...What is Rational Unified Process? RUP is a Software Engineering Process. It is a disciplined approach to assigning tasks, roles and responsibilities within a development environment. RUP identifies the static and dynamic aspects of an SDLC. The static aspects are called the Workflows and the dynamic aspects are called Phases. The various Phases are Inception, Elaboration, Construction, and Transition. The 9 Workflows defined by RUP are Business Modeling, Requirements, Analysis and Design, Implementation, Test, Deployment, Configuration and Change Management, Project Management, and Environment. When is it appropriate to use RUP? The basic goal of RUP is to ensure productivity of high-quality software that meets the needs of its end users within a predictable schedule and budget. Any project team that aims at producing a software application that is not only meets the quality criteria but also meets the schedule, budget and maintenance criteria. Advantages of RUP? RUP, if implemented as per the guidelines by an organization, can result in producing an application that meets the standards of QA. It contains several tools under its belt that are easy to learn and apply. Disadvantages of RUP? Although RUP has all the benefits, it has its share of drawbacks. In order to implement RUP in an organization - a major re-engineering process of the existing development system has to be performed - Tools needed to implement RUP are extremely expensive and may not...
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...art One questions carry 1 mark each and Part Two questions carry 5 marks each. 1. During _________formal tools and techniques were developed to help and manage large complex projects. 2. PERT stands for: 3. The most basic model of any Operating System is: 4. Overall complexity = 5. Relevant areas of the APM body of knowledge are: a. Program Evaluation and Reverse Technique b. Progress Evaluation and Review Technique c. Program Evaluation and Review Technique d. None of the above a. Project Model b. Input-output model c. Output-input model d. None of the above a. Organizational complexity*resource complexity*technical complexity b. Organizational complexity+technical complexity-resource complexity c. Technical complexity+resource complexity/organizational complexity d. Organizational complexity*resource complexity/technical complexity a. Quality Management b. Budgeting and cost Management c. Project Cost Management d. Both ‘a’ and ‘b’ IIBM Institute of Business Management Examination Paper: Project Management 6. Costs associated with the planning process include: 7. CPA stands for: a. Planer’s tools b. Opportunity cost c. Planned labour and associated expenses d. All of the above a. Critical Path Analysis b. Common Path Analysis c. Critical Path Algorithm d. Common Problem Analysis 8. The project duration with the normal activity time is ____days. 9. The nature of the work...
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...1 Review of UML The purpose of this chapter is to set the scene by reviewing the key UML concepts, the main diagram types, and the role of those diagrams within the software development process. If you're quite new to UML this will serve as a practical introduction that will help you make sense of the rest of the book, before you move on to further reading. If you're experienced with UML the chapter will serve as handy revision and you might just find some nuggets of information that have so far eluded you. Either way we'll all be moving on from roughly the same starting point: with the same appreciation of UML notation, with an understanding of relevant software development processes, and with a common bias towards .NET and the Visio for Enterprise Architects tool. The final point is quite important, and the raison d'être for this book. In recent years the body of UML literature has focused mainly on Java development and the use of modeling tools such as Rational Rose. In this book we're applying a .NET development perspective at the same time as demonstrating the so far under-documented Visio modeling tool that comes bundled with the Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect. With all this in mind we can now press on with the introduction to – or revision of, depending on your background – the Unified Modeling Language. What is the Unified Modeling Language? When discussing UML, we need to establish one important point right up front. The Unified Modeling...
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...making in the last century have given pause to leaders who witnessed costs in design, implementation and deployment of software skyrocket, created armies of support teams to operate and manage the software products and forced many firms into bankruptcy. Companies who have successfully implemented enterprise systems are now seeking more adaptive infrastructure deployments, software end-user functional value, and more adaptable learning approaches from the traditional waterfall design and deployment approach of the 90s (Applegate, Austin, & McFarlan, 2002). As computing systems have advanced to distributed computing models and web services integrate ubiquitous computing programs, companies are experiencing an infinite backlog of software projects, many of which fail to meet user needs because requirements are...
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...3. The similarities in both Figures 1-3 and 1-4 is that they are both set in a circular motion and have the same sections (Planning, Analysis, Design, Implementation, and Maintenance). The difference is that Figure 1-3 is in a constant circle going through the different processes in an everlasting motion and Figure 1-4 is in a spiral motion until it ends which would represent the end of the project. 5. Figures 1-3 and 1-12 are similar as they are both takes on the SDLC. The difference is that Figure 1-3 has 5 sections that are in a circular motion. Figure 1-12 only has 4 sections and the process repeats on User Design and Construction. Having the repeats on only 2 different sections as opposed to all 5 sections would allow for a faster project completion. 6. Figure 1-9 has the same problems as the traditional waterfall SDLC as it is the traditional waterfall SDLC with the Design section split into 2 sections, it is still only moving downward and not able to revisit any of the previous sections. Converting Figure 1-9 into a circle would fix this problem as with Figure 1-3 it will allow for revisiting the different sections if there are issues with the project. 7. OOAD differs from traditional methods as it combines data and processes into a single entity called an object. Thus allowing for more reusability with the objects. RUP is not considered a cycle as it goes through its phases and is finished. If it would repeat some of the phases it could be considered a cycle...
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...1 QuickSMA – A Stock Market Analyzer for Open Office Calc Pavalanathan Priyanthan priyanthanuom@gmail.com Department of Computer Science &Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Abstract— OpenOffice application suite is gaining popularity after the introduction of a more improved version. The supremacy of open source software relies on its support for vast amount of extensibility and customization. OpenOffice.org provides such support through Extensions - which include Components, Add-ins and Add-Ons. This paper is a study of the process of developing an Add-On for OpenOffice Calc which is aimed towards analyzing stock market data. Index Terms— Optimization, Stock markets, Share prices Further currently there are no such extensions or features exist in OpenOffice Calc regarding stock market analysis or option pricing. But there are sophisticated software available for this kind of purposes and also few companies have developed some Add-Ins for Microsoft Excel. This extension is costless and is easy to use; hence will be useful for those who are related to stock exchange especially to the investors, investment advisors and option writers. The initial requirement was further enhanced to create an Add-On which allows the users to do the following: use the downloaded stock price data to perform Technical Analysis using seven important Technical Analysis indicators such as MACD, RSI, Aroon Oscillator, Stochastic, OBV, ADX and Simple moving average, generate charts...
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...Methodologies By NAVEEN KARKONDA Id#110-00-4907 Abstract: Software Development Methodologies have always been the main focus in the software development life cycle of any project. Each evolutionary shift introduced new ways of thinking and viewing problems as well as introducing strengths and weaknesses in software development. However, identifying one stop solution in terms of a software development methodology for enterprise wide application development whose various sub-components or sub-stages can be best used to describe a software development scenario is still an evolving domain. This, coupled with the reality that computer science and its allied areas like information systems and information technology domains are moving forward rapidly with regards to available technologies, making it extremely difficult task for practitioners to maintain pace with the available information technologies and their application in various domains. It is to address these scenarios and probabilities that this research paper examines various software development methodologies or process models and their impact on the overall software development life cycle. 1. Introduction: Software Development Methodologies have always been the main focus during the software development life cycle of any project. Over the past 40 years, there have been significant paradigm shifts in software development, such as structured programming, object oriented programming and now Extreme programming...
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...came later, is one of the most popular models in the field of software development. I will go further into each of the above mentioned two models after I describe the four laws given in the prescribed text. I will start with the Glass Law (dubbed law 1). If I was to describe the Glass law, I would say in a nutshell, requirements are the foundation of any project, and incomplete or misinterpreted or misjudged requirements are the key to failure. What I mean by the above is that when the requirements are not clarified, incomplete, unstable or far too many to cope with, the project will face a high chance of failure. A real world example, which added approximately $560M USD to the cost of the airport and became a modern era example of Glass law, was originally planned to automate the handling of baggage through the entire airport, but due to underestimation of complexity, changes in requirements, underestimation of schedule and budget and other causes was a drastic failure. Moving to Boehm’s laws, the first and second law complement each other in a way. The first law states that errors happening during the requirement and design period of a project become harder and more expensive to be fixed as the project advances. In a nutshell, what Boehm implies in his first law is the sooner you detect an anomaly or issue in your system, the easier and cheaper it is to fix it or change it. A simple example of this would be the...
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...A. Fricker Mini Project Requirements Engineering Moji Weather Spring 2016 About the Template v1.1E- Spring 2016 The template has been developed for the requirements engineering course offered by Samuel Fricker. The use of the document is continuously reviewed and adapted if necessary. Please direct feedback and recommendations to samuel.a.fricker@gmail.com. The template is useful for projects that aim at conceiving and developing consumer-oriented software products that may be realized by a team of young software engineers. This template is a tool that may be used to define a software that is as simple as possible and generates as much value as possible. Each chapter features instructions on what to document. The author of the requirements specification shall not hesitate to adapt the chapter structure. Also, the texts in the template shall be removed and replaced by the actual requirements. Advise for structuring the contents of a chapter: * Start with a short introduction that describes the role of the chapter and in what relation the chapter is to previous chapters. * Short summary of the chapter contents. * Overview picture or diagram. * Details in tables, texts, and diagrams on a detail level. Good luck and lots of fun in the discovery of what can be done with software! /Samuel Fricker Revisions Version | Date | Comment | Author | Version 0.1 | 20.03.2016 | Template | Samuel Fricker | | | | | Contents 1 Introduction 5 ...
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...Business Process Modeling e-Framework Workshop Balbir Barn 12th February 2007 Agenda • • • • • Why we construct Business Process Models A historical context Approaches to business process modelling Business Process Modelling Notation Tools and standards summary 2 What is a Business Process? • Davenport & Short (1990) define business process as – "a set of logically related tasks performed to achieve a defined business outcome." A process is "a structured, measured set of activities designed to produce a specified output for a particular customer or market. • Business processes as transformations of inputs to outputs input output • Other models available: – Language-Action-Perspective (LAP) (Winograd and Flores 1986) • Production, coordination tasks using language for communication 3 Purposes of Business Process Modeling: Organization Design • • • • • • Process Documentation Process Reorganization Process Monitoring and Controlling Continuous Improvement Quality Management: ISO 9000 Benchmarking: Compare with best practice • Knowledge Management: 4 Purposes of Business Process Modeling: Information Systems Design • • • • • Selection of ERP software Model based Customizing Software Development Workflow Management Simulation 5 What to model of a business process • Tasks • Coordination between tasks – synchronization – decisions – parallel work – repetition –… • • • • Organizational responsibilities Required resources and constraints...
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...PROJECT MANAGEMENT WHAT IS PROJECT MANAGEMENT? : The word project comes from the Latin word projectum from the Latin verb proicere, "to throw something forwards" which in turn comes from pro-, which denotes something that precedes the action of the next part of the word in time (paralleling the Greek πρό) and iacere, "to throw". The word "project" thus actually originally meant "something that comes before anything else happens". When the English language initially adopted the word, it referred to a plan of something, not to the act of actually carrying this plan out. Something performed in accordance with a project became known as an "object". Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. A project is a finite endeavor (having specific start and completion dates) undertaken to create a unique product or service which brings about beneficial change or added value. This finite characteristic of projects stands in sharp contrast to processes, or operations, which are permanent or semi-permanent functional work to repetitively produce the same product or service. In practice, the management of these two systems is often found to be quite different, and as such requires the development of distinct technical skills and the adoption of separate management philosophy. The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals...
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...EM 900 /Engineering Management March 22, 2014 QUESTIONS: 1. What is innovation management? Innovation management is the regulation of managing processes in innovation. According to Richard Feynman innovation is all about discovery. Innovation management is the process of capturing and managing organizational innovation. Today many companies have organization-wide innovation management programs. This is due to increased recognition that innovation is essential for motivating business growth and maintaining competitive advantage. Competency: Every institute/organization has its own history and set of capabilities, which determine its innovation competency. And innovation has build a powerful framework based on competence and obligation that will help organization to become a world-class innovator Strategy: As manager knows, resource allocation is critical to strategy and therefore needs to be an integral part of aligning innovation to strategic objectives. Management: Any top company in this world should arrange resources cleverly and needs to manage innovation efficiently; this should be the primary objective of a organization. 2. Why is entrepreneurship training considered important for engineers? In the article it states clearly why it is so significant for engineers to understand entrepreneurship training. Engineers need to be entrepreneurial in order to understand and contribute in the framework of market and business pressures. For engineers...
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...SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: 1. Introduction Computers are becoming a key element in our daily lives. Slowly and surely they are taking over many of the functions that effect our lives critically. They are now controlling all forms of monetary transactions, manufacturing, transportation, communication, defence systems, process control systems, and so on. In the near future, they will be found in our homes, controlling all forms of appliances. Left to themselves, they are harmless pieces of hardware. Load the right kind of software, they can take you to the moon, both literally and figuratively. It is the software that gives life to them.When they are going to play such a crucial role, one small flaw either in the hardware or the software can lead to catastrophic consequences. The sad part is, while there are well defined processes based on theoretical foundations to ensure the reliability of the hardware, same thing can not be said about software. There is no theory for software devlopment as yet. But at the same time, it is mandatory that software always behaves in a predictable manner, even in unforeseen circumstances. Hence there is a need to control its development through a well defined and systematic process. The old fashioned 'code & test' approach will not do any more. It may be good enough for 'toy' problems, but in real life, software is expected to solve enormously complex problems. Some of the aspects of real life software projects are: Team effort: Any large...
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...Chapter 1: Introduction 1. Exercise 1.2: What is the most important difference between generic software product development and custom software development? What might this mean in practice for users of generic software products Answer: Generic software product are the stand alone systems that are produced by a development organization and sold on the open market to any customer who is able to buy them. Examples of this type of product include software for PCs Such as databases, word processors, drawing packages, and project management tools. It also includes vertical applications designed for some specific purpose such as library information systems, accounting systems, or systems for maintaining dental records. Customized (or bespoke) software products are the systems that are commissioned by a particular customer. A software contractor develops the software especially for that customer. Examples of this type of software include control systems for electronic devices, systems written to support a particular business process, and air traffic control systems. An important difference between these types of software is that, in generic products, the organization that develops the software specifications. For custom software products, the specification is usually developed and controlled by the organization that is buying the software. The software developers must work to that specification. However, the distinction between these system product types is becoming increasingly...
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...CHAPTER 10- SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT * information systems that are built correctly can transform as the organization/business transforms * With global standardization of data definitions, sharing data among international businesses are easier * Challenges: culture, language, technology platform * Systems development life cycle * Planning AKA initialization establish high level plan and determine project goals * Analysis refining project goals into defined operations of the intended system * Design establishes descriptions of operation of the system (screen layouts, process diagram) * Developmenttaking all of the detailed design documents and transforming them into the actual system * Testing (most important part) brings all the project pieces together into a testing environment to eliminate errors * Implementations (putting into action) places the system into production so users can begin to use it * Maintenance performing changes, corrections and additions/upgrades to ensure the system continues * Methodology set of policies, procedure, standards, processes, techniques that people apply to technical and management challenges * Waterfall methodology: * Agile methodology aims for customer satisfaction with continuous delivery of useful system meeting bare minimum requirements. Small project greater success rate * Iterative development consists of a series of fast...
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