Questioning their Last Project

Q: What one technical aspect would you most like to change about your last system?

Is it a pragmatic idea?

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Do their motivations seem sound?

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Q: What was the last piece of project work you did?

How did they receive the requirements?

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What effort did they put into understanding the business area of the change? Can they explain the business implications of the change?

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How did they translate the requirements to a design?

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Can they communicate that design effectively?

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Did they consider extensibility in their design? If so how?

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Did they have their design reviewed?

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How did they ensure concepts they were incorporating were not already implemented elsewhere?

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Q: Task them to design an extension to their functionality. They have plenty of time

Process (review etc)

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Design

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Q: Shorten the time scales to immediate implementation. What do they keep and what do they chuck?

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Q: Do they understand the workflow of their last project? Can they describe it? How was it implemented?

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