The document discusses the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), outlining its main phases: planning, requirements analysis, feasibility study, system design, development/coding, system testing, implementation, and maintenance. It provides details on each phase, explaining their key activities and purposes. The SDLC is presented as a process used by systems analysts to develop information systems according to requirements, while ensuring quality, on-time and on-budget completion, effective performance, and cost-efficient maintenance.
The document discusses systems analysis and design (SAD), which refers to the process of examining a business situation with the intent of improving it through better procedures and methods. SAD involves defining problems, requirements, and specifications, as well as designing solutions and implementations. It discusses the various phases of system development like planning, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance. It also describes different approaches to system development like process-oriented, object-oriented, and data-oriented. Finally, it discusses different system development life cycle (SDLC) models like waterfall, spiral, and agile models.
Here are the DFD diagrams for the Online Auction System:
Level 0 (Context Level) DFD:
Online Auction System (Context Diagram)
Seller - Post Product Details
Buyer - View Auction Updates, Search Products, View Products
Level 1 DFD:
Online Auction System
Seller
- Post Product
- Product Details
Buyer
- Search Products
- View Products Details
Administrator
- Manage Products
- Manage Users
Database
- Product Details
- User Details
This shows the basic data flows in and out of the overall Online Auction System at a high level (Level 0) and then breaks it down further
The document describes the six phases of the systems development life cycle: 1) preliminary investigation, 2) systems analysis, 3) systems design, 4) systems development, 5) systems implementation, and 6) systems maintenance. Each phase involves specific activities like gathering requirements, designing system components, developing and acquiring software/hardware, testing, training users, and ongoing maintenance. Traceability matrices are used to map requirements to designs and validate that the life cycle process is followed.
Online auction system is web based application, in which the seller can sell the goods by sitting in his own house ,so the main advantage of this application is that there is no more system compatibility requirement problem. The main advantage of the online auction system is that the user can have the better choices for their investment and also it is time saving , and through this system user can invest in their own selected firm.
The document discusses the system development life cycle (SDLC), which consists of 6 phases: 1) recognition of need, 2) feasibility study, 3) analysis, 4) design, 5) implementation, and 6) post-implementation and maintenance. It provides details on each phase, including that analysis involves defining system boundaries and collecting data, design determines how the problem will be solved through technical specifications, and implementation includes user training, testing, and file conversion. The overall SDLC process gives a system project meaning and direction by thoroughly understanding user needs from recognition through ongoing maintenance.
This document discusses information systems and their design. It defines information as organized data including text, numbers, audio, video and images. The key components of an information system are processes, data, hardware, software and people. There are several types of information systems including management information systems, transaction processing systems, decision support systems, executive information systems and expert/artificial intelligence systems. The design of information systems involves logical design, physical design, construction and testing. Logical design translates user requirements into functions and structures to organize information. Data flow diagrams and data dictionaries are important tools used in the design process.
The system development life cycle is a framework consisting of several stages used to develop information systems and software. It includes requirements analysis, design, implementation, and post-implementation maintenance. The key stages are system analysis and design. The stages include recognition of needs, feasibility study, analysis, design, implementation, and post-implementation maintenance. Each stage addresses important questions and lays the foundation for successful completion of subsequent stages.
The document discusses the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), outlining its main phases: planning, requirements analysis, feasibility study, system design, development/coding, system testing, implementation, and maintenance. It provides details on each phase, explaining their key activities and purposes. The SDLC is presented as a process used by systems analysts to develop information systems according to requirements, while ensuring quality, on-time and on-budget completion, effective performance, and cost-efficient maintenance.
The document discusses systems analysis and design (SAD), which refers to the process of examining a business situation with the intent of improving it through better procedures and methods. SAD involves defining problems, requirements, and specifications, as well as designing solutions and implementations. It discusses the various phases of system development like planning, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance. It also describes different approaches to system development like process-oriented, object-oriented, and data-oriented. Finally, it discusses different system development life cycle (SDLC) models like waterfall, spiral, and agile models.
Here are the DFD diagrams for the Online Auction System:
Level 0 (Context Level) DFD:
Online Auction System (Context Diagram)
Seller - Post Product Details
Buyer - View Auction Updates, Search Products, View Products
Level 1 DFD:
Online Auction System
Seller
- Post Product
- Product Details
Buyer
- Search Products
- View Products Details
Administrator
- Manage Products
- Manage Users
Database
- Product Details
- User Details
This shows the basic data flows in and out of the overall Online Auction System at a high level (Level 0) and then breaks it down further
The document describes the six phases of the systems development life cycle: 1) preliminary investigation, 2) systems analysis, 3) systems design, 4) systems development, 5) systems implementation, and 6) systems maintenance. Each phase involves specific activities like gathering requirements, designing system components, developing and acquiring software/hardware, testing, training users, and ongoing maintenance. Traceability matrices are used to map requirements to designs and validate that the life cycle process is followed.
Online auction system is web based application, in which the seller can sell the goods by sitting in his own house ,so the main advantage of this application is that there is no more system compatibility requirement problem. The main advantage of the online auction system is that the user can have the better choices for their investment and also it is time saving , and through this system user can invest in their own selected firm.
The document discusses the system development life cycle (SDLC), which consists of 6 phases: 1) recognition of need, 2) feasibility study, 3) analysis, 4) design, 5) implementation, and 6) post-implementation and maintenance. It provides details on each phase, including that analysis involves defining system boundaries and collecting data, design determines how the problem will be solved through technical specifications, and implementation includes user training, testing, and file conversion. The overall SDLC process gives a system project meaning and direction by thoroughly understanding user needs from recognition through ongoing maintenance.
This document discusses information systems and their design. It defines information as organized data including text, numbers, audio, video and images. The key components of an information system are processes, data, hardware, software and people. There are several types of information systems including management information systems, transaction processing systems, decision support systems, executive information systems and expert/artificial intelligence systems. The design of information systems involves logical design, physical design, construction and testing. Logical design translates user requirements into functions and structures to organize information. Data flow diagrams and data dictionaries are important tools used in the design process.
The system development life cycle is a framework consisting of several stages used to develop information systems and software. It includes requirements analysis, design, implementation, and post-implementation maintenance. The key stages are system analysis and design. The stages include recognition of needs, feasibility study, analysis, design, implementation, and post-implementation maintenance. Each stage addresses important questions and lays the foundation for successful completion of subsequent stages.
Project on multiplex ticket bookingn system globsyn2014Md Imran
This document appears to be a project report for a movie ticket booking system developed using ASP.Net. It includes sections like acknowledgements, objectives, feasibility analysis, system requirements, database design, tables used, data flow diagrams, screenshots of the system, code snippets and references. The system allows users to book movie tickets, and has functionality for admins to add movies, theaters and manage the system. Group members who worked on the project are also listed.
The systems development life cycle (SDLC) describes the process for planning, creating, testing, and deploying an information system. It involves preliminary system study, feasibility study, detailed system study, system analysis, system design, coding, testing, implementation, and maintenance. The SDLC follows a structured process to ensure high quality systems while maximizing productivity and providing management controls. It originated in the 1960s to develop large scale business systems.
Information System (IS) is a collection of components that work together to provide information to help in the operations and management of an organization.
The document provides guidance on implementing an enterprise system in 6 main steps: 1) Project management to set up the team and scope, 2) Preparation including training, data collection, and setup, 3) Build the customer-specific implementation by configuring the system, 4) Prepare for roll-out with user documentation and training, 5) Deployment and go-live, and 6) Support and manage enhancement requests after launch. It emphasizes preparation, training, and a phased approach to ensure success.
Software testing and introduction to qualityDhanashriAmbre
The document provides an overview of software testing and quality assurance. It defines software testing as a process to investigate quality and find defects between expected and actual results. Testing is necessary to ensure software is defect-free per customer specifications and increases reliability. The document then discusses types of errors like ambiguous specifications, misunderstood specifications, and logic/coding errors. It outlines the software development life cycle including phases like planning, analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation, and maintenance. Each phase is described in 1-2 sentences.
Project Documentation Student Management System format.pptxAjayPatre1
This document outlines a proposed student management system. It describes the existing manual system and its drawbacks. The proposed system would allow teachers to easily add, search for, and sort student details electronically. It covers system analysis, feasibility study, input/output design, testing procedures, future enhancements, and software and hardware requirements for the new computerized student management system.
The document discusses the stages of the system development life cycle (SDLC), including feasibility studies, system analysis, systems design, development, implementation, and maintenance. It provides details on the objectives and processes involved in each stage, such as defining requirements, designing system components, acquiring or developing software, testing the system, training users, and periodically evaluating systems once implemented.
CHAPTER 11 Managing
Systems
Implementation
Chapter 11 describes the systems implementation phase of the SDLC. This chapter describes application development, installation, and evaluation.
OBJECTIVES
When you finish this chapter, you will be able to:
· Explain the importance of software quality assurance and software engineering
· Describe application development using structured, object-oriented, and agile methods
· Draw a structure chart showing top-down design, modular design, cohesion, and coupling
· Explain the coding process
· Explain unit, integration, and system testing
· Differentiate between program, system, operations, and user documentation
· List the main steps in system installation and evaluation
· Develop training plans for various user groups, compare in-house and vendor training options, and describe effective training techniques
· Describe data conversion and changeover methods
· Explain post-implementation evaluation and the final report to management
INTRODUCTION
Managing systems implementation involves application development, testing, documentation, training, data conversion, system changeover, and post-implementation evaluation of the results.
During systems implementation, the system design specification serves as a blueprint for constructing the new system. The initial task is application development, which requires systems analysts and programmers to work together to construct the necessary programs and code modules. Before a changeover, the system must be tested and documented carefully, users must be trained, and existing data must be converted. After the new system is operational, a formal evaluation of the results takes place as part of a final report to management.
If you have MIS CourseMate, you can view a Video Learning Session that explains how to use a structure chart to show program modules and their relationships.
PREVIEW CASE: Mountain View College Bookstore
Background: Wendy Lee, manager of college services at Mountain View College, wants a new information system that will improve efficiency and customer service at the three college bookstores.
In this part of the case, Tina Allen (systems analyst) and David Conroe (student intern) are talking about implementation tasks for the new system.
Participants:
Wendy, Tina, and David
Location:
Wendy Lee’s office, Monday morning, February 10,2014
Project status:
The system design specification was approved, and Tina and David are ready to implement the new bookstore information system.
Discussion topics:
Implementation tasks, including quality assurance, structure charts, testing, training, data conversion process, system changeover, and post-implementation evaluation
Tina:
Good morning, Wendy, We’re ready to start the implementation process, and I’d like to go over our plans, David will be assisting me, so I asked him to join us.
Wendy:
I’m glad you did. I met David during the interviews several months ago.
David:
Hi, Wendy, good to see you again. What’s next? ...
The document discusses different approaches to systems building, including the traditional systems lifecycle model consisting of definition, feasibility, design, development, testing, implementation, evaluation and maintenance phases. It also covers prototyping, using application software packages, end-user development, outsourcing, structured methodologies, object-oriented development, computer-aided software engineering and software reengineering.
The document discusses the system development life cycle (SDLC), which includes various phases for developing and maintaining systems. The key phases are: system investigation, feasibility study, system analysis, system design, coding, testing, implementation, and maintenance. The feasibility study phase evaluates the technical, operational, economic, motivational, and schedule feasibility of a proposed system. The system analysis phase involves studying user requirements and the current system. System design then specifies how the new system will meet requirements through elements like data design, user interface design, and process design. This produces specifications for the system.
The document describes the system development life cycle (SDLC), which is a process used to develop, implement, and retire information systems through several steps: initiation, analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance. It involves analyzing user needs, designing the system, coding, testing, implementation, and maintenance. The waterfall model is presented as a common SDLC approach, consisting of sequential phases from requirements analysis through maintenance. Other SDLC models mentioned include iterative, spiral, object-oriented, rapid application development, and joint application development.
This document provides information about obtaining fully solved assignments from an assignment help service. It lists the email and phone contact information and requests students to send their semester and specialization to receive help with assignments. It also lists some of the programs and subjects that assignments are available for, including MBADS, MBAFLEX, MBAN2, and PGDISMN.
Miss Aster Noor introduces the concepts of software processes and process models. The chapter covers software process models like waterfall, incremental development, and integration/configuration. It discusses the core process activities of requirements engineering, development, testing, and evolution. The chapter aims to explain why processes must adapt to changes and how process improvement affects quality.
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TOPIC: Staggered duty days to reduce congestion at the gates
PROBLEM STATEMENT: The current duty schedule, Monday-Friday, 0600-1600, significantly increases congestion at the gates and is no longer conducive to the security requirements leaving a major security issue to deal with.
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Developing The Project Communication Plan
A project communication plan is used to facilitate effective and efficient communication with the various stakeholders during its implementation. An effective communication plan includes certain key elements such as communication objectives, important content for the dissemination, target audiences and the methods to be used as well as the frequency. A good two-way channel of communications is crucial for the success of the implementation of an ERP system or any other system in general. Good communication can be used to inform all key stakeholders on the progress of the project as well as reveal omissions and misallocation of resources early enough to allow for rectification and revision.
For this case, a communication plan will be used to keep all the stakeholders and managers informed and updated on all the happenings and progress of the ERP system implementation process. There are several forms of communication that will be used to communicate to all users on how their jobs will change, how they will be trained to use the new system and many more activities such as key milestones achieved and the overall implementation progress. The first form of communication will be through status reports, and these reports will constitute of content such as expected risks that could affect the system and what deliverables will be aligned with risk mitigation and contingencies put in place in case of the risk materializes. These reports will be sent electronically to key stakeholders such as the company's CEO, CFO, and IT director on a weekly basis.
The second form of communication will via newsletters and emails, and these channels will work well for disseminating announcements since the company has a broad target audience which is geographically distributed in different locations. This technique will be used to provide information relevant to the project progress as well as information about the ongoing and upcoming activities throughout the ERP implementation process. These emails and newsletters will be sent on a weekly basis to the IT director, the systems administrator, sales and advertising director as well as the web developer.
The final form of communication will be through meetings where stakeholders who include the IT director, the systems administrator and their teams will be briefed weekly on the progress of the implementation process through face-to-face meetings. On the other hand, the executive will receive the overall updates on a monthly basis which will start with a visua ...
Student information management system project report ii.pdfKamal Acharya
Our project explains about the student management. This project mainly explains the various actions related to student details. This project shows some ease in adding, editing and deleting the student details. It also provides a less time consuming process for viewing, adding, editing and deleting the marks of the students.
Management Information Systems – Week 7 Lecture 2Developme.docxcroysierkathey
Management Information Systems – Week 7 Lecture 2
Development & Improvement
Chapter 13 Systems Development: Design, Implementation, Maintenance,
and Review
You have learned about information systems and seen a little about how the project is run to create a new
system. This week you will focus on the actual systems design process. This will help you whether you
become a programmer, systems analyst or are a department manager. There are countless articles on
this subject on the internet and some great YouTube videos so take a moment to do some extra research
and learn more about systems development.
When an IS manager sits down to design a system they look at several areas and have many special
tools at their disposal.
A systems engineer or senior developer will first look at the logical design. This usually means that they
look at the user request and determine what they really mean! Once they have clarification they will create
a physical design. This might be object-oriented (using code that has already been created) or mock ups
showing interface design and controls. This is sometimes called storyboarding. This image is an example
of creating a new user interface:
System design time is an investment for the business, it will help by preventing, detecting, and correcting
errors prior to the application software being written. It will generate systems design alternatives. One
alternative is to ask software developers to create the application for the business, this is done by creating
a request for proposal (RFP). Software vendors will then propose several options at various price points.
The business can then review the proposals, do a cost benefit analysis and select an appropriate plan of
action.
Once a project has started it is a good idea to freezing design specifications using a contract, and even a
design report called a Functional Design Document. This process is intended to allow the development
team to focus on creating a specific application and not have to try to hit a constantly moving target. As
the application is being developed it is also time to acquire the hardware that will be needed. If the
application requires a headset with microphone for voice input or a super-fast computer, this is the time to
make sure the application will be functional when it is implemented.
Types of IS hardware vendors include:
General computer manufacturers
Small computer manufacturers
Peripheral equipment manufacturers
Computer dealers and distributors
Chip makers
While the application is being developed and the hardware acquired, in a perfect world the personnel will
be hired and trained and any preparations will be done for the site and data requirements (additional disk
drives for databases or could computing). One of the phases of software development is the testing
phase. It really cannot be considered the final stage because it may result in some additional planning,
programming or other modifications. It can be considered to be ...
This document provides an overview of several software development life cycle models:
- The Waterfall Model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance without iteration.
- Prototyping allows for experimenting with designs through iterative prototype development and user testing.
- Iterative models like the Spiral Model involve repeating phases of design, implementation, and testing in cycles with user feedback.
IFSM 301 – Week 4 Citations (NIST, 2009) (The six phasMalikPinckney86
IFSM 301 – Week 4 Citations
(NIST, 2009)
(The six phases of project management, n.d.)
(Waterfall versus Agile Project Management, n.d.)
(Gottesdiener, 2008)
(Value Attainment)
(Potts, 2008)
(Potts, Why You Shouldn't Have an IT Budget, 2008)
(UMUC Faculty)
Bibliography
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The System Development Life Cycle
For a brief overview of the System Development Life Cycle, the following sections have been directly
quoted from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publication, The System
Development Life Cycle (SDLC). The entire NIST publication is available at:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistbul/april2009_system-development-life-cycle.pdf
"The system development life cycle is the overall process of developing, implementing, and retiring
information systems through a multistep process from initiation, analysis, design, implementation, and
maintenance to disposal. There are many different SDLC models and methodologies, but each generally
consists of a series of defined steps or phases.
The System Development Life Cycle
Initiation Phase. During the initiation phase, the organization establishes the need for a system and
documents its purpose.
Development/Acquisition Phase. During this phase, the system is designed, purchased, programmed,
developed, or otherwise constructed. should be identified as well.
Implementation Phase. In the implementation phase, the organization conf ...
Running head SDLC1 SDLC2SDLCSai Rohith Cherukumil.docxtoltonkendal
Running head: SDLC
1
SDLC
2
SDLC
Sai Rohith Cherukumilli
Mcnair Donell
Wilmington University
SDLC
All software development processes must follow a professional standard in which the standard procedures are used. Some of the major software development processes used include Waterfall Model, Agile Software Development model, Rapid Development Model, and also Prototyping. Each of these SDLC models follow particular conventional standards set by the different organizations (Rossberg, 2014). The purpose of system development life cycle is to ensure that business requirements are. The process of coming up with a system from scratch to the point where it is to be implemented into the business environment or sold out into the market is the software development life cycle, which is series of processes depending on the model chosen by the developer or the system analyst conducting the system development. Software development life cycle regards the professional process of coming up with a system for use within a business environment.
7-Step SDLC Model: Traditional SDLC Model
This is the most basic model majorly used in the market by most system analysts, and it follows a series of seven different systematic steps to be fully completed. The steps range from system planning, system analysis, system design, system development, system testing, system implementation, and system maintenance. These steps are sequential and perform a similar role of driving towards achieving the sole purpose of final system functionality. According to this 7-step model, the first phase of system planning involves identification of the project requirements. These project scopes are then analyzed and proper required operational standards are identified for correct solutions. Part of the analyses conducted include parameters such as cost implications on the business organization, time required to complete the system, as well as hardware and software requirements that will be used. All processes must be followed lest any skip of any of these processes would impact heavily on the given organization or client in this case, since a miscalculation of any form would cost the company or the analyst. In each step, specific activities are carried out to ensure that the final product achieves its functionality as per the client’s requests.
The next phase of software development life cycle is the feasibility study. Ritchie (2012) proposes that the analysis phase requires proper information gathering techniques and definition of constraints that will be used in the system. The phase involves different techniques of acquiring sufficient information before proceeding to building the system, and this information would be in form of data such as the organization’s processing requirements. The information can be gathered using techniques such as interviews or questionnaires, with subjectivity to have maximum information.
After sufficiently acquiring relevant information, the system analyst the ...
11Getting Started with PhoneGapWHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTERSantosConleyha
11
Getting Started with PhoneGap
WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?
! History of PhoneGap
! Di! erences between HTML5 and PhoneGap
! Getting a development environment set up
! Implementing the Derby App
PhoneGap is an open source set of tools created by Nitobi
Solution
s (now part of Adobe)
that enables you to create mobile applications for multiple devices by utilizing the same code.
PhoneGap is a hybrid mobile application framework that allows the use of HTML, CSS,
and JavaScript to write applications that are based on the open standards of the web. These
applications also have access to the native functionality of the device. PhoneGap has been
downloaded more than 600,000 times, and more than 1,000 apps built with PhoneGap are
available in the respective app stores, which makes PhoneGap a viable solution for creating
cross-platform mobile apps.
HISTORY OF PHONEGAP
PhoneGap was started at the San Francisco iPhone Dev Camp in August 2008. iOS was shaping
up to become a popular mobile platform, but the learning curve for Objective-C was more work
than many developers wanted to take on. PhoneGap originally started as a headless browser
implementation for the iPhone. Because of the popularity of HTML/CSS/JavaScript, it was a
goal that this project use technologies with which many developers where already familiar.
Based on the growing popularity of the framework, in October 2008 Nitobi added support
for Android and BlackBerry. PhoneGap was awarded the People’s Choice award at the Web2.0
Expo Launch Pad in 2009, which was the start of developers recognizing PhoneGap as a
valuable mobile development tool. PhoneGap version 0.7.2 was released in April 2009, and
was the fi rst version for which the Android and iPhone APIs were equivalent.
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In September 2009 Apple approved the use of the PhoneGap platform to build apps for the iPhone
store. Apple required that all PhoneGap apps be built using at least version 0.8.0 of the PhoneGap
software. In July 2011, PhoneGap released version 1.0.0.
WHY USE PHONEGAP?
PhoneGap enables you to leverage your current HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skill sets to create a mobile
application. This can greatly speed up development time. When you develop for multiple platforms
using PhoneGap, you can reuse the majority of the code you have written for the mobile project, further
reducing development costs. It isn’t necessary to learn Java, C#, and Objective-C to create an applica-
tion with PhoneGap that can target iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone 7.
If you fi nd native functionality missing from PhoneGap, you can extend the functionality of the
PhoneGap platform using native code. With the PhoneGap add-in structure, you can create an add-in
using the native language of the device and a JavaScript API that will call the native plug-in you
created. Cross-platfo ...
11Proposal Part One - Part 1 Influence of Internet on TourismSantosConleyha
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Proposal Part One - Part 1: Influence of Internet on Tourism Industry
Research Proposal: Influence of Internet on Tourism Industry
Introduction
The tourism industry has been among the best-valued sectors within the nation to generate massive revenue for the government. Besides, the industry is considered among the earliest since it started several decades ago. For an extended period, the industry uses Integrated Marketing Communications to promote their various products and services to the entire world. The introduction of technology in the industry leads to improvements in the sectors. Most individuals without extensive information on the tourism industry can access the data in their comfort zones. It implies that IT and internet technology play a significant role in ensuring effective strategy due to its existence globally.
Most European countries have tried to promote and implement internet technology in ensuring satisfactory delivery of products and services (Kayumovich, 2020). Since it has a custom within the tourism and hotel industry to provide intangible products and services, including but not limited to services alongside comfort, the internet has been an effective method of delivering its messages to the targeted customers. Also, through internet technology, the industry has achieved more customers in the global market, including the European market. The promotion of branding within the European tourism industry has been effective due to the introduction and implementation of internet technology. Thus, the internet is believed to significantly influence the tourism industry in various sectors, including but limited to infrastructure, travel, alongside the marketing sector. Before introducing the internet alongside the IT, travelling of customers was dangerous and unpleasant since travellers had constraint understanding of locations they were visiting.
As a result, the existing vacationers of time had limited knowledge of the cultures and terrain alongside the climate change and patterns necessary to stimulate the travelling issues. Therefore, tourism sectors, including but not limited to tour companies, travel agencies and other like hotels, had developed strategies necessary to promote booking and reservation processes (David-Negre et al. 2018). However, several decades ago, popular sites were visited by tourists. It implies that the tourism sectors within the local or remote area faced challenges of securing sufficient clients as people were could not define the destination. Also, shortage of information on a particular region leads to reduced travelling by visitors. The research involved the utilization of relevant literature review on the subject matter to provide factual information. Therefore, the report offers adequate information on the influence of the internet on the tourism industry. This research would give me the stage to show my finding and view and also propose how the internet can be leveraged to an extend i ...
Project on multiplex ticket bookingn system globsyn2014Md Imran
This document appears to be a project report for a movie ticket booking system developed using ASP.Net. It includes sections like acknowledgements, objectives, feasibility analysis, system requirements, database design, tables used, data flow diagrams, screenshots of the system, code snippets and references. The system allows users to book movie tickets, and has functionality for admins to add movies, theaters and manage the system. Group members who worked on the project are also listed.
The systems development life cycle (SDLC) describes the process for planning, creating, testing, and deploying an information system. It involves preliminary system study, feasibility study, detailed system study, system analysis, system design, coding, testing, implementation, and maintenance. The SDLC follows a structured process to ensure high quality systems while maximizing productivity and providing management controls. It originated in the 1960s to develop large scale business systems.
Information System (IS) is a collection of components that work together to provide information to help in the operations and management of an organization.
The document provides guidance on implementing an enterprise system in 6 main steps: 1) Project management to set up the team and scope, 2) Preparation including training, data collection, and setup, 3) Build the customer-specific implementation by configuring the system, 4) Prepare for roll-out with user documentation and training, 5) Deployment and go-live, and 6) Support and manage enhancement requests after launch. It emphasizes preparation, training, and a phased approach to ensure success.
Software testing and introduction to qualityDhanashriAmbre
The document provides an overview of software testing and quality assurance. It defines software testing as a process to investigate quality and find defects between expected and actual results. Testing is necessary to ensure software is defect-free per customer specifications and increases reliability. The document then discusses types of errors like ambiguous specifications, misunderstood specifications, and logic/coding errors. It outlines the software development life cycle including phases like planning, analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation, and maintenance. Each phase is described in 1-2 sentences.
Project Documentation Student Management System format.pptxAjayPatre1
This document outlines a proposed student management system. It describes the existing manual system and its drawbacks. The proposed system would allow teachers to easily add, search for, and sort student details electronically. It covers system analysis, feasibility study, input/output design, testing procedures, future enhancements, and software and hardware requirements for the new computerized student management system.
The document discusses the stages of the system development life cycle (SDLC), including feasibility studies, system analysis, systems design, development, implementation, and maintenance. It provides details on the objectives and processes involved in each stage, such as defining requirements, designing system components, acquiring or developing software, testing the system, training users, and periodically evaluating systems once implemented.
CHAPTER 11 Managing
Systems
Implementation
Chapter 11 describes the systems implementation phase of the SDLC. This chapter describes application development, installation, and evaluation.
OBJECTIVES
When you finish this chapter, you will be able to:
· Explain the importance of software quality assurance and software engineering
· Describe application development using structured, object-oriented, and agile methods
· Draw a structure chart showing top-down design, modular design, cohesion, and coupling
· Explain the coding process
· Explain unit, integration, and system testing
· Differentiate between program, system, operations, and user documentation
· List the main steps in system installation and evaluation
· Develop training plans for various user groups, compare in-house and vendor training options, and describe effective training techniques
· Describe data conversion and changeover methods
· Explain post-implementation evaluation and the final report to management
INTRODUCTION
Managing systems implementation involves application development, testing, documentation, training, data conversion, system changeover, and post-implementation evaluation of the results.
During systems implementation, the system design specification serves as a blueprint for constructing the new system. The initial task is application development, which requires systems analysts and programmers to work together to construct the necessary programs and code modules. Before a changeover, the system must be tested and documented carefully, users must be trained, and existing data must be converted. After the new system is operational, a formal evaluation of the results takes place as part of a final report to management.
If you have MIS CourseMate, you can view a Video Learning Session that explains how to use a structure chart to show program modules and their relationships.
PREVIEW CASE: Mountain View College Bookstore
Background: Wendy Lee, manager of college services at Mountain View College, wants a new information system that will improve efficiency and customer service at the three college bookstores.
In this part of the case, Tina Allen (systems analyst) and David Conroe (student intern) are talking about implementation tasks for the new system.
Participants:
Wendy, Tina, and David
Location:
Wendy Lee’s office, Monday morning, February 10,2014
Project status:
The system design specification was approved, and Tina and David are ready to implement the new bookstore information system.
Discussion topics:
Implementation tasks, including quality assurance, structure charts, testing, training, data conversion process, system changeover, and post-implementation evaluation
Tina:
Good morning, Wendy, We’re ready to start the implementation process, and I’d like to go over our plans, David will be assisting me, so I asked him to join us.
Wendy:
I’m glad you did. I met David during the interviews several months ago.
David:
Hi, Wendy, good to see you again. What’s next? ...
The document discusses different approaches to systems building, including the traditional systems lifecycle model consisting of definition, feasibility, design, development, testing, implementation, evaluation and maintenance phases. It also covers prototyping, using application software packages, end-user development, outsourcing, structured methodologies, object-oriented development, computer-aided software engineering and software reengineering.
The document discusses the system development life cycle (SDLC), which includes various phases for developing and maintaining systems. The key phases are: system investigation, feasibility study, system analysis, system design, coding, testing, implementation, and maintenance. The feasibility study phase evaluates the technical, operational, economic, motivational, and schedule feasibility of a proposed system. The system analysis phase involves studying user requirements and the current system. System design then specifies how the new system will meet requirements through elements like data design, user interface design, and process design. This produces specifications for the system.
The document describes the system development life cycle (SDLC), which is a process used to develop, implement, and retire information systems through several steps: initiation, analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance. It involves analyzing user needs, designing the system, coding, testing, implementation, and maintenance. The waterfall model is presented as a common SDLC approach, consisting of sequential phases from requirements analysis through maintenance. Other SDLC models mentioned include iterative, spiral, object-oriented, rapid application development, and joint application development.
This document provides information about obtaining fully solved assignments from an assignment help service. It lists the email and phone contact information and requests students to send their semester and specialization to receive help with assignments. It also lists some of the programs and subjects that assignments are available for, including MBADS, MBAFLEX, MBAN2, and PGDISMN.
Miss Aster Noor introduces the concepts of software processes and process models. The chapter covers software process models like waterfall, incremental development, and integration/configuration. It discusses the core process activities of requirements engineering, development, testing, and evolution. The chapter aims to explain why processes must adapt to changes and how process improvement affects quality.
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TOPIC: Staggered duty days to reduce congestion at the gates
PROBLEM STATEMENT: The current duty schedule, Monday-Friday, 0600-1600, significantly increases congestion at the gates and is no longer conducive to the security requirements leaving a major security issue to deal with.
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Developing The Project Communication Plan
A project communication plan is used to facilitate effective and efficient communication with the various stakeholders during its implementation. An effective communication plan includes certain key elements such as communication objectives, important content for the dissemination, target audiences and the methods to be used as well as the frequency. A good two-way channel of communications is crucial for the success of the implementation of an ERP system or any other system in general. Good communication can be used to inform all key stakeholders on the progress of the project as well as reveal omissions and misallocation of resources early enough to allow for rectification and revision.
For this case, a communication plan will be used to keep all the stakeholders and managers informed and updated on all the happenings and progress of the ERP system implementation process. There are several forms of communication that will be used to communicate to all users on how their jobs will change, how they will be trained to use the new system and many more activities such as key milestones achieved and the overall implementation progress. The first form of communication will be through status reports, and these reports will constitute of content such as expected risks that could affect the system and what deliverables will be aligned with risk mitigation and contingencies put in place in case of the risk materializes. These reports will be sent electronically to key stakeholders such as the company's CEO, CFO, and IT director on a weekly basis.
The second form of communication will via newsletters and emails, and these channels will work well for disseminating announcements since the company has a broad target audience which is geographically distributed in different locations. This technique will be used to provide information relevant to the project progress as well as information about the ongoing and upcoming activities throughout the ERP implementation process. These emails and newsletters will be sent on a weekly basis to the IT director, the systems administrator, sales and advertising director as well as the web developer.
The final form of communication will be through meetings where stakeholders who include the IT director, the systems administrator and their teams will be briefed weekly on the progress of the implementation process through face-to-face meetings. On the other hand, the executive will receive the overall updates on a monthly basis which will start with a visua ...
Student information management system project report ii.pdfKamal Acharya
Our project explains about the student management. This project mainly explains the various actions related to student details. This project shows some ease in adding, editing and deleting the student details. It also provides a less time consuming process for viewing, adding, editing and deleting the marks of the students.
Management Information Systems – Week 7 Lecture 2Developme.docxcroysierkathey
Management Information Systems – Week 7 Lecture 2
Development & Improvement
Chapter 13 Systems Development: Design, Implementation, Maintenance,
and Review
You have learned about information systems and seen a little about how the project is run to create a new
system. This week you will focus on the actual systems design process. This will help you whether you
become a programmer, systems analyst or are a department manager. There are countless articles on
this subject on the internet and some great YouTube videos so take a moment to do some extra research
and learn more about systems development.
When an IS manager sits down to design a system they look at several areas and have many special
tools at their disposal.
A systems engineer or senior developer will first look at the logical design. This usually means that they
look at the user request and determine what they really mean! Once they have clarification they will create
a physical design. This might be object-oriented (using code that has already been created) or mock ups
showing interface design and controls. This is sometimes called storyboarding. This image is an example
of creating a new user interface:
System design time is an investment for the business, it will help by preventing, detecting, and correcting
errors prior to the application software being written. It will generate systems design alternatives. One
alternative is to ask software developers to create the application for the business, this is done by creating
a request for proposal (RFP). Software vendors will then propose several options at various price points.
The business can then review the proposals, do a cost benefit analysis and select an appropriate plan of
action.
Once a project has started it is a good idea to freezing design specifications using a contract, and even a
design report called a Functional Design Document. This process is intended to allow the development
team to focus on creating a specific application and not have to try to hit a constantly moving target. As
the application is being developed it is also time to acquire the hardware that will be needed. If the
application requires a headset with microphone for voice input or a super-fast computer, this is the time to
make sure the application will be functional when it is implemented.
Types of IS hardware vendors include:
General computer manufacturers
Small computer manufacturers
Peripheral equipment manufacturers
Computer dealers and distributors
Chip makers
While the application is being developed and the hardware acquired, in a perfect world the personnel will
be hired and trained and any preparations will be done for the site and data requirements (additional disk
drives for databases or could computing). One of the phases of software development is the testing
phase. It really cannot be considered the final stage because it may result in some additional planning,
programming or other modifications. It can be considered to be ...
This document provides an overview of several software development life cycle models:
- The Waterfall Model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance without iteration.
- Prototyping allows for experimenting with designs through iterative prototype development and user testing.
- Iterative models like the Spiral Model involve repeating phases of design, implementation, and testing in cycles with user feedback.
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IFSM 301 – Week 4 Citations
(NIST, 2009)
(The six phases of project management, n.d.)
(Waterfall versus Agile Project Management, n.d.)
(Gottesdiener, 2008)
(Value Attainment)
(Potts, 2008)
(Potts, Why You Shouldn't Have an IT Budget, 2008)
(UMUC Faculty)
Bibliography
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The System Development Life Cycle
For a brief overview of the System Development Life Cycle, the following sections have been directly
quoted from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publication, The System
Development Life Cycle (SDLC). The entire NIST publication is available at:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistbul/april2009_system-development-life-cycle.pdf
"The system development life cycle is the overall process of developing, implementing, and retiring
information systems through a multistep process from initiation, analysis, design, implementation, and
maintenance to disposal. There are many different SDLC models and methodologies, but each generally
consists of a series of defined steps or phases.
The System Development Life Cycle
Initiation Phase. During the initiation phase, the organization establishes the need for a system and
documents its purpose.
Development/Acquisition Phase. During this phase, the system is designed, purchased, programmed,
developed, or otherwise constructed. should be identified as well.
Implementation Phase. In the implementation phase, the organization conf ...
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SDLC
All software development processes must follow a professional standard in which the standard procedures are used. Some of the major software development processes used include Waterfall Model, Agile Software Development model, Rapid Development Model, and also Prototyping. Each of these SDLC models follow particular conventional standards set by the different organizations (Rossberg, 2014). The purpose of system development life cycle is to ensure that business requirements are. The process of coming up with a system from scratch to the point where it is to be implemented into the business environment or sold out into the market is the software development life cycle, which is series of processes depending on the model chosen by the developer or the system analyst conducting the system development. Software development life cycle regards the professional process of coming up with a system for use within a business environment.
7-Step SDLC Model: Traditional SDLC Model
This is the most basic model majorly used in the market by most system analysts, and it follows a series of seven different systematic steps to be fully completed. The steps range from system planning, system analysis, system design, system development, system testing, system implementation, and system maintenance. These steps are sequential and perform a similar role of driving towards achieving the sole purpose of final system functionality. According to this 7-step model, the first phase of system planning involves identification of the project requirements. These project scopes are then analyzed and proper required operational standards are identified for correct solutions. Part of the analyses conducted include parameters such as cost implications on the business organization, time required to complete the system, as well as hardware and software requirements that will be used. All processes must be followed lest any skip of any of these processes would impact heavily on the given organization or client in this case, since a miscalculation of any form would cost the company or the analyst. In each step, specific activities are carried out to ensure that the final product achieves its functionality as per the client’s requests.
The next phase of software development life cycle is the feasibility study. Ritchie (2012) proposes that the analysis phase requires proper information gathering techniques and definition of constraints that will be used in the system. The phase involves different techniques of acquiring sufficient information before proceeding to building the system, and this information would be in form of data such as the organization’s processing requirements. The information can be gathered using techniques such as interviews or questionnaires, with subjectivity to have maximum information.
After sufficiently acquiring relevant information, the system analyst the ...
11Getting Started with PhoneGapWHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTERSantosConleyha
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Getting Started with PhoneGap
WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?
! History of PhoneGap
! Di! erences between HTML5 and PhoneGap
! Getting a development environment set up
! Implementing the Derby App
PhoneGap is an open source set of tools created by Nitobi
Solution
s (now part of Adobe)
that enables you to create mobile applications for multiple devices by utilizing the same code.
PhoneGap is a hybrid mobile application framework that allows the use of HTML, CSS,
and JavaScript to write applications that are based on the open standards of the web. These
applications also have access to the native functionality of the device. PhoneGap has been
downloaded more than 600,000 times, and more than 1,000 apps built with PhoneGap are
available in the respective app stores, which makes PhoneGap a viable solution for creating
cross-platform mobile apps.
HISTORY OF PHONEGAP
PhoneGap was started at the San Francisco iPhone Dev Camp in August 2008. iOS was shaping
up to become a popular mobile platform, but the learning curve for Objective-C was more work
than many developers wanted to take on. PhoneGap originally started as a headless browser
implementation for the iPhone. Because of the popularity of HTML/CSS/JavaScript, it was a
goal that this project use technologies with which many developers where already familiar.
Based on the growing popularity of the framework, in October 2008 Nitobi added support
for Android and BlackBerry. PhoneGap was awarded the People’s Choice award at the Web2.0
Expo Launch Pad in 2009, which was the start of developers recognizing PhoneGap as a
valuable mobile development tool. PhoneGap version 0.7.2 was released in April 2009, and
was the fi rst version for which the Android and iPhone APIs were equivalent.
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In September 2009 Apple approved the use of the PhoneGap platform to build apps for the iPhone
store. Apple required that all PhoneGap apps be built using at least version 0.8.0 of the PhoneGap
software. In July 2011, PhoneGap released version 1.0.0.
WHY USE PHONEGAP?
PhoneGap enables you to leverage your current HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skill sets to create a mobile
application. This can greatly speed up development time. When you develop for multiple platforms
using PhoneGap, you can reuse the majority of the code you have written for the mobile project, further
reducing development costs. It isn’t necessary to learn Java, C#, and Objective-C to create an applica-
tion with PhoneGap that can target iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone 7.
If you fi nd native functionality missing from PhoneGap, you can extend the functionality of the
PhoneGap platform using native code. With the PhoneGap add-in structure, you can create an add-in
using the native language of the device and a JavaScript API that will call the native plug-in you
created. Cross-platfo ...
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Proposal Part One - Part 1: Influence of Internet on Tourism Industry
Research Proposal: Influence of Internet on Tourism Industry
Introduction
The tourism industry has been among the best-valued sectors within the nation to generate massive revenue for the government. Besides, the industry is considered among the earliest since it started several decades ago. For an extended period, the industry uses Integrated Marketing Communications to promote their various products and services to the entire world. The introduction of technology in the industry leads to improvements in the sectors. Most individuals without extensive information on the tourism industry can access the data in their comfort zones. It implies that IT and internet technology play a significant role in ensuring effective strategy due to its existence globally.
Most European countries have tried to promote and implement internet technology in ensuring satisfactory delivery of products and services (Kayumovich, 2020). Since it has a custom within the tourism and hotel industry to provide intangible products and services, including but not limited to services alongside comfort, the internet has been an effective method of delivering its messages to the targeted customers. Also, through internet technology, the industry has achieved more customers in the global market, including the European market. The promotion of branding within the European tourism industry has been effective due to the introduction and implementation of internet technology. Thus, the internet is believed to significantly influence the tourism industry in various sectors, including but limited to infrastructure, travel, alongside the marketing sector. Before introducing the internet alongside the IT, travelling of customers was dangerous and unpleasant since travellers had constraint understanding of locations they were visiting.
As a result, the existing vacationers of time had limited knowledge of the cultures and terrain alongside the climate change and patterns necessary to stimulate the travelling issues. Therefore, tourism sectors, including but not limited to tour companies, travel agencies and other like hotels, had developed strategies necessary to promote booking and reservation processes (David-Negre et al. 2018). However, several decades ago, popular sites were visited by tourists. It implies that the tourism sectors within the local or remote area faced challenges of securing sufficient clients as people were could not define the destination. Also, shortage of information on a particular region leads to reduced travelling by visitors. The research involved the utilization of relevant literature review on the subject matter to provide factual information. Therefore, the report offers adequate information on the influence of the internet on the tourism industry. This research would give me the stage to show my finding and view and also propose how the internet can be leveraged to an extend i ...
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Social Inclusion of Deaf with Hearing Congregants within a Ministerial Setting Comment by Stumme, Clifford James (College Applied Studies & Acad Succ): As you review this sample student paper, please keep in mind that there are some flaws in this paper (as with any piece of writing). However, it is one of the best INDS 400 research proposals received to date, so it is an excellent reference point.
Sample Student Comment by Stumme, Clifford James (College Applied Studies & Acad Succ) [2]: Also, remember that what you are looking at is an example of the overall research proposal, not just the literature review. If you are working on your literature review, refer to the portion marked “literature review” and remember that within that literature review portion, there is a unique introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. The first paragraph is the introduction for the proposal as a whole, which is different from the kind of introduction you should write for the literature review itself. Also remember that while this research proposal has an abstract, you do not need one for the literature review.
Liberty University
INDS 400: Knowledge Synthesis for Professional and Personal Development
January 3, 2020
Abstract Comment by Stumme, Clifford James (College Applied Studies & Acad Succ) [2]: Notice how the abstract gives a brief overview of the elements of the research proposal without arguing or getting ahead of itself by predicting results.
Culture can influence how people interact and the level of inclusion of different cultures in a particular setting.While numerous studies have been conducted examining deaf studies and deaf culture, there is a curious lack of research that has specifically considered the level of inclusion of deaf people in evangelical hearing churches. This research proposal includes an interdisciplinary including a literature review that examines a handful of studies on interactions among deaf and hearing populations to consider challenges of hearing and deaf integration. Examining these diverse perspectives, including Catholic ministry, disability ministry and deaf culture, provides a fresh interdisciplinary perspective to approach the challenges of deaf inclusion in ministerial settings. It was found through this literature review that a gap in scholarly research exists in this area. As further research would be necessary to address this gap, the goal of this research proposal is to conduct a qualitative study for further research by petitioning deaf perspective through online interviews utilizing the social media platform of Facebook. Although a low budget would be necessary, the implications of this research would provide a platform to open community conversation to address challenges and provide ideas on integration of deaf and hearing congregants in evangelical hearing churches. Examining deaf perspectives may provide additional information for fellowship, growth and exposure to the Gospel for deaf congr ...
11Managing Economies of Scale in a Supply Chain Cycle InventoSantosConleyha
This document summarizes key concepts about managing economies of scale in supply chain cycle inventory. It discusses how using larger lot sizes can help exploit fixed ordering costs but also leads to higher average inventory levels. The economic order quantity (EOQ) model is presented as a way to determine the optimal lot size that minimizes total inventory costs. The document also covers how aggregating demand across multiple products or customers can further reduce costs.
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Mental Health Among College Students
Tomia Willingham
Sophia Learning
Eng 215
March 14, 2021
Introduction
Going to college can be demanding for many people. In addition to managing academic insistence, many students have to cope with their families' complex separation tasks. At the same time, some of them continue to deal with a lot of many family duties. Mental health experts and advocates contend that it is an epidemic that colleges need to investigate further. Depression, anxiety disorders are some of the significant mental health issues that affect college students. The effects of suicidal ideas on university students' academic achievement have not been explored, yet mental health conditions are associated with academic achievement (De Luca et al., 2016). A novel coronavirus has worsened the situation of mental health. Even before the onset of this virus, there was concern from mental health policymakers in America because of the rising mental health challenges. They claimed a need for additional aid for struggling university students and the capability for these institutions to provide it. Regrettably, many university students with mental health conditions do not seek and receive the necessary treatment. The primary reasons for not pursuing help include thinking that the challenge will get better with time, stigma from their peers and no time to seek the treatment because of a busy schedule (Corrigan et al. 2016). Without this treatment, college students experiencing medical conditions most of the time get lower grades, drop out of college, immerse themselves into substance abuse, or become unemployed. Because these mental health conditions are invisible, they can only be seen through academic performance or social behavior change. Should universities strike a balance between mental health conditions and academics? This review will conclude that the mental health condition of university students and scholars should be balanced. Comment by Dr. Helen Doss: You need to answer this question and present the answer as the thesis at the end of this paragraph. Comment by Dr. Helen Doss: This is not a review essay—it is an argumentative or persuasive essay. Comment by Dr. Helen Doss: What does this mean—should be balanced? By what? For what? And, by whom? Comment by Dr. Helen Doss: This paragraph is too long. See: https://www.umgc.edu/current-students/learning-resources/writing-center/writing-resources/parts-of-an-essay/paragraph-structure.cfm
Effects of not Balancing Mental Health and Academics
There are consequences of not balancing mental health and academics in higher learning institutions, mainly if they do not receive any treatment. For example, if depression goes untreated, it raises the chances of risky behavior like substance abuse. The condition affects how students sleep, eat, and it also affects how students think. Also, students cannot concentrate in class, and they cannot make rational decisions. By lack of concent ...
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11From Introductions to ConclusionsDrafting an Essay
In this chapter, we describe strategies for crafting introductions that set up your argument. We then describe the characteristics of well-formulated paragraphs that will help you build your argument. Finally, we provide you with some strategies for writing conclusions that reinforce what is new about your argument, what is at stake, and what readers should do with the knowledge you convey
DRAFTING INTRODUCTIONS
The introduction is where you set up your argument. It’s where you identify a widely held assumption, challenge that assumption, and state your thesis. Writers use a number of strategies to set up their arguments. In this section we look at five of them:
· Moving from a general topic to a specific thesis (inverted-triangle introduction)
· Introducing the topic with a story (narrative introduction)
· Beginning with a question (interrogative introduction)
· Capturing readers’ attention with something unexpected (paradoxical introduction)
· Identifying a gap in knowledge (minding-the-gap introduction)
Remember that an introduction need not be limited to a single paragraph. It may take several paragraphs to effectively set up your argument.
Keep in mind that you have to make these strategies your own. That is, we can suggest models, but you must make them work for your own argument. You must imagine your readers and what will engage them. What tone do you want to take? Playful? Serious? Formal? Urgent? The attitude you want to convey will depend on your purpose, your argument, and the needs of your audience.◼ The Inverted-Triangle Introduction
An inverted-triangle introduction, like an upside-down triangle, is broad at the top and pointed at the base. It begins with a general statement of the topic and then narrows its focus, ending with the point of the paragraph (and the triangle), the writer’s thesis. We can see this strategy at work in the following introduction from a student’s essay. The student writer (1) begins with a broad description of the problem she will address, (2) then focuses on a set of widely held but troublesome assumptions, and (3) finally, presents her thesis in response to what she sees as a pervasive problem.
The paragraph reads, “In today’s world, many believe that education’s sole purpose is to communicate information for students to store and draw on as necessary. By storing this information, students hope to perform well on tests. Good test scores assure good grades. Good grades eventually lead to acceptances into good colleges, which ultimately guarantee good jobs. Many teachers and students, convinced that education exists as a tool to secure good jobs, rely on the banking system. In her essay “Teaching to Transgress,” bell hooks defines the banking system as an “approach to learning that is rooted in the notion that all students need to do is consume information fed to them by a professor and be able to memorize and store it” (185). Through the banking s ...
11Groupthink John SmithCampbellsville UnivSantosConleyha
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John Smith
Campbellsville University
BA611 – Organizational Theory
Dr. Jane Corbett
January 17, 2021
Definition
Groupthink is a pattern of thought characterized by self-deception, forced manufacture of consent, and conformity to group values and ethics.
Summary
Valine (2018) discussed how powerful an effect groupthink can have on community and peers. It followed two case studies about JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, which explains how many sources and credentials the author has used. The focus of the article is that circumstances have occurred inside these companies which were able to affect the entire economy as well. Groupthink is usually followed by irrational thinking and decision making which completely ignores alternatives and constantly goes for the primary decision. The large difference between group and groupthink is that the group consists of members of various backgrounds and experiences, while groupthink usually has members of similar ones. Further, there is no way for groupthink to recover from bad decisions mainly because all members have a similar understanding and point of the view towards a certain topic. The illusion of invulnerability is the main characteristic related to groupthink, where teammates ignore the danger, take extreme risks, and act highly optimistic.
Discussion
Groupthink is characterized by incorrect decisions that groups make mainly due to mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment. Many conditions can cause groupthink to occur, and the most frequent ones are collective rationalization, belief in inherent morality, stereotyped views of out-groups, direct pressure on dissenters, and self-censorship.
The collective rationalization explains how different warnings are against the group thinking, so and where those opinions can create a misunderstanding. Belief in inherent morality points out that members ignore the ethical and moral consequences of decisions because they believe the correctness of their cause. The stereotyped views of out-groups are the characters to create a negative feeling about opposition outside the group environment. The direct pressure on dissenters is where team leaders discuss all members that have different opinions and philosophies than the group’s commitments and agreement. Lastly, the self-censorship is where teammates keep their thoughts and opinions without expressing them to others.
The case study about the London Whale explains how JPMC, one of the largest banks in the world, has lost 6.5 billion dollars due to bad and poor investment decisions. Everything occurred in April and May of 2012, where larger trading loss happened in Chase’s Investment Office throughout the London branch. The main transaction that affected Morgan Chase was credit default swaps (CDS) and it was shown that famous trader Bruno Iksil has gathered significant CDS position in the market at that time. Following this case, the internal control has risen o ...
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Sun Coast Remediation: Research Objectives, Research Questions, and Hypotheses
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Sun Coast Remediation
Unique R. Simpkins
Southern Columbia University
Course Name Here
Instructor Name
11-2-2021
Research Objectives, Research Questions, and Hypotheses
Based on the information amassed by the former health and safety director, the organization needs to pursue safety-related programs or initiatives to ensure employees' health. It is an appropriate approach to help the firm and the employees achieve goals and inhibit costs arising from injuries and illnesses while on duty. The completion of this task will provide managers with practicable insights on the approach to enhance safety and protect the firm from losses. This task accounts for the objectives, questions, and hypotheses of the research based on the provided statement of the problem.
RO1: Explore the correlation between the size of the Particulate Matter (PM) and the health of the employee.
RQ1: Is there a correlation between the size of the Particulate Matter (PM) and the health of the employee?
Ho1: There is no statistically significant evidence connecting the size of the Particulate Matter (PM) and the health of the employee.
Ha1: There is statistically significant evidence connecting the size of the Particulate Matter (PM) and the health of the employee.
RO2: Establish whether safety training is feasible in decreasing the lost-time hours.
RQ2: Is safety training feasible in decreasing the lost-time hours?
Ho2: There is no statistically significant evidence linking safety training and reduction in lost-time hours.
Ha2: There is statistically significant evidence linking safety training and reduction in lost-time hours.
RO3: Establish the effectiveness of predicting the decibels (dB) levels before the employee placement on determining the on-site risk.
RQ3: Is predicting the decibels (dB) levels before the employee placement on determining the on site risk effective?
Ho3: There is no statistically significant relationship between predicting the decibels (dB) levels before the employee placement and effective determination of the on-site risk.
Ha3: There is a statistically significant relationship between predicting the decibels (dB) levels before the employee placement and effective determination of the on-site risk.
RO4: Establish whether the revised training program is more practicable than the initially adopted initiative.
RQ4: Is the revised training program is more practicable than the previously adopted initiative?
Ho4: There is no statistically significant proof that the new training program is more feasible than the old program.
Ha4: There is statistically significant proof that the new training program is more feasible than the old program.
RO5: Determine the blood lead levels variation before and after exposure at the end of the remediation service.
RQ5: Do the blood lead levels before and after exposure at the end of the remediation service va ...
11Me Talk Pretty One Day # By David Sedaris From his bSantosConleyha
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Me Talk Pretty One Day # By David Sedaris
From his book Me Talk Pretty One Day
At the age of forty-one, I am returning to school and have to think of myself as
what my French textbook calls Ba true debutant.D After paying my tuition, I was issued
a student ID, which allows me a discounted entry fee at movie theaters, puppet shows,
and Festyland, a far-flung amusement park that advertises with billboards picturing a
cartoon stegosaurus sitting in a canoe and eating what appears to be a ham sandwich.
IFve moved to Paris with hopes of learning the language. My school is an easy
ten-minute walk from my apartment, and on the first day of class I arrived early,
watching as the returning students greeted one another in the school lobby. Vacations
were recounted, and questions were raised concerning mutual friends with names like
Kang and Vlatnya. Regardless of their nationalities, everyone spoke what sounded to
me like excellent French. Some accents were better than others, but the students
exhibited an ease and confidence that I found intimidating. As an added discomfort,
they were all young, attractive, and well-dressed, causing me to feel not unlike Pa Kettle
trapped backstage after a fashion show.
The first day of class was nerve-racking because I knew IFd be expected to
perform. ThatFs the way they do it here # itFs everybody into the language pool, sink or
swim. The teacher marched in, deeply tanned from a recent vacation, and proceeded to
rattle off a series of administrative announcements. IFve spent quite a few summers in
Normandy, and I took a monthlong French class before leaving New York. IFm not
completely in the dark, yet I understood only half of what this woman was saying.
BIf you have not meimslsxp or lgpdmurct by this time, then you should not be in
this room. Has everyone apzkiubjxow? Everyone? Good, we shall begin.D She spread
out her lesson plan and sighed, saying, BAll right, then, who knows the alphabet?D
It was startling because (a) I hadnFt been asked that question in a while and (b) I
realized, while laughing, that I myself did not know the alphabet. TheyFre the same
letters, but in France theyFre pronounced differently. I know the shape of the alphabet
but had no idea what it actually sounded like.
BAhh.D The teacher went to the board and sketched the letter a. BDo we have
anyone in the room whose first name commences with an ahh?D
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Two Polish Annas raised their hands, and the teachers instructed them to present
themselves by stating their names, nationalities, occupations, and a brief list of things
they liked and disliked in this world. The first Anna hailed from an industrial town
outside of Warsaw and had front teeth the size of tombstones. She worked as a
seamstress, enjoyed quiet times with friends, and hated the mosquito.
BOh, really,D the teacher said. BHow very interesting. I thought that everyone
loved the mosquito, but here, in front of all the world, you claim to ...
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Program analysis using different perspectives
Student's Name
Institution
Course
Professor
Date
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………
Program Description/ Analysis of a Classical Liberal perspective…………………………
Program Description/ Analysis of a Radical perspective……………………………………
Program Description/ Analysis of a Conservative perspective……………………………..
Program Description/ Analysis of a Mordern Liberal perspective...………………………
Comparisons of four perspectives……………………………………………………………
Assessment and modifications of the perspectives………………………………………….
Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………..
Introduction
Program analysis using different perspectives
In a political economy, policies and programs are essential tools that assist in understanding the ongoing struggle for equality and social justice. Although both have an underlying difference, they serve an almost similar purpose. Essentially, understanding the goal of any program or policy can be achieved by analyzing the contending perspectives (Harvey, 2020). This involves the intentional bringing of different perspectives in contrast. They help examine core economic problems or concepts from an orthodox perspective, and others criticize it from a heterodox perspective. The perspectives are essential since both the heterodox and orthodox positions can be examined and reach a consensus.
In the United States, there has been a rise in spending on prescription drugs, which has led to the introduction of a Build Better Program. One proposal is driving down the cost of prescription drugs by allowing Medicare to negotiate with drugmakers over price; starting in 2025-ten drugs (plus insulin) would be on the table the first year, growing to 20 by 2028 (The White House, 2021). Although members of Congress have accepted the proposal, there is a need to analyze it using the different contending perspectives. This paper explores the proposal using the Classical Liberal, The radical, the Conservative Perspective, and the Modern Liberal Perspective. Individuals have the right to pursue their happiness, and proponents of the different political economy perspectives should work hand-in-hand to promote human development within society.
Analysis by Perspective
The Classical Liberal
The political philosophy and ideology belonging to liberalism emphasize securing citizens' freedom by limiting government power. Today, the proponents hold various thoughts and Perspectives, one being Neo-Austrian economics (Clark, 2016). Essentially, the program's main aim is to reduce the overall cost of prescription drugs. From the Perspective of Neo-Austrians, humans are self-interested. They can act autonomously by utilizing their capacity to discover an efficient means of satisfying their desires and basic needs (Harvey, 2020). Also, the government is created by the people to protect their natural rights. At the same time, justice requires safeguarding the people's rights established by the c ...
11Factors that Affect the Teaching and Learning ProcessSantosConleyha
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Factors that Affect the Teaching and Learning Process
Lua Shanks
Dr. Thompson
Valley State University
10-6-2021
Factors that Affect the Teaching and Learning Process
Contextual Factors
The efficacious teaching and learning processes are important in generating the desired academic outcomes for students. Such processes entail the transformation and transfer of knowledge from the educators to students. It requires a combination of different elements within the procedure, in which an instructor determines and establishes the learning goals and objectives, and designs teaching resources. Thereafter, teachers implement the learning strategy that they will utilize to impart intellectual content into students. However, learning is a cardinal factor that an educator musty take into account while overseeing the process of knowledge acquisition and retention. Many factors play an important role in shaping the process of teaching and learning. Contextual factors, for instance, are associated with a particular context and characteristic that is distinct to a specific group, community, society, and individual. Such factors may take the form of a child’s educational, community, as well as classroom settings.
Community, District, and School Factors
Armstrong School District is a major public learning institution that occupies a geographical area of approximately 437 square miles. Located in Pennsylvania, it forms one of the 500 public school districts in the state, and hosts teachers and students from diverse racial, ethnic, and ethnic backgrounds. As a consequence, the institution partners with families, community leaders, and teachers to improve students’’ capacity to acquire knowledge ahead of their graduation. The community refers to the urban or rural environment in which both the teachers and learners operate. These may include the teacher and students’ ethnic, racial political or social affiliations that affect learning or knowledge acquisition. Additionally, parents and community members play an integral role in ensuring the quality of education in schools. They for, example, collaborate with teachers and school administrators to develop the most effective ways of improving their students’ learning outcomes. Indeed, community involvement in schooling issues is potentially a rich area for innovation that has immense benefits that far exceeds its limitations. Considering that governments are constrained in offering quality education due to contextual issues such as remoteness, bureaucracy, corruption, and inefficient management, community factors are pivotal in bridging the gap between government initiatives and community needs. This helps to adjust the child’s familial obligations to family interests, thereby shifting towards ways of mobilizing a sense of community by strengthening trust and relationships between community members, parents, governments, as well as teachers and school leaders. Other important community factors that af ...
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Criminal Justice: Racial discrimination
Student’s Name:
Institutional Affiliation:
Instructor’s Name:
Course Code:
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Racial discrimination
Abstract
When there is justice in society, every person feels satisfied with the way legal actions are carried out in the community. Unfortunately, there are several instances of racial discrimination in the United States. Most of the racial discrimination in the United States ate directed towards black people. Although everyone is required to have equal treatment in the United States, achieving zero discrimination has always been difficult.
Understanding racial discrimination in the USA is vital as it makes it easy for one to identify ways to eliminate the criminal injustices resulting from racial discrimination. This will be essential since it will help to eliminate racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.
Introduction
When there is justice in society, every person feels satisfied with the way legal actions are carried out in society. The criminal justice community is when people are not discriminated against based on their skin color. Laws applicable are carried out uniformly such that every person is treated equally. When the laws are applied equally to every individual, it increases the trust in the criminal justice system. However, when there are biases in applying the laws, the criminal justice system becomes compromised. According to Kovera (2019), there are many disparities in the criminal justice system as black people are discriminated against by police officers based on their race. As a result, black people suffer more as compared to white people when they violate similar laws.
There is a lot of disparity in the criminal justice system of the United States. Many people suffer as a result of racial discrimination in the United States. People are discriminated against a lot in the administration of the policies. According to Donnel (2017), there is racial inequality in how criminal justice is carried out in policymaking. The criminal justice system discriminates against people based on their race. For example, police officers harass black people for minor mistakes which white people are left to walk freely even after making similar mistakes. Black people suffer because of the color of their skin.
Hypothesis/Problem Statement/Purpose Statement
Racial discrimination affects the outcomes of the criminal justice system adversely. How does racial discrimination affect the judicial criminal justice system? The study aims to identify ways in which criminal justice racial discrimination is practiced in the United States. It will also provide insights on the racial discrimination cases, which are helpful in the development of policies that can be helpful in the elimination of racial discrimination in society hence promoting equality among the citizens.
Literature Review and Definitions included in the research
According to Hinton, Henderson, and Reed (2018), there is mu ...
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Communication Plan for Manufacturing Plant
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Communication Plan of a Manufacturing Plant
Background
In manufacturing companies, organization employees are at the centre of an organization. Most of them are at the front lines with the ability to change strategy into results. At the culmination of the day, the plant employees have the responsibility of ensuring that the operations are conducted smoothly, a product reaches consumers timely, and quality products are manufacture with the appropriate specifications. However, despite the primary role they play, manufacturing plants are disjointed (Adejimola, 2008). That disengagement is embodied with a hefty price which is paying a negative role in the performance of manufacturing plants just as they are being challenged to increase their efficiency and effectiveness to the company compared to previous years. To realize rapid growth around the globe, the manufacturing industry is attempting to standardize operations and continuously leverage operations. Such kind of effort needs a company to possess highly invested employees (Obiekwe, O& Eke, 2019). For this reason, natural communication naturally is primary on the path to more highly engaged and motivated employees. However, it can sometimes be challenging to plant employees due to natural challenges that accompany workplace. Some may not frequently be on Smartphone’s or emails, or they may be having various shifts to manage, and the environment may be less conducive, which makes it challenging for them to have one-on-one conversations.
Policies for Oral, Written, and Non-Verbal Communications
Interpersonal communication in a manufacturing plant is the way employees or people communication with others. It may involve a group of p-people, another person or the members of the public. In some instances, it may encompass non-verbal, written or non-verbal communication. In the manufacturing industry, when an individual is communicating with others, they need to consider the person they are talking to, the type of information they want to deliver and the most appropriate and relevant form of communication change. In some instances, such issues may be determined by the information an individual wants to communication (Obiekwe, O& Eke, 2019). At all times, it is required that the staff members remain polite, respectful to both the clients and one another. At no time should they sear, raise their voice, speak in a way belittling another.
Cultural awareness is also another essential element when communicating in a cultural plant. All individuals working in the plant need to recognize that individuals emerge from varying backgrounds and cultures, and they also accompany various attitudes, different values and beliefs (Obiekwe, O& Eke, 2019). All staffs in the plant need to exercise non-judgmental communication remain respectful and are tolerant of the differences prevalence ...
11CapitalKarl MarxPART I. COMMODITIES AND MONEYCHAPTER I. SantosConleyha
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Capital
Karl Marx
PART I. COMMODITIES AND MONEY
CHAPTER I. COMMODITIES
Section 1. The two factors of a commodity: use-value and value (the substance of value and the magnitude of value)
The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,”1 its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity.
A commodity is, in the first place, an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another. The nature of such wants, whether, for instance, they spring from the stomach or from fancy, makes no difference.2 Neither are we here concerned to know how the object satisfies these wants, whether directly as means of subsistence, or indirectly as means of production.
Every useful thing, as iron, paper, &c., may be looked at from the two points of view of quality and quantity. It is an assemblage of many properties, and may therefore be of use in various ways. To discover the various uses of things is the work of history.3 So also is the establishment of socially-recognised standards of measure for the quantities of these useful objects. The diversity of these measures has its origin partly in the diverse nature of the objects to be measured, partly in convention.
The utility of a thing makes it a use-value.4 But this utility is not a thing of air. Being limited by the physical properties of the commodity, it has no existence apart from that commodity. A commodity, such as iron, corn, or a diamond, is therefore, so far as it is a material thing, a use-value, something useful. This property of a commodity is independent of the amount of labour required to appropriate its useful qualities. When treating of use-value, we always assume to be dealing with definite quantities, such as dozens of watches, yards of linen, or tons of iron. The use-values of commodities furnish the material for a special study, that of the commercial knowledge of commodities.5 Use-values become a reality only by use or consumption: they also constitute the substance of all wealth, whatever may be the social form of that wealth. In the form of society we are about to consider, they are, in addition, the material depositories of exchange-value.
Exchange-value, at first sight, presents itself as a quantitative relation, as the proportion in which values in use of one sort are exchanged for those of another sort,6 a relation constantly changing with time and place. Hence exchange-value appears to be something accidental and purely relative, and consequently an intrinsic value, i.e., an exchange-value that is inseparably connected with, inherent in commodities, seems a contradiction in terms.7 Let us consider the matter a little more closely.
A given commodity, e.g., a quarter of wheat is exchanged for x blacking, y silk, or z gold, &c.—in short, for other commodities in the most different proportions. Ins ...
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Criminal Justice System
Shambri Chillis
June 11, 2022
Criminal justice system
The criminal justice system is essential to identify and prevent crimes in the community. Various functions of the criminale system now adhere to the development of technology. Modern technology helps the criminal justice system in different ways. It has made the job easier and has assisted in the prevention of crimes.
Role of criminal justice practitioners in the technology development
The Ccriminal justice practitioners are responsible for identifying and analyzing different crimes in the community. They are responsible for developing and implementing the technology in the criminal justice system because they can use it for different purposes. They can introduce the new trends in the criminal justice system like the officers can collect and gather the data through the technology. Human error can be reduced through it. The dataset can be maintained, and it is also essential for criminal justice practitioners to develop the technology to locate the criminals and track their local places through GPS. The technology cannot be developed untill the criminal officers implement it in the routine. The criminal system now has to use robots and cameras that help them get information about the criminals. The practitioners can also implement the technology by guiding the juniors to use it. The training is needed to make them understand the use of advanced technologies and to ensure that they use them in the right direction. The high-performance computer and internet systems are also essential for developing the technology, and it has been seen that the future will be bright regarding implementing technology (John S. Hollywood, 2018).
Controversial issues criminal justice policymakers face when considering an expansion in the use of DNA in criminal justice
Tthere are various controversial issues that criminal justice policymakers must consider while using DNA in the criminal justice system. The first thing that is criticized during the use of DNA is the fundamental human error, and iIt has been observed that there can be errors in the investigation, and people have to suffer. The issue in technology is also referred to as the error in using DNA because it might be possible that the results do not come correct at the first attempt. It involves several people who are not linked to the crimes but have to go for the fingerprinting tests by courts. However, DNA technology in criminal justice is highly advanced and has multiple benefits compared to disadvantages, but it has always faced significant controversy in the criminal justice system. The criminal justice system has to make sure that if DNA technology is being used, it must be error-free. The controversy has two opinions. There are two schools of thought regarding the use of DNA. One of the classes of experts thinks that DNA can be used to catch the different criminals. It is helpful in the family c ...
11American Government and Politics in a Racially DividSantosConleyha
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and Politics in a Racially
Divided World
chap ter
In 2016, Gov. Jack Markell signed a long-awaited resolution officially apologizing for the state’s role
in slavery. The apology for slavery illustrates the long and sometimes painful history of the United
States’ struggle with race, from the time of Thomas Jefferson, a slave owner, to President Barack
Obama, the first Black president of the United States.
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intro
D
ecember 6, 2015, marked the 150th anniversary of the abolish-
ment of slavery, when the U.S. Congress ratified the Thirteenth
Amendment to the Constitution. There were numerous events
recognizing the end of slavery, including an official White House event
presided over by President Obama. On February 11, 2016, Delaware
joined eight other states to formally apologize for slavery when Gover-
nor Jack Markell (D) signed the state’s joint resolution. Delaware’s reso-
lution acknowledged its participation in 226 years of
slavery first of both Native Americans and Africans in
the mid-1600s; by the close of the 1700s its entire
slave population was of African descent. The resolu-
tion also included acknowledgments that Delaware
criminalized humanitarian attempts to assist slaves
and that in later times Delaware passed and enforced
Jim Crow laws to deny the rights of African American
citizens for much of the twentieth century.1
On July 29, 2008, the U.S. House of Representa-
tives passed a nonbinding resolution, introduced and
championed by Representative Steven Cohen (D-TN),
which offered a formal apology for the government’s
participation in African American slavery and the
establishment of Jim Crow laws. The resolution said, in part, “African
Americans continue to suffer from the consequences of slavery and Jim
Crow—long after both systems were formally abolished—through
enormous damage and loss, both tangible and intangible, including the
loss of human dignity and liberty, the frustration of careers and profes-
sional lives, and the long-term loss of income and opportunity.”2
On June 18, 2009, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a similar reso-
lution apologizing to African Americans for slavery and Jim Crow. The
Senate resolution said explicitly that the apology could not be used in
support of reparations (or compensation for past wrongs).3
The story of apologies for slavery is a complex one that highlights some of the
underlying dilemmas that face the U.S. political system—how to reconcile its stated
principles of how individuals should be treated with how the government actually
treats and has treated individuals. The apologies are intended to acknowledge the
nation’s complicity in a destructive and immoral institution, at ...
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Cancer is the uncontrollable growth of abnormal cells in the human body. It is defined by a malfunction in cellular mechanisms that control cell growth. Cells evade checkpoint controls and begin growing uncontrollably which resulting in an increase in abnormal cells, cancer cells. These cancer cells form a mass tissue known as a tumor. In the United States of America, cancer has been determined to be among the leading causes of mortality rates after cardiovascular conditions, where one in every four deaths is caused by cancer. The most common types of cancer include prostate cancer, lung cancer, and breast cancer. Risk factors for cancer include excess smoking, radiation exposure, genetics, and environmental pollution. Colon cancer, or colorectal cancer, affects the distal third of the large intestine, the colon, as well as the rectum, chamber in which feces is stored for elimination. Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of death in cancer-related issues in the United States in both males and females (Beadnell et al., 2018). This essay explores the physiology and pathophysiology of colon cancer.
Polyps are tissue growths that generally look like small, flat bumps and are generally less than half an inch wide. They are generally non-cancerous growths that can develop with age on the inner wall of the colon or rectum. There are several types of polyps, such as hyperplastic. They are common and have a low risk of turning cancerous. Hyperplastic polyps found in the colon will be removed and biopsied. Pseudo polyps also referred to as inflammatory polyps, usually occur in people suffering from inflammatory bowel disease and are unlike other polyps. This type of polyp occurs due to chronic inflammation as seen in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. However, a polyp cells which can turn out to be malignant. Villous adenoma or tubulovillous adenoma polyps carry a high risk of turning cancerous. They are sessile and develop flat on the tissue lining the organs. They might blend within the organ, making polyps not easily identifiable and difficult to locate for treatment. Adenomatous or tubular adenoma polyps have a high chance of being cancerous. When a polyp is found, it must be biopsied, and then will regular screenings and polyp removal will follow.
An adenocarcinoma is a cancer formed in a gland that lines an organ. This cancer impacts the epithelial cells, which are spread throughout the human body. Adenocarcinomas of the colon and rectum make up ninety-five percent of all colon cancers (Chang, 2020). Colon adenocarcinomas usually begin in the mucous lining the spread to different layers. Two subtypes of adenocarcinomas are mucinous adenocarcinoma and signet ring cells. Mucinous adenocarcinomas contain about sixty percent mucus which can cause cancer cells to spread faster and become more hostile than typical adenocarcinomas. Signet ring cell adenocarcinoma is responsible for less than one percent of all colon cancer. It is g ...
11SENSE MAKING Runze DuChee PiongBUS 700 LSantosConleyha
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SENSE MAKING
Runze Du
Chee Piong
BUS 700 Leadership and Creative
Solution
s Implementation
Feb 14th 2021
SENSE MAKING
Sensemaking refers to an action or a process of making sense where meaning is given to something. Sensemaking is a process through which individuals give meaning to their collective experiences. Sensemaking is also a process of structuring the unknown by inserting stimuli into some framework kinds to enable individuals to understand or comprehend, attribute, to extrapolate and predict the meaning of something. Sensemaking is an activity that allows people to turn the ongoing complexity in the entire world into a situation that can be understood. Sensemaking Therefore, Sensemaking requires articulating the unknown because, in many cases, trying to put meaning to something strange is the only means by which one can understand it. For instance, the occurrence or the origin of COVID-19 in the entire world has been a phenomenon that has disturbed the heads of many trying to understand what it is, where it came from, who caused it, how it can be prevented and how it can be cured. In attempting to understand COVID 19, people came up with the explanations of what it is, what caused it, and that is where the scientists realized that this is a disease that is caused by a virus known as Coronavirus, since the condition merged in the year 2019, the virus was given the name coronavirus 19, and the disease it caused known as COVID 19. This is how sensemaking enables individuals to give meaning to something that can be understood easily by individuals.
The organization that I am familiar with that has experienced a current change in its operations is Starbucks. Starbucks is an American company that is known for its production and sell of coffee products. It was started in 1971 as a coffee selling company where it was majorly involved in roasting, marketing and selling coffee globally. It has more than 300 stores all over the world selling coffee. This organization has sold coffee within its stores since its initiation. However, because of the corona's onset, the management of this organization decided to change its operation to accommodate the changes in the environment depending on the restrictions imposed on businesses by the ministries of health all over the world. Starbucks company reacted to the industry changes brought about by COVID 19, where businesses were required to close their doors to enhance the measures of curbing the spread of coronavirus disease. Thus, the company embraced technology where it introduced Starbucks-pick up only stores that replaced the over 300 stores globally. The new stores required that no one could sit in as they take their coffee. Instead, everyone would be allowed only to take their orders from the store and to avoid congesting people in one place. Starbucks introduced Starbucks pick-up stores that use technology to supply coffee to customers. The business submitted a mobile app ...
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E ECUTIVE BAR AININ : CEOS NE OTIATIN THEIR PA
WITH EMPLO EES OR CORPORATE E ICIENC
By Nathan Witkin
I INTRODUCTION
Rising executive pay is a significant problem that points to a structural
flaw in American corporations. This article presents a solution to that flaw
through which Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) negotiate their pay in
company resources with lower-paid employees. Exploring this solution also
unearths an explanation for capitalism s apparent drive toward inequality and
examines the historical development of corporations and trade unions in the
United States.
The problem is that managers and corporate directors will raise pay at the
top so long as that pay-setting process does not consider the pay of average-
and low-wage workers. The solution is that CEOs and other top executives
negotiate their pay in company resources with employees in a process that
determines the pay and bonuses of both sides. Microeconomic theory indicates
that confronting the tradeoffs of raising executive compensation with other
potential corporate expenditures—by negotiating this compensation with
workers from different parts of the company—will make executive
compensation more efficient.1 Also, historical analysis indicates a pattern in
which executive compensation became aligned with public interest only during
the period in which workers had significant power to negotiate their wages and
Master of Public Policy Candidate at eorgetown University s McCourt School of Public
Policy J.D., The Ohio State Moritz College of Law. The Author is an independent researcher,
originator of a variety of social innovations (co-resolution, interest group mediation, consensus
arbitration, dependent advocacy, the popular tax audit, the hostile correction, a partnership
between citizen review boards and community policing, and a two-state/one-land solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict), and author of several ambitious theories (the shift in sovereignty
from land to people under international treaties, the use of impact bonds as a solution to climate
change, and resistance to the accelerating expansion of the universe as the cause of gravitation).
He is also a former solo-practitioner in criminal and family law.
1 N. RE OR MAN IW, PRINCIPLES O MICROECONOMICS ( th ed. 2012) (describing the first
principle of microeconomics as centered on trade-offs). Many basic microeconomic models
involve trade-offs between potential allocations of resources to achieve efficiency. See DAVID
BESAN O RONALD R. BRAEUTI AM, MICROECONOMICS 20 07 (5th ed. 201 ).
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benefits. This is not to say that the solution to executive compensation is a
return to unions, which developed as a separate organizational structure with
their own flaws and inefficiencies. Rather, a corporation that synthesizes the
inputs of all its employees will be able to maximize efficiency and
productivity, producing profits for shareholders and growth for the overall
econ ...
11CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW VOL. 51, NO. 4 SUMMER 2009 CMR.BERKELEY.EDU
The Emergence and
Evolution of the
Multidimensional
Organization
J. Strikwerda
J.W. Stoelhorst
“In terms of its impact, not just on economic activity, but also on human life as a
whole, the multidivisional organizational design must rank as one of the major
innovations of the last century.”—John Roberts1
T
he multidivisional, multi-unit, or M-form, is widely acknowledged
as the most successful organization form of the twentieth century.2
Firms that employ the M-form organize their activities in separate
business units and delegate control over the resources needed to
create economic value to the managers of these units. This organization form is
widespread, is central to the “theory in use” of managers, and serves as the basis
of most accounting systems. However, the organization of productive activities
in many contemporary firms violates the principle that is central to the M-form:
that business units are self-contained. The quest for synergies that has been high
on the corporate agenda since the late 1980s has resulted in the widespread
adoption of corporate account management, shared service centers, and matrix
organizations. As a result, most business units now depend at least in part on
resources that are controlled by other units. This raises fundamental questions
about the status of the M-form in contemporary firms.
Questioning the status of the M-form is not merely a theoretical fancy,
but is high on the agenda of managers as well. In this article, we report on
research that was commissioned by the Foundation for Management Stud-
ies, a Dutch organization of management executives. These practical men and
women shared a fundamental uneasiness about structuring their organizations.
On the one hand, many of them experienced problems with the M-form: high
employee costs, internal battles over resources, lack of standardization, lack of
cooperation, and loss of market opportunities. On the other hand, they did not
The Emergence and Evolution of the Multidimensional Organization
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8. and system testing are important deliverables from the testing
process
because they document the tests as well as the test results. For
example,
what type of test was conducted? What test data were used?
How did the
system handle the test? The answers to these questions can
provide
important information for system maintenance because changes
will
require retesting, and similar testing procedures will be used
during the
maintenance process.
Table 13-1 Deliverables for Coding, Testing, and Installation
1. Coding
a. Code
b. Program documentation
2. Testing
a. Test scenarios (test plan) and test data
b. Results of program and system testing
3. Installation
a. User guides
b. User training plan
c. Installation and conversion plan
i. Software and hardware installation schedule
ii. Data conversion plan
iii. Site and facility remodeling plan
The next two deliverables, user guides and the user training
plan, result
from the installation process. User guides provide information
11. audiences for this final documentation: (1) the information
systems
personnel who will maintain the system throughout its
productive life, and
(2) the people who will use the system as part of their daily
lives. The
analysis team in a large organization can get help in preparing
documentation from specialized staff in the information systems
department.
Larger organizations also tend to provide training and support
to computer
users throughout the organization. Some of the training and
support is very
specific to particular application systems, whereas the rest is
general to
particular operating systems or off-the-shelf software packages.
For
example, it is common to find courses on Microsoft Windows in
organization-wide training facilities. Analysts are mostly
uninvolved with
general training and support, but they do work with corporate
trainers to
provide training and support tailored to particular computer
applications
they have helped to develop. Centralized information system
training
facilities tend to have specialized staff who can help with
training and
support issues. In smaller organizations that cannot afford to
have well-
staffed centralized training and support facilities, fellow user s
are the best
source of training and support that users have, whether the
software is
customized or off the shelf.
14. that are
passed on to programmers for coding. Although coding takes
considerable
effort and skill, the practices and processes of writing code do
not belong
in this text. However, because software application testing is an
activity
that analysts plan (beginning in the analysis phase) and
sometimes
supervise, depending on organizational standards, you need to
understand
the essentials of the testing process. Although this section of
the text
focuses on testing from the perspective of traditional
development
practices, many of the same types of tests can be used during
the analyze–
design–code–test cycle common to the agile methodologies.
Coding and
testing in eXtreme Programming will be discussed briefly
toward the end
of this section on testing.
Software testing begins early in the SDLC, even though many of
the actual
testing activities are carried out during implementation. During
analysis,
you develop a master test plan. During design, you develop a
unit test plan,
an integration test plan, and a system test plan. During
implementation,
these various plans are put into effect and the actual testing is
performed.
The purpose of these written test plans is to improve
communication
18. Software application testing is an umbrella term that covers
several types
of tests. Mosley (1993) organizes the types of tests according to
whether
they employ static or dynamic techniques and whether the test
is
automated or manual. Static testing means that the code being
tested is
not executed. The results of running the code are not an issue
for that
particular test. Dynamic testing, on the other hand, involves
execution of the
code. Automated testing means the computer conducts the test,
whereas
manual testing means that people complete the test. Using this
framework,
we can categorize the different types of tests, as shown in Table
13-4 .
Table 13-4 A Categorization of Test Types
Manual Automated
Static Inspections Syntax checking
Dynamic Walk-throughs Unit test
Desk checking Integration test
System test
(Source: Adapted from Mosley, 1993.)
Let’s examine each type of test in turn. Inspections are formal
group
22. the program works through the code with a paper and pencil.
The
programmer executes each instruction, using test cases that may
or may
not be written down. In one sense, the reviewer acts as the
computer,
mentally checking each step and its results for the entire set of
computer
instructions.
Desk checking
A testing technique in which the program code is
sequentially executed manually by the reviewer.
Among the list of automated testing techniques in Table 13-4 ,
only one
technique is static—syntax checking. Syntax checking is
typically done by a
compiler. Errors in syntax are uncovered but the code is not
executed. For
the other three automated techniques, the code is executed.
Unit testing , sometimes called module testing, is an automated
technique whereby each module is tested alone in an attempt to
discover
any errors that may exist in the module’s code. But because
modules
coexist and work with other modules in programs and the
system, they
must also be tested together in larger groups. Combining
modules and
testing them is called integration testing . Integration testing is
gradual.
First you test the coordinating module and only one of its
subordinate
modules. After the first test, you add one or two other
26. master test plan.
The Testing Process
Up to this point, we have talked about the master test plan and
seven
different types of tests for software applications. We haven’t
said very
much about the process of testing itself. There are two
important things to
remember about testing information systems:
1. The purpose of testing is to confirm that the system satisfies
requirements.
2. Testing must be planned.
These two points have several implications for the testing
process,
regardless of the type of test being conducted. First, testing is
not
haphazard. You must pay attention to many different aspects of
a system,
such as response time, response to boundary data, response to
no input,
response to heavy volumes of input, and so on. You must test
anything
(within resource constraints) that could go wrong or be wrong
with a
system. At a minimum, you should test the most frequently used
parts of
the system and as many other paths throughout the system as
time
permits. Planning gives analysts and programmers an
opportunity to think
through all the potential problem areas, list these areas, and
31. Andres, 2004)
and other agile methodologies, coding and testing are intimately
related
parts of the same process, and the programmers who write the
code also
write the tests. The general idea is that code is tested soon after
it is
written.
After testing, all of the code that works may be integrated at the
end of
each working day, and working versions of the system will be
released
frequently, as often as once per week in some cases. XP
developers design
and build working systems in very little time (relative to
traditionally
organized methods).
One particular technique used in XP to continually improve
system quality
is refactoring . Refactoring is nothing more than simplifying a
system,
typically after a new feature or set of features has been added.
As more
features are added to a system, it becomes more complex, and
this
complexity will be reflected in the code. After a time of
increasing
complexity, XP developers stop and redesign the system. The
system must
still pass the test cases written for it after it has been simplified,
so rework
continues until the tests can be passed. Different forms of
refactoring
include simplifying complex statements, abstracting solutions
38. Parallel installation is as riskless as direct installation is risky.
Under
parallel installation, the old system continues to run alongside
the new
system until users and management are satisfied that the new
system is
effectively performing its duties and the old system can be
turned off
(Figure 13-5b ). All of the work done by the old system is
concurrently
performed by the new system. Outputs are compared (to the
greatest
extent possible) to help determine whether the new system is
performing
as well as the old. Errors discovered in the new system do not
cost the
organization much, if anything, because errors can be isolated
and the
business can be supported with the old system. Because all work
is
essentially done twice, a parallel installation can be very
expensive; running
two systems implies employing (and paying) two staffs to not
only operate
both systems, but also to maintain them. A parallel approach
can also be
confusing to users because they must deal with both systems. As
with
direct installation, there can be a considerable delay until the
new system is
completely ready for installation. A parallel approach may not
be feasible,
especially if the users of the system (such as customers) cannot
tolerate
redundant effort or if the size of the system (number of users or
extent of
42. For a phased installation, the new and replaced systems must be
able to
coexist and probably share data. Thus, bridge programs
connecting old and
new databases and programs often must be built. Sometimes, the
new and
old systems are so incompatible (built using totally different
structures)
that pieces of the old system cannot be incrementally replaced,
so this
strategy is not feasible. A phased installation is akin to bringing
out a
sequence of releases of the system. Thus, a phased approach
requires
careful version control, repeated conversions at each phase, and
a long
period of change, which may be frustrating and confusing to
users. On the
other hand, each phase of change is smaller and more
manageable for all
involved.
Phased installation
Changing from the old information system to the
new one incrementally, starting with one or a few
functional components and then gradually
extending the installation to cover the whole new
system.
Planning Installation
Each installation strategy involves converting not only
software, but also
data and (potentially) hardware, documentation, work methods,
job
44. may have
to be entered in large quantities so that every record copied
from the
current system has all the new fields populated. Manual tasks,
such as
taking a physical inventory, may need to be done in order to
validate data
before they are transferred to the new files. The total data
conversion
process can be tedious. Furthermore, this process may require
that current
systems be shut off while the data are extracted so that updates
to old
data, which would contaminate the extract process, cannot
occur.
Any decision that requires the current system to be shut down,
in whole or
in part, before the replacement system is in place must be done
with care.
Typically, off-hours are used for installations that require a
lapse in system
support. Whether a lapse in service is required or not, the
installation
schedule should be announced to users well in advance to let
them plan
their work schedules around outages in service and periods
when their
system support might be erratic. Successful installation steps
should also
be announced, and special procedures put in place so that users
can easily
inform you of problems they encounter during installation
periods. You
should also plan for emergency staff to be available in case of
system
52. 3.1 Login
3.2 Logout
3.3 Save
3.4 Error recovery
3.n [Basic procedure name]
n. [Task name]
Appendix A—Error Messages
([Appendix])
Glossary
Terms
Acronyms
Index
(Source: Adapted from Bell & Evans, 1989.)
In Table 13-6 , sections with an “n” and a title in square
brackets mean
that there are many such sections, each for a different topic. For
example,
for an accounting application, sections 4 and beyond might
address topics
such as entering a transaction in the ledger, closing the month,
and printing
reports. The items in parentheses are optional, included as
necessary. An
57. understands
the users’ primary work and the computer systems they use.
Given their
dependence on fellow users for training, it should not be
surprising that end
users describe their most common mode of computer training as
self-
training.
Table 13-7 Types of Training Methods
Resident expert
Traditional instructor-led classroom training
E-learning/distance learning
Blended learning (combination of instructor-led and e-learning)
Software help components
External sources, such as vendors
One conclusion from the experience with user training methods
is that an
effective strategy for training on a new system is to first train a
few key
users and then organize training programs and support
mechanisms that
involve these users to provide further training, both formal and
on demand.
Often, training is most effective if you customize it to particular
user
groups, and the lead trainers from these groups are in the best
position to
provide this training to their colleagues.
61. unlimited support for a given monthly or annual charge.
Automating Support
In an attempt to cut the costs of providing support and to catch
up with the
demand for additional support services, vendors have automated
many of
their support offerings. Online support forums provide users
access to
information on new releases, bugs, and tips for more effective
usage.
Forums are offered over the Internet or over company intranets.
Voice-
response systems allow users to navigate option menus that lead
to
prerecorded messages about usage, problems, and workarounds.
Organizations have established similar support mechanisms for
systems
developed or purchased by the organization. Internal e-mail and
office
automation can be used to support such capabilities within an
organization.
Vendors may offer support that enables users to access a
vendor’s
knowledge bases, including electronic support services, a single
point of
contact, and priority access to vendor support personnel
(Schneider,
1993). Product knowledge bases include all of the technical and
support
information about vendor products and provide additional
information for
on-site personnel to use in solving problems. Vendors routinely
supply
complete user and technical documentation via the Internet,
65. build a quality system and to manage the change process in the
organization, the implementation effort sometimes fails.
Sometimes
employees will not use the new system that has been developed
for them
or, if they do use it, their level of satisfaction with it is very
low. Why do
systems implementation efforts fail? This question has been the
subject of
information systems research for over 60 years. In the first part
of this
section, we will try to provide some answers, looking at the
factors that
research has identified as important to implementation success.
In the
second part of this section, you will read about another
important
organizational issue for information systems, security. You will
read about
the various threats to the security of organizational systems and
some of
the remedies that can be applied to help deal with the problem.
An Example of a System Implementation
Failure
On February 24, 2016, a new Canadian federal payroll system
went
live. The system, called Phoenix, was custom designed by IBM
for
the Canadian government. There were problems almost
immediately. Some employees did not get paid enough, others
got
68. system is complex, but user participation in the development
process only
makes failure more likely when there are financial and time
constraints in
the development process (Tait & Vessey, 1988). Information
systems
implementation failures are too common, and the
implementation process
is too complicated, for the conventional wisdom to be
completely correct.
Over the years, other studies have found evidence of additional
factors that
are important to a successful implementation process. Three
such factors
are: commitment to the project, commitment to change, and the
extent of
project definition and planning (Ginzberg, 1981b). Commitment
to the
project involves managi ng the systems development project so
that the
problem being solved is well understood and the system being
developed
to deal with the problem actually solves it. Commitment to
change involves
being willing to change behaviors, procedures, and other
aspects of the
organization. The extent of project definition and planning is a
measure of
how well the project was planned. The more extensive the
planning effort
is, the less likely implementation failure is. Still another
important factor
related to implementation success is user expectations
(Ginzberg, 1981a).
The more realistic a user’s early expectations about a new
70. such as ease of use, reliability, and relevance to the task the
system
supports.
3. User demographics. Characteristics of the user, such as age
and
degree of computer experience.
4. Organizational support. These are the same issues of support
you
read about earlier in this chapter. The better the system support,
the
more likely an individual will be to use the system.
5. Performance. What individuals can do with a system to
support their
work will have an impact on extent of system use. The more
users
can do with a system and the more creative ways they can
develop
to benefit from the system, the more they will use it. The
relationship
between performance and use goes both ways. The higher the
levels
of performance, the more use. The more use, the greater the
performance.
�. Satisfaction. Use and satisfaction also represent a two-way
relationship. The more satisfied the users are with the system,
the
more they will use it. The more they use it, the more satisfied
they
will be.
74. it and
keep it running.
Security Issues
The security of information systems has become an increasingly
important
issue for organizations and their management. Hard numbers
about losses
due to security breaches are difficult to obtain because most
companies
that have suffered breaches are too embarrassed to admit it, and
they are
certainly too embarrassed to communicate the actual dollar
value of any
losses. One estimate for how much security breaches cost
companies
comes from a survey on security conducted by IBM Security
and the
Ponemon Institute. For 2017, the reported estimated annual
average
financial loss due to a data breach incident was US$3.62
million. However,
we can be sure the actual amount of loss across the entire global
economy
is much, much more. Most firms do not like to admit financial
losses due
to security breaches, and those that do are hesitant to report the
actual true
amounts.
If organizations are victims of security breaches, what are the
sources of
these threats? Table 13-8 provides some of the answers. As you
might
expect, a majority of firms report that they have been victims of
78. Companies can act, and most do, to deal with information
security issues.
On average, most companies spend more on systems security
than the
average loss due to cybersecurity for their company type. When
companies
and individuals start to think about systems security, they first
think about
technological solutions to the problem (Schneider, 2000).
Common
solutions include firewalls, e-mail security and spam filtering
software,
antivirus software, virtual private networks, and data
encryption.
A firewall is a set of related programs that protects the
resources of a
network from users from other networks. Basically, a firewall
works closely
with a router program to examine each network packet to
determine
whether to forward it toward its destination. A firewall is often
installed in a
specially designated computer separate from the rest of the
network so
that no incoming request can get directly at private network
resources.
Yet the weakest link in any computer defense is the people who
use the
computer system. For example, many system users fail to use
good
passwords: they may tell other people (including strangers)
their
passwords, or write their passwords on sticky notes they post on
their
82. The development group broke into five separate teams, each
working to
develop an extensive set of cases for each of the testing
categories. Each
team had one day to develop their test cases. Once developed,
each team
would lead a walk-through so that everyone would know the
totality of the
testing process and to facilitate extensive feedback to each team
so that
the testing process would be as comprehensive as possible. To
make this
point, Jim stated, “What happens when a customer repeatedly
enters the
same product into the shopping cart? Can we handle that? What
happens
when the customer repeatedly enters and then removes a single
product?
Can we handle that? Although some of these things are unlikely
to ever
occur, we need to be confident that the system is robust to any
type of
customer interaction. We must develop every test case
necessary to give
us confidence that the system will operate as intended, 24-7-
365!”
A big part of successful system testing is to make sure that no
information
is lost and that all tests are described in a consistent way. To
achieve this,
Jim provided all teams with standard forms for documenting
each case
and for recording the results of each test. This form had the
following
sections:
85. fixing the bug,
no other bugs are introduced into the system. As the system
moves along
in the testing process—as batches of bugs are fixed—the
version number of
the software is incremented. During the development and testing
phases,
the version is typically below the “1.0” first release version.
Alpha and Beta Testing the WebStore
After completing all system test cases and resolving all known
bugs, Jim
moved the WebStore into the alpha-testing phase, in which the
entire PVF
development team as well as personnel around the company
would put the
WebStore through its paces. To motivate employees throughout
the
company to actively participate in testing the WebStore, several
creative
promotions and giveaways were held. All employees were given
a T-shirt
that said, “I shop at the WebStore, do you?” Additionally, all
employees
were given $100 to shop at the WebStore and were offered a
free lunch for
their entire department if they found a system bug while
shopping on the
system. Also during alpha testing, the development team
conducted
extensive recovery, security, stress, and performance testing.
Table 13-9
provides a sample of the types of tests performed.
88. are now
ready to close down your project. Although the maintenance
phase is just
about to begin, the development project itself is over. As you
will see in the
next chapter, maintenance can be thought of as a series of
smaller
development projects, each with its own series of project
management
phases.
As you recall from Chapter 3 , your first task in closing down
the project
involves many different activities, from dealing with project
personnel to
planning a celebration of the project’s ending. You will likely
have to
evaluate your team members, reassign most to other projects,
and perhaps
terminate others. As project manager, you will also have to
notify all of the
affected parties that the development project is ending and that
you are
now switching to maintenance mode.
Your second task is to conduct post-project reviews with both
your
management and your customers. In some organizations, these
post-
project reviews will follow formal procedures and may involve
internal or
EDP (electronic data processing) auditors. The point of a
project review is
to critique the project, its methods, its deliverables, and its
management.
92. organizations move toward client/server architectures, they rely
more on
vendors for support. Vendors provide many online support
services, and
they work with customers to bring many aspects of online
support in-
house. A help desk provides aid to users in a particular
department or for a
particular system.
You saw how information systems researchers have been trying
to explain
what constitutes a successful implementation. If there is a
single main
point in this chapter, it is that implementation is a complicated
process,
from managing programmer teams, to the politics that influence
what
happens to a system after it has been successfully implemented,
to
planning and implementing useful training and support
mechanisms.
Analysts have many factors to identify and manage for a
successful
system implementation. Successful implementation rarely
happens by
accident or occurs in a totally predictable manner. The first step
in a
successful implementation effort may be realizing just that fact.
Once
systems are implemented, organizations have to deal with
threats from
both inside and outside the organization to the systems’
security. Although
technology such as virus-detection software and firewalls can
be employed