Chapter 3 Flashcards
Usually a meeting of the key stakeholders
Project blastoff
What will the blastoff do?
Define the scope
Determine the purpose
Identify stakeholders
What is the go/no go decision?
A consensus whether or not to continue with the project
Characteristics of a rabbit project
Small
Fast
Short-lived
Characteristics of a horse project
Fast
Strong
Dependable
Characteristics of a elephant project
Solid
Strong
Long life
The work and alternative products
Scope
What shows the work of the business and adjacent systems?
Context diagram
What indicates inputs and outputs from the adjacent systems?
Data flows
What’s the benefit of understanding stakeholder roles?
Leads to more meaningful requirements
What is the highest level requirement?
Project goal
T/F Not all detailed requirements must make a positive contribution to the project goal
F, All should make a positive contribution
What do project goals have?
Purpose
Advantage
Measurement
What must project goals be?
Viable
Feasible
Achievable
What are the types of constraints?
Solution constraints
Project contraints
What are the project constraints?
Time
Financial
What are the solution constraints?
Mandated designs, solution, or interfaces
Mandated off-the-shelf and open-source applications
Often hardware related
T/F Naming conventions are trivial
F, not trivial
T/F You should establish a project “dictionary” early in the project
T
What are some ways to estimate cost without knowing lower level details?
Context diagrams
Function points
T/F Any method of cost estimation is useful as long as there is historical data from the organization
T
Identifies risk situations for the project and defines contingency plans - including budget and schedule impacts
Risk management
T/F Risk management is the responsibility of the requirements engineer
F, responsibility of the risk-assessment engineer
What are the methods to determine overall value?
SWOT
SMART
T/F Any value determining methods properly yields results, especially if the team does not have a common decision-making method
T
