Chapter 3

Question 1

Usually a meeting of the key stakeholders

Answer 1

Project blastoff

Question 2

What will the blastoff do?

Answer 2

Define the scope
Determine the purpose
Identify stakeholders

Question 3

What is the go/no go decision?

Answer 3

A consensus whether or not to continue with the project

Question 4

Characteristics of a rabbit project

Answer 4

Small
Fast
Short-lived

Question 5

Characteristics of a horse project

Answer 5

Fast
Strong
Dependable

Question 6

Characteristics of a elephant project

Answer 6

Solid
Strong
Long life

Question 7

The work and alternative products

Answer 7

Scope

Question 8

What shows the work of the business and adjacent systems?

Answer 8

Context diagram

Question 9

What indicates inputs and outputs from the adjacent systems?

Answer 9

Data flows

Question 10

What’s the benefit of understanding stakeholder roles?

Answer 10

Leads to more meaningful requirements

Question 11

What is the highest level requirement?

Answer 11

Project goal

Question 12

T/F Not all detailed requirements must make a positive contribution to the project goal

Answer 12

F, All should make a positive contribution

Question 13

What do project goals have?

Answer 13

Purpose
Advantage
Measurement

Question 14

What must project goals be?

Answer 14

Viable
Feasible
Achievable

Question 15

What are the types of constraints?

Answer 15

Solution constraints

Project contraints

Question 16

What are the project constraints?

Answer 16

Time

Financial

Question 17

What are the solution constraints?

Answer 17

Mandated designs, solution, or interfaces

Mandated off-the-shelf and open-source applications

Often hardware related

Question 18

T/F Naming conventions are trivial

Answer 18

F, not trivial

Question 19

T/F You should establish a project “dictionary” early in the project

Answer 19

T

Question 20

What are some ways to estimate cost without knowing lower level details?

Answer 20

Context diagrams

Function points

Question 21

T/F Any method of cost estimation is useful as long as there is historical data from the organization

Answer 21

T

Question 22

Identifies risk situations for the project and defines contingency plans - including budget and schedule impacts

Answer 22

Risk management

Question 23

T/F Risk management is the responsibility of the requirements engineer

Answer 23

F, responsibility of the risk-assessment engineer

Question 24

What are the methods to determine overall value?

Answer 24

SWOT

SMART

Question 25

T/F Any value determining methods properly yields results, especially if the team does not have a common decision-making method

Answer 25

T