Software Project Management

Unit-I
1. Discuss about waterfall model.
2. Write principles of conventional software engg.
3. Define software process model. Explain waterfall model theory.
4. Describe five parameters of three generations and ROI of software economics.
5. Write and explain top ten industrial software metrics.
6. Describe conventional software management performance.
7. Explain in detail about software economics.
8. Explain about pragmatic software cost estimation.
9. What constitutes a good software cost estimate? Explain predominant cost estimation
process.
10. Discuss improvements that can be applied to the software cost model.
11. What is adversarial relationship?

Unit-II
1. How to improve team effectiveness? Explain.
2. What are three levels of process and their attributes? Explain.
3. Discuss about object oriented methods and visual modeling.
4. Describe reuse and commercial components.
5. Explain about transition to an iterative process.
6. How to achieve good quality? Explain.
7. What are principles of modern software management? Explain.
8. Describe the various dimensions of a scheduling? How dimensions
Are helpful in improving software economics?
9. Summarize the characteristics of a successful object oriented project.
10. Discuss the key practices that improve the overall software quality?
11. How GUI based technology is helping in environment issues, explain with a suitable
example.
12. How to improve automation through software environments.
13. How to staff a software project?
14. How to reduce software production size? Explain.
15. Explain peer inspection.
 Unit-III
1. What are life cycle phases? Explain.
2. Discuss about management articrafts.
3. Explain pragmatic articrafts.
4. Discuss about test articrafts.
5. Describe inception and construction phases.
6. What are primary objectives and essential activities of collaboration?
7. Describe engineering articrafts.
8. Discuss in detail about articrafts.
9. Explain about articraft evaluation over the life cycle.
10. Explain about construction phase.
11. Draw typical sequence of articrafts across life cycle phases and explain.
12. What are primary objects of life cycle phases?
13. Provide the software development plan (SDP) outline?
14. Describe the objectives of periodic status assessment.
15. Describe 2 stages of the life cycle to active economies scale and higher returns on
investments.

Unit-V
1. Discuss in detail about workflows of the process.hit
2. What are software process workflows? Explain.
3. Explain about technical perspective of model based architecture.
4. What are iteration workflows? Explain.
5. Discuss in detail about model based architecture.
6. Write a table that shows the allocation of articrafts and the emphasis of each work flow
in each of the lifecycle phases.
7. Explain about a management perspective of model based software architecture.
8. Discuss about different views of UML diagrams.
9. State the heuristics that describes the objectively on architecture.
10. State role and responsibility CCD through the sequences of the states traversed by a
SCO.

Unit-IV
1. Explain about evolutionary WB’s.
2. Describe minor milestone and periodic assessments.
3. Describe conventional WB’s issues details.
4. Discuss major milestones.
5. Explain about cost and schedule estimating process.
6. Describe the iteration planning process.
7. Discuss minor milestones.
8. What is WBS? Explain pragmatic planning.
9. Draw a figure that gives a typical sequence of life-cycle check points. Explain.
10. Describe life cycle architecture milestones.
11. What are default agenders for life cycle architecture milestones? Explain.
12. Explain planning guidelines.
13. What are the drawbacks of conventional WBS.
14. What are the first level, second level and third level WBS elements?
15. Distinguish iteration readlines review and iteration assessment review.
16. Briefly explain the purpose of each of the sections in a software project plan.
17. What is critical distinction between a milestone and deliverability?
Unit-VI
1. Discuss in details about SCO and CCB.
2. What are default roles in a software line-of-business organization?
3. Describe evolution of organization?
4. Explain about line-of-business organization?
5. Describe infrastructure and stake holder’s environments?
6. Discuss in detail about process automation?
7. Discuss about the change management in detail?
8. Discuss project organization with a neat diagram?
9. Explain software architecture team?
10. Explain software development team?
11. Explain lifecycle focus on software management team?
12. Explain lifecycle focus on software development team?
13. Explain lifecycle focus on software architecture team?
14. Explain lifecycle focus on software assessment team?
15. What is CMM? Give an overview of CMM?
16. What are the main features of the default organization of line-of-business
organization?