CSSE 371/372 – Software Requirements and Specification/Software Project Management

Steve Chenoweth/Sriram Mohan

RHIT

Introductions

Name Major Hometown An interesting fact about you that others at Rose probably

don’t know

Course Overview

Materials on Angel Syllabus Schedule

Possible life cycle

General Themes

How do we interact with clients to obtain requirements? How do we use the requirements to design the software? How do we use the requirements to verify client needs? How do we use the requirements to design the interaction? How do we plan, monitor and control a project?

Project versus Lecture

General Info

Books - 371 Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach, Second

Edition, by Dean Leffingwell and Don Widrig Interaction Design: beyond human-computer interaction, Second

Edition, by Jennifer Preece, Yvonne Rogers and Helen Sharp

Books – 372 Effective Project Management: Traditional, Adaptive, Extreme,

Fourth Edition by Robert K. Wysocki, (paperback)

Case Studies Office Hours

Course Components

Project This is the most important part of the learning experience 5 Milestones (Typically due on Friday) 50% of the grade

Exams 20% of the grade Two mid-terms(No Finals)

Assignments 9 in 371, 8 in 372 (Typically Due on Tuesday and Friday) 9 Case Studies (Typically on Friday, Monday) 20% of the grade

Class Interaction/Quizzes/In-Class Activities 10%

Project

Project

Real clients with real needs Simulate the real world Teams

Each team will have 3 students. Management assigned

Project Managers Derek Baker Sam Green Tyler Gonnsen Andrew Houvener Jarrod Stormo

Project Deliverables

Deliverable Content Due Date

Milestone 1 Individual Engineering Journal

371-Current System Analysis371-Client Stakeholder Analysis371-Feature Listing372- POS372-Risk Assessment372- WBS

Sept 26

Milestone 2 Individual Engineering Journal 371-Use Cases371- Data Flow Diagram372-Risk Assessment372- WBS with Estimates and resource assignment

Oct 10

Milestone 3 Individual Engineering Journal 371-Supplementary Specification371- Initial Design/Paper Prototype372-Risk Assessment372- WBS with Estimates and resource assignment372- Project Plan

Oct 20

Project Deliverables

Deliverable Content Due Date

Milestone 4 Individual Engineering Journal 371-Psuedo code371- Coding Standards371- Test Cases372-Risk Assessment372- WBS with Estimates and resource assignment372 – Earned Value

Oct 30

Milestone 5 371-Initial Design371- Usability Report371- Final Design372-Risk Assessment372- WBS with Estimates and resource assignment372 – Earned Value

Nov 11

Final Individual Engineering Journal 371-Initial Design371 & 372 - Final Updated Versions of all milestones transitioned to new team (includes signoff)371 & 372 - Client Comments372 - Lessons Learnt372 – Report on use of Configuration Management

Oct 20

Presentations

Client Presentation Post partum presentation

Team Activities

Meet with client once a week Meet with project manager once a week Meet regularly Plan Use your project manager and instructors expertise.

Plan ahead

Team Roles

Secretary Contacts

Manager Instructor Client

Tasks Assigner Monitor

Librarian Guru

Weekly Assessment Report

Due weekly to the PM and Primary Instructor PM – 12 hours before Meeting Instructor – Friday at Noon(Hard Copy)

It records Weekly Status Tasks to be completed next week

High Level Summary Who is responsible for them?

Tasks completed last week(same as above) Key issues and problems(include a mitigation strategy) Weekly Metrics(hours of work estimated, actual and variance from

previous weeks and total to date)

Project Manager

Assist the team with process Supervisory role Review teams artifacts Evaluate teams performance

Can recommend that a team member be fired

Writing

Professionally written No slang, chat lingo … Free of grammatical and spelling errors Well organized Thorough and complete

Must be submitted to supervisor before final submission Each team member must approve the submission. Use the learning center

We will be happy to review any portion of the document before final submission

Milestone Document Content

Signed Title Page Table of Contents Executive Summary Introduction Main content References Appendix Index Glossary

Submissions will be on paper – Use a 3 ring binder

Anonymous Feedback

Questions???

Meetings Bloody Meetings

Discussion Question

What actionable things can you do as a project manager to have an effective meeting? (Due Monday – See Drop Box on Angel)