DOEACC Society 2006 DOEACC B Level BE6 Software Project Management ( ) - Question Paper

BE6-R3: SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
NOTE:
Time: three Hours Total Marks: 100
1.
a) Object-oriented software development brings out the scope of improvement in the software
project economics – explain.
b) Which life cycle model would you follow for developing a decision support system for
managers? Enumerate the reasons for your option.
c) Is it possible to interchange software engineers at any time in the course of a software
project?
d) define the key processes and outputs of the project closing process.
e) elaborate the most important functions of software project planning?
f) elaborate a few project-related cost factors of a software cost estimation model?
g) elaborate a few common software defects? Also mention how these defects distributed
across various phases of software development.
(7x4)
2.
a) Name the various software production process models. Bring out a comparison of these
process models.
b) Do you agree with the statement "All software projects can be managed with the help of
evolutionary model of software development". Justify your ans.
(12+6)
3.
a) describe risk in the situation of software project management. elaborate the top 10 risks in
software projects?
b) elaborate the various activities involved in the process of risk analysis and management of
software projects? explain them in detail.
c) What is a risk management and monitoring plan?
(5+10+3)
4.
a) What purpose does software metrics serve? describe product metrics and process metrics for
software.
b) elaborate a few well-known product and process metrics for software? explain in detail.
(6+12)
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1. ans ques. one and any 4 ques. from two to 7.
2. Parts of the identical ques. should be answered together and in the identical
sequence.
5. A software development project is planned for a small store. The activities, time
requirements, and precedence relations are as under:
Activity
Number
Name Duration Precedence
Relationships
A obtain info needs three weeks -
B Analyse store operations four weeks -
C describe subsystems three weeks A
D Develop database four weeks A
E Identify constraints one week B
F Develop programs 10 weeks C,D,E
G Write manual 10 weeks B
H Integration and test three weeks F
I Implementation two weeks G,H
a) Draw the project network. obtain Early and Late Schedule for every of the activities. obtain out
the project completion time and the critical path.
b) If only 1 analyst is available to carry out the activities three and 4, i.e. activity four cannot be
started until activity three is completed, will there be a change in the network? If so, draw the
revised network, obtain out the revised Early and Late begin schedules, and calculate the new
project completion time.
(10+8)
6.
a) What does COCOMO stand for? What is its use?
b) 2 software managers separately estimated a provided project to be of 15,000 and 20,000
lines of codes respectively. Bring out the Effort and Schedule time implications of their
estimation using COCOMO. For the Effort estimation, use coefficient values of 3.2 and 1.05.
For the schedule time estimation use 2.5 and 0.38 respectively. presume all adjustment
multipliers to be equal to unity.
c) Distinguish ranging from ‘Change Control’ and ‘Version Control’.
(6+8+4)
7.
a) What do you mean by software project planning? What broad activities does it include?
b) Identify the role of the project manager in the software planning process.
c) elaborate the 4 most important project dimensions? Bring out their importance in the
situation of software projects.
(6+4+8)
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