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Set No. 1

IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, December - 2013

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SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

(Computer Science and Engineering)
Max. Marks: 75

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Time : 3 hours

[8+7]

2. a) Explain in detail about the principles of conventional software engineering.

b) Describe about the important trends in improving software economics.

[8+7]

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Answer any Five Questions

All Questions carry equal marks
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1. a) Elucidate in detail about conventional software management performance.
b) Discuss in detail about the three generations of software development.

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3. a) Explain about construction phase in software project life cycle.

b) Discuss in detail about the cultural issues in document driven approach in pragmatic
artifacts.
[7+8]

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4. a) Explain about typical build sequence associated with a layered architecture.

b) With a neat diagram describe the artifacts of the design set including the architecture
views and architecture description.
[7+8]

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5. a) Describe in detail about the typical sequence of life-cycle checkpoints.

b) What is Work breakdown structure? Discuss about the fundamental flaws that
conventional work breakdown structure frequently suffer.
[7+8]

6. a) Focus on software architecture team activities in detail.

b) Explain in detail about typical automation and tool components that support the process
workflow.
[7+8]

7. a) Give an overview of seven core metrics in managing a modern process.

b) Explain key differences in the process primitives for varying levels of architectural
risks.
[7+8]

8. a) Summarize some of the important themes in an economic context and speculate on how
a modern software management framework should perform.
b) Explain about characteristics of modern iterative development process framework.
[8+7]
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Set No. 2

SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

(Computer Science and Engineering)

Max. Marks: 75

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Time : 3 hours

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IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, December - 2013

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Answer any Five Questions

All Questions carry equal marks
*****
1. a) Explain in detail about the symptoms that the projects destined for trouble frequently.
b) What constitute a good software cost estimate?
[8+7]

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2. a) Tabulate different modern process approaches for solving conventional problems.

b) Discuss in detail about the advantages and disadvantages of commercial components
versus custom software
[8+7]
3. a) Explain in detail about primary objectives, essential activities and primary evaluation
criteria for elaboration phase.
b) Describe three engineering artifacts that are explicitly intended in software process.
[8+7]

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4. a) Describe in detail about the workflow of an iteration.

b) Explain about the importance of software architecture and its close linkage with modern
software development process.
[7+8]

5. a) Explain in detail about the life-cycle architecture milestone.

b) Describe in detail about the typical conventional work breakdown structure following
the product hierarchy.
[7+8]

6. a) Explain in detail about software management team activities.

b) Discuss about different states where the prototyping environment evolve in detail. [8+7]

7. a) Describe in detail about the quality indicators that are based primarily on software
change.
b) Explain about the two primary dimensions of process variability.
[8+7]

8. a) Describe in detail about next generation software cost estimation models.

b) Explain important culture shifts to be prepared for in order to avoid friction in transiting
to a modern process.
[7+8]
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Set No. 3

IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, December - 2013

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SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

(Computer Science and Engineering)
Max. Marks: 75

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Time : 3 hours

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Answer any Five Questions

All Questions carry equal marks
*****
1. a) Give quotations from Boehms Industrial Software metrics Top 10 list in detail.
b) Discuss about the predominant cost estimate process. Explain about its attributes in
detail.
[8+7]
2. a) Discuss about top five principles of a modern process.
b) Explain in detail about different process perspectives and discuss about improving
software processes.
[8+7]

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3. a) What is the overriding goal of inception phase ? Describe about primary objectives,
essential activities and primary evaluation criteria for inception phase.
b) What are various artifacts that the management set includes? Explain in detail. [8+7]

[8+7]

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4. a) Define workflow. Explain seven top-level workflows in detail.

b) From a management perspective what are different aspects of architecture.

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5. a)Tabulate the general status of plans, requirements and products across the major
milestones.
b) Explain in detail about planning guidelines to be considered when a project plan is
being initiated or assessed.
[8+7]

6. a) Explain the main features of default organizations and discuss about the roles and
responsibilities to a default line-of-business organizations.
b) Describe about tools for automation of building blocks in software development
process.
[7+8]

7. a) Discuss in detail about the fundamental sets of management metrics.

b) Explain process discrimination that result from difference in stakeholder cohesion.
[7+8]
8. a) Discuss in detail about differentiating potential solutions through cost estimation.
b) Describe about next generation project performance in detail.
[8+7]
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Set No. 4

IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, December - 2013

SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

(Computer Science and Engineering)
Max. Marks: 75

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Time : 3 hours

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Answer any Five Questions

All Questions carry equal marks
*****
1. a) Describe five improvements to the basic waterfall model that would eliminate most of
the development risks in detail.
b) Explain about pragmatic software cost estimation in detail.
[8+7]

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2. a) Explain about inheriting in from conventional waterfall model to an iterative

development process.
b) Describe about general quality improvements with a modern process and explain about
the key practices that improve the overall software quality.
[7+8]

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3. a) Summarize the differences in emphasis between engineering stage and production

stage.
b) Give an overview on artifact set.
[8+7]

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4. a)Tabulate the allocation of artifacts and life cycle emphases associated with each work
flow.
b) What does architecture baseline should include? Discuss in detail.
[8+7]

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5. a) Explain in detail about the periodic status assessment and describe about the default
content of status assessment reviews .
b) Discuss about cost and schedule estimating process from different perspectives. [8+7]

6. a)With a figure show about the default project organizations and map project-level roles
and responsibilities.
b) Explain in detail about the round trip engineering.
[8+7]

7. a) Explain about basic characteristics of pragmatic software metrics in detail.

b) Summarize some key differences in the process primitives for small and large projects.
[7+8]

8. a) Explain in detail about the automation of construction process in the next generation
environment.
b) Describe about modern process transitions in detail.
[8+7]
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