Review for the Final Exam

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Review for the Final Exam

• CSCI 621 - Software Project Management

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Key Topics covered on midterm exam

• Life Cycles
• strengths, weaknesses, appropriateness, etc
• Perceived Value ? Value
• value may not be related to quality
• the user determines the value and perceived
  quality
• Software Projects are Cultural Events
• management ? leadership
• productivity is heavily related to happiness
• match tasks and work style to personality type
• P-CMM

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Key Topics covered on midterm exam

• Goal Statement
• purpose, properties of good ones,
• Statement of Work
• purpose and contents
• Software Project Management Plan
• purpose and contents
• Work Breakdown Structure
• purpose, format, contents

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Key Topics covered on midterm exam

• Estimation
• what factors influence accuracy
• LOC v. function points
• Analogy / Decomposition / Empirical
• COCOMO
• Scheduling
• dependencies, PERT, Gantt, resource leveling,
  what scheduling tools can do for you

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Key Topics covered on midterm exam

• Requirements
• types of requirements
• requirements gathering
• SRS

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Key Topics

• Risk Analysis
• review the lists of common risks
• review those top 10 lists
• "risk exposure" and "risk reduction leverage"
• actions
• avoidance
• risk reduction
• limit impact
• etc

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Key Topics

• Metrics
• product, process, project
• code metrics
• length, complexity, efficiency, etc
• quality factors
• Functionality, Reliability, Usability,
  Maintainability, Portability
• design metrics
• cohesion, coupling, fan in, fan out,
• project metrics
• test coverage, defect removal time,

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Key Topics

• Testing
• VV
• laws of testing
• testing stages unit, integration, validation,
  system
• white box / black box
• regression testing
• test coverage
• integration testing, system testing, usability
  testing

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Key Topics

• Software Quality Assurance
• define "quality"
• formal technical reviews
• purpose, format,
• work instructions
• statistical SQA
• fundamental ideas behind ISO 9000 and CMM
• Configuration Management
• baselines
• necessary features of a CM repository tool

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