Learning Styles

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Learning Styles

• This course is designed as a third year course so
  requires more intiative by the learners.
• We are teaching a subject that is not defined
  with clear questions or processes.
• We want you to work out processes that suits your
  work methods and design approach.
• We need you to ask us questions. We can answer
  them. We cannot answer comments such as 'MS
  Project does not work' or 'I don't know what to
  do'.
• Compare the process to debugging software.

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Learning Approach

• The Aims are your deliverables
• The activites are to 'get them out the door'
• The tasks you have to work out. Eg
• Project Management
• enter estimates
• enter actuals
• Compare actuals to estimates

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Design Steps

• Design has some basic steps you can use
• Read requirements
• Context document gives you the context for
  Context Level DFD
• E-R Diagram gives you the Data Store
• Divide DFD level 0 into sub-systems(or a separate
  processes) for maintaining each major data store
• Look at Use Case. What data store does it deal
  with.
• Expand the Proces that manages that data store,
  following the Use Case

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Example of Learning QA

• We provided you with the aspects of quality the
  client is looking for
• If we had provided the measures and processes to
  measure, you could follow these without thinking
• Now, you need to consider
• Why am I measuring these?
• What I am measuring?
• How I will measure them?
• You can limit your QA to look at aspects of the
  design you want to concentrate on, eg
• do the inputs and output to the functional
  processes of the DFD actually exist in data flows
  in and out
• OR is the functional description doing what the
  client asked

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Tutors

• The tutors are all experts, some in different
  areas
• This is a problem
• If you do not ask, we will explain as we see it
• If you tell us where you are coming from, we can
  explain it as you might see it

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Where to from here

• Look at the templates provided (also in html now)
  for the deliverables http//www.cse.unsw.edu.au/
  cs3710/PMmaterials/Forms
• Try to do them first.
• If you have a problem, work out what the problem
  is. Formulate questions only.
• Ask you friends, your pair or the tutor.
• If not clear, try the consultations or email
  administrator. Maybe your questions are not clear