Project Planning Flashcards
1
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Three planning stages
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- Proposal stage
- Project start up stage
- Periodically throughout the project
2
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Proposal planning
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- Provide info to set price
3
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Project startup
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- Create plan with enough detail to make decisions about budget and staffing
4
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Software pricing
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- No simple relationship between development cost and price charged
5
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Plan-driven development
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- Traditional way to manage a software development project
6
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Plan-driven development pros
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- Planning for, and close monitoring of, needed resources
7
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Plan-driven development cons
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- Early decisions have to be revised because of changes
8
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Project scheduling
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- Deciding how work in a project is organized into separate tasks (when and how these will be executed)
9
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Scheduling problems
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- The unexpected always happens
10
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Agile planning
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- Planning is iterative and only the next iteration of the software is planned, often in detail.
- For scheduling, the system being developed is cut down so that the planned date is met.
11
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Experience-based cost estimation techniques
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- Techniques by which the estimate is based on a manager’s experience of past projects and the application domain
12
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Algorithmic cost modelling estimation techniques
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- A formulaic approach is used to estimate the development effort required, based on attributes of the software and the development team.
13
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Approaches to agile planning
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- Planning in Scrum
- Project backlog
- Planning game, with user stories
14
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Estimation models used in COCOMO II
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- The application composition model
- The early design model
- The reuse model
- The post-architecture model
15
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Quality plan sections
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- Product introduction
- Product plans
- Process descriptions
- Quality goals
- Risks and risk management
