Companies Can Develop Software In-House Using Their Own IT Personnel

question 135

Multiple Choice

Companies can develop software in-house using their own IT personnel or they can have an outside source develop it for them. What is the term for the latter option?

• A) fast-tracking
• B) development sharing
• C) externalization
• D) outsourcing

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Definitions:

Striving for Superiority

A concept in psychology suggesting that a primary motivational force in humans is the pursuit of superiority or success in overcoming challenges.

Alfred Adler

An Austrian psychiatrist and founder of Adlerian psychology, emphasizing the importance of the feeling of inferiority in the development of personality.

Oedipal Complex

A Freudian theory in psychoanalytic psychology that a child, typically around the age of three to five, experiences a desire for the opposite-sex parent and hostility toward the same-sex parent.

Phallic Complex

A Freudian theory phase of childhood development characterized by attachment to the parent of the opposite sex and jealousy toward the same-sex parent.