Other (Week 1,2,3)

Question 1

Software Engineering vs Computer Science?

Answer 1

Computer Science
- Focuses on understanding, designing, and developing programs and computers.

Software Engineering
- Building and maintaining software systems. From idea to final product

Question 2

Tar pit?

Answer 2

Large system programming, many great and powerful beasts have thrashed violently in it.

Question 3

Schedule Oriented Practices?

Answer 3

Speed-Oriented Practices
Schedule-Risk Oriented Practices
Visibility-Oriented Practices

Question 4

Best Possible Schedule?

Answer 4

1. Avoid Classic Mistakes
2. Apply Development Fundamentals
3. Manage Risks to Avoid Setbacks
4. Apply Schedule Oriented Practices

Question 5

5 Principles of Software Staffing?

Answer 5

Top Talent
Career Progression
Misfit Elimination
Job Matching
Team Balance

Question 6

People Related Mistakes?

Answer 6

Undermined Motivation
Weak Personnel
Uncontrolled Problem Employees
Adding People to Late project
Unrealistic expectations

Question 7

Process Related Mistakes?

Answer 7

Overly optimistic schedules
Contractor Failure
Insufficient Risk Management
Insufficient Planning

Question 8

Management Fundamentals consist of?

Answer 8

Size of product (functionality)
Complexity,
Other product characteristics
Resource Management

Question 9

3 Basic steps to create a software schedule?

Answer 9

Estimate the size of the project
Estimate effort needed
Estimate schedule based on the estimate

Question 10

Fundamental topics in architecture and design?

Answer 10

Major Design Styles (object design, structured design, data structure design)
Foundational Design Concepts (information hiding, modularity, abstraction, encapsulation, basic data structures)
Standard Design Approaches (exception handling, internationalization, portability, i/o, memory management, data storage)
Design Considerations (financial applications, scientific applications)
Architectural Schemes (subsystem organization, logging)

Question 11

Construction Fundamentals?

Answer 11

Coding Practices (variable naming, layout, documentation)
Data-related concepts (including scope, persistence, and binding time)
Control-related concepts (using conditionals, controlling loops)
Assertions and other code-centered error detection practices
Rules for packaging code into routines, modules, classes and files
Unit testing and debugging practices

Question 12

Software Configuration Management?

Answer 12

Is the practice of managing project artifacts so that the project stays in consistent state over time.

Question 13

SCM Practices?

Answer 13

Evaluating proposed changes,
Tracking changes,
Handling multiple versions

Question 14

Agile Points (Class)

Answer 14

1. You have to know when to say no
2. Communication, frequency, transparency
3. Process is adaptive, incrementally refined
4. Continuous tradeoff
5. Highly iterative
6. Customer has to be involved