Review for Exam One

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Review for Exam One

• note this is not a complete list of subjects
• or possible questions

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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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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

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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

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Documents o' plenty

• Software Project Management Plan
• Goal State
• Statement of Work
• System Requirements Specification
• Work Breakdown Structure

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Goal Statement

• Purpose
• Characteristics of a Good Goal Statement

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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

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SPMP

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

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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

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Activities in the WBS

• Review IEEE 1074
• Software Life Cycle Model Planning
• Project Management
• Predevelopment
• Development
• Post-Development
• Integral

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Estimation

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

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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?