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BISE1083 Software Engineering Assignment 1

This document provides instructions for Assignment 1 which is due on February 26th 2018. It outlines the formatting requirements including font size, spacing, pagination and requiring a table of contents. It also states that any plagiarism will result in a mark of 0. The document includes 5 questions related to software engineering and project management topics including the challenges of managing intangible software systems, why the best programmers do not always make the best managers, why project planning is iterative, discussing demanding unpaid overtime from employees, and whether to accept a promotion to management.

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BISE1083 Software Engineering Assignment 1

This document provides instructions for Assignment 1 which is due on February 26th 2018. It outlines the formatting requirements including font size, spacing, pagination and requiring a table of contents. It also states that any plagiarism will result in a mark of 0. The document includes 5 questions related to software engineering and project management topics including the challenges of managing intangible software systems, why the best programmers do not always make the best managers, why project planning is iterative, discussing demanding unpaid overtime from employees, and whether to accept a promotion to management.

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BISE1083
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Assignment 1 (10%)
Date of Submission: 26th February 2018 (Monday)

INSTRUCTION

Submit your assignment in hard copy. Make sure the following on the cover sheet:
1. University logo 5. Subject Code
2. Title - Assignment 6. Subject Name
3. Name 7. Lecturer Name
4. Student ID 8. Date Submission

Format of the report:

1. Font size: 14 point for title/heading, 12 point for contents and 8-9 point for
headers/footers.
2. Font face: Arial
3. Line spacing: 1.5
4. Proper alignment of your paragraphs, and necessary page set-up.
5. Question paper to be attached to assignment.
6. All pages to be numbered sequentially.
7. Table of content.

PLAGIARISM

1. Students should read carefully the notice on plagiarism placed on the student’s notice
board.
2. Any form of copying, cheating, and plagiarism in any part of the assessment will lead to a
disqualification and a mark of 0 will be entered.

Prepared By: Ms Nor Afirdaus binti Zainal Abidin


School of Information Technology
QUESTIONS

1. Explain why the intangibility of software systems poses special problems for software
project management.

2. Explain why the best programmers do not always make the best software managers.

3. Explain why the process of project planning is iterative and why a plan must be
continually reviewed during a software project.

4. You are asked by your manager to deliver software to a schedule that you know can
only be met asking your project team to work unpaid overtime. All team members
have young children. Discuss whether you should accept this demand from your
manager or whether you should persuade your team to give their time to the
organisation rather than to their families. What factors might be significant in your
decision?

5. As a programmer, you are offered a promotion to project management but you feel
that you can make a more effective contribution in a technical rather than a
managerial role. Discuss whether you should accept the promotion.

End of Question.

Prepared By: Ms Nor Afirdaus binti Zainal Abidin


School of Information Technology

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