SWEDISH SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

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SWEDISH SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION

• Programme in Advanced Financial
• Information Systems
• Csaba DRAGOMER
• Helsinki, 06.11.2002

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Futrell, Schafer, SchaferQuality Software
Project Management

• Chapter 9
• Identifying the Tasks and Activities

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Identifying the Tasks and Activities

• WBS decomposing a large activity into smaller
  activities until the work is described in
  detail to manage properly
• Challenge identification of the right activities
• Chapter 9 deals with the identification of tasks
  and activities which are used by software
  engineers to produce the elements of a WBS and it
  is shown how they are arranged in the life cycle
  models in order to have best effect

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Chapter 9

• Activity An element of work performed during
  the course of a project. An activity normally has
  an expected duration, an expected cost, and
  expected resource requirements.
• Activities can be divided into tasks.
• Task A generic term for work that is not
  included in the WBS but that potentially could be
  a further decomposition of work by the
  individuals responsible for that work.
• The lowest level of effort on a project.

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Identifying the Tasks and Activities

• Characteristics of activity identification
• Label
• -gt meaningful, clear, verb-noun sentences
• Size
• optimal chunk of work that can reasonably be
  done by one unit of resource in a relatively
  short period of time
• Source
• if available from previous projects
• otherwise inventing or using sources from
  organisations, such as SEI, ISO, IEEE

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Chapter 9

• Usage of sources as a guide to activity
  identification for a given software project
• IEEE 1074 Software Development Product Life
  Cycle Processes and Activities gt see book pages
  264-265, table 9-1

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Identifying the Tasks and Activities

• Challenge for every software development project
  manager to map the activities described in table
  9-1 into a life-cycle model that fits the project
  at hand and then to describe the activities to
  the organisations personnel in such a way that
  they can understand and execute them

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Chapter 9

• Software Development Life Cycle Activities
• each of the 6 life cycle models mentioned in
  chapter 4, has a different set of activities and
  tasks for the main development portions
• however, the integral process activities (IPAs)
  are the same for each model (see p. 267)
• IPAs
• project monitoring and control
• software quality management
• verification and validation
• software configuration management
• documentation development
• training