Lecture 3

Question 1

What is the extreme programming release cycle?

Answer 1

Select user stories for release
Break down stories into tasks
Plan release
Develop/integrate/test
Release software
Evaluate system

Question 2

What are the extreme programming practices (specific)?

Answer 2

Incremental planning
Small releases
Simple design
Test-driven development
Refactoring
Pair programming
Collective ownership
Continuous integration
Sustainable pace
On-site customer

Question 3

What are Kent Beck’s four XP themes?

Answer 3

1. Fine scale feedback
2. Continuous process
3. Shared understanding
4. Programmer well-being

Question 4

What does ‘fine scale feedback’ involves?

Answer 4

Pair programming
TDD
“Whole team” all stakeholders, user representatives
Planning game

Question 5

What does ‘continuous process’ involves?

Answer 5

Continuous integration
Design improvement (refactoring)
Small releases

Question 6

What does ‘shared understanding’ involves?

Answer 6

Coding standards
Collective code ownership
Simple design
System metaphor

Question 7

What is the meaning of a system metaphor?

Answer 7

The system metaphor is a story that everyone – customers, programmers, and managers - can tell about how the system works. - Kent Beck

Question 8

Programmer well-being involves what?

Answer 8

Avoiding crunches
Facilitated by frequent releases
Velocity, rate at which tasks are completed

Question 9

Risk management is done are which stages of the project?

Answer 9

Start
Beginning of major project phases
When there are significant changes

Question 10

What are the four steps of risk management?

Answer 10

1. Risk identification
2. Risk analysis
3. Risk management planning
4. Risk review

Question 11

What are three things to consider for risk identification?

Answer 11

• Weak areas
• Aspects that are critical to project success
• Problems that have plagued past projects

Question 12

What are the columns of the ris priority table?

Answer 12

Risk/Likelihood/Impact/Priority

Question 13

Risk management table columns?

Answer 13

• Risk
• Actions to reduce likelihood
• Actions to reduce impact
• Who should work on actions
• When should actions be complete
• Status of actions

Question 14

What are the three tips of the ‘Iron triangle’

Answer 14

• Scope
• Resources
• Schedule

Question 15

What did the Chaos Report revealed?

Answer 15

51% of projects are challenged (severely over budget and/or late)

Question 16

What four elements define the software process?

Answer 16

• Specification
• Design and implementation
• Validation
• Evolution

Question 17

What is the biggest difference between agile and waterfall?

Answer 17

• Waterfall is defined by inflexible partitioning of the project into distinct stages. This makes it difficult to respond to changing customer requirement needs.