DOEACC Society 2006 DOEACC C Level C9 Advanced Software Project Management ( ) - Question Paper

C9-R3: ADVANCED SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
NOTE:
Time: three Hours Total Marks: 100
1.
a) elaborate the documentation requirements during the software-testing phase of software
project management activities?
b) define different characteristics of software requirements that make requirements
analysis 1 of the most crucial activities in software projects?
c) Distinguish ranging from goals, requirements and constraints.
d) i) Activity C has an early begin time of 7, an early finish time of 12, a recent begin time
of 13, and a recent finish time of 18. How much is the slack?
ii) An activity has an optimistic time estimate of 4 days, a most likely time
estimate of 8 days, and a pessimistic time estimate of fifteen days. What is
the expected duration of this activity?
e) define different problems involved in manpower management.
f) elaborate the basic propositions of Theory X, Y and Z? How do they apply in managing
the human resource aspects of software projects?
g) How does organizational culture affect the project risks in software development
organizations?
(7x4)
2.
a) elaborate the basic characteristics of software that makes it unique from a project
management viewpoint?
b) How can you identify various kinds of software projects?
c) elaborate the generic elements that can define the process models for any software
projects minimally?
(8+5+5)
3.
a) elaborate the quality-attributes of well-engineered software?
b) elaborate the 2 approaches for identifying the tasks?
c) elaborate the differences ranging from work breakdown structure and product breakdown
structure?
(6+6+6)
4.
a) elaborate the different categories of project estimation approaches? define the merits
and demerits of Delphi approach.
b) Distinguish ranging from systems and models v/s. work products.
c) What do you understand by “playback analysis” in software projects?
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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.
(6+6+6)
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5.
a) discuss the usefulness of COCOMO II model over the COCOMO model in light of the
traditional estimation techniques used hands-on by project managers.
b) How can you assess software risk qualitatively?
(10+8)
6.
a) elaborate the features of an effective change control procedure?
b) On what artifacts do you have to assess the impact of modifications approved by the change
control procedure?
c) Distinguish ranging from change control and version control.
(6+6+6)
7. Write short notes on the following:
a) Software reliability metrics
b) Software Maintenance
c) Work breakdown structure
(3x6)
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