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Chapter 11 is another one of those chapters sketching out a large number of
tasks covering a broad area. Given this, it's probably best to approach it by
thinking through what these issues might mean in the context of a specific
system. Right now, the system you're probably thinking about most is the one for
your individual project.
So the discussion questions are mostly the same at the project questions:
- On pages 522-526 the textbook talks about system performance and capacity
issues. For the system you are working on for your project, how would you
measure its performance? Think about the technical issues in the textbook, but
also any ways you might have of measuring whether it was living up to the
original business objectives you identified back in Phase I.
- Identify a plan for dealing with maintenance issues in your project
system. Include some discussion of each of the four kinds of maintenance tasks
discussed on page 510-514 (Corrective, Adaptive, Perfective, Preventative) and
give at least one example of each kind of task in the context of this system,
and how you would handle it. Again, I'll look for volunteers (who will
be getting free advice and help with their project, after all) and will pick
victims if nobody volunteers.
- The textbook doesn't talk much about this, but no system is ever complete
in its first version (or ever, really). Identify at least three major
enhancements that could be made to the system over the weeks or months ahead.
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