Exam 2: Project Management

A critical success factor for project management is to _____.

Explain the three different aspects of a feasibility analysis.

The project team has just determined that the deadline for completion will not be met. In order to deliver a high quality system on schedule, the team has requested that the features be prioritized and that a fixed deadline be imposed for the project. This technique is referred to as SDLC methodology.

Give the formula for the schedule time in months, given the effort in person-months.

Explain the concept of timeboxing.

Typically, the task of a daily scrum meeting is to find solutions for important development issues. Short Answer

Jane, the head nurse on the surgery recovery floor, is going to place a request for a system that will create a report from data already in the patient record system. This report should be sent to new printers (cost per printer is approximately $2,000) located just outside each of 12 patient's rooms and the central nurse's station. Jane feels that a graphical report that combines the patient record of pain and pain medication received is absolutely necessary for the doctors and nursing staff to make proper medical decisions concerning patient recovery. Nurses already record the date, time, and severity of pain each time the patient complains or notifies them of discomfort. The pharmacy nurse records the amount of pain medication administered to each patient immediately after administration. Jane feels that combining these two pieces of information will improve medical decision making and provide better care to the patient. The IS manager has approved $50,000 for the development of the system and estimates that maintaining the system for the next five years will cost $2,000 per year. In addition, this method will increase the accuracy of reporting by 10% per year for three years and reduce pharmacy costs (cost of pain reducing drugs) by 15% in the first year of introduction. Current expenses credited to inaccurate data gathering are $100,000 per year. Pharmacy costs are currently $10 million. Identify the costs and benefits in the four financial categories assessed during a feasibility analysis.

When estimating project time schedules using industry standards for a systems project, the following values are acceptable: 15% for planning, 25% for analysis, 50% for design, and 10% for implementation.

Traditional Work Breakdown Structures tend to

Explain how daily product backlog is used for manage the scope of project.

Explain the role and interests of the project champion, organizational management, and end users regarding a new system project. How will each impact the organizational feasibility of the project?

Give the formula for the effort in person-months based on the number of lines of code.

Sergei, the project manager, is worried about completing the project on time. To increase the productivity of his 15-person team he should create subteams with no more than 10 people on a subteam.

Outline the three important components for staffing a project. Include topics such as matching peoples' skills with project needs, motivating team members, and minimizing conflict. Structure the essay into three or more paragraphs, one for each component.

Economic feasibility includes an assessment of financial impact in four categories: (1) development costs, (2) operational costs, (3) tangible benefits, and (4) intangible costs and benefits.

Kathryn has little experience estimating the time it will take to complete a systems project. She has just completed the planning phase of the project. What method should she use to estimate the time required to build the system?

When planning a systems project, overly optimistic timetables are the cause of project completion delays.

Operational costs that are examined during feasibility analysis include _____.

Integrated CASE tools are used to support tasks that happen throughout the SDLC.

One of the greatest weaknesses of systems consulting firms is that they try to apply estimates and methodologies that they have developed over time and applied to other projects, most of which are very different from the current project.