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Review for Exam One

Review for Exam One. note: this is not a complete list of subjects or possible questions. Life Cycle Models. Waterfall traditional requirements need to be set upfront Spiral good for finding your way as you go along Rapid Application Development uses off-the-shelf components.

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Review for Exam One

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  1. Review for Exam One note: this is not a complete list of subjects or possible questions

  2. Life Cycle Models • Waterfall • traditional • requirements need to be set upfront • Spiral • good for finding your way as you go along • Rapid Application Development • uses off-the-shelf components

  3. Corporate Process • Why consider the Corporate Process? • Value ≠ Quality • You must know your customer's little world!!! • Who needs to be in on deciding requirements? • The type of product to build can dictate how it is built. • re-engineered software vs mass market vs …

  4. The Project Team • The most important factor in a team's productivity? • Match personalities to tasks • Management ≠ Leadership • manager's todo list • leader's todo list • Improving the Team • SEI-PCMM

  5. Documents o' plenty • Software Project Management Plan • Goal State • Statement of Work • System Requirements Specification • Work Breakdown Structure

  6. Goal Statement • Purpose • Characteristics of a Good Goal Statement

  7. Statement of Work • A SOW defines (either directly or by reference to other documents) all non-specification requirements for contractor effort. • Contains • summary of deliverables • acceptance criteria • payment schedule • etc

  8. SPMP Contains: • Goal Statement • Process Model • Organizational Chart • WBS • Schedules with Responsibilities • Task dependency charts • Detailed Budget • etc

  9. WBS • hierarchical list of the work activities to complete a project • Formats: • tree • indented list • Uses: • to create the schedule • make sure that we didn't forget something review the dos and don'ts

  10. Activities in the WBS • Review IEEE 1074 • Software Life Cycle Model Planning • Project Management • Predevelopment • Development • Post-Development • Integral

  11. Estimation • Essentials to Creating a Good Estimate? • Approaches • Analogy • Decomposition • Empirical • LOC vs FP

  12. COCOMO • 3 different types of projects • 3 levels of accuracy • simple - E = a x sizeb • intermediate - E = a x sizeb x C • detailed • Why was COCOMOII developed?

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