REVIEW QUESTIONS
1.
Distinguish between systems professionals, end users, and stakeholders.
2.
What is the role of the accountant in the SDLC? Why might accountants be called on for input
into the development of a nonaccounting infor- mation system?
3.
What are the three problems that account for most system failures?
4.
Why is it often difficult to obtain competent and meaningful user involvement in the SDLC?
5.
Who should sit on the systems steering commit- tee? What are their typical responsibilities?
6.
Why is strategic systems planning not technically considered to be part of the SDLC?
7.
What is strategic systems planning, and why should it be done?
8.
What is the purpose of project planning, and what are the various steps?
9.
What is the object-oriented design (OOD) approach?
10.
What are the broad classes of facts that need to be gathered in the system survey?
11.
What are the primary fact-gathering techniques?
12.
What are the relative merits and disadvantages of a current systems survey?
13.
Distinguish among data sources, data stores, and data flows.
14.
What are some of the key documents that may be reviewed in a current systems survey?
15.
What is the purpose of a systems analysis, and what type of information should be included in
the systems analysis report?