01 - Introduction to Pega Methods Flashcards
Why are Agile Methods better suited to projects where requirements change?
Development is in shorter intervals
How does delivery time impact value derived from a system?
- What is valuable to the business at the beginning may not be at the end
- Actual value delivered to the business dimishes through time as requirements change
What are the benefits of shorter release cycles?
- Maximize value gained by the project
- Allows users to gauge value of features requested in first iteration
- Provides higher quality requirements for subsequent releases
What are some of the problems with longer release cycles?
- Increase risk that new requirements will be added
- Lost value
Is Pega BPM a concrete prescriptive process?
No
It is an adaptable framework
What are the phases in Pega BPM lifecycle?
- Inception
- Elaboration
- Construction
- Transition
What two activities supplement Pega BPM phases?
- Project Initiation
- Go-Live
What artifacts are produced in Inception (Sizing) Phase
- Business Objectives
- Requirements
- High Level Specifications
- Work Types
- High Level Process Model
- Application Profile
What artifacts are produced in Elaboration (Defining) Phase?
- Specification Details
- Requirement Details
- Business Draft Flow Details
- Draft Screens
- Project Document
What artifacts are produced in Construction (Building) Phase of Pega BPM?
- System Behavior
- Screen Implementation
- External Interfaces
- Application Document
What artifacts are produced in Transition (Delivering) Phase of Pega BPM?
- QA Test Results
- UA Test Results
- Move to Production
What are the key Project Initiation Activites?
- Define which sliver to begin with
- Demo product features
- Conduct knowledge transfer
What are the key Inception Phase activities?
- Define the scope of the program, project and sliver
- Capture business requirements
- Organize requirements into projects
- Break projects into slivers
- Identify process improvements
- Capture High Level requirements, use cases and work types for sliver
- Estimate Effort
What are the key Elaboration Phase activities?
- Build out the foundation of the proposed application
- Refine requirements, use cases, and work types
- Conduct DCO Sessions to create draft flows and draft UI
- Establish rule links
- Develop a testing plan, migration plan, and establish standards
What are the key Construction Phase activities?
- Assign application configuration tasks using an iterative model
- Unit test each component
- Run application test scripts and begin the system test process
