[Year 12 IT Apps] Q16 revisited

[ken price]

Hi,

I'm not claiming any authority whatsoever in this as I don't even teach the
subject, but it seems to me that the two terms being used ("scope" and
"solutions requirements") equate in meaning to the more generally used
terms "Project Scope" and "Solution Scope", and that "scope" on its own is
ambiguous (and thus Mark's interpretation is correct if "scope" includes
product scope.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_%28project_management%29

I realise this doesn't answer the question about the exam but it might help
tighten up the PM terminology used into the future. (or perhaps there is a
project management lexicon defined for the course, in which case my
comments can be disregarded)

BTW I really enjoy the level of professional support within this group and
I have learned a lot that can be directly applied to the courses I teach,
even though the content is different. We all have similar challenges, it
seems.

Cheers
Ken
DoE Tasmania


On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>wrote:

> Hi all. I've had several good people write to suggest that the answer to
> Q16 should be B instead of A because of what the study design says about
> requirements and scope.
>
> While B parrots the words of the study design (inappropriately, IMO, since
> it's using the *present* tense to describe a *future* product, which is
> confusing) option A, to my way of thinking, better describes the answer.
>
> It all depends on the difference between solutions requirements and
> scope... the study design insists they are two separate things but does not
> explain how they are functionally different.
>
> We had this discussion before the exam: what is the difference between
> specifying solution requirements and specifying scope?  We never got a good
> answer to that one, and the exam question is leveraging that exact point of
> confusion.
>
> So I'll throw it up in the air again: if you fully specify solution
> requirements, how is that different to specifying scope?  Are they not
> effectively identical?  In which case both options A and B are correct.
>
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