Foundations of Software Engineering | Team Alpha and Omega | December 07, 2011

Process Enactment Tool (PET)

Version 1.3
Developed by: Bharathi Swaminathan, Rity Upadhaya, Surbhi Dangi, Xiao Pan

Team Alpha and Omega Foundations of Software Engineering December 07, 2011

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Agenda
Process Enactment Tool (PET) 1.3 Introduction
PET 1.3 Enhancements Demo

PET Business Value

Team Processes Future work

Call to action
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What is PET 1.3 ?

NDSS Initiative
Assumption: Web-based tool for Project Management Assumption: Target User: Managers and Software Developers

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Whats new in PET 1.3?

Web-based tool Historical data now available Ability to create an ad-hoc deliverable for a project Log effort for ad-hoc deliverables 2 Tiered user roles User permissions

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What can PET do for you?

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Project-wide Burn-down Chart

80 1 70 2 60 3 4 5 Estimated 6 30 7 20 8 9 Actual

Velocity:

9.3 story points/ week

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Story Points

40

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0 1 -10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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Weeks 6

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PET 1.3 Business Value

Features for effective Project Management
Overall project information Attain in depth knowledge of projects being managed

View effort for each project, and deliverable

Better manage overheads Time savings for a manager

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Team Process
Alpha and Omega Practices: Standard XP Practices:

Project Manager role rotation Estimation using Poker Planning Extensive Documentation Team Dynamics

Rotated Pair Programming Continuous Integration Iterative Development Shared Workspace

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Team Process: Challenges

Adopting XP
Scheduling Decision Making

Feedback

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Team Process: Best Practices

Research before Pair Programming
Collaborative tools for a shared workspace Early-planning

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Team Process: Lessons learned

Understanding team dynamics
Effective communication

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Future Enhancements
Add status to projects and deliverables
Ad-hoc life-cycle Create new Project/Life-cycle from template

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Call to action
Heroku Deployment
Release for Beta User testing

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