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Lecture 3 - Establishing Software Project Management Foundations II Flashcards

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What are the three major responsibilities of a project manager?

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feasibility study, planning, execution monitoring and control

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A study made before committing to a project is a…

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feasibility study

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3
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advocacy needed to build enthusiasm for a project and convincing organizations to undertake a project with many risks is a difficulty of?

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feasibility studies

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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?

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project planning

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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

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True

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What are the 5 important activities of project planning

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Estimation
Scheduling
Staffing
Risk management
miscellaneous plans

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What are the 4 elements involved in project execution

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Monitoring
Controlling
Innovating
Representing

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TF: Monitoring is checking on progress, revising plans

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True

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TF: Controlling is coming up with solutions when problems emerge

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

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TF: Innovating is coming up with solutions when problems emerge

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True

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

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True

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

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data

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

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information

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

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

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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…

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modelling

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

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implementation

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What are the elements of Requirement Analysis?

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Requirement elicitation (gathering)
Analysis

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What is Requirements elicitation in Requirement Analysis?

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‘What does the client need’

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What is Analysis in Requirement analysis?

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converting customer requirements into equivalents that devs can understand

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What is Architecture design in Software Development Life Cycle?

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Define components of the system
- hardware
- software
- organisational

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

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Software requirements

22
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Architectural design in Software development life cycle is based on what?

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system requirements

23
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What is Detailed Design in Software Development Life Cycle?

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

24
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What does Code and Test involve in Software Development Life Cycle?

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coding and testing each individual components

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What is Integration in Software Development Life Cycle?

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

26
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What is qualification testing in Software Development Life Cycle?

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

27
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What is installation in Software Development Life Cycle?

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

28
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What is Acceptance support in Software Development Life Cycle?

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maintenance and enhancement

29
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What is Software Project Contract?

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Software Acquisition

30
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TF: Software acquisition is the same thing as software project management.

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False

31
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TF: Software project acquisition concerned with legally binding issues involved in contracting with an external customer

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True

32
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What are the 4 elements involved in Software Project Contract

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  • Fixed Price
  • Time and materials
  • Cost plus fixed fee
  • Cost plus incentive fee
33
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What are the two types of contractual agreement?

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Informal and formal

34
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TF: Informal contractual agreement is a statement of understanding between the project manager, and an internal customer

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True

35
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TF: Formal contractual agreement is a verbal contract between your organization and the acquirer’s organization.

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False. It is a legal contract

36
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How are informal contracts documented?

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Documented in Memos of Understanding (MOUs)

37
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How are formal contracts documented?

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in the form of a Statement of Work (SOW)

38
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TF: Making current activity visible as well as establishing guidelines is not a benefit of Measurement

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False

39
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TF: Measurement allows us to predict outcomes and change processes

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True

40
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Measurement does not allow us to establish quality targets and improve

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False

41
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What are the three things Measuring is concerned with?

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Collecting, Validating, Analyzing project status information

42
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TF: Controlling in a project is concerned with applying corrective action when status does not conform to planned status

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True

43
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What are the two status’ Controlling is concerned with? Provide example for each

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  • status of work products (qantity/quality of products)
  • status of development process (schedule, budget, resource, risk factors)
44
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What should be measured and controlled? (7)

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  • Product features
  • Quality attributes
  • Effort
  • Schedule
  • Cost
  • Progress
  • Risk
45
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What does measuring product features entail?

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checking requirements implemented and that they work

46
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What does measuring quality attributes entail?

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

47
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What does measuring effort entail?

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measuring amount of work expended for various activities

48
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What does measuring schedule entail?

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checking achievement of objectively measured milestones

49
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What does measuring cost entail?

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measuring expenditures on various kinds of resources

50
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What does measuring progress entail?

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measuring work products completes, accepted and baselined

51
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What does measuring risk entail?

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checking status of risk factors, mitigating activities

52
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TF: Software being cheap, reliable, testable, secure, and maintainable is what makes quality software

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

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