Software project management 2 marks questions answers

Software project management 2 marks questions answers Software Project Management (Central University of Orissa) Software project management 2 marks questions answers Software Project Management (Central University of Orissa) lOMoARcPSD| UNIT – I FUNDAMENTALS 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. ii. Specification iii. Design iv. Coding v. Verification and Validation vi. Implementation vii. Maintenance and Support. 9. What is strategic planning? Strategic Planning is an organization’s 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. Downloaded by Austine Wanjala () lOMoARcPSD|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