Midterm

Question 1

What are the major SDLC phases?

Answer 1

1) Conceptual/Preliminary Analysis
2) Requirements
3) Design
4) Development or Implementation
5) Testing
6) Deploy

Question 2

Whats the difference between a group and a team?

Answer 2

Group: two or more people who interact with each other to accomplish a goal.
Team: a group that works intensively together to achieve a common goal through
-Coordinated effort
-Common goals instead of individual goals
-Mutual accountability in addition to individual
-Complementary skills and interdependence
-Leadership shared among team members

Question 3

What types of teams are there?

Answer 3

Hierarchal Teams, Chief Programmer Teams, Matrix Organization, and Democratic/Open-Structured Teams

Question 4

What is the relational-economic view of motivation?

Answer 4

People are motivated by monetary considerations. Managers make all of the decisions. There are penalties to ensure compliance which results in fear. There are many levels of structure with limited span for control.

Question 5

What is the social view of motivation?

Answer 5

People are motivated by social needs. The work is typically not meaningful in itself. Control is exercised through group pressure.

Question 6

What is the self-actualization view of motivation?

Answer 6

Motivation comes from within one’s self. Managers typically frame a problem, not a solution. Organization structure facilitates by does not control. The rewards are intrinsic within the work.

Question 7

Name Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

Answer 7

• Self-actualization (Continued self-improvement and growth)
• Ego (Status, recognition, prestige)
• Social (Belonging and Acceptance)
• Safety (safety from danger, deprivation)
• Physiological (Water, food)
• *The lowest unfulfilled needs act as the motivatior

Question 8

What makes up a good task?

Answer 8

• Description of what is to be done
• An estimate of how long it will take to complete
• An identified responsible party to complete
• Pre-constraints
• Co-constraints
• Post-constraints

Question 9

What is a Covey Board?

Answer 9

A 4 quadrant table that lists what is “important vs. not important” and “urgent vs. not urgent”

Question 10

What is a KanBan?

Answer 10

Often uses wipe boards or sticky notes: it shows what is “to do,” “doing,” and “done.”

Question 11

What is a Gnatt Chart?

Answer 11

(Think Wrike) It shows the effort needed for each task as well as the dependancies that each task has on one another.

Question 12

What is Brook’s Law?

Answer 12

“Adding people resources to a late software project makes it later.”

Question 13

What do the number of month’s a project is going to take depend on?

Answer 13

The sequentiality of the tasks and the number of independent partitionable subtasks .

Question 14

How does a large software project end up being a year late?

Answer 14

Answer: One day at a time…

• Incremental slippages on many fronts eventually accumulate to produce a large overall delay.
• Continued attention to meeting small individual milestones is required at each level of management.

Question 15

What 3 things are part of the “triangle?”

Answer 15

time, resources, features

Question 16

Concept

Answer 16

the problem

Question 17

Requirements

Answer 17

what we need to do to solve the problem

Question 18

Design

Answer 18

how we will solve the problem

Question 19

Construct

Answer 19

build the solution

Question 20

Test

Answer 20

verify that we have solved the problem

Question 21

Deploy

Answer 21

problem solved

Question 22

What are 5 types of requirements? (Give examples of each)

Answer 22

1) Functional Requirements (The system must…)
2) Non-Functional Requirements (quality attributes, constraints, performance goals, business rules)
3) Business Requirements (high-level objectives of the client)
4) User Requirements (define user goals or tasks)
5) Business Rules (not a software requirement per se, but impacts requirements)

Question 23

What is the Requirements Lifecycle?

Answer 23

Elicit, analysis, specification, verification

Question 24

How do you know if you have excellent requirements? What do they need to be?

Answer 24

Complete, Correct, Feasible, Necessary, Prioritized, Unambiguous, Verifiable

Question 25

What are SMART/SMART-CC requirements?

Answer 25

S: Specific
M: Measurable
A: Attainable
R: Realistic
T: Time-bound
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C: Complete
C: Concise

Question 26

What do you need in a full use-case?

Answer 26

number, name, description, actors, triggers, pre-conditions, post-conditions, normal flow, alternate flows

Question 27

Describe a context diagram

Answer 27

A high-level diagram that shows the entire system and the data flows between it and external entities. The system is shown as a circle typically in the middle, and the outside entities/terminators that you are getting data from are rectangles with arrows showing data flow.

Question 28

Describe a data flow diagram

Answer 28

Data flow diagrams help us identify all of the functions of the system down to a very low level. It is simple yet abstract. It shows processes that transform data, external entities, data flows, and data stores. Processes communicate via data stores, not with each other directly.

Question 29

What are some characteristics of Agile scrum?

Answer 29

• Self-organizing teams
• Product progresses in a series of month-long “sprints”
• Requirements are captured as items in a list of “product - backlog”
• No specific engineering practices prescribed
• Uses generative rules to create an agile environment for delivering projects
• One of the “agile processes”

Question 30

What does the product owner of scrum do?

Answer 30

• Define the features of the product
• Decide on release date and content
• Beresponsible for the profitability of the product (ROI)
• Prioritize features according to market value
• Adjustfeatures and priority every iteration, as needed
• Accept or reject work results

Question 31

What does the scrum mater do?

Answer 31

• Represents management to the project
• Responsible for enacting Scrum values and practices
• Removes impediments
• Ensure that the team is fully functional and productive
• Enable close cooperation across all roles and functions
• Shield the team from external interferences

Question 32

What is a scrum product backlog?

Answer 32

The requirements and a list of all desired work on the project. It is ideally expressed such that each item has value to the users or customers of the product and is prioritized by the product owner and reprioritized at the start of each sprint.

Question 33

What are user stories?

Answer 33

They represent functionality that will be useful to the user and do not include technical details or jargon.