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| What problems are solved at the individual level? |
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| A user may need a simple calculation program. For example, a professor may need a program to compute student course grades. |
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| What problems are solved at the intermediate level? |
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| At the intermediate level, the user may require a program which fulfills a major local function of a company, such as a manufacturing bill of materials processor. |
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| What problems are solved at the intermediate level? |
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| At the intermediate level, the user may require a program which fulfills a major local function of a company, such as a manufacturing bill of materials processor. |
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| What problems are solved at the enterprise level? |
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| At the enterprise level, the user may require an application which communicates interactively with a worldwide user base. |
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| What problems are solved at the global level? |
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| At the global level, the company may require communication with customers over the world-wide web. |
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| What do IT Directors and managers do? |
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| IT Director and Managers establish and maintain departmental and project calendars and budgets. |
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| What do business systems analysts do? |
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| Business System Analysts define and document the business requirements of the users. |
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| What do IT Systems Architects do? |
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| IT Systems Architects describe in high-level terms the hardware and software solutions of the proposed business application. |
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| What do Application Programmers do? |
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| Applications Programmers write the applications programs to fulfill the detailed application requirements. |
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| A scheduling technique, PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) was developed in 1957 under the auspices of the United States Navy. |
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| Unified Modeling Language - used to specify and construct architectural blueprints of software. |
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| A use case is a description of a transaction that is part of a software design. |
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| It is the longest path in a PERT chart, which describes the longest amount of time necessary to complete a series of sequential tasks necessary to make a program. If the critical path falls behind, the entire application design process falls behind. |
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| What are software libraries or repositories? |
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| This is where project documents and software code are stored. |
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