Lecture 3 - Establishing Software Project Management Foundations II

Question 1

What are the three major responsibilities of a project manager?

Answer 1

feasibility study, planning, execution monitoring and control

Question 2

A study made before committing to a project is a…

Answer 2

feasibility study

Question 3

advocacy needed to build enthusiasm for a project and convincing organizations to undertake a project with many risks is a difficulty of?

Answer 3

feasibility studies

Question 4

Breaking down work into parts to assign to team members; anticipate problems; preparing solutions to problems is related to which responsibility of a project manager?

Answer 4

project planning

Question 5

The project plan is used to communicate how the work will be done to the project team and customers, as well as assess progress on project

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What are the 5 important activities of project planning

Answer 6

Estimation
Scheduling
Staffing
Risk management
miscellaneous plans

Question 7

What are the 4 elements involved in project execution

Answer 7

Monitoring
Controlling
Innovating
Representing

Question 8

TF: Monitoring is checking on progress, revising plans

Answer 8

True

Question 9

TF: Controlling is coming up with solutions when problems emerge

Answer 9

False. It’s taking action to remedy hold-ups

Question 10

TF: Innovating is coming up with solutions when problems emerge

Answer 10

True

Question 11

TF: Representing is liaisoning with client, users, developers, and other stakeholders

Answer 11

True

Question 12

In project control cycle, raw details such as ‘20 user stories developed by team 3’ is called…

Answer 12

data

Question 13

In project control cycle, data processed to produce something meaningful and useful such as ‘productivity is two user stories per day’ is called…

Answer 13

information

Question 14

In project control cycle, the sentence ‘we will not meet the target of delivering 50 user stories by Nov. 15’ is an example of…

Answer 14

comparison. We are comparing objectives (delivering 50 user stories) with goal (by Nov. 15)

Question 15

In project control cycle, working out the probable outcomes of various decisions such as ‘if 2 more devs are brought onboard, how quickly can user stories get developed’ is called…

Answer 15

modelling

Question 16

In project control cycle, carrying out the remedial actions that have been decided upon is called…

Answer 16

implementation

Question 17

What are the elements of Requirement Analysis?

Answer 17

Requirement elicitation (gathering)
Analysis

Question 18

What is Requirements elicitation in Requirement Analysis?

Answer 18

‘What does the client need’

Question 19

What is Analysis in Requirement analysis?

Answer 19

converting customer requirements into equivalents that devs can understand

Question 20

What is Architecture design in Software Development Life Cycle?

Answer 20

Define components of the system
- hardware
- software
- organisational

Question 21

What comes out of Architectural Design in Software Development Life Cycle?

Answer 21

Software requirements

Question 22

Architectural design in Software development life cycle is based on what?

Answer 22

system requirements

Question 23

What is Detailed Design in Software Development Life Cycle?

Answer 23

each component is made up a number of software units that can be tested separately

Question 24

What does Code and Test involve in Software Development Life Cycle?

Answer 24

coding and testing each individual components

Question 25

What is Integration in Software Development Life Cycle?

Answer 25

putting components together and testing them together to see if they meet overall requirements

Question 26

What is qualification testing in Software Development Life Cycle?

Answer 26

Testing system to check whether all requirements have been fulfilled (not just software)

Question 27

What is installation in Software Development Life Cycle?

Answer 27

Process of making new system operational. - Setting up standing data and system parameters - Installing on operational hardware platforms - etc.

Question 28

What is Acceptance support in Software Development Life Cycle?

Answer 28

maintenance and enhancement

Question 29

What is Software Project Contract?

Answer 29

Software Acquisition

Question 30

TF: Software acquisition is the same thing as software project management.

Answer 30

False

Question 31

TF: Software project acquisition concerned with legally binding issues involved in contracting with an external customer

Answer 31

True

Question 32

What are the 4 elements involved in Software Project Contract

Answer 32

- Fixed Price - Time and materials - Cost plus fixed fee - Cost plus incentive fee

Question 33

What are the two types of contractual agreement?

Answer 33

Informal and formal

Question 34

TF: Informal contractual agreement is a statement of understanding between the project manager, and an internal customer

Answer 34

True

Question 35

TF: Formal contractual agreement is a verbal contract between your organization and the acquirer's organization.

Answer 35

False. It is a legal contract

Question 36

How are informal contracts documented?

Answer 36

Documented in Memos of Understanding (MOUs)

Question 37

How are formal contracts documented?

Answer 37

in the form of a Statement of Work (SOW)

Question 38

TF: Making current activity visible as well as establishing guidelines is not a benefit of Measurement

Answer 38

False

Question 39

TF: Measurement allows us to predict outcomes and change processes

Answer 39

True

Question 40

Measurement does not allow us to establish quality targets and improve

Answer 40

False

Question 41

What are the three things Measuring is concerned with?

Answer 41

Collecting, Validating, Analyzing project status information

Question 42

TF: Controlling in a project is concerned with applying corrective action when status does not conform to planned status

Answer 42

True

Question 43

What are the two status' Controlling is concerned with? Provide example for each

Answer 43

- status of work products (qantity/quality of products) - status of development process (schedule, budget, resource, risk factors)

Question 44

What should be measured and controlled? (7)

Answer 44

- Product features - Quality attributes - Effort - Schedule - Cost - Progress - Risk

Question 45

What does measuring product features entail?

Answer 45

checking requirements implemented and that they work

Question 46

What does measuring quality attributes entail?

Answer 46

checking defects, reliability, availability, response time, etc.

Question 47

What does measuring effort entail?

Answer 47

measuring amount of work expended for various activities

Question 48

What does measuring schedule entail?

Answer 48

checking achievement of objectively measured milestones

Question 49

What does measuring cost entail?

Answer 49

measuring expenditures on various kinds of resources

Question 50

What does measuring progress entail?

Answer 50

measuring work products completes, accepted and baselined

Question 51

What does measuring risk entail?

Answer 51

checking status of risk factors, mitigating activities

Question 52

TF: Software being cheap, reliable, testable, secure, and maintainable is what makes quality software

Answer 52

False. There is no clear-cut answer (depends on stakeholders, type, etc.)