Communication and Management Plan and Funding Management Plan (pg17 - 21 + 26)

Communication Management Plan

• communication medium: e.g. emails, newsgroups, facsimile; meetings, weekly builletins or even telephone calls. different types of communication plans are likely to be effective under the different circumstances. e.g. while facsimile may be specified for quotations whilst emails is likely to be a more sustainable meduin for informal communication betwen software developers.
• Lines of Communication: specifies how each partty is able to obtain answers to wuestions or communicate other details to and from other project team members and the client. e.g. it may be appropriate for the system analyst to contact the client directly. communication programmer  must negotiate to obtail answers from the client.
• Methods of monitoring the progress of the system's development: completion of tasks, monitoring costs and also verifyinh requirements is part of ongoing testing.
• changing and engineering requirements:  communication management plans should pre-empt auch occurances so that those new or changed requiments can be effectively communicated to all parts.

Funding Managment Plans:

• aims to ensure the project is developed withing the budget.
• how funds are allocated to tasks are determines by teh nature of each task, the development approach being used and whether the task is completed in-house or outsourced for completion by an external party.

Introduction to System Development:

• the most fundemental differences are due to the anture of software. design and constructio  of software is integrated - we actually construct software as it is being designed. hence the design of the software can and is often altered significantly whilst it is being built and even after it is installed and operating.

Requirements Report:

• requirements: features, properties or behaviours a system must have to achieve its purpose.
• requirements report: must define teh purpoer of the system, list the requiremnts needed to acheive the purpose.
• e.g. promoting and event:-

Multiple Choice:

1. D
2. D
3. C
4. B
5. A/D
6. C
7. A
8. A
9. B/C
10. C

12. active listening: e.g. mirroring, summarising and clarifying questions.