41) End-user-developed systems can be completed more rapidly than those developed through the conventional systems lifecycle.
42) One advantage of fourth-generation tools is that they can easily handle processing large numbers of transactions or applications with extensive procedural logic and updating requirements.
43) In some forms of outsourcing, a company hires an external vendor to create the software for its system, but operates the software on its own computers.
44) Hidden costs typically increase the total cost of an offshore outsourcing project by an extra 50 to 75 percent.
45) Systems development activities always take place in sequential order.
46) Developing a new information system is one kind of unplanned organizational change.
47) Information technology can promote various degrees of organizational change, ranging from large to far-reaching.
48) Paradigm shifts and prototyping often fail because extensive organizational change is so difficult to orchestrate.
49) Once the existing process is mapped and measured in terms of time and cost, the process design team is finished.
50) Once a process has been implemented and optimized, it needs to be measured twice.
51) New information systems are an outgrowth of a process of organizational problem solving.
52) Systems development can be broken down into six core activities.
53) Approximately 20 percent of the time devoted to maintenance is used for debugging or correcting emergency production problems.
54) There are alternative methodologies for modelling and designing systems, the most prominent are structured methodologies and object-oriented development.
55) To be used effectively, CASE tools require organizational discipline.