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INF3708 SUMMARY V 2020 UNISA Semester 1 1 Contents Chapter 1........................................................................................................................................ 4 *Characteristics that distinguish projects: [10]...............................................

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INF3708 SUMMARY
V




2020
UNISA
Semester 1

, 1



Contents
Chapter 1........................................................................................................................................ 4

*Characteristics that distinguish projects: [10] .............................................................. 4
*Characteristics of software projects which make them particularly difficult (as
identified by Fred Brooks): [4] ......................................................................................... 4
Successive processes that bring a new system into being: [3] ................................... 4
ISO 12207 Software Development Life Cycle: [13] ....................................................... 5
Types of Stakeholders: [3] ............................................................................................... 5
Software project objectives: [4] ..................................................................................... 6
Management Activities: [8] ............................................................................................ 6
Chapter 2........................................................................................................................................ 7

Business case (for a feasibility study) document contains: [10] .................................. 7
Key aspects of project portfolio management: [3] ..................................................... 7
Categories of direct costs: [3] ........................................................................................ 7
*Net Profit: ........................................................................................................................ 7
*Payback Period: ............................................................................................................ 7
*Return on Investment (ROI): .......................................................................................... 8
*Net Present Value (NPV): .............................................................................................. 8
Programme Management: ............................................................................................ 8
Different forms of programmes: [5]................................................................................ 8
Sections of a business case’s programme brief: [3] ..................................................... 8
Chapter 3...................................................................................................................................... 10

Step Wise: [11] ............................................................................................................... 10
Chapter 4...................................................................................................................................... 11

*Advantages of running off-the-shelf software: [3] .................................................... 11
*Disadvantages of running off-the-shelf software: [4]................................................ 11
Project characteristics: [6] ............................................................................................ 11
Types of uncertainties: [3] ............................................................................................. 11
The waterfall model: [8] ................................................................................................ 12
Types of prototypes: [2] ................................................................................................ 12
Advantages of prototypes: [9]..................................................................................... 12
Disadvantages of prototypes: [6] ................................................................................ 12
Types of changes during prototyping: [3] ................................................................... 13

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Advantages of incremental delivery: [8] .................................................................... 13
Disadvantages of incremental delivery: [3] ................................................................ 13
*Agile manifesto: [4]...................................................................................................... 13
Core Atern (Agile) principles: [8] ................................................................................. 13
Atern life-cycle phases: [4] ........................................................................................... 14
Importance of requirements (MoSCoW): [4] .............................................................. 14
XP principles: [4] ............................................................................................................ 14
XP practices: [12] .......................................................................................................... 14
XP limitations: [5] (p. 98 – 99) ........................................................................................ 15
Chapter 5...................................................................................................................................... 16

Difficulties of estimating effort: [6] ............................................................................... 16
Calculating estimated effort: ....................................................................................... 16
Laws for over- and under-estimates: [3] ...................................................................... 16
Bottom-up estimation: .................................................................................................. 16
Top-down estimation: ................................................................................................... 16
Euclidian distance: ........................................................................................................ 17
COnstructive COst MOdel (COCOMO): ..................................................................... 17
Stages of COCOMO II: [3] ............................................................................................ 17
COCOMO II: .................................................................................................................. 17
Chapter 6...................................................................................................................................... 19

Objectives of activity planning [5]............................................................................... 19
Approaches to identifying activities [3] ...................................................................... 19
Network planning models [3] ....................................................................................... 19
Precedence network (activity-on-node) rules [8] ...................................................... 19
Labelling conventions ................................................................................................... 20
Activity float [2] ............................................................................................................. 20
Activity-on-arrow rules [8] ............................................................................................. 20
Labelling conventions ................................................................................................... 21
Chapter 7...................................................................................................................................... 22

Lyytinen-Mathiassen-Ropponen risk framework (STAT) [4] ......................................... 22
*Framework for dealing with risks [4] ........................................................................... 22
Risk exposure ................................................................................................................. 22
Risk planning alternatives [4] ........................................................................................ 22
Risk Reduction Leverage (RRL)..................................................................................... 22

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