[Year 12 Its] pilot is semiparallele

[Robert Hind]

Hi Maggie,

I have been a marker of this years IP&M exam, and last years.

Doubtless you will find out what the examiners wanted when you read the 
examiners report next year.

What is certain is that examiners ask questions  expecting certain answers. 
They do not get just those answers, there is a wide interpretation of the 
questions by the examinees. Then the examiners have to look at the  answers 
provided and decide which responses will get marks and which will not. Not 
an easy job.

Become a marker!

Robert Hind (Semi-retired)
Ex Traralgon and Ashwood

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maggie Iaquinto" <IAQUIM at bialik.vic.edu.au>
To: "Year 12 Information Technology Systems Teachers' Mailing List" 
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Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 3:32 PM
Subject: RE: [Year 12 Its] pilot is semiparallele


> Oops
>
> The examiners on the IPM exam were looking for 'parallel', I think.
> Excuse my error, please.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: is-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:is-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
> Behalf Of Maggie Iaquinto
> Sent: Monday, 13 November 2006 3:29 PM
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Systems Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: [Year 12 Its] pilot is semiparallele
>
> In the reading I have done, given some prompts from mail to this List
> (Frank perhaps?), I have learned that pilot is an implementation
> strategy not done on its own. Rather, pilot is now considered a
> semiparallel form of implementation. Data is entered into an old system
> AND a new system at the same time with pilot.
>
> So-- if pilot is used, then pilot + direct is OK  OR  pilot + phased is
> OK.
>
> On the IPM exam, I reckoned the examiners were looking for 'pilot' but
> with the phrasing of the question, there were two correct answers :
> pilot and parallel.
>
> Maggie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: is-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:is-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
> Behalf Of David Dawson
> Sent: Monday, 13 November 2006 1:21 PM
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Systems Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [Year 12 Its] 2006 exam post mortem
>
> Thanks Mark and Kevork for making this exam more easily understood.
> The only thing I might add to this discussion is for the implementation
> strategy mentioned in Section B Qn 13.
> It would seem from the question that the desired answer is "pilot".
> However, when you think about it IMHO a pilot is not an "implementation
> strategy" as after it is tested it still needs to be implemented - and
> if it is used in a small section of a network and then expanded
> throughout - then it is indistinguishable from "phased implementation".
> (I might be shaking the foundations here a little.)
> If a pilot was trialled outside of the system - as a much smaller system
> - it could still be implemented in the real world using a "direct
> cutover" - or in theory, it could be applied in parallel across the
> system - hence it could be "parallel" conversion. Or it can be expanded
> from use in a part of the system - "phased".
> There is nothing in utilising a pilot that determines 'implementation',
> I feel.
> So IMO the answer in this case should probably be either "pilot" or
> "phased" depending on student descriptions.
> David Dawson
>
>
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