Peopleware

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Peopleware
Requirements Engineering Project
Management Lecture 7

• Jerzy.Nawrocki_at_put.poznan.pl
• www.cs.put.poznan.pl/jnawrocki/require/

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Key Roles in XPrince
Project Manager
Time
Time
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XPrince Artefacts
Aim Scope
Business Model and System Scope
AS Plan
Individuals and interactions over processes and
tools
Most Important Use Cases
Architect. Vision Tools
Init. Project Plan
Architecture
Requirements Spec.
Initial Prototype (code test cases)
Architect. Plan
Mockup
Accept. Tests Frame
GUI Design
Updat. Proj. Plan
Project Manager
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Effectiveness of the proposed approach
Best Presentation Awards

• B. Walter European Software Quality Conference,
  2002
• B. Walter KKIO, 2002
• A. Wojciechowski, KKIO 2003
• B. Paliswiat, KKIO 2004

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Agenda

• MTV Impact
• Background and Font
• Animation
• Project Presentation
• Coveys Principles

• Introduction
• XPrince Team
• Project Lifecycle
• The Analyst Role
• The Architect Role
• The Project Manager Role
• Scaling up
• Conclusions

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MTV Impact
Merit
Trust
Voice
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MTV Impact
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Merit
Trust
Voice
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MTV Impact
50
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Merit
Voice
Trust
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MTV Impact
Merit
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Voice
Trust
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Agenda

• MTV Impact
• Background and Font
• Animation
• Project Presentation
• Coveys Principles

• Introduction
• XPrince Team
• Project Lifecycle
• The Analyst Role
• The Architect Role
• The Project Manager Role
• Scaling up
• Conclusions

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Black Background
This is a sample text
The impression is NO background
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Blue Background
This is a sample text
A blue background makes a nice impression
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Times New Roman
This is a sample text
Times New Roman is too thin.
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Bold Times New Roman
This is a sample text
Bold Times New Roman is slightly better.
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Bold Arial
This is a sample text
Bold Arial is very readable.
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Bold Arial Narrow
This is a sample text
There is a trade-off between readablity and text
size. Bold Arial Narrow seems the optimum choice.
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Font Size
Arial Narrow 32 Arial Narrow 28 Arial Narrow
24 Arial Narrow 20
Standard text Arial Narrow 28
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Advantages of Light Background
It is easy to prepare handouts
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Agenda

• MTV Impact
• Background and Font
• Animation
• Project Presentation
• Coveys Principles

• Introduction
• XPrince Team
• Project Lifecycle
• The Analyst Role
• The Architect Role
• The Project Manager Role
• Scaling up
• Conclusions

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Animation
This is a sample text
Too many moving elements chaos
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Simple Animation
This is a sample text
Animation should support perception.
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Perception Management
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Perception Management
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Perception Management
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Agenda

• MTV Impact
• Background and Font
• Animation
• Project Presentation
• Coveys Principles

• Introduction
• XPrince Team
• Project Lifecycle
• The Analyst Role
• The Architect Role
• The Project Manager Role
• Scaling up
• Conclusions

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Text and Visualization
Illustration
Text
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Presentation Structure

• Cover slide (project title, presenters)

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Presentation Structure

• Cover slide (project title, presenters)
• Customer - trust

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Presentation Structure

• Cover slide (project title, presenters)
• Customer - trust

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Presentation Structure

• Cover slide (project title, presenters)
• Customer - trust
• Problem and its importance (motivation)

Problem Traditional selling is ineffective slow
costly. Affected people Customers Funny-Soft
owners Idea Web-base shop
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Presentation Structure

• Cover slide (project title, presenters)
• Customer - trust
• Problem and its importance (motivation)
• Outline of the solution (a very general view).

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Presentation Structure

• Cover slide (project title, presenters)
• Customer - trust
• Problem and its importance (motivation)
• Outline of the solution (a very general view).

• Up to 3 most important use cases (in a visual
  form)
• Skills useful in the project (already possessed
  and new)
• What are main benefits of participating in the
  project?
• Contacts and the team (4th 5th year, pictures)
• For a short presentation (up to 15) agenda is
  superfluous.

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Agenda

• MTV Impact
• Background and Font
• Animation
• Project Presentation
• Coveys Principles

• Introduction
• XPrince Team
• Project Lifecycle
• The Analyst Role
• The Architect Role
• The Project Manager Role
• Scaling up
• Conclusions

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Seven habits of highly effective people
Sharpen the saw
Private
Put first things first
Begin with the end in mind
Be proactive
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Stewardship delegation

• Desired results
• Guidelines
• Resources
• Accountability
• Consequences

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Synergize
Synergy to build on strengths and to compensate
for weaknesses.
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Team roles

• Driver (developer, director, innovator)
• Planner (strategist, estimator, scheduler)
• Enabler (resource manager, promoter, negotiator)
• Exec (producer, coordinator, maintainer)
• Controller (monitor, auditor, evaluator)

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Summary
At last!

• Effective presentations
• Trust voice
• Stewardship delegation
• Synergy
• Presentations
• 19 November, 2003, 1600 1830
• 10 each

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Questions?
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Quality assessment

• 1. What is your general impression? (1 - 6)
• 2. Was it too slow or too fast?
• 3. What important did you learn during the
  lecture?
• 4. What to improve and how?