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Themes Relating to Multiple Phases (Phase-Neutral
Themes)
What are phase-neutral themes?
Phase-neutral themes do not relate directly to a
phase, but rather to the entire project.
The following types of such themes exist in stdSEM:
- The life cycle approach,
i.e. the form in which the execution phases are
executed by stdSEM.
- General themes which
relate to several phases in the same way or
cannot be uniquely assigned to a single phase.
Life cycle approach
stdSEM supports five different forms
of life cycle approach (see the full description of life cycle
approaches). A decision is normally made for
one of these models (the most suitable) in each project.
Irrespective of this, overlaps are
allowed in the execution phases if the final results for
a phase are available and these results represent the
exact preconditions for the activities to be performed in
the follow-up phase (decisions on the permissibility of
overlaps are taken by the project manager in consultation
with the project QA manager).
General themes relating
to several phases
- A detailed description of the general themes can
be accessed by clicking "Themes
relating to multiple phases" on
the home page.
- However, special features also need to be taken
into account for each phase, e.g. CM in the
Definition phase. Consequently, every phase has a
separate page which describes the specific
features of this phase for all themes. Jump to
the phase overview page and
click the appropriate icon in the margin (a green
"i").
What phase-neutral themes are there?
PM |
Project management
PM consists of project planning, project checks
and control (effort, deadlines, milestones,
etc.), coordination, organization and
administration. Effective project checks enable
countermeasures to be initiated in good time if
values deviate from the plan. |
QA |
Quality assurance
Quality assurance encompasses all measures for
planning and ensuring that the defined product
quality is reached. These measures include
reviews of documents, code analyses and checks of
client-supplied products. It is particularly
important that problems are identified (e.g. in
the quality reports), so that appropriate
measures can be taken as quickly as possible. |
CM |
Configuration management
CM encompasses all tasks related to the orderly
management of all events which occur and the
items which are required in this regard
(management of documents, sources, program
components, error messages, etc.). |
RR |
Reuse and reusability
RR can cut project costs considerably. It
involves not only the reuse of product parts, but
also methods, tools, designs, documents, data and
all forms of project experiences (key word:
"Patterns")! |
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