IT2403 - SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

QUESTION BANK
UNIT-III
2-Marks

1.What are the steps involved in Activity Planning?

Ensure that the appropriate resources will be available precisely when required.
Avoid different activities competing for the same resources at the same time.
Produce a detailed schedules showing which staff carry out each activity.
Produce a timed cash flow forecast.
2.What are the objectives of activity planning?
1)Feasibility assessment
2)Resource allocation
3)Detailed costing
4)Motivation
5)Co-ordination
3.Define resource allocation.
What are the most effective ways of allocating resources to the project. When Should the
resources be available? The project plan allows us to investigate the relationship between
timescales and resource availability.
4.How will define the activities?

A project is composed of a number of interrelated activities.

A project may start when at least one of its activities is ready to start.
A project will be completed when all of the activities it encompasses have been
completed.
If an activity must have a clearly defined start and a clearly defined end-point normally
marked by the production of tangible deliverable.

5.What are the three different approaches to identifying the activities?

Activity-based approach- constraints stemming from the relationships between projects
Product-based approach- instructor becomes an active member of the project team
Hybrid approach- Decision support system for software project management
6.Write short notes on WBS.
This involves identifying the main tasks required to complete a project and then
breaking each of these down into set of lower-level tasks.
7.Mention the five levels of WBS.
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Project- engineering resources has been developed by TASK

Deliverables- term for the quantifiable goods or services
Components- designing the floor plane
work-packages- Models for the description of software artifacts
Tasks- Creation and distribution of organizing software

8.How will formulate the network model?

The first stage in creating a network model is to represent the activities and
their interrelationships as a graph. Then constructing the precedence networks.
9.What are the rules for constructing precedence networks?
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A project network should have only one start node.

A project network should have only one end node.
A node has duration.Links normally have no duration.
Precedents are the immediate preceding activities.
Times moves from left to right
A network may not contain loops.
A network should not contain dangles.

10.Define Hammock activities.

Hammock activities which, in themselves, have zero duration but are assumed to start at
the same time as the first hommmocked activity and to end at the same time as the last one.
11.What is meant by forward pass?
The forward pass is carried out to calculate the earliest dates on which each activity
may be started and completed.
Significane- calculation method used in Critical Path Method

12.What is meant by backward pass?

The second stage in the analysis of a critical path network is to carry out a backward
pass to calculate the latest date at which each activity may be started and finished
without delaying the end date of the project. The calculating the latest dates, we
assume that the latest finish date for the project is the same as the earliest finish datethat is we wish to complete the project as early as possible.
13.What are the rules of activity on-arrow rules and conventions?
1)A project network may have only one start node
2)A project network may have only one end node
3)A link has durationNodes have no duration
4)Times moves from left to right 5)Nodes are numbered sequentially
6)A network may not contain loops.
14.Define Risk.
an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs has a positive or negative
effect on a project objectives.include transferring the risk to another party, avoiding the risk,
reducing the negative effect of the risk, and accepting some or all of the consequences of a
particular risk.
15.What are the risks to business impact?
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Affect of this product on company revenue?

Reasonableness of delivery deadline?
number of customers who will use this product
interoperability constraints
Sophistication of end users?
Costs associated with a defective product?

16.What are things to be considered in risk management?

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Risk Identification- Organizations and project teams

Risk Analysis- Includes a download demo and other decision analysis tools
Risk Planning- assessment is an important part
Risk Monitoring- identify Development Environment Risks

17.Define Risk Identification.

Risk management begins with analyzing the risks involved in the project. Risk
identification is not a one-off initiative since projects are constantly evolving and new risks arise
while other risks may dissipate or reduce in importance.
18.Define risk analysis and risk monitoring.
Risk Analysis considers each identified risk and makes a judgment about the probability and
seriousness of it
Risk Monitoring involves regularly assessing each identified risk to decide whether that risk
is becoming more or less probable and whether the effect of the risk have changed
19.Define Risk Planning.
This project will develop the high-performance, computational technology infrastructure
needed to analyze the past, present, and future geospatial distributions of living components
of Earth environments
20.What are the steps in risk planning?
1)Risk identification
2)Risk analysis and prioritization.
3)Risk planning
4)Risk monitoring.
21.Define risk assessment.
Using this formula
Risk exposure = (potential damage) * (probability of occurrence)
22.Define Hazard analysis.
A hazard analysis is a process used to assess risk. The results of a hazard analysis are the
identification of unacceptable risks and the selection of means of controlling or eliminating them.
The term is used in several engineering specialties, including avionics, chemical process safety,
safety engineering and food safety.

16-Marks

1.What are the objectives of activity planning?

2.Write the steps involved in project schedule.
3.Explain the approaches for identifying the activities.
4.Explain in detail formulating a network model.
5.What is the difference forward pass and backward pass explain with example.
6.Explain activity-on-arrow networks.
7.Explain the categories of risk.
8.What are the approaches in risk identification?
9.Explain the risk planning.
10.How to evaluate the pert techniques.
11. Expalin about the management of risk?