8/17 Study Session - Prepcast

Question 1

A project scheudle that shows the anticipated completion dates of major project deliverables.

Answer 1

Milestone Chart

Question 2

Shows the work that remains to be completed versus the time left in the iteration.

Answer 2

Burndown Chart
agile
Depicts the variance between the ideal rate of work and the actual rate of work

Question 3

Graphical depiction of the project schedule

Answer 3

Gantt chart

Question 4

Shows the activities and the relationshp between activities for the project.

Answer 4

Project Schedule Network Diagram

https://gitmind.com/project-network-diagram.html

Question 5

A lean manufacturing technique used to analyze and improve the flow of materials and/or information during the development of a product, and make changes as necessary to increase the value of the product delivered to the customer.

Answer 5

Value Stream Mapping
* Value Stream Analysis is one of the processes used in value stream mapping

Question 6

What Agile process performs iterative cycles across seven key disciplines and incorportates the associated feedback before delivery?

Answer 6

AUP - Agile Unified Process
* offshoot of the Unified Process for software projects
* features more accelerated cycles than heavyweight processes than UP
* focuses on high value activities
* may not be suitable for projects with a large number of complex features or well defined requirements

Question 7

What Agile framework highlights three core beliefs: Technologies changing techniques, cultures changing norms, and distances changing communication?

Answer 7

Crystal - as described in Alistair Cockburn’s book Crystal Clear

Question 8

In Decision Tree Analysis, what is the difference between payoff and costs for a path over a branch?

Answer 8

NPV - Net Path Value

Question 9

When is a Decision Tree Analysis performed?

Answer 9

Quantitative Risk Analysis
Planning Process Group
Risk Knowledge Area

Question 10

In Decision Tree Analysis, what is found by multiplying the values of the uncertain alternatives by their probabilities and summing the results?

Answer 10

EMV - Expected Monetary Value

Question 11

In what process are you determining, documenting and managing stakeholder needs and requirements to meet project objectives?

Answer 11

Collect Requirement Process
Planning Process Group
Scope Knowledge Area
* provides the basis for defining the project scope

Question 12

Name three data analysis techniques used during the Collect Requirements Process?

Answer 12

• Document analysis
• Nominal group technique - silent brainstorm and discussion
• Multicriteria Decsion Analysis - uses a matrix to provide a systematic approach to establishing criteria used to evaluate and rank ideas.

Question 13

Who does a story writing workshop include?

Answer 13

• developers
• customer representaties
• end users
• other stakeholders

Question 14

What happens during a story writing workshop?

Answer 14

Participants write as amny user stories as they can.
No priorities are associated withthe user stories at this point - customer will have a chance to do that later.
Stories can be written at any time, this is just one opportunity.

Question 15

What is BDD?

Answer 15

Behavior-Driven Development

Given (a certain circumstance)
When (something happens)
Then (we want this to happen)

Allows a developer to focus on testingthe code based on the expected behavior of the software and is a method of writing user stories.