Chapter 7

Question 1

Does every phase should have deliverables

Answer 1

Yes

Question 2

What is project life cycle

Answer 2

All phases of project development called project life cycle

Question 3

What are phases of SDLC

Answer 3

• Software concept
• Requirement analysis
• Architectural design
• Detailed design
• Coding and debugging
• System Testing
• Deployment and maintenance

Question 4

What are 2 types of tracking

Answer 4

• Management level tracking

- Technical level tracking

Question 5

Please give detail of management level tracking

Answer 5

• Tasks lists
• Status meeting and reporting
• Milestones
• Reviews
• Budget reports
• Management by walking around

Question 6

Please give details of technical level tracking

Answer 6

• Technical audits and reviews

- Quality gates

Question 7

What are 4 visibility levels in tracking

Answer 7

• Ideal project visibility
• Efficient project visibility
• Well-run waterfall project visibility
• Typical project visibility

Question 8

What are the causes of poor planing

Answer 8

• Inexperienced management
• Ineffective change control
• Political pressures
• Unrealistic deadlines

Question 9

Why we use phases

Answer 9

We use phases to group different project activities and main purpose is time.

Question 10

What is process model

Answer 10

Different organizations have different ways of accessing and arranging the phases in a project called process models which defines how a SW project life cycle actually works.

Question 11

What are characteristics of life cycle

Answer 11

• Cost & efforts (they are smaller in start but grow towards end of project)
• External entities (customer & organization, initially more but decrease over time towards end)
• Uncertainty (Higher at start but decrease towards end)

Question 12

What are 4 standard software process models

Answer 12

• Spiral model
• Waterfall model
• Incremental model
• Prototyping model

Question 13

What is waterfall model

Answer 13

A traditional lifecycle model assuming all phases in SW projects are carried out sequentially and each phase is completed before the next phase is taken up.

Question 14

What is prototyping model

Answer 14

A model that works on an iterative cycle of gathering customer requirements, producing a prototype based on the requirement specifications, and getting the prototype validated by the customer.

Question 15

What is incremental model

Answer 15

The incremental model is an evolutionary life cycle model combining waterfall model and iterative nature of the prototyping model. In this model, the software product is developed in builds. A built is defined as a self-contained unit of the development activity

Question 16

What is built

Answer 16

A build is defined as a self-contained unit of the development activity

Question 17

What is spiral model

Answer 17

Another evolutionary life cycle model that combines the linear nature of the waterfall model and the iterative nature of the prototyping model. The project is divided into phases, and each phase is executed in all of the iteration of the spiral model.