[Year 12 IT Apps] Technical or Non-Technical Constraints

Tue Mar 6 10:12:55 EST 2012

Economics does impact all aspects both technical and non-technical. The budget is not itself a technical constraint hence the 2007-10  glossary differentiates between it and technical constraints. Yes a strong argument for an extended glossary. I've actually been telling my students to look at technical, non-technical and economic constraints as we also couldn't reach consensus about where the economic constraints sat.

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Eugene Van der Westhuizen
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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Ciotti, George W
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Could you provide an example of how cost doesn't impact on technical constraints? Or that Technical constraints can be explained totally devoid of cost. I would have thought that there is crossover, even at the operational level.

Cheers
George

The University High School
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Technical or Non-Technical Constraints

Checking the 2007-2010 study design's glossary I find this:

"Constraints - Factors that must be taken into account when solving an information problem.Typically these factors are classified as
economic, for example budget available to create an information system;
technical, for example availability, capabilities and limitations of equipment;
social, for example, culture, ethnicity, age, location, education, special needs and status of end-users;
operational, for example, the requirement to use specific techniques and procedures."

Thus, technical constraints would not include budgets.

BTW - this is another good argument for continuing to fight for the expansion of the glossary in future IT study designs!

On 5 March 2012 15:02, Ciotti, George W <ciotti.george.w at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:ciotti.george.w at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
The cost of the solution would impact decision making with regards to the selection of the tools used, server space, software etc. As the textbook states it "might determine whether the organisation uses freely available tools or tools to which they subscribe".
It sounds reasonable.
George

The University High School
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From: Litsa Tzelepis <htzelepis at msj.vic.edu.au<mailto:htzelepis at msj.vic.edu.au>>
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 13:40:35 +1100
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Technical or Non-Technical Constraints

hi mark,
time and money are listed as technical constraints in my textbook. i just went from that?
potts - 64 to 65.
litsa

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Limited time and money are not caused by technology, so I would classify them as non-technical.
Limited RAM, storage space, software compatibility issues, limitations imposed by networking protocols etc would be technical constraints.
On 4 March 2012 16:43, Anthony Sullivan <asullivan at tps.vic.edu.au<mailto:asullivan at tps.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
Are both a limited time frame and a limited budget a technical or non-technical constraint?

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