Department of Computer Science & Engineering (The Glocal University)
Assignment #2
Software Project Management
1.List any of the four demerits of the Boehm spiral
model.
2. List any four project management skills required
for software project management.
3. What are the criteria that are most important
when a firm chooses a project selection model?
4. What are the parameters used for measuring the
accountability for the test engineers?
5. What are the steps needed in developing the
Project Staffing Management Plan?
6. State the disadvantages of using a pure project
organization.
7. List any three ways by which an Individual
stakeholder contacts can be selected.
8. Name the different Project Dependency
relationships.
9. What is meant by Nominal Group Technique?
10. Write down the objective of the International
Organization for Standardization in the Software Life
Cycle Processes.
11. What is Project Portfolio Management and what
are all the Project Portfolio Models? Explain.
12. You are the only Project Manager in a new
software application tool company. This is your first
product. How does project selection management
work for you? Explain.
13. What is the value of a product-oriented WBS to a
software development project manager?
14. Are all estimating models mathematical or
empirical or regression. Please explain.
15. Under what circumstances would a purely
functional organization be better for a software
development project? Cite an example.
16. Which do you think would be a better measure
of project performance: EVA or CPM’s buffer
management? Justify with an illustration
17. Explain in detail about the Critical Chain
Scheduling.
18. What additional information would you add to a
responsibility assignment matrix and why?
19. Does the structure of SRS impact the life cycle
processes chosen for the project? Explain.
State the advantages of using Prototyping Model.
20. What do you mean by “ Process Tailoring” ?
21. State the need for the Work Breakdown
Structure in a project.
22. Give the effort formulas for the three modes of
the Basic COCOMO model.
21. Define Norden-Rayleigh function.
22. What is “ Finish-to-Finish” dependency? Give an
example.
23. What is critical Chain Scheduling?
24. What is a Configuration item? Give examples.
25. Name any four Software Configuration
Management tools.
26. List down the various product and project
related competencies that a project manager needs
to know.
27. List down the important Engineering activities
specified in ISO/IEC 12207 standard and briefly
explain.
28. Name the various maturity levels of SEI CMM
and the Key Process areas for each level.
29. Give a brief description about the Incremental
Development model.
30. Explain the steps required to build a Work
Breakdown structure
Software Project Management: Assignment #2