Project Planning

Question 1

Parts of Software Pricing:

Answer 1

1. Contract
2. Uncertainty
3. Financial
4. Market
5. Volatility

Question 2

What does the customer pay for?

Answer 2

1. Requirements/functionality delivered
2. Scheduled Deliverables
3. Milestones
4. Documents
5. Tests
6. Code

Question 3

Work Breakdown:

Answer 3

1. Iterations
2. Milestones
3. Tasks

Question 4

The Planning Process:

Answer 4

1. Startup Phase
   - Initial project plan is created
2. Development Planning
   - Monitor progress,update plan with actuals
   - Revise plan to reflect changes
   - Requirements
   - Schedule

Question 5

Define Project Scheduling:

Answer 5

Decide how to work in a project will be organized

Question 6

Agile Planning:

Answer 6

1. Release planning
   - Look ahead for several months and decide on the features that should be included in the release of a system.
2. Iteration Planning
   - Focuses on planning the next increment of a system,
   - Typically 2-4 weeks of work for the team.

Question 7

Agile Planning Approaches:

Answer 7

1. Planning in SCRUM

2. XP Planning “Game”

Question 8

Planning in SCRUM:

Answer 8

Based on managing a project backlog (things to be done) with daily reviews of progress and problems

Question 9

Planning in XP

Answer 9

1. Based on user stories and the amount of time required to implement them
2. Stories are assigned “effort points” reflecting their size and difficulty of implementation
3. The number of effort points implemented per day is measured giving an estimate of the team’s “velocity”
4. This allows the total effort required to implement the system to be estimated.

Question 10

How are Agile tasks allocated?

Answer 10

During the task planning stage, the developer break down stories into development tasks

Question 11

Agile Task Allocation Steps:

Answer 11

1. A development task should take 4-16 hours
2. All of the tasks that must be completed to implement all of the stories in that iteration are listed
3. The individual developer then signs up for the specific tasks that they will implement.

Question 12

Ideal time vs Elapsed Time Example:

Answer 12

Ideally: Monday has 8 hours for the project BUT:
2 Hours of meetings
2 Hours of emails
4 Hours left for the project

Question 13

Requirements Development (Elicitation and Analysis):

Answer 13

1. All the activities involved with discovering requirements

- Interviews, workshops, document analysis, prototyping

Question 14

What is a viewpoint?:

Answer 14

Stakeholders with the same perspective can be grouped together in a “viewpoint”

Question 15

Interactor Viewpoint:

Answer 15

The point of view of primary actors

Question 16

Indirect viewpoint:

Answer 16

The point of view of the supporting actors

Question 17

Domain viewpoint

Answer 17

The point of view of the domain

Question 18

Techniques / Methodologies (Interviewing):

Answer 18

1. Closed interviews
   - Predefined questions
2. Open interviews
   - No agenda, exploratory
3. Strengths and weaknesses

Question 19

Techniques / Methodologies (Observation / Ethnography):

Answer 19

• Discover the state of actual practice
• Interaction with others, context
• Strengths and weaknesses?

Question 20

Prioritization Scale:

Answer 20

1. Urgent / Important
2. Urgent / Not so important
3. Not so urgent / Important
4. Urgent / not so important

Question 21

Use-Cases:

Answer 21

Describe a system’s behaviour under various conditions as the system responds to a request from a stakeholder.

Question 22

Use-Case Diagram Elements:

Answer 22

1. System

2. Actor

Question 23

Primary Actors:

Answer 23

Initiates use of the system

Question 24

Supporting Actors:

Answer 24

Provide a service (to the system)

Question 25

Offstage Actor:

Answer 25

Has an interest in the behaviour but is not primary or supporting.

Question 26

What is a Use-Case:

Answer 26

1. An action that accomplishes a task in the system
2. Named a verb
3. Each actor is linked to a use case through relationships

Question 27

Relationships for Use-Cases:

Answer 27

Extend and Include