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Quality Software Project Management 1st Edition Robert T. Futrell, Donald F. Shafer, Linda Isabell Shafer - Solutions
Were the organizational personnel focusing more on the problems (disadvantages)or advantages of project management?
Were the MBAs exposed to project management?
Will formalized project management make it appear as though business development has taken power away from other groups?
Should formal project management give employees more room for personal growth?
Has Hyten done anything wrong?
Has Hyten taken a reasonable approach toward implementing formal project management?
Are there any good reasons why Hyten should go to formal project management?
Do any of the managers appear to have valid arguments for their beliefs as to why formal project management should not be considered?
What are some of the major problems facing the management of Hyten in accepting formalized project management? (Include attitude problems/personality problems.)
Does it seem realistic that proposal evaluation committees could consider project management expertise to be as important as technical ability?
Could it have been averted?
What was the reason for the loss of the contract?
How should Lenore handle disparities in leadership?
Is it possible to prevent an overoptimistic view of the project management capability of the company being acquired?
How should Lenore handle differences in the wage and salary administration program?
How should Lenore handle differences in the culture if Belle has the better culture?
How should Lenore handle differences in the culture if Lenore has the better culture?
How should Lenore handle differences in the project management approach if neither Lenore nor Belle has any project management?
How should Lenore handle differences in the project management approach if Belle has the better approach?
How should Lenore handle differences in the project management approach if Lenore has the better approach?
How much time is really needed to get economies of combined operations?
Are the acquisition objectives in Exhibit I realistic?
Why is it so difficult to get senior management to consider the impact on project management during preacquisition decision-making?
What if all four companies agree to the project management methodology and then some of the client stakeholders show a lack of support for use of the methodology?
If Honicker cannot win their support, then how should Honicker manage the opposition?
What can Honicker do to win their support?
Which stakeholder(s) may have the power to kill this project?
Which stakeholders may be powerful and which are not?
If all four companies were willing to cooperate with one another, how long do you think it would take for an agreement on and acceptance to use the new EPM system?
How easy or difficult is it to get several companies geographically dispersed to agree to the same culture and methodology?
Under what conditions would Honicker decide to back away and let each company do its own thing?
What if Gamma and Delta Companies argue that their clients and stakeholders have not readily accepted the project management approach and they wish to be left alone with regard to dealing with their clients?
What if Alpha Company is adamant that its approach is best and refuses to budge?
What if, after all attempts, Gamma and Delta companies refuse to come on board?
What would you recommend that Honicker do first?
What are Honicker’s options now?
Should an EPM system have the capability of capturing best practices?
Is it best to design an EPM system around flexible or inflexible elements?Generally, when first developing an EPM system, do companies prefer to use formality or informality in the design?
Why is it best to have six or less life-cycle phases in an EPM system?
Is it acceptable for the PMO to report to the chief information officer or to someone else?
Can a PMO accelerate the implementation process?
What can you determine about the corporate culture from the fact that they waited this long to consider the development of an EPM system?
Should a singular methodology for project management have a process for the prioritization of projects or should some committee external to the methodology accomplish this?
What might happen if benchmarking studies indicate that either marketing or engineering are at fault?
What obstacles exist in getting marketing and engineering to agree to a singular methodology for project management?
Given the current noncooperative culture, how long will it take to achieve a good cooperative project management culture, and even excellence?
Can excellence in project management still be achieved and, if so, how? What steps would you recommend?
What is the critical issue?
Why was the consultant not allowed to teach the methodology?
Did it make sense to have the fourth day of the training program devoted to the methodology and immediately attached to the end of the three-day program?
Why was the singular methodology based on guidelines rather than policies and procedures?
Why do you believe the organization later was willing to accept a singular methodology?
Why were all three initial methodologies based on policies and procedures?
Why was it so difficult to develop a singular methodology from the start?
What if the customers are unhappy with the new combined methodology?
What if the customers want the existing methodologies left intact?
What influence should a customer have in redesigning a methodology that has proven to be successful?
How do you get employees to change work habits that have proven to be successful?
How do companies combine methodologies?
List the phases of the life cycle in use in your organization, and attach the percent of effort that you believe is spent, on average, in each phase. If you don't have a standard life cycle in use, list the phases of a life cycle that you believe would make a good standard; then apply the percent
Select a current, future, or past project in your organization and describe whether function points or feature points would be the most appropriate method of relating the size of the system.
Explain why or why not LOC is an appropriate software size metric in your organization.
Explain the impact of reused software components upon the size estimate.
Describe, for each model, its applicability, degree of accuracy, and cost effectiveness;
Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of each of the models;
Explain LOC, function points, feature points, model blitz, and Delphi software size estimating methods;
List several models frequently used in the software industry to estimate size;
Describe how the work breakdown structure (WBS) influences the ability to estimate software size;
Explain why the sizing of software is an important estimating technique, when it should occur in the life cycle, and how it reduces risk and enhances the maturity of an organization;
Give an example of an "optimally sized" activity from your own work experiences.
Identify which activities are not present in each of the life cycle work breakdowns discussed.
Explain the difference between a task and an activity for a software development project. Give an example of each.
What is the value of a product-oriented WBS to a software development project manager?
Where should milestones be represented in a WBS? Why?
List and describe the steps to build a software WBS?
Define what a WBS is and what milestones are;
Explain how a software WBS is used in a software development project;
Explain why a software WBS is needed;
Describe the major approaches to constructing a WBS;
Describe several different WBS architectures;
Explain the difference between project scope and the project's goal.?
What is the case project's scope?
Define the S.M.A.R.T. features of the goal for the case project.
What is (are) the goal(s) for the case project?
Give at least two reasons why teams are necessary in today's work environment.What are the four stages in a team's life cycle?
Using the personality types "communication styles" in Table 6-15 as a guide, suppose that you are preparing a presentation about your current project for a general audience. Considering your four-letter type preference, describe two ways to communicate effectively in your speech with each of the
The dimensions of psychological type measure which one of the following?Intelligence Achievement Preference Psychopathology
How would you plan to use portfolio management processes if you were an information resource manager for your state's Office of the Attorney General?
How would you apply the DuPont model in a government organization?
Using the domain categorization matrices, develop a set for each one of these products:a. An enhancement to your company's payroll system;b. A new avionics system for the latest single-engine Cessna private aircraft;c. A GPS addition to the Palm OS for the new wireless Palm Pilot;d. New code to
You are the only project manager in a new software application tool company.This is your first product. How does project selection management work for you?
A company has created a new small-business division to develop a specialized wireless protocol operating system. Approximately 12 persons will be transferred from key areas of the company to form the base for the venture. Some 23 additional people will be hired from the outside, the bulk of whom
A corporation has recently completed a three-year process to develop a global configuration management system. It is now ready to move into the next phase, where new releases will be issued approximately every three months. An average of 12 new features and an appropriate number of bug fixes will
An electronics corporation has recently decided to venture into a business area developing personal digital assistants (PDAs, like Palm Pilots). The PDA would incorporate a cellular modem. The company has considerable previous experience on product lines similar to this and believes that a cheaper
A corporation is rewriting its Accounts Payable system to move it from an old batch-type mainframe to a Web-enabled system. No new functionality will be added. The statement of work calls for a conversion "as is." Only the input and output subsystems will be altered for the new environment. Because
Who should be responsible for an organization's software process activities?
Name the process assets in your organization. Why are they considered assets?
Look on the Web for descriptions of some of the instruments used to indicate basic personality types. A typical search on MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)will return links like these:www.personalitytype.com/quiz.html www.teamtechnology.co.uk/tt/h-articl/mb-simpl.htmkeirsey.com/?
Go to the Web site www.pmi.org and peruse the PMI PMBOK. Download Chapter 3, "Project Management Processes," to see how this book fits the software development life cycle into the PM phases of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing.
Give examples of methods, tools, and technologies that you use in your day-today business activities.
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