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Key termS and ConCeptS

Agile development 485 Critical path 480 Requirements analysis 468
Application 458 Critical path analysis 480 Resources 461
As-is model 462 Data flow 461 Roles 461
Baseline WBS 482 Deliverables 477 Schedule feasibility 469
Brooks’ Law 481 Diseconomies of scale 481 Stand-up 487
Business analyst 460 Gantt chart 479 Swim-lane layout 464
Business process 461 Implementation 475 System conversion 475
Business process management Just-in-time design 485 Systems analyst 460
(BPM) 462 Maintenance 476 Systems development life cycle
Business Process Modeling Notation Object Management Group (SDLC) 466
(BPMN) 464 (OMG) 464 Technical feasibility 469
COBIT (Control Objectives for Organizational feasibility 472 Test plan 475
Information and related Paired programming 487 Trade-off 481
Technology) 463 Parallel installation 476 Velocity 489
Configuration control 483 Phased installation 476 Waterfall method 483
Control flow 461 Pilot installation 475 Work breakdown structure
Cost feasibility 469 Plunge installation 476 (WBS) 477

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12-1. Search Google or Bing for the phrase what is a business 12-3. Using your own experience and knowledge, create a pro-
analyst. Investigate several of the links that you find and cess diagram for a Reject Order activity that would fix the
answer the following questions: allocation problem in Figure 12-7. Use Figure 12-8 as an
a. What are the primary job responsibilities of a busi- example. Use Visio 2013 and the standard BPMN shapes,
ness analyst? if possible. Explain how your process fixes the allocation
b. What knowledge do business analysts need? problem.
c. What skills/personal traits do business analysts 12-4. Choose an important project type in a business dis-
need?
cipline of interest to you. In accounting it could be an
12-2. Search Google or Bing for the phrase what is a systems audit; in marketing it could be a plan for using social
analyst. Investigate several of the links that you find and media; in operations, it could be a project of open-
answer the following questions: ing a new warehouse. Choose a major activity that is
a. What are the primary job responsibilities of a sys- important and that you find interesting. Compare and
tems analyst? contrast the use of a process such as the SDLC to using
b. What knowledge do systems analysts need? a process such as scrum for your project. Which process
c. What skills/personal traits do systems analysts need? would you recommend? Justify your recommendation.
d. Would a career as a systems analyst be interesting to
you? Explain why or why not. 12-5. Reread the opening vignette in Chapter 11. Explain how
e. Using your answers to this question and to question Jared and James could use a scrum process for manag-
12-1, compare and contrast the jobs of business and ing Ajit. Describe how doing so would reduce the risk of
systems analyst. failure.