KLN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

CSE DEPARTMENT
UNIT I
2 MARKS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
1. What is software project management?
Software project management is the art and science of planning and leading
software projects. It is sub discipline of project management in which software are
planned, monitored, and controlled.
2. What is a project?
A project is defined as:
A specific plan or design.
A planned undertaking.
A large undertaking.
3. List some of the key characteristics of project?
Planning is required.
Work is carried out in several phases.
Non-routine tasks are involved.
Specific objectives are to be met or a specific product is to be created.
4. List the characteristics of the products of software projects?
Invisibility
Complexity
Flexibility
5. What are the three activity of SPM?

The feasibility study,

Planning,

Project execution.
6. What is feasibility study?
Feasibility study in short is termed as Learned Lessons. With the help of
collected information, investigation to decide whether a prospective project is worth
starting is the feasibility study.
7. What is planning?
It is an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action. Planning is to
decide what is to be done.
8. List different stages of project life cycle?
i.
Requirement Analysis.

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iii.
iv.
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Specification
Design
Coding
Verification and Validation
Implementation
Maintenance and Support.

9. What is strategic planning?

Strategic Planning is an organizations process of defining its strategy or duration
and making decisions on allocating its resources to pressure this strategy, including its
capital and people. It is the process of identifying an organizations long term goals and
objectives and then determining the best approach for achieving those goals and
objectives.
10. What is requirement Analysis?
Requirement analysis is defined as finding out in detail what the users require of
the system that the project is to implement.
11. What is Design?
Design is the diagrammatic representation of project which we going to do.
Design is the planning that lays the basis for the making of every object or system.
12. What is management?
Management is one which performs the following set of activities such as
planning, organizing, staffing, directing, monitoring, controlling, innovating and
representing.
13. How software projects different from other projects?
Software projects are similar to other projects, but have some attributes that
present particular difficulties, for example, the relative invisibility of many of their
products.
14. What are the elements of planning approach?
The establishment of project objectives.
The analysis of the characteristics of the project.
The allocation of resources to activities.
The establishment of quality controls.
16 MARKS QUESTIONS
1. Write short note on contract management/
2. Explain stepwise project planning.
3. Draw Product Breakdown Structure (PBS) and Product Flow Diagram (PED) for
online ticket reservation.
4. Draw an activity network fragment of payroll processing of particular department.
5. Explain information flow and control in organization.

6. Draw and explain project control cycle with its objectives, sub-objectives and goals.
ANNA UNIVERSITY QUESTIONS
1. What is software project management?
2. What is a project?
3. Define process.
4. List the characteristics of software projects.
5. What is contract management?
6. Difference between contract management and technical project management.
7. What is the difference between feasibility study and planning?
8. How plans, methods and methodologies differ from each other?
9. What are the types of designs in software project?
10. What are the three successive process of software project management?
11. What are the categories of software projects?
12. What are the activities of project management?
13. What is activity plan?
14. What are the elements of product descriptions?
15. What do you mean by project breakdown structure?
16. What are the steps involved in identification of project scope and objectives?
PART B
1. Explain the various activities covered by software project management.
2. Give an outline of step wise planning activities for a project with neat diagram.
3. Diagrammatically explain the ISO 12207 SDLC activities.
4. List the Outline of stepwise project planning.

5. For each stage of a typical IS development project list the type of personnel who are likely to
be involved.
6. Identify the data that you would collect to ensure that during execution of project things are
going according to plan.