L12 Flashcards
What is software project management?
The process of planning, coordinating, and overseeing activities related to software development and maintenance.
What are some pros and cons about sequential/waterfall?
Pros: clean structure, well defined requirements, efficient documentation, easy to manage.
Cons: Inflexible, lack of client participation, testing late, all at once delivery.
What is iterative?
Development through repeated cycles and in smaller portions of software at a time.
What are some pros and cons about iterative and incremental?
Pros: flexible, early deliverables, early bug identification, client involvement, learning and improvement.
Cons: Frequent changes, challenging management, potential for incomplete features.
What is agile?
Focus on delivering value incrementally, responding to change, and prioritizing collaboration and flexibility.
Agile, what are some pros and cons?
Pros: Faster time to market, team collaboration, focus on customer value, iterative and incremental
Cons: Lack of predictability, dependency on client avaliability, documenation, hard to maintain.
What are some of the values of agile?
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
What is Kanban?
Kanban is a visual workflow management method used in project management and software development to improve efficiency, manage work in progress and enhace team productivity.
What is Scrum?
organizes work into fixed length iterations to deliver small, usable parts of a project incrementally, emphasizing teamwork, accountability and iterative process.
