Deck 31: Project Management Concepts

Question 1

What are the four P's of effective project management?

Answer 1

people,product,process,and project

Question 2

How is software scope defined?

Answer 2

By defining how the software to be built fits into a larger systems,product,or business context and the constraints imposed by the context.Determining what visible objects the customer expects to see as output and what input objects are required to produce them.Determining the software function needed transform input to output and any special performance characteristics.Attempting to bound all information quantitatively,when possible,and descriptively,when numbers cannot be used.

Question 3

List 4 of the 6 critical software practices required by performance-based management.

Answer 3

formal risk management
empirical cost and schedule estimation
metric-based project management
earned value tracking
defect tracking against quality targets
people-aware program management
Final Exam Question

Question 4

What steps can be take to avoid many of the problems that cause software projects to fail?