You have been assigned to take over a new high-visibility S/W development project from an outgoing project manager. The project must use a development methodology that is new to you and to your company. In your transition meetings with the outgoing project manager, she assured you that development work was complete, and all you had to do was to steer the project through acceptance testing and release. As a result, several project team members were released as scheduled.

The acceptance testing you start does not go well. The application reveals more defects than anticipated, and an essential required functionality proves to be impossible to test. The project team becomes dissatisfied with the situation, start getting demoralized to continue the testing. The business sponsor has asked you when he can expect to test a specific application functionality you did not even know was in the scope. Besides, the project's deadline is rapidly approaching, and inter-project dependencies make it unlikely that you will be able to get approval for delaying the product launch date.

Please use the space below to answer the following questions:

a. Briefly explain what main documents would you review in the project work to identify and size the issues encountered in this project. (Short Question)

b. What are the top three actions you would take immediately to rescue the project? Briefly explain how these actions would help the project. (Long Question)