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=+36.11. Research the literature and/or Internet sources to find one or more papers that
=+36.10. There is a subtle difference between restructuring and forward engineering What is it?
=+36.9. Using information obtained via the Web, present characteristics of three reverse engi- neering tools to your class.
=+36.8. Why must interactivity increase if completeness is to increase?
=+36.7. Why is completeness difficult to achieve as abstraction level increases?
=+What is meant by a "replacement," or more precisely, what concept of
=+What is a compact description of the behavioral response of the system to these actions?
=+35.6. Describe the difference between risk components and risk drivers.
=+35.5. You're the project manager for a major software company. You've been asked to lead a team that's developing "next generation" word-processing software. Create a risk table for the project.
=+to do a wide range of edits to the digitized video. The result can then be output to DVD or other media. Do a small amount of research on systems of this type and then make a list of technology
=+35.4. You've been asked to build software to support a low-cost video editing system. The system accepts digital video as input, stores the video on disk, and then allows the user
=+35.3. Add three additional questions or topics to each of the risk item checklists presented at the SEPA website.
=+35.2. Describe the difference between "known risks" and "predictable risks."
=+35.1. Provide five examples from other fields that illustrate the problems associated with a reactive risk strategy.
=+11. Do all customer/user constituencies agree on the importance of the proj-ect and on the requirements for the system/product to be built?
=+35.7. Develop a risk mitigation strategy and specific risk mitigation activities for three of the risks noted in Figure 35.2.
=+35.8. Develop a risk monitoring strategy and specific risk monitoring activities for three of the risks noted in Figure 35.2. Be sure to identify the factors that you'll be monitoring to
=+determine whether the risk is becoming more or less likely.
=+What are the basic actions (e.g ., keystrokes and mouse clicks) that the in-terface must process?
=+35.14. Describe five software application areas in which software safety and hazard analysis would be a major concern.
=+35.13. Can you think of a situation in which a high-probability, high-impact risk would not be considered as part of your RMMM plan?
=+32.3. What is an indirect measure, and why are such measures common in software metrics work?
=+35.11. Represent three of the risks noted in Figure 35.2 using a CTC format.
=+31.9. You have been appointed a software project manager for a company that services the genetic engineering world. Your job is to manage the development of a new software prod-
=+35.10. Attempt to refine three of the risks noted in Figure 35.2, and then create risk infor-mation sheets for each.
=+35.9. Develop a risk management strategy and specific risk management activities for three of the risks noted in Figure 35.2.
=+10. Is the number of people on the project team adequate to do the job?
=+What is the road ahead for software engineers?
=+31.11. Do a first-level functional decomposition of the page layout function discussed briefly in Section 31.3.2.
=+31.5. Review a copy of Weinberg's book [ Wei861, and write a two- or three-page summary of the issues that should be considered in applying the MOI model
=+31.4. The decisions made by senior management can have a significant impact on the ettec-tiveness of a software engineering team. Provide five examples to illustrate that this is true.
=+31.3. Describe three real-life situations in which the customer and the end user are the same. Describe three situations in which they are different.
=+Your instructor will assign you one KPA for analysis and summary.
=+31.2. The Software Engineering Institute's People Capability Maturity Model (People-CMM)takes an organized look at "key practice areas" (KP As) that cultivate good software people.
=+32.13. A software team delivers a software increment to end users. The users uncover eight defects during the first month of use. Prior to delivery, the software team found 242 errors during formal
=+31.1. Based on information contained in this chapter and your own experience, develop"10 commandments" for empowering software engineers. That is, make a list of 10 guide-lines that will lead to
=+software project. The questions noted provide you and your team with an excel-lent planning outline.
=+31.6. You have been appointed a project manager within an information systems organiza-tion. Your job is to build an application that is quite similar to others your team has built,
=+although this one is larger and more complex. Requirements have been thoroughly docu-mented by the customer. What team structure would you choose and why? What software process model(s) would you
=+31.7. You have been appointed a project manager for a small software products company.Your job is to build a breakthrough product that combines virtual reality hardware with state-of-the-art
=+31.10. You have been asked to develop a small application that analyzes each course offered by a university and reports the average grade obtained in the course (for a given term). Write a
=+What software process model(s) would you choose and why?
=+uct that will accelerate the pace of gene typing. The work is R&D oriented, but the goal is to produce a product within the next year. What team structure would you choose and why?
=+Do customer change requests contain the information we require to ade-quately evaluate the change and then implement it in a timely manner?
=+word-processing software. Because competition is intense, tight deadlines have been es-tablished and announced. What team structure would you choose and why? What software process model(s) would
=+31.8. You have been appointed a project manager for a major software products company.Your job is to manage the development of the next-generation version of its widely used
=+What software process model(s) would you choose and why?
=+What team structure would you choose and why?
=+by developing estimates (Chapter 33) based on answers to earlier questions.Boehm's WeHH principle is applicable regardless of the size or complexity of a
=+How much of each resource is needed? The answer to this question is derived
=+What data objects are required for input?Function and performance.
=+Information objectives. What customer-visible data objects are produced as output from the software?
=+Context. How does the software to be built fit into a larger system, prod-uct, or business context, and what constraints are imposed as a result of the context?
=+How large is the change request backlog?
=+Is our response time for fixing bugs acceptable based on customer need?
=+Is our change control process (Chapter 29) followed?
=+· Are high-priority changes implemented in a timely manner?
=+32.1. Describe the difference between process and project metrics in your own words.
=+ What function does the software perform to transform input data into output?
=+ Are any special performance character-istics to be addressed?
=+Why is the system being developed?
=+How will the job be done technically and managerially? Once product scope is established, a management and technical strategy for the project must be defined.
=+side within software practitioners. The customer, users, and other stakeholders also have responsibilities.
=+Where are they located organizationally? Not all roles and responsibilities re-
=+Who is responsible for a function? The role and responsibility of each member of the software team is defined.
=+when project tasks are to be conducted and when milestones are to be reached.
=+When will it be done? The team establishes a project schedule by identifying
=+What will be done? The task set required for the project is defined.
=+All stakeholders should assess the valid-ity of business reasons for the software work. Does the business purpose justify the expenditure of people, time, and money?
=+32.2. Why should some software metrics be kept "private"? Provide examples of three met-rics that should be private. Provide examples of three metrics that should be public.
=+9. Does the project team have experience with the technology to be implemented?
=+. Are the people who must perform the activity identified by role?
=+37.5. Assessment is analogous to an annual physical exam. Using a physical exam as a met-aphor, describe the SPI assessment activity.
=+37.6. What is the difference between an "as is" process, a "here to there" process, and a "to be" process?
=+37.7. How is risk management applied within the context of SPI?
=+37.8. Select one of the critical success factors noted in Section 37.2.7. Do some research and
=+write a brief paper on how it can be achieved.
=+37.9. Do some research and explain how the CMMI differs from its predecessor, the CMM.
=+37.10. Select one of the SPI frameworks discussed in Section 37.5, and write a brief paper describing it in more detail.
=+38.1. Get a copy of the best-selling book The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (available via Google Book Search), and discuss how his theories apply to the adoption of new software. engineering
=+oping software. Is SPI for you? Explain your answer.
=+37.4. You work for a very small software organization-only 11 people are involved in devel-
=+bution for software organizations in the United States and worldwide.
=+Have entry and exit criteria been established?
=+Have metrics for the activity been established?
=+· Are tools available to support the activity?
=+Is there an explicit training program that addresses the activity?
=+. Is the activity performed uniformly for all projects?
=+37.1. Why is it that software organizations often struggle when they embark on an effort to improve local software process?
=+37.2. Describe the concept of "process maturity" in your own words.
=+34.8. Select an appropriate task set for the OLCRS project.
=+38.2. Why does open-world software present a challenge to conventional software engineer-ingapproaches?
=+38.3. Review the Gartner Group's hype cycle for emerging technologies. Select a well-known
=+32.9. The software used to control a photocopier requires 32,000 lines of C and 4,200 lines of Smalltalk. Estimate the number of function points for the software inside the copier.
=+ring to the table, discuss why C++ would present a better alternative than C.
=+32.8. Using the table presented in Section 32.2.3. make an argument against the use of as-sembler language based on the functionality delivered per statement of code. Again refer-
=+32.7. Compute the function point value for a project with the following information domain characteristics:Number of user inputs: 32 Number of user outputs: 60 Number of user inquiries: 24 Number
=+your case hold up when dozens or hundreds of projects are considered?
=+32.6. Present an argument against lines of code as a measure for software productivity. Will
=+would you propose to help in making the determination? What historical data might be useful?

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