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Development costs, Operating costs, and Intangible benefits and costs should all be considered when evaluating this type of feasibility.
What is Economic Feasibility?
This type of analysis looks at whether or not we can build it, should built it, and whether or not it will be adopted if we build it.
What is feasibility analysis?
This is the type of continuous improvement methodology we discussed that does not require a process map to do.
What is Kaizen?
Project sponsor, business need, business requirements, business value, and constraints are all components of this SDLC artifact.
What is a Systems Request?
This is the tool you used in your lab this week to capture the estimates and timelines provided for each task.
What is MS Project?
This is the name of the meeting in Scrum where the team reflects on what went well and what could have gone better in the previous sprint and what they want to improve moving forward.
What is a sprint retrospective?
Software upgrades and license fees, communications charges, and training costs are all this type of cost.
What are operational costs?
This form of requirements gathering involves providing written questions to a group of individuals to elicit input.
What is a questionnaire or survey?
This methodology is very regimented and moves from phase to phase with key deliverables at the end of each phase that are handed off to the next phase and group.
What is Waterfall?
these types of requirements are either process oriented and define a process the system must do or Information oriented and describe data the system must contain.
What are functional requirements?
Agile suggests estimating in this unit of measure over time.
What is size?
This is the Scrum role that is responsible for guiding the team through their use of Scrum methodology.
What is a Scrum Master?
When defining value, improved customer experience, increased market share, increased brand recognition, and higher quality products are all examples of this type of benefit.
What are intangible benefits?
This form of requirements gathering involves bringing representatives from across the organization together in the same room for a facilitated requirements gathering session.
What is Joint Application Development (JAD)?
Iterative development, System prototyping, and Throw-away prototyping are all examples of this SDLC approach
What is Rapid Application Development (RAD)?
These types of requirements fall into the following categories: Operational, Performance, Security, and Cultural/Political.
What are non functional requirements?
What are Ideal days?
This is the time boxed activity that is the heart of the Scrum. In general the duration ranges from 1 - 4 weeks depending on what works best for your team but should be kept consistent once defined.
What is the Sprint?
When calculating value this is the difference between the total present value of the benefits and the total present value of the costs. As long as this value is > 0, the project is considered economically acceptable.
What is Net Present Value (NPV)?
The 5 Whys is a technique for this type of analysis.
What is root cause analysis?
This is a development methodology where users get to work with prototypes quickly but we run the risk of the prototype becoming the production system with technical debt.
What is system prototyping?
This is a way to capture user requirements where you outline the specific user, what they want to do, and why they want to do it.
As a system administrator I want to enable MFA on my account so that I can safeguard it from being compromised.
What is a user story?
This is the measure of the amount of work a team can complete during a given sprint. The accuracy of this measurement improves with time.
What is velocity?
This is the list of detailed tasks that a Scrum team commits to working on in a given Sprint.
What is the Sprint backlog?
This is defined as the number of years it takes an organization to recover its original investment in the project from net cash flows.
What is the Break Even Point (BEP)?
During my recorded lecture I shared that in my experience combining these two requirements gathering techniques produced the best results.
What are interviews & observation?
Which is the methodology that shows up under both the Waterfall and Agile development umbrellas.
What is iterative development?
The system shall be available for use 24 hours a day 365 days a year is an example of this type of non functional requirement.
What is Performance?
This is the name of the law that states that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
What is Parkinson's Law?
What are User stories?