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Improve Your “OK, Zev, you know that we were able to adjust our systems in order to support the
Grade! new focus on multi-heat races.” James is a little nervous as he starts.
Over 10 million students “Yes, I do. And I understand that was your idea.” Zev wants to make James
improved their results using comfortable with that compliment, and it works.
the Pearson MyLabs. “It was a team discussion. Anyway, we were able to do that, and thanks to everyone’s
Visit mymislab.com for hard work, we’re having success.” James looks around the table as he speaks.
simulations, tutorials, and “It’s a start, anyway.” Zev knows they have a long way to go to establish
end-of-chapter problems. a sustainable business.
“As you know, we only run on Apple and Android devices. We’ve done OK ignoring
Surface and Windows phones.”
“Yeah. I just don’t understand Microsoft. They’ve blown every opportunity at
mobile devices.”
“Except, well, we think we can open the doors to an entirely new market if we
start developing for the Xbox.”
“The Xbox?”
“Yes, because these contests are very game-like. I’m
spinning on my bike in my basement against 10 other players.
They happen to be real people, but why don’t we push the UI
“We think we and use the Xbox to make it more visually exciting?”
“Interesting. Could be. So you want funds for Xbox
can open the development?”
doors to an “Yes, but take a look at the third page of the document
entirely new we gave you. There are two ways to go. One is to develop
market” using tools and technology specific to the Xbox. That would
give us three separate code bases: Apple, Android, and Xbox.”
“So?”
“We’ll have essentially three different projects under way
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at the same time, with a lot of duplicated effort.” From his
voice and expression it’s clear James hates the idea of duplicated effort.
“Hmph.”
“But if we use—and I’ll spare you the details—but if we use another, more
generic type of technology, called html5 and css3, we can have a lot of common code.
Not all, but a lot.”
“Do spare me the details. I’ll let Jared be my guide there. So have you got costs
on this?”
“As shown on the third page, for the first—the Xbox only—somewhere between
$100K and $175K.”

Study QueStionS

Q1 How are business processes, IS, and applications developed?
Q2 How do organizations use business process management (BPM)?
Q3 How is business process modeling notation (BPMN) used to
model processes?
Q4 What are the phases in the systems development life cycle (SDLC)?

Q5 What are the keys for successful SDLC projects?
Q6 How can scrum overcome the problems of the SDLC?
Q7 2025?
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