Fundamentals of SDLC

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COURSE INFORMATION

Fundamentals of SDLC Course Overview:

Managing a modern systems development life cycle (SDLC) project requires a thorough understanding of the various roles that must come together in order to create a successful application. This understanding begins by recognizing the need to work within a multidisciplinary environment. Business analysts, project managers, and software testers each have multiple implementation options (such as Waterfall or Agile) available to them. Knowing which tool or technique to use in any particular situation is the key to success. This course will give you the knowledge you need to help you choose between these methods, tools, and artifacts so that you can quickly and efficiently take your SDLC project from concept to working implementation.

Software development is a team sport. No one person makes or breaks a project. Success can only be achieved when each person understands his or her role, performs it well and coordinates effectively with the other key roles. This course focuses on these three key roles:

Project manager: The role that is responsible for planning, managing, oversight and corrective action on the project.

Business analyst: The role that is liaison between the customers and the development team, ensuring the customer’s needs are understood and are met in the most effective way possible.

Software tester: The role that evaluates the software that is built to ensure that it satisfies the stated requirements and will be reliable in the live environment.

Whether these roles are played by different people, or not, this course will help the responsible people to play these roles effectively.

Who Should Attend:

Managers of software development organizations
Project managers
Team leads
Business analysis managers
Business analysts
Testing managers
Systems testers
Product owners
Program managers
Systems architects
QA professionals
Anyone wanting to enhance their business analysis or project management skills

Fundamentals of SDLC Course Objectives:

After successfully completing this course, you will have learned the following:

Identify, evaluate and document the many stakeholders of a project
Distinguish between the different types and levels of software testing
Various artifacts and the key features of each
Write effective user stories that can be used to identify requirements in an Agile project
Learn how the differing life cycle models combine to create an SDLC implementation
Select proper project-management methodology for your project based upon its own unique characteristics
Significance of different estimating methods and how they should be utilized for time and cost estimation
Significance of the Agile Manifesto and its relationship to the 12 principles of Agile
Use earned value project management to assess budget and schedule compliance
Use the triple constraints triangle as a tool to help others understand the relationship of time, cost, and scope in any project
Tools and techniques of business analysis at each stage of a project
Significance of risk management to the proper management of an SDLC project
Create the three major baselines (scope, schedule, and cost) necessary to properly control a project
How requirements are tracked and validated using a requirements traceability matrix
Determine the critical path through a network of activities
Assign relative estimate values using planning poker
Decompose work packages into activities that are sized for proper managerial overview
Create an iteration (sprint) backlog from a prioritized product backlog
Key features of your project’s test plan
Track and apply the concept of velocity to your release and iteration plans

Fundamentals of SDLC Course Outline:

Module 1: Introduction-What is a Project?

Projects as Opposed to Operational Management
Projects as Part of Strategic Management
Projects as Integral to Program Management

Module 2: The Project Life Cycle

Generic Project Life Cycle
The Project Management Life Cycle
The Process Groups
SDLC Overview
IIBA Knowledge Areas

Module 3: Project Management Concepts and Methodologies

Waterfall
Agile
Iterative

Module 4: Project Initiation-The BA Role

Stakeholder Analysis and the Stakeholder Register
Initial Business Analysis Artifacts
Documenting Requirements within a Requirements Gathering Approach
Types and Sources of Requirements

Module 5: Initiation-The PM Role: Baselines

Develop Project Charter
Collect Requirements
Project Scope Statement
Work Breakdown Structure
Scope Baseline
Define Activities
Project Schedule Network Diagram (Dependency Network)
Estimate Activity Resources
Effort vs. Duration and Compensation
Develop the Project Schedule
Critical Path Method
Schedule Compression

Module 6: Initiation-Important Subsidiary Management Plans

Test Plan
Test Planning and Development Considerations
Test Budgeting Methods and Test Plan Content
Human Resource Plan
Organizational Charts
RAM Charts, RACI, and Roles and Responsibilities
Communications Management Plan
Risk Management Plan
Risk Planning and Identification
Qualitative Risk Analysis
Risk Register

Module 7: Performing the Work-Project Execution

Cost Control
Earned Value Management, CPI, SPI
Scope Control
Requirements Communication
Solution Assessment and Validation
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Software Testing
Levels of Testing

Module 8: Closing the Project

Project Closure-Product Acceptance
Closing the Project-Things That Must Be Accomplished

Module 9: Agile Overview

What is Agile All About? The Agile Manifesto and Principles
The Levels of Agile Planning
Release Planning-The Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog
Story Points and Velocity
Iteration Planning
Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, Demos, and Retrospectives

Fundamentals of SDLC Course Hands-On Exercises:

Exercise 1: Stakeholder Analysis

Assess stakeholders for their interests, importance and influence on a project
Classify them by means of a four-quadrant ranking system
Enter the information in a typical stakeholder register template

Exercise 2: Capturing High-Level Requirements

Utilize a top-down or bottom-up methodology to capture project requirement early in the SDLC timeline
Evaluate different tools for brainstorming requirements such as vision statements and in/out diagrams

Exercise 3: Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Use a sticky note decomposition method to capture necessary deliverables
Apply the 100% rule to the construction of the hierarchical WBS diagram
Create work packages as necessary for each deliverable

Exercise 4: Decompose Work Packages to Activities

Utilizing one of several presented methods, decompose work packages to activities that can be managed by a project manager
Discuss management issues such as “micromanaging” and how proper sizing of activities can be used to prevent them

Exercise 5: Develop a Dependency Network

Establish the proper dependency relationships of a set of activities in precedence diagramming method form

Exercise 6: Estimate Activity Durations

Use analogous estimating to produce a rapid estimate of a project activity
Use parametric estimating to produce a more reliable activity
Calculate PERT estimates for activities to determine estimates of the activities duration and risk

Exercise 7: Compensate Effort to Duration

Compensate an effort duration for the skill level of the individual tasked with completing the activity
Adjust the estimate for both work and non-work related inefficiencies

Exercise 8: Develop a Critical Path Network Diagram

Apply a set of duration estimates to a dependency network
Identify the critical path (or paths) through the network
Calculate the mean time for the project
Apply a buffer activity to take into account the element of risk

Exercise 9: Perform Earned Value Calculations

Calculate the CPI of a project from a set of project metrics
Calculate the SPI of a project from the same set of metrics
Determine what the two calculations tell about the health of the project

Exercise 10: Write User Stories

Decompose epics into properly sized user stories
Write the user stories in proper form using the three-Cs approach

Exercise 11: Perform Sprint Planning

Given a prioritized project backlog and a velocity, determine which user stories should be implemented in the upcoming sprint
Apply the above information to update the release plan for the project