Effective Software Project Management

Discussion Questions

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Your organization has recently embraced the agile approaches in addition to their long time use of traditional models to project management and systems development. You have been assigned a project that is clearly an adaptive project. You have gathered the following information: The enterprise environment— While there is not a lot of history in the organization on the use of Adaptive SDPM strategies, you believe the organization will be supportive. The organization is stable, and senior management is informed. The sponsor— The sponsor has supported you in the past, and you are reasonably comfortable that they will support you on this project. However, you are not sure of their understanding of an Adaptive SDPM strategy. The customer— You have experience with this customer on several traditional projects in the past. They do what is expected of them but are not too enthused about being directly involved in projects. They are a bit gun shy of the Adaptive SDPM strategy. This may be due to their never having been involved in one before and to their lack of knowledge of the Adaptive SDPM strategy. The skill/competency/experience level of the project team— Your team is solid. There is no reason for concern here. You have worked with them on all types of projects. They tend to be the more senior members of the development staff. The physical location of the project team— The team is co-located. The criticality of the project— The project is mission critical and a large ...