1Comp 3120/8110
Software Development Management
Week 12
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2ANU Timetabling has our final scheduled for:
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Thursday 9th June 2022 at 12pm
180 minutes combined reading and writing time
Allowed to bring:
A4 page with notes on both sides
Unannoated paper based dictionary
Extra paper and pens/pencils for preparing your USM
It is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to confirm date and time via the official
examination timetable and to identify the Wattle quiz and USM submission links
in Wattle (which will be prominently displayed).
3Final exam preparation
- Exam structure
- Sample questions & approach to marking
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The exam will be delivered via Wattle in a manner similar to the midterm quiz.
Wattle offers online approaches for all the types of questions that we will ask in the
midterm quiz.
We will not be using invigilation software.
I do however reserve the right to randomly or otherwise request meetings with
students to (with verbal questioning) confirm the understanding shown in the exam.
4Final Exam Preparation
• We MUST be able to read your writing (in this case – typing)
• Your English expression should be:
• Coherent, fluent and appropriate for academic purpose, as well as
grammatically correct
• Appropriately and logically structured
• Your answers should be concise
• Build a defensible argument
• Stick to the facts - long, rambling answers are more likely to lose marks
than to gain them
Important to remember!
5Course assessment
Will be offered to students achieving 45%-49% for overall course mark and
passing both hurdles (i.e. >= 45% for exam; >= 45% for assignments)
In special circumstances, may also be offered to students who failed one hurdle,
e.g. evidence that group work assessment has caused poor individual mark
You must be available to sit supplementary exam (which is likely to be an oral
exam) in 1st week of Semester 2 2021. No exceptions.
Supplementary exam
6To get more than a pass you MUST demonstrate higher order thinking skills
– you need to be able to analyse, evaluate, create new ideas, and
communicate those ideas in writing
The exam will challenge you!
Analyse: Separate the whole into its component parts
Evaluate: Develop opinions, judgements or decisions
Create/Synthesise: Combine ideas to form a new whole
Important: We want your words demonstrating your understanding.
Quotes from course materials will only receive average marks.
Final Exam Preparation
7Some questions will be different.
and
We will hold Comp8110 students
to a higher standard
The difference between
Comp3120 and Comp8110 exams
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Final Exam Preparation
8• Project Management General Knowledge ~50 marks
• Consisting of several short answer, multiple choice and
true/false/explain questions worth between 1 and ~5 marks
each
• Answer ALL questions
Exam structure
Final Exam Preparation
• Case study – ~50 marks
• Largely based on workshop activities
• Essay questions, may also include some multiple choice,
and includes drawing and submitting a USM for ~20 marks
• Answer ALL questions
9Quiz Preparation
• Several questions intended to show your broad
understanding of the course
• Questions are self-explanatory
• Answer ALL questions – even the smallest response
may get you ½-1 mark! Don’t waste it. Seriously.
Project Management Knowledge
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Quiz Preparation
• You should use the size allowed for the answer space and the number of
marks attached to the question as a guide to the depth of the answer expected.
• Very approximately, one short sentence or phrase for each 0.5 mark is
expected
• There will not be enough time to be getting all your answers out of your
notes.
• Be careful of overuse of your notes. Irrelevant statements taken from your
notes to pad answers will detract from your good answers.
Overall timing and marking
• Some marks are auto-marked by Wattle, but all written answer questions
will be marked by your tutors and I together.
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Quiz Preparation
Q1(a) [2 marks] Not all software development is a
project. Identify and describe two key
characteristics of a project which distinguish it from
”business as usual”.
Project Management Knowledge
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Quiz Preparation
Q1(a) [2 marks] Not all software development is a
project. Identify and describe two key
characteristics of a project which distinguish it
from ”business as usual”.
Need to identify, i.e. name two key
characteristics
Need to describe each of the characteristics
Project Management Knowledge
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Quiz Preparation
Q1(a) [2 marks] Not all software development is a project. Identify and
describe two key characteristics of a project which distinguish it from
”business as usual”.
• Finite – has a start and end date
• Unique – develops / delivers a unique product or service
• Uses budget of various (limited) resources – human and money
• Sponsored - Involves a customer / sponsor for the project and its
goals
• Change – a project aims to create change to organisation
Project Management Knowledge
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Q1(c) [2 marks] Agile means no
documentation [true] [false]
Explanation:
Quiz Preparation
Project Management Knowledge
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Q1(c) [2 marks] Agile means no
documentation [true] [false]
Explanation:
1 mark for getting true or false correct
1 mark for the explanation of your answer
Sometimes this means you may get the true /
false wrong but you give a good explanation so
get a single mark.
Project Management Knowledge
Quiz Preparation
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Q1(c) [2 marks] Agile means no documentation [true] [false]
Explanation:
• False
• Agile focus is on producing working software instead
of spending large amounts of time creating
documentation UP FRONT
• Effective agile delivers focused, value-driven,
business-beneficial documentation enabling the
business to use the product effectively & the
technical team to support it.
Project Management Knowledge
Quiz Preparation
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Q1(e) [4 marks] Project management is
frequently called a profession. Identify and
describe two attributes of professional
behaviour and using examples explain why
they are important.
Project Management Knowledge
Quiz Preparation
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Q1(e) [4 marks] Project management is frequently called
a profession. Identify and describe two attributes of
professional behaviour and using examples explain why
they are important.
• 1 mark for identifying, i.e. naming, two attributes –
half a mark each
• 1 mark for describing – half a mark each description
• 2 marks for explanation – half a mark explaining each
attribute
Project Management Knowledge
Quiz Preparation
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Q1(e) [4 marks] Project management is frequently called a profession.
Identify and describe two attributes of professional behaviour and using
examples explain why they are important.
• Respect -- Show respect for people around them regardless of role
they occupy
• High emotional intelligence -- Exhibit high emotional intelligence by
considering emotions and needs of others,
• Respect/rational behaviour -- Don't let a bad day impact how they
interact with colleagues and clients,
• Accept responsibility/commitment -- Make and keep commitments,
• Life long learning -- Continually learn through reflection
• Good time-management skills,
• Trustworthy / honest / ethical
Project Management Knowledge
Quiz Preparation
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Exam Preparation
• Written questions (may include some multiple choice)
• Tests your application of your knowledge to a project scenario, in the style
of Here2There’s OsCar project
• BUT the scenario bears no content relationship to OsCar. You MUST read
the scenario provided CAREFULLY.
• You will be asked to make judgements about the case study project and to
back those judgements with defensible arguments taken from the scenario
given and what you’ve learned in the course.
• You will be asked to develop a USM (~20 marks)
• There is no one right USM, but we look for all the key elements of the scenario
reflected in the USM, and also for logical groupings. We take account of any
assumptions you document for any necessary information that you determine
to be missing from the scenario provided (but not if it is provided).
Case Study – ~50 marks
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Case study – ~50 Marks
8-10 questions covering a range of subjects which may include:
• Benefits of managing projects
• User Story Maps & MVP
• Drawing
• Writing User Stories and key features of a
“good” user story
• Approaches to and the process surrounding estimation of
effort
• Tracking and reporting progress
• Stakeholder management & communication
Exam Preparation
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In February 2011 it was announced that the AXA Rosenburg
Group investment fund had been charged with fraud and fined
$25 million after hiding flaws in a computer application that
determined the fund's strategy for making trades. The
company has agreed to pay back $ 217 million in losses
suffered by investors because of the problem.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the AXA
Rosenburg Group discovered a coding error in April 2010, but
the employees who found it tried to keep others from finding
out and failed to report it to senior management. When
investors complained that their portfolios were performing
badly, the company told them market volatility among other
things -- but not including the software flaw -- were to blame.
Exam Preparation
Case study
A small scenario
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Question:
What is your response to the article?
Did the AXA employees and senior management
demonstrate professional ethics in this situation? Explain.
What would you have done in a similar situation and why?
Do you think the outcome was fair to (a) the investors and
(b) the AXA Rosenburg Group? Your answer needs to
consider what constitutes ethical, professional behaviour.
Exam Preparation
Case study
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Marking scheme – 10 Marks
1 -- What is ethics / professional behaviour?
3 -- Explanation of AXA management and employee
behaviour – related to description of ethics &
professional behaviour
2 -- Consider/explain issues for why you would do
something, eg work environment, why not – might
lose job - impact on family
2 -- Outcomes – AXA / Investors
Relates to who created the issue, who knew, when:
honesty, workplace culture; overall responsibility of
senior management
Exam Preparation
Case study – ~50 Marks
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Course representatives were very engaged and effective
Phillip La Mohan Balaji Paranthaman Yuhao Zhai
Thank you!
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I know you can all do very well on this exam!