Management Information System

By this, a system has an ability to deliver products and services as required despite  of operating constraints and conditions.

The goal is to develop a small or pilot version, which is built quickly and at lesser cost with the intention of modifying it when need arises.

Their tasks are to collect information, solve conflicts and to facilitate achievement of overall project objectives.

Here, the decisions generally are one time, infrequent, and provide general guidelines for operation or management.

These focus on quality assurance activities applied to a software engineering work products.

Here, several workers report to a supervisor, who directly manages their tasks and is responsible for their performance.

This testing is to ensure that software is well suited with various hardware platforms, operating systems, other software packages and even previous releases of the same software.

It provides a ratio of the quantity of output produced for a known quantity on input.

This is the process of assessing the impact of changes to model variables, the values of the variables or the interrelationships among variables.

This software is designed to capture the knowledge and problem solving skills of a human.

These are indirect measure of software which focus on functionality and utility.

It derives one or more design and manufacturing specifications for a product by examining actual specimens of the product.

The purpose of this is to enhance participant interaction and decision making by computerised support within a fixed period of time using a facilitator.

This database is circulated over a single or multivendor computer hardware located in different geographic areas.

This approach develops a corporate plan as a guide for designing the information system.

It is the total of the costs incurred in accomplishing work on the activity in a given period.

These systems are forms of data retrieval systems that provide selected and summarised information for director and senior managers.

Here, there are subsequent stages of design and choice, however, they are not handled by any set procedure.

The use of simple data processing tools and business rules are required to develop data analysis system.

It is the process of determining the input values required to achieve a certain mission.

This model shows the correlation between one or more variables.

Here, each record in the database can have multiple parents, i.e. the relationship among data elements can have a many to many relationships.

These decisions are novel and difficult to structure in logical mathematical terms.

It is that portion of the approved cost estimate, which is premeditated to be spent on the given activity during a given period.

Brainstorming software may be used at any stages of the proceedings but is particularly valuable at early stages when members of the group need to think and converse freely on issues.

It is based on the concepts of division of labours, specialization and unity of command.

These include software engineering documents and deliverables, technical memos, project milestones, schedules and project control tools.

Here, decisions are made by consensus and all work is considered as a group work.

It provides the framework for its form, fit and function.

These models represent a real life problem situation in terms of the variables, constants and parameters expressed in algebraic equations.