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Why is it a problem for college students to be ” rest deprived” (as well as sleep deprived)?
The essay must quote and/or paraphrase and work directly with material from all the four essays. In addition,define and employ key terms that seem to be central to the arguments. Some key terms that might help with the argument are : mental downtime; default mode network; mindfulness training; intrinsic activity;reflection; introspection; off-line and reflective processing; high environmental attentional demands; self and social processing; task positive/task negative; and constructive internal reflection.

select a hypothetical organization and software category for your Software Development Process Improvement Plan. Examples would be a company that develops its own software for internal use, a company that develops software for external sale, or a company that provides contractual software development. This organization will be used as the basis for each of the assignments throughout the course and should conform to the following guidelines:

Nontrivial: The selected organization should be large enough to allow reasonable exercise of the software development processes you will identify.
Domain knowledge: You should be familiar with the organization or software category to allow focus on the software development processes without significant time required for domain education.
Accessibility: You should have good access to the people and other information related to the organization or software category because this will be an important part of the process improvement.
Select an organization and software category that fits these requirements, and then submit your proposal to your instructor before proceeding further with the assignments in the course. Approval should be sought within the first several days of the course. Your instructor will tell you how to submit this proposal and what notification will be given for project approval.

Software engineering is done differently in all organizations. The success of the approach that is used depends on the type of organization, the type of project, and the people who are involved. As part of a software development process-improvement initiative for your organization, you have been given the task of researching software engineering practices to help your team understand best practices in this area and how each person can contribute to the process improvement plan.

 

Summarize 2–3 of the best practices you have discovered.
Identify the type of company, projects, and teams that these best practices would suit well.
Justify your selection.
Discuss the impact of those practices on the process and the project.
In your opinion, what are the implications and risks of applying these best practices to a software development project?

Process improvement initiatives must be measured to determine whether the steps taken are achieving the desired results. Imagine that your software development group has been working on several process improvements, and your supervisor would like a status report on the progress made.

Use the library and Internet to search for information about software process improvement, and make sure to cover the following points:

Identify at least 2 metrics that can be used for measuring software process improvements.
Summarize the methodology that is used to collect and evaluate these metrics.
In your opinion, what are the obstacles that might inhibit the collection and evaluation of these metrics?
Discuss how you would overcome any difficulties during the collection and evaluation of these metrics.

Investigate the library and Internet for information about software design architecture.

From your research, select and describe at least 2 software design architecture styles.
From your research, answer the following questions about the 2 design architecture styles that you selected:
What are some of the strengths of each design architecture style?
What are some of the weaknesses of each design architecture style?