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CS 509Design of Software Systems

• Lecture 11
• Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003

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Class Format for Today

• Term Project administration
• Return Quiz 5
• Questions
• Review of Chapter 11
• Project Management exercises

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MC Project Quiz 5

• Return Quiz 5 solutions available on course
  web site.
• How is implementation going?
• Proceeding according to schedule?

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Questions?

• About Term Project
• From last weeks class
• From the reading
• Anything else?

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Chapter 11

• Project Management

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Purpose of Management

• Managers do not generate any work products of
  their own
• Managers do not make technical decisions
• Managers often do not have technical skills
• What skills do they have/need?
• What is their purpose/function?

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Management Skills, Functions

• Organizational skills why are these needed?
• People skills such as?
• Time resource management skills, etc.
• To ensure the delivery of a quality system on
  time and within budget

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Project Mgmt Terminology

• Teams
• Roles
• Work Products
• Tasks
• Schedules

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Project Phases

• Project Initiation
• Define scope and resources
• Steady State
• Majority of development effort
• Project Termination
• System is delivered and accepted
• What activities are involved in each?

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Project Initiation

• Problem statement definition
• Initial top-level design
• Team formation
• Communication Infrastructure setup
• Initial milestones planning
• Project kickoff

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Steady State

• Project agreement definition
• Status monitoring
• Risk assessment management
• Project replanning

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Project Termination

• Client acceptance tests
• Installation
• Postmortem

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Project Communication

• Needs to occur during all phases of project
• Must be timely and accurate
• Structure of communication
• Developers to team leaders
• Team leaders to project manager
• Project manager to higher-level management
• Different levels/types of communication
• What can go wrong here?

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Team Communication

• What is the definition/purpose of a liaison?
• Examples of where a liaison is useful?
• What is a cross-functional team?
• Examples?

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Team Associations

• Reporting association
• Used for reporting status
• Decision association
• Used for propagating decision information
• Communication association
• Used for exchanging info needed for decisions

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Hierarchical Organization

• Cathedral model
• Bazaar model
• What do these terms refer to?
• How does each model function?
• How do they differ?
• Movement from one to the other

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Project Roles

• Management
• Development
• Cross-functional
• Consultant
• Promoter
• Power, knowledge, process

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Other Management Concepts

• Work Products
• Tasks
• Schedules
• What are the relationships between these?

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Project Monitoring

• Meetings
• Status, milestones, reviews, inspections, demos
• Metrics
• Defects to be resolved
• Source code metrics such as?

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Risk Management

• Identifying risks managerial or technical
• How are they identified? Examples?
• Prioritizing risks
• How likely, what impact?
• Mitigating risks
• How to decrease likelihood and/or impact
• Communicating risks

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Other Management Activities

• Project agreement document
• Scope, duration, cost and deliverables
• Client acceptance tests
• Installation
• Postmortem

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Project Management Exercises

• From text book, page 453
• Split into groups to discuss
• Exercise 4
• Exercise 5
• Exercise 7
• Exercise 8
• Present results to class

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For Next Time

• Chapter 12
• Software Life Cycle