CIS 518 Discussion 1 & 2

Week 2 Discussion 1

"Software Development, a Manufacturing or Creative Process?" Please respond to the following:

· From the e-Activity, take a position on the idea that software development is either a creation process or a manufacturing process. Describe the characteristics of each process to support your position.

· From the e-Activity, compare and contrast the software development process models in terms of requirement gathering, system design, system construction, and deployment.

Week 2 Discussion 2

"Buying vs Building Software" Please respond to the following:

· Identify the factors, other than price, an organization must consider when evaluating whether to build or buy a software package to track inventory. Of the factors you have identified, determine the most critical to consider and justify why they carry more significance than others.  

· Software vendors often have scaled levels of support, depending on the purchased software package. Discuss some of the more important support features that would be required for a system that is going to be used 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by over 500,000 users per day.