Software Project Management

1. PRATIVA BISWAS
MBA VIT VUNIVERSITY
SOFTWARE PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
B.Sc. Information and System
Management

2. SECTION- A
UNIT- I
1)Define Software Project Management.
Software Project Management means the idea
about planning, monitoring and control of
software projects.
2)List out four software project Characteristics.
i)Invisibility
ii) Complexity
iii) Conformity
iv) Flexibility

3. 3)What is Management?
The Management involves the following activities.
• Planning
• Organizing
• Staffing
• Directing
• Monitoring
• Controlling
• Innovating
• Representing
4)What is the need of implementing discipline.
Discipline can be systematic training to develop the mind along
certain lines. The goal of this discipline is to transform your model
into executable code and to perform a basic level of testing, in
particular unit testing.

4. 5)Explain the significance of critical path.
The critical path defines the duration of the
project . Any delay to any activity on this critical
path will delay the completion of the project
6)Define PDB.
The Process Data Base is a permanent report of
the process performance data from projects. It
can be used for project planning, estimation,
analysis of productivity and quality and other
purposes.

5. 7)What are the levels in Pyramid Structure
• Top management
• Practical management
• operational management
• Transaction processing and industry processing
8)What is mean by stakeholders?
There are have interest in the project. Stakeholders might
internal to the project team, external to the project team but in the
same organization.
9) What are the various types in process model?
The waterfall model
The V-process model
The spiral model

6. 10)What is meant by COCOMO?
COCOMO( Constructive Cost model) is often referred to in
the literature on software project management and
software estimation
11)List out three modes in COCOMO.
• Organic mode
• Embedded mode
• Semi mode.
12)What is mean by Tailoring?
Tailoring is the process of adjusting a preciously defined
process of an organization to obtain a process. That is
suitable for the particular business or technical needs of a
project.

7. 13) Define summary level tailoring
It depends o the project characteristics, the manager
applies overall guidelines for tailoring the standard process.
14) List out all characteristics of tailoring.
Experience and skill level of the team and the project
manage
• Team size
• Clarity of the requirements
• Project duration.
15)Define Detailed Tailoring.
It covers execution of activities, their review and
documentation needs. Tailoring guidelines may specify an
activity as optional, in which case the project manager can
decide and execute the activity.

8. 16) List out all general information in PDB.
• Languages
• Platforms
• Database
• Tools
• Size and efforts
17)What are the levels in Pyramid Structure
– Top management
– Practical management
– Operational management
– Transaction processing and industry processing

9. UNIT - II
1)What are the activity in Methods.
A plan takes that method and converts it to real activities,
identifying for each activity.
– Its start and end dates
– Who will carry it out?
– Materials in this context could include information.
2) List out all activities in Management.
• Planning
• Organizing
• Staffing
• Direction
• Monitoring
• Controlling
• Innovating
• Representing

10. 3) List out all the activities of Product.
• The name / identify of the product.
• the purpose of the product
• the derivation of the product
• the composition of the product
• the form of the product
• the relevant standards
• The quality criteria that should apply to it.
4) What are the uses of process capability baseline?
• Delivered quality
• productivity
• schedule
• effect distribution
• Defect injection rate
• In-process defect removed efficiency
• cost of quality
• Defect distribution

11. 5) Define Effect estimation models.
A software estimation model defines the project
characteristics whose values it needs and the ways these
values are used to compute the effect.
6) List out the different types of activities
• activity - based approach
• the product- based approach
• hybrid approach
7) Identifying the critical path
There will be at lead one path through the network .That
defines the duration of the project. This is known as the critical
path.

12. 8)Define Documentation.
The analyst develops the new system specification using
documentation. These documents are converted into presentation for
management for approach or disapproval of the project.
9)Define Activity in project management.
An activity represents what is to be done between the achievement
of two events PRECEDING and SUCCEEDING. It may represent a task, a
management division and lead time.
10) Define Project.
The dictionary definitions of project include a specific plan or design
to carry out successful tasks.
11)Define Process.
The word process is used to the idea of a system in action. In order
to achieve an out come , the system will have to execute one or more
activities.

13. 12) What is management?
It has been suggested that management
involves the following activities.
• planning
• organizing
• staffing
• direction
• monitoring
• controlling
• innovating
• representing

14. UNIT- III
1)What is meant by Tracking?
Monitoring a collection a process activity in a central
database and is intended to monitor application usage on
workstations in high security environments. The collected
information can be queried through the web interface to
obtain tracking data, history and statistics.
2)Define project Tracking.
Project tracking refers to the management of project
,which includes but is not limited to measuring and
reporting the status of milestones, tasks and activities
required in achieving the pre defined projects results.

15. 3)What is mean by meeting ?
Formal or informal deliberative assembly of individuals called
to debate certain issues and problems, and to take decisions.
Formal meetings are held at definite times, at a definite place, and
usually for a definite duration to follow an agreed upon agenda.
4)What are the steps included in process overview?
• Starting the project
• Project planning
• Approving the project
• Project Implementation
• Closing the project
5)What are the main objectives in recovery plan?
• To develop a plan that will lead to a useful project.
• To establish a road map and processes to achieve this goal
• To continue building confidence and morale.

16. 6)List out all uses of Recovery
• Producing an achievable schedule
• Reestablishing customer and management confidence
• Reassembling the project plan
• Sorting project problems
• Rebuilding the team.
7)What are the objectives of recovery?
• Execute the recovery plan in order to put the detailed
project back on track.
• Produce accurate forecast of project completion.

17. UNIT- IV
1)List out all the elements of requirement specification
• Mission definition
• Performance
• Use requirements
• operational deployment
• life cycle
• Effectiveness factors.
• Environment
2) What is customer satisfaction ?
Quality is a measure of customer satisfaction. It is
obvious that business cannot survive without satisfied
customers. Therefore TOM’s purpose is meeting or exceeding
customer expectations, so that the customer are delighted

18. 3)What are the Types of customer ?
The Customers are two types. They are:
• Internal customers -The customers inside the company are called
internal customers.
• External customers - The customers outside the company are called
external customers.
4)What is meant by customer perception quality ?
An American society for quality ( ASQ ) survey ranked the
customer perceptions in the following order:
• Performance
• Features
• service
• Warranty
• Price
• Reputation.

19. 5) Which Tools are used for collecting customer complaints?
1. Comment card.
2. Customer questionnaire :
– surveys through mail, or
– surveys through E-mail, or
– surveys through telephone.
3. Focus groups.
4. Toll- free telephone numbers.
5. Customer visits, i.e., visits to a customer’s place.
6. Report cards.
7. The internet and computer .
6) Define Testing.
The goal of testing activities are to assess and improve the
quality of the work products generated during development and
modification of software.

20. 7) What are the types of source code testing?
– Black box testing
– function test
– performance test
– stress test
– White box testing
– structure test
8)Define Function test
Functional test specify typical operating conditions, typical
input values, and expected results. Function tests also test behavior
just inside the functional boundaries.
9)What is meant by structure test?
Structure tests are concerned with examining the internal
processing logic of software system. The structure testing is to
traverse a specified number of paths through each routine in the
size to establish of testing.

21. 10)Define Unit testing.
Unit testing comprises the set of tests
performed by an individual programmer prior
to integration of the unit into a larger system.
The situation is illustrated as follows.
• Coding & debugging  unit testing 
integration testing

22. UNIT – V
1)What is mean by Software quality?
Software quality is defined as, conformance to
explicitly stated functional and performance
requirements explicitly documented , developments
standards and implicit characteristics that are
expected of all professionally developed software.
2) What are the important services of SQA?
• Software requirements are the foundation from which
quality is measured.
• Specified standards define a set of development
criteria that guide the software engineering.
• There is a set of implicitly requirements then the
software quality is suspect.

23. 3)List out all aspects in software quality factors.
– The software quality factors focus on three important aspects of a
software products
– Its operational characteristics
– Its ability to undergo change
– Its adaptability to new environments
4)Define Reliability.
The Reliability is one important factor in software quality. It extent
to which a program be expected to perform its intended function
with required precision. It is evaluated by measuring the frequency
and security, the accuracy of output result, the meantime between
failures the ability to recover from failure

24. 5) What are the main activities in software quality assurance?
– Application of technical method
– Conduct of formal technical reviews
– software testing
– Enforcement of standards
– control of change
– Measurement
– Record keeping and reporting.
6) Define Formal Technical Review (FTR).
The central activity that accomplishes quality assessment is the
formal technical review. The formal technical review (FTR) meeting is
conducted by technical staff with the sole purpose of uncovering quality
problems.
7) Define Software Testing.
Software Testing combines a multistep strategy with a seriviesof test
case design methods that help ensure effective error detection.
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25. 5) What are the main activities in software quality assurance?
– Application of technical method
– Conduct of formal technical reviews
– software testing
– Enforcement of standards
– control of change
– Measurement
– Record keeping and reporting.
6) Define Formal Technical Review (FTR).
The central activity that accomplishes quality assessment is the formal
technical review. The formal technical review (FTR) meeting is conducted
by technical staff with the sole purpose of uncovering quality problems.
7) Define Software Testing.
Software Testing combines a multistep strategy with a seriviesof test case
design methods that help ensure effective error detection.

26. 8) Define Software Reviews.
The Software reviews are a filter for the software engineering process. It
serves to purify the software engineering activities that have called
• Analysis
• Design
• Coding
9) What is mean by Technical Review?
A formal presentation of software design to an audience of customers,
management and technical staff is a form of reviews.
10) Define Review Meeting.
The Review Meeting should be conducted base upon the following
constraints
Between three and five people should be involved in the review
Advance preparation should occur but require more than two hours of
work for each person.
The duration of the review meeting should be less than two hours.

27. 11) List out all Review Guideline
• Review the product, not the producer
• Set an agenda and maintain it
• Limit debate and discussion
• Take written notes
• Limit the number of participant
• Develop checklist for each product