BROWSING PASSWORD ON YOUR EMAIL ID SMS BPAS <EMAIL ID> TO 09243227500 SHAREKHAN Masters of Business Administration Questionnaire I am a Masters

of Business Administration student, studying at London School of Business & Finance, London campus. I am on my final part of the course. The following questionnaire will be carried out for dissertation research project on the Critical Success Factors of Software Project (Waterfall v/s Agile SDLC). Please try and answer all the questions. Your time is appreciated and your answers are to be considered as critical part of my research process.

A - Organizational Characteristics. (Please make your selections and highlight it with a bright text highlight color) Q1. What type of business organization are you employed in? y y y y y y Project Management (General) Information Technology/Software Development Engineering Tele-communication Government Other

Q2. Approximately how many software professionals are employed by your organization? y y y y y Less than 10 fulltime staff 10 - 20 full time staff 21 50 full time staff 51 99 full time staff More than 100

Q3. When it comes to adopting new methods and technologies, your organization is? y y Market leader (adopts new technology, expanding their total market) Market follower (adopts new technology after adopted by other organization)

y y

Conservative (only follows the approved and proven technology) Static (does not accept or imply new technologies)

Q4. Do you / your organization use any software capability quality standards? (ISO 9000, Spice, CMMI) y y Yes No

B - Methodology Questions

Q5. How would you rate your knowledge about software development lifecycle? y y y y Limited Average Extensive Vast

Q6. Is your organization active practitioner of SDLC methodologies? y y Yes No

Q7. How would you rate your knowledge of waterfall methodology? y y y y Limited Average Extensive Vast

Q8. How would you rate your knowledge of agile methodology (XP, SCRUM, and DSDM)? y y y Limited Average Extensive

Vast

C Software development questions For this section the projects are differentiated into three types 1) Small Scale (time = less than 6 persons/ month) 2) 2) Medium Scale (time = 4 persons / year) 3) 3) Large Scale (time = more than 4 persons / year)

Q9. Which methodology would you prefer to use for software development? Small Scale Waterfall Agile Not sure Others please specify Medium Scale Waterfall Agile Not sure Others please specify Large Scale y Waterfall y Agile y Not sure y Others please specify

y y y y

y y y y

Q10. Is use of Waterfall model always leading the project to success, completion within the basic constraints? Small Scale Yes No Not always Medium Scale Yes No Not always Large Scale Yes No Not always

y y y

y y y

y y y

Q11. Is use of agile model / models always leading the project to success, completion within basic constraints? Small Scale Medium Scale Large Scale

y y y

Yes No Not always

y y y

Yes No Not always

y y y

Yes No Not always

Q12. Do you believe in use of agile methodology over the waterfall model and on what terms? Small Scale Time Scope Cost Others please specify Medium Scale Time Scope Cost Others please specify Large Scale y Time y Scope y Cost y Others please specify

y y y y

y y y y

Q13. Are you aware of CHAOS ten, critical success factors of software project management? y y Yes No

Q14. How would you rate the factors leading to success with use of Waterfall life cycle? (From 1 -5, 5 being highest important factor and1being least important)

Factors

Rating

Executive Support User involvement Experienced project manager Clear business objective Minimized scope Standard software infrastructure Firm basic requirements Formal methodology Reliable estimates others

Q15. How would you rate the factors leading to success with use of Agile life cycle? (From 1 -5, 5 being highest important factor and1being least important)

Factors Executive Support User involvement Experienced project manager Clear business objective Minimized scope Standard software infrastructure Firm basic requirements Formal methodology Reliable estimates others -

Rating

Q16. Could you choose one of the prime causes for failure of project with use of Waterfall model? y y y Less executive support Less user involvement Inexperienced project manager

y y

No clear scope Others please specify

Q17. Could you choose one of the prime causes for failure of project with use of waterfall model? y y y y y Less executive support Less user involvement Inexperienced project manager No clear scope Others please specify

D General questions

Q18. What is the name of the organization you work with / for?

Q19. Where is your organization located? (City, Country.)

Q20. Which of the following best describes your position in the organization? y y y y y y y Top management Programmer / developer Software engineer Project Consultant Project manager Project team executive Other

Q21. Would you like to provide overview in relation to the two life cycles and methodologies discussed above?

Thank you for your help and precious time for filling up the questionnaire. It is truly appreciated and will be used for my dissertation research. Again all information is kept confidential and no names of the companies will be mentioned in any published work.