap> |
| Black Box Testing | Testing software based on output requirements and without any knowledge of the internal structure or coding of the system |
| Contract Admnistration | Management piece which controls and manages contracts within a business |
| Data Flow Diagrams | A graphic diagramming tool that uses a few simple symbols to illustrate the flow of data |
| End User Feedback | Comments from anyone who uses an information system or the information it produces on the performance, design or testing |
| Entity Relationship Diagrams | A data planning and systems development diagramming tool that models the relationship among the entities in a business process |
| Feasibility Study | A preliminary study that investigates the information needs of end users and the objectives, constraints, basic resource requirements, cost/benefits and feasibility of proposed projects |
| Gantt Chart | A linear chart used to show estimated time against dates using earliest possible date (based on critical path) |
| Project Management Phases | Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, Closing |
| Project Purposes/Goals | Project scope notes deliverables, constraints and assumptions |
| Project scope management | Write scope, develop documents to provide the basis for future project decisions, sub-divide the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components, formalize acceptance of the project scope (verification), control changes to project scop |
| Risk Assessment | Risk breakdown structure used to depict identified project risks arrange by risk category |
| Risk management | Mechanism that identifies risk, assesses the probability and severity of risk and develops responses to it |
| SMART | Simple multi-attribute rating theory offers simple ways to quantify subjective elements |
| Software Developer Duties | Programmer or Coder, interprets applications design and coding specifications into machine code to meet requirements and pass quality and user testing |
| Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) | Conceiving, designing and implementing a system. Developing information systems by a process of investigation (or planning), analysis, design, implementation and maintenance |
| Systems analysis | Responsible for user requirements, existing system evaluation and logical system design |
| Terminating Projects | Projects can be terminated for cost overrun, change of scope / functionality, inability of technical staff to develop or configure purchased software to meet functionality, time overruns and other political and technology reasons |
| Use-Case Scenarios | In software engineering and system engineering, a use case is a technique for capturing functional requirements of systems and systems-of-systems. According to Bittner and Spence, "Use cases, stated simply, allow description of sequences of events that |
| User Load | Load testing is the process of creating demand on a system or device and measuring its response |
| Verification methods | Buddy checks, code inspection, code walk through |
| Change Management | Managing the process of implementing major changes in information technology, business processes, organizational structures and job assignments to reduce the risks and costs of change and optimize its benefits |