Project Leader Ramp-Up

Version: 1.0
Author: Nguyen Lam Phuong

Nov-2003

Instructor: Nguyen Lam Phuong

Operation Manager

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 Introduction

Course Objective
The purpose of this course is to make a short summary about the
Fsoft processes & practices to be used in the project context.
This course is not aimed to replace the normal training courses.

Duration: 2 hours
Targeted attendees:
Acting PL + to-be PL

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 Road map
Estimation
Proposal
Planning Work-order Communication
Team building Risk/Issue/Depend
PM Tracking Project Plan Metrics Collection
Training Report/Review
Infrastructure Change Mgmt
Closure Quality Mgmt
Estimation
Project
Specification
Requirement Modeling
Tracking Architecture
UC realize
Design Interface
Tools
Pattern
Engineering Code & UT Review
Defect Prev.
Plan/Test case
Test Tools/Auto
Version ctl Regression
CM Backup Load/Stress test
Promotion Report
Release

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 Two triangles to remember
Scope

What can PM do

Schedule Resource

People
Consists of
Software
project

Technology Process

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Project Management: Planning
 PM->Project Planning
General

 Estimation  Project plan

 From size (UCP) -> effort.  Project charter & induction guide
Adjustment  Project deliverable and
 WBS (by SDLC or by dependencies
Features/Modules)  Project life-cycle and
 Schedule deviation/tailoring
 Required resources  Resource plan (organization,
infrastructure, finance, training,
 Proposal comm.)
 Technical solution (key only)  Quality plan
 Project approach  Configuration management plan
 Estimates (effort, cost, schedule)  Risk assessment
 Work-Order  Training
 Scope  Plan (who learns what, how, when)
 Resource (effort, time, money)  Waiver/Acceptance
 Quality  Infrastructure
 DP  Server: project artifact, source,
 Team building development, test
 Project Charter  Tools
 Staff vs. Contractor  Internet access/VPN…
 External SQA/PQA/Comm/Reviewers  Specialize HW/SW (components)

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 PM->Project Planning
FPT-Soft SLC Model

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 PM->Project Planning
Tailoring
 Follow tailoring guidelines
 Small team: Use external staff, reduce formal
meetings
 Short duration: Merge stages, combine work
products
 High skill: Reduce formal review

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 PM->Project Planning
Deviation
 Do not follow tailoring guidelines
 Customer requirements, R&D

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 PM->Project Planning
Who does what? - RADIO

 R – Review
 A – Approve
 D – Do
 I – Inform
 O - Omit

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 PM->Project Planning
Responsibility matrix (Eng.)
Group
Activity Work Product Customer VP Tech PD PL Developer Tester SQA SEPG
leader

Develop proposal Proposal A A R D R I

Define user requirements URD D/ A I R A I

Develop software
SRS A R R A D I I R I
requirements specification

Make prototype Prototype A I A D D R I

Architecture Design
Make high level design R R A D R R R I
Document

Develop test plan Test Plan A R I R D

Make detail design Detail Design Document A D D R

Design test and prepare Test Cases and Test

I R R D A
test data Data

Code Software package I D/ A D I I

Conduct test Test Reports A R I D R

Fix bugs in development Software package I D/ A D R I

Deliver software to Release Note, Software

I I I A D A I
customer package

Software package,
Fix bugs in acceptance A A D D R I
Acceptance Report

Make installation guideline Installation Manual I I A D R

Make user guideline User Manual I I A D R

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 PM->Project Planning
Project scheduling
 WBS Based
 Geography
 Milestones
 SDLC
 Architecture
 MIX
 Critical path
 Load leveling
 Effort mix
 Critical
dependencies

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 PM->Project Planning
Quality planning

 Non-functional requirements
 Norm based planning
 Timeliness
 Schedule deviation
 Effort utilization
 Customer satisfaction index
 Defect related
 …
 Activities
 Standard (review / test)
 Extra provision for special requirements
 Review & approve by SEPG/SQA

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 PM->Project Planning
Things to remember

 Risk due to tailoring/deviation & reason should be assessed

 Illegal Tailoring
 Replace stage
 Remove process
 Legal deviation
 Use of customer-supplied process
 Quality gate for customer supplied products &
each work product separately
 Dependency
 Customer supplied products
 FPT interfaces
 Reviews
 Pool of resources available for review should be nominated
 Reviewers from dependent sources

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Project Management: Tracking
 PM->Project tracking
General
 Communication  Project Report (weekly &
 With client (status, issue, approve) milestone)
 With team members (onsite/offshore)  Metrics & interpretation
 With GLs, interfaces (escalation)  Non-metrics (risk/issues/proposal…)
 Media: phone/mail/conf call  Change Management
 Dependencies tracking  Requirement, Interface, Resources
 Date, quality, impact -> contingency  Quality Management
 Risk tracking  Interpret DMS report
 Scope, resource, quality  DP activities
 Issue tracking  Interpret quality cost (test &
 Escalation, action items review)
 Metrics collection  Interpret effectiveness
 Timesheet, Defect  Schedule, assign task & verification
 Budget control (ETC: defect, effort –  Be careful with critical tasks
by process/stage, schedule, size)  Buffers
 Exception analysis (UCL/LCL)  Overlapping & risk involve
 Completion rate against budget

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 PM->Project tracking
Tools to be used

 PCB & norms & process DB

 FSOFT-Insight
 Project database
 Microsoft project / Excel
 DMS
 Timesheet
 Dashboard
 … and a lot of templates

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 PM->Project tracking
Things to remember

 Periodical senior management review

 Project review meeting should have agenda and defined frequency

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Engineering practices
 Engineering -> Requirement
General

 Software Specification
 Use-case model (static & dynamic view)
 Non-functional requirements
 Boundary (what will not be implemented)
 Be careful with data migration & interfacing with other system
 Classification (useful for phasing approach)
 Modeling
 GUI mock-up
 Page flows
 Load model
 Analysis
 Class model
 Entity model (logical view of data)
 Tracking
 Identification & rating
 Trace-ability toward design, code, test cases, release notes
 Changes
• Estimate (impact on schedule, effort, other modules)
• Negotiation (time to release, cost, quality)

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 Engineering -> Design
General

 Architecture
 Frame-work (layer, hub-spoke, MVC, bus….)
 Component interfaces
 Non-functional requirements
 Infrastructure
 Requirement realization (detail design)
 Class model (static, dynamic)
 Database model (physical view, constraints, triggers, sp…)
 Interface with other systems
 Design pattern
 Best practices: defect prevention
 Alternative designs
 Best fit approach (skill, level of client sophistication)

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 Engineering -> Code & Unit test
General

 Tools
 Code review
 Code counter
 Auto-generator (DAO layer; conversion)
 3-rd parties components (be careful with open-source & license)
 Productivities tool
 Review
 Unit test
 Framework (like Junit)
 DMS & Budget
 Defect prevention
 Bug analysis
 Best practices

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 Engineering -> Testing
General

 Plan
 When to test what, using what & by whom?
 Test cases (from SRS)
 Tools
 Stability
 Functionality
 Performance
 Regression/Load test
 Frequency
 Test report
 Test case coverage
 Bug trend

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 Engineering -> Configuration Mgmt
General

 Version control  Promotion model

 Source code: VSS, CVS, PVCS.  WIP/Dev-Build-QA-Release
 Environment  Release
 Single-Multiple check out  What to release
 Web development  Release notes
 Access control
 WIP/Final
 Backup
 Artifact (doc, graphics…)
 Source
 Appl environment
 Database

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 Resources & references
 FSOFT QMS
 SEI CMM Model

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Questions and Answers