Effective Software Project Management

Discussion Questions

1.

You have completed the first few iterations and the customer seems very satisfied with the progress to date. Not too much in the way of added features are surfacing. There are two possibilities: The first is that all business value has already been identified during requirements gathering and there will not be any added features forthcoming. You might as well switch to a Linear SDPM strategy for the remainder of the project. The customer hasn’t really bought into the Iterative approach you are taking and that is the reason there have been few scope change requests. Give them some time and encouragement and they will become more comfortable with the approach. What would you do and why?

2.

Refer to the Routing sub-system in the case study: How would you deploy a working solution that is acceptable as the initial version but clearly needs to be improved? Are there some functions that should be part of the initial version and other functions that might be better assigned to a later version? Consider the time needed to affect a complete solution versus the time needed to roll out an initial solution.