Effective Software Project Management

Discussion Questions

1.

The major weakness of Incremental approaches is that they encourage the customer to submit scope change requests. Many of these will be legitimate because of external factors, but many will simply result because customers have seen a partial solution working and now have an idea about how it might be improved. Any scope change request can have significant impact on the resource schedule of future increments. What might you do to reduce unfavorable impact?

2.

The Scoping Phase of the Incremental SDPM strategy is a critically important part of the project life cycle. If you were asked to plan a three-day scoping exercise, what would your plan include? Prepare a detailed and timed agenda. Be sure to include the customer as a major player in that scoping exercise.