Chapter 19, Problem 4AYK

Explanation of Solution

Employee quits or goes on short term disability:

• To ensure continuity of project, it requires filling of gap of that person. Someone with same potential can be chosen from other teams.
• A need of hiring a new person with same skill arises for fulfilling requirements of project properly.
• If such a replacement is not possible, then some other options should be checked with client instead of stopping project completely.
• If there are no other options, then project can be passed to some other teams or in worst case it could be terminated.

SDLC methodology for unplanned employee downtime:

• The Agile method offers greatest flexibility for unexpected employee interruption.
  • It helps find a way to work with uncertainties.
  • It works in short interval of time, performance is measured at each iteration...