Project Management

The learning material contains the fundamental about following topics…

1. Define the terms project and project management, and differentiate between project and process management.
2. Describe the causes of failed information systems and technology projects.
3. Describe the basic competencies required of project managers.
4. Describe the basic functions of project management.
5. Differentiate between PERT and Gantt charts as project management tools.
6. Describe the role of project management software as it relates to project management tools.
7. Describe eight activities in project management.
8. Define joint project planning and its role in project management.
9. Define scope and a write a statement of work to document scope.
10. Use a work breakdown structure to decompose a project into tasks.
11. Estimate tasks’ durations, and specify intertask dependencies on a PERT chart.
12. Assign resources to a project and produce a project schedule with a Gantt chart.
13. Assign people to tasks and direct the team effort.
14. Use critical path analysis to adjust schedule and resource allocations in response to schedule and budget deviations.
15. Manage user expectations of a project and adjust project scope.

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System Analysis

The learning material contains the fundamental about following topics…
1. Define systems analysis and relate the term to the scope definition, problem analysis, requirements   analysis, logical design, and decision analysis phases of this book’s systems development methodology.
2. Describe a number of systems analysis approaches for solving business system problems.
3. Describe the scope definition, problem analysis, requirements analysis, logical design, and decision analysis phases in terms of your information system building blocks.
4. Describe the scope definition, problem analysis, requirements analysis, logical design, and decision analysis phases in terms of purpose, participants, inputs, outputs, techniques, and steps.

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UBICOM: Ubiquitous Communications

Ubiquitous applications need to access relevant remote external information and tasks, anywhere and anytime.

Different applications require different combinations of network functions and services. e.g. data streaming, minimal jitter, specific media access control etc.

Ubiquitous communication plays a major role understanding the fundamentals…..

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