Methodologies

Question 1

What is a methodology?

Answer 1

A formalised system used when undertaking a project or plan.

Question 2

Why do you need a formal process?

Answer 2

Too many failures
Systems not intuitive
Projects often late, over budget

Question 3

What are the stages of the SDLC?

Answer 3

Plan
Analyse
Development
Implement

Question 4

What does the planning stage attempt to answer?

Answer 4

Why should we build this system

Question 5

What two boxes are in the planning phase?

Answer 5

Project initiation

Project management

Question 6

What two things does the analysis stage attempt to answer?

Answer 6

What should the system do

Where and when will it be built

Question 7

What three things are included in analysis stage

Answer 7

Analysis strategy
Gathering requirements
Developing a business proposal

Question 8

What does the design system address?

Answer 8

How the system will be built

Question 9

What three things are included in the design stage

Answer 9

Design strategy
Designing architecture
Designing database, file storage etc

Question 10

What’s included in implement stage?

Answer 10

Construction stage
Installation stage
Support

Question 11

Give two examples of structured design methodologies

Answer 11

Waterfall

Parallel

Question 12

Give two examples of rapid application development

Answer 12

Phased

Throwaway prototyping

Question 13

Give two examples of Agile development

Answer 13

Scrum

extreme programming

Question 14

In what ways could parallel development be said to be similar to waterfall?

Answer 14

Despite the subprojects, there’s a linearity to the processes. The final product is rarely, if ever, iterated upon. Or at least it’s not considered in the main idea.

Question 15

What four things led to the object orientated paradigm?

Answer 15

Event-driven programs
GUI interfaces
Complexity of programmes
Growing desire to link business and computer processes

Question 16

OOAD is four things. What are those four things?

Answer 16

Use-case driven
Architecture centric
Iterative
Incremental

Question 17

What does it mean to be use-case driven?

Answer 17

The ability to describe a single business process

Together, use cases define the system

Question 18

What does it mean to be architecture-driven?

Answer 18

Taking a functional view of the user
Thinking of architecture in terms of classes and objects
Thinking about dynamic view: communication between objects

Question 19

What does it mean to be incremental?

Answer 19

Lots of iterations

Iterations are time-boxed

Question 20

List four reasons why object orientated design is good

Answer 20

Code can be reused
Code can be safe (encapsulation)
Extensive planning
Software is maintainable.

Question 21

List four reasons why object orientated design is bad

Answer 21

The idea of code being reusable is usually not borne out in practice
The emphasis on design can mean sleek computation is difficult to achieve (not performant)
Typically, OOP code takes time to compile and is less efficient than its rivals.

Question 22

What’s the derogatory line said of oop?

Answer 22

You wanted the banana but got a gorilla with a forest and a banana

Question 23

What does UML stand for?

Answer 23

Unified Modelling Language

Question 24

Name four things UML does not consider

Answer 24

Budgets
Staffing
Operations
Support

Question 25

Name the 5 ways a process be orientated?

Answer 25

``` Process data object orientated structured agile ```

Question 26

What are the four tenants of Agile

Answer 26

Individuals and interactions Working software Customer collaboration Responding to change.

Question 27

What are the three Agile goals?

Answer 27

Value Quality Constraint

Question 28

What are the three Waterfall goals?

Answer 28

Time Cost Scope

Question 29

What is DSDM?

Answer 29

Dyanmic systems development. | An offshoot of Agile.

Question 30

Give 4 objectives of DSDM?

Answer 30

Aims at the right solution Looks at timing Consistent involvement of stakeholders No quality compromise

Question 31

What are features subject to in the DSDM model?

Answer 31

``` MoSCow. Must have Should have Could have Would have ```

Question 32

Name 6 SCRUM principles?

Answer 32

``` Observation and experimentation Self organisation Collaboration Value-based prioritisation Timeboxing Iterative ```

Question 33

What are the roles in traditional development

Answer 33

Business analyst Project manager Systems analyst Technical architect

Question 34

What are the roles in Agile?

Answer 34

Developer Scrummaster Product owner