SHRI RAMSWAROOP MEMORIAL

UNIVERSITY
PROBLEM SET I
Session
Course
Branch
Group
Unit

: 2014-15(Even Sem.)
: MCA
:
: 41
:I

Semester
Subject Code
Subject Name
Name of Faculty Member
Topic Covered

: IVth
: MCS4002
: Software Project
Management
:Dr. Neeraj Kumar Tiwari

: Introduction and Software

Project Planning

UNIT- I
1. What are basic steps involved in building a program? Draw the large scale system
approach in water fall model. Difference between contract management and technical
project management.
2. Discuss the Project Management Cycle. Draw pictorial representation of phases
involved in Project Management Cycle.
3. Identify the data that you would collect to ensure that during execution of project
things are going according to plan. Discuss with the help of a scenario as an example.
4. What are the events present between contractors and customers? Discuss the with the
help of example.
5. What is the difference between feasibility study and planning? Discuss the with help of
example.
6. What are the basic parameters of the software cost model? How plans, methods and
methodologies differ from each other? Discuss with the help of an example.
7. Draw the block diagram of a predominant cost estimation process. What are the types
of designs in software project? Discuss each one in detail.
8. What are the three successive process of software project management? Explain in
detail.
9. Explain and give examples of the following:
a. Explain about reducing software product size.
b. What are the categories of software projects?
10.
Mention any three processes available in improving software processes. Give an
outline of step wise planning activities for a project with neat diagram.
11.
What are the steps involved in identification of project scope and objectives?
Explain every step in detail.
12.
Identify the data that you would collect to ensure that during execution of project
things are going according to plan. For each stage of a typical IS development project
listing the type of personnel who are likely to be involved.
13.
Explain why the best programmers do not always make the best software
managers. Also explain what is meant by egoless programming technique.
14.
Identify the job responsibilities of a software project manager. Also describe the
necessary skills required in order to perform software project management. Identify five
necessary tasks taken by a project manager in order to perform project scheduling.
15. Identify the important types of team structures of an organization. Why careful planning
of staffing pattern for a project is so important.
16. Consider a project with the help of following functional units:
Number of user inputs: 50
Number of user outputs: 40
Number of user inquiries: 35
Number of user files: 06
Number of external interfaces: 04
Assume all complexity adjustment factors and weighting factors are average. Compute
the function points for the project.
17. Is project planning part of project management, which relates to the use
of schedules such as Gantt charts to plan and subsequently report progress within the

project environment? Explain.

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