NARAYANA ENGINEERING COLLEGE :: NELLORE DEPARTMENT OF CSE Name of the Faculty: M.

Manasa Name of the Subject: SPM Academic year: July 2011-12 Semester: IV B.Tech/I Sem

Unit I **1. In Practice, what are the common symptoms of projects which are not Successful. Explain. ***2. What are the components of a software cost models? Explain. ***3. What is Risk? Explain the terms risk assessment, risk mitigation, risk Projection and risk detection. ** 4. List and explain the ten reasons of why conventional software management does not perform satisfactorily? **5. Compare the apparent and actual results of document and design reviews in the conventional process. *6.What are the five components of a good cost estimate, in practice? ***7. What will be the impact of the Late risk resolution? What are the rectification methods? *8.What is adversarial stakeholder relationship? Explain. Unit-II **1. What are the ways of achieving better economics in software? ***2. Why does software not give as much returns on investment as other industries? ***3. Explain the principles of Conventional Software Engineering. **4. Explain the principles of Modern Software Management. *5.What are the key practices that improve the overall software quality? **6.How can good teams be built? How to continue to have a team that works effectively & efficiently? ***7.Describe the two stages of the life cycle to active economies of scale and higher returns on investments. *8.Why is effort (in-person-months) not simple a product of duration and number of persons needed? Unit-III ***1. What are the primary objectives of the four phases of software life cycle? ***2. Explain the essential activities in the four phases. **3. Explain Artifact Sets of the process in detail. **4. Explain about Artifact Evolution over the life cycle. *5. What are the essential activities in Inception & Elaboration phases? **6. What are the essential activities in Construction & Transition phases? *7. How to evaluate the completion of each of the four phases in S/W life cycle? **8. Describe the two stages of the life cycle to active economics of scale and higher returns on investment. Unit-IV ***1.Object Oriented Modeling is the key in SDLC, relate the nine diagrams to The views of iterative process. **2. Summarize the importance of software architecture and its close linkage with modern software development process. ***3. What are the Seven Work Flows in life cycle. Explain. **4. What levels of activities take place in these work flows during each of four phases? ***5. What levels of activity take place in these workflows during each of the four phases(Inception, Elaboration, Construction, and Transition)? *6. What does each of the views (design, process, component, deployment) address in the software architecture? **7.Explain model based software architecture through a technical perspective. *8. Discuss iteration workflows.

Unit-V **1. What are the disadvantages of traditional WBS? How should the Evolutionary WBS be structured? **2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of software reuse? Explain. ***3. Explain Iterative Process Planning. ***4. Explain three types of joint management reviews( check points of the process) conducted throughout the process. ***5. What are the steps in identifying project roles? Name any five project roles and the skills needed for them. *6. What are the benefits of matching people to roles? **7.What are the three types of joint management reviews? Explain. *8. Discuss the cost and schedule estimating process. Unit-VI ***1.Define Meta Process. Explain Organizational Policies and Organizational Environment? **2.What is Configuration Base Line. Explain. ***3.With the help of a neat diagram explain the software evolution over the life Cycle? ***4.What are the stages of SCO? Explain with an example. **5.What are the Sources of Change? Why should change be made in a controlled way? *6. Define a Configuration Baseline. *7.What are the four component teams in a default project organization and their responsibility? **8.State the role and responsibility of CCB through the sequence of states traversed by a SCO. Unit- VII **1.What are the differences in Workflow priorities between small and large Projects? *2.Discuss about Automation of Metrics. ***3.List the Seven Core Metrics, their purpose and perspectives. **4.Explain factors considered in Tailoring of a Software Process. ***5.Why are the metrics divided into Management and Quality Indicators? Name the core metrics under each category. ***6.Define the SEI-CMM Maturity levels of Organizations. How do processes differ because of process flexibility and process maturity? **7.What is the need for metrics? What do you mean by indicators? *8.Explain work and progress, breakage and modularity, rework and adaptability. Unit-VIII ***1.What were metrics controlled in CCPDS-R? What is the purpose of each Metric. How were they analyzed? **2. How was the project organized in CCPDS-R Project? ***3. Explain in detail Modern Project Profiles. **4. Explain the incremental test process and test programs of CCPDS-R. *5.What were the core metrics collected by CCPDS-R? What is the purpose of each metric? *6. How are metrics analyzed? **7.What is the purpose of the Concept Definition (CD) and Full Scale Development (FSD) in the project CCPDS-R? ***8. How was the project organized in CCPDS-R project?