Code No: N0502 Set No.

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IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November 2009
SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
( Common to Computer Science & Engineering and Information
Technology)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. Describe the predominant process used for the software cost estimation? [16]

2. Describe the various dimensions of scheduling? How dimensions are helpful in

improving software economics? [16]

3. Describe the planning sequence to estimate the cost and schedule of a process.[16]

4. Describe the various types of joint management reviews conducted throughout the
process. [16]

5. (a) Name three types of stakeholders.

(b) List the steps to identify the stakeholders.
(c) What are the guidelines for specifying project pay offs?
(d) List five types of software, a project typically needs. [4+4+4+4]

6. What is CMM? Give an overview of CMM. [16]

7. (a) Briefly discuss about management indicators.

(b) Explain the scale of process discriminants. [10+6]

8. (a) What are the results of IPDR demonstration? Explain.

(b) Explain process flexibility and process maturity. [8+8]

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Code No: N0502 Set No. 2
IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November 2009
SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
( Common to Computer Science & Engineering and Information
Technology)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
?????

1. Describe the predominant process used for the software cost estimation? [16]

2. What is round trip engineering compare it with reverse engineering? [16]

3. Validate the separation of the implementation set from the deployment set with an
example? [16]

4. Describe the cultural issues raised in allowing online review of the native informa-
tion source by using smart browsing and navigation tools. [16]

5. (a) Illustrate a typical sequence of project checkpoints for a relatively large project.
(b) Explain the following:
i. Minor milestones
ii. Periodic status assessments. [6+5+5]

6. Explain the following:

(a) Line-of-business organization

(b) Automation building blocks. [8+8]

7. (a) What are the steps to leveraging measurements?

(b) Explain with example Software Project Control Panel. [8+8]

8. (a) Write about results of major milestones in a modern process.

(b) Explain IPDR demonstration results. [8+8]

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Code No: N0502 Set No. 3
IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November 2009
SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
( Common to Computer Science & Engineering and Information
Technology)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
?????

1. State the symptoms exhibited by the projects destined for trouble frequency?[16]

2. How the assessment in performance is done and what are the influencing factors?
[16]

3. Provide a generic build progression and guidelines on the number of iterations in

each phase? [16]

4. Explain an organized and abstracted view of the architecture into the design models.
[16]

5. (a) What is the benefit of making commitments and dependencies between people
rather between people and products.
(b) How does a software project outline compare with a software development
team? [6+10]

6. (a) What is configuration baseline? Explain.

(b) What are artifacts and responsibilities of software management and software
architecture teams? Explain. [6+10]

7. (a) What are the steps to leveraging measurements?

(b) Explain with example Software Project Control Panel. [8+8]

8. (a) What are the results of IPDR demonstration? Explain.

(b) Explain process flexibility and process maturity. [8+8]

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Code No: N0502 Set No. 4
IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November 2009
SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
( Common to Computer Science & Engineering and Information
Technology)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
?????

1. Describe the various objectives used for the measurement of software size? [16]

2. Describe the various dimensions of scheduling? How dimensions are helpful in

improving software economics? [16]

3. How do you evaluate completion of the phases in SDLC life cycle? [16]

4. What is the typical build sequence associated with a layered approach explain?[16]

5. (a) Which type of scheduling, backward or forward, is more effective for creating
backup plans? Are there circumstances where forward is better than backward
and vice versa?
(b) What must be done for each task on the schedule? [10+6]

6. (a) Define round-trip engineering. What is the primary reason for round-trip
engineering? Explain.
(b) What are the stakeholder environments? Explain. [8+8]

7. Why do traceability metrics become difficult to manage when there are many system
requirements? Design a requirements structuring mechanism, based on viewpoints,
which might help reduce the scale of this problem. [16]

8. Explain the following with respect to CCPDS-R:

(a) People factors

(b) DOD-STD-2167A artifacts. [8+8]

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