POKH AR A UNIVERSITY

Level: Bachelor Semester – Fall Year : 2017

Programme: BCIS Full Marks: 100
Course: IT Project Management Pass Marks: 45
Time : 3hrs.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far
as practicable.
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

Section "A"
Very Short Answer Questions
Attempt all the questions. 10×2
1. What is project management institute (PMI)?
2. Define concept of project appraisal.
3. Define Work break down structure and its importance.
4. Define & developed Project Charters.
5. Define Budget. Discuss the method of cost control using earned value
management (EVM).
6. Briefly explain Project Portfolio Management?
7. Explain staffing management plan with resource histograms.
8. Explain the integrated change control process in depth.
9. Explain acquire project team tools & technique.
10. Explain IT project as product delivery versus service delivery.
Section "B" 6×10
Descriptive Answer Questions
Attempt any six questions
11. What is a Project Management? Explain how you would be an effective
project manager? Why Agile is different from waterfall model?
12. Why Project scope management is important on IT Project? Explain
Change management.
13. Construct the CPM network for a project with the following activities;
Activities A B C D E F G H I J
predecessor - - A,B B A C E,F D,F G,H I
Days 4 7 4 3 2 1 6 5 8 9
Find:
a) Critical Path
b) Project completion Time
c) EST,EFT,LST,LFT

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14. Being an IT project manager in a reputed IT company how are you
going to ensure the quality of the system development. What do you
understand by Quality Planning, Quality Assurance and Quality
Control? What are the techniques of quality control in a project?
15. Explain about the necessity of information distribution and its tools and
techniques. Discuss the communication management plan that should be
considered for ICT projects. Why a reporting system is required in a
project?
16. Define ‘risk’. Explain about sources of risk in a project. What do you
mean by qualitative and quantitative risk analysis?
17. What is a Procurement process? How is it performed in a project?
Consider you are hired as consultants in a IT College where every year
50 students are admitted in 4 year program. You are asked to prepare a
tender specification document for setting up a digital library to be set-up
on that college. State your all assumptions that you will be making
while preparing the document.
Section "C"
18. Case Analysis 20
Read the case situation below and answer the questions that follow.

Best Practices for a New Project Manager to Establish Themselves

and Build Relationships Quickly

Background: Sydney was a newly hired project manager at a

consulting firm. She has previous experience working on project teams,
but had never led a project on her own. She has only been with the firm
for two weeks and has spent a week of that time in onboarding. Her
manager, the head of operations, has just assigned her to a rather large
project. The project is to evaluate the current processes in use within the
organization specifically focused in two areas: new service development
and client engagement. Sydney was told to select who she needed to
work on the project and reach out to the managers of both groups to get
the project started.

The Problem: While excited about the opportunity, Sydney realized

she had a few challenges ahead:

 She has had no time to establish relationships within the

organization
 She realized that it may be difficult to engage the departments
in the initiative given the project she was asked to lead
 She was concerned about selecting team members when she did
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 not yet know much about the others in the organization (their
skills and knowledge and expertise)
 She knew very little about the organization outside of what she
learned in the onboarding program and her research when she
was applying for the project manager role

Sydney needed to start the project fairly soon. She didn’t have the
luxury of taking time to build relationships and get to know people
before the project had to begin.

a) What do you recommend Sydney does to ensure her first large

project is a successful one?
b) What skills does she must have to overcome the problems?
c) What steps must she take to build a strong team?
d) How important is it for her to know about the organization?