| Level | Master |
| Program | MCIS |
| Semester | Fall |
| Year | 2015 |
| Course | Software Project Management |
| Full Marks | 100 |
| Pass Marks | 60 |
| Time | 4 hrs |
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.
The figures in the margin indicates full marks
Attempt all the questions
- What are the five improvements of conventional Waterfall Model?
- Explain important trends in improving software economics? Explain the methods for improving software process?
- What are the top five principles of modern software project management? Explain. List the differences between engineering and production stages of software life cycle.
- Define software artifacts. What is the difference between engineering and management software artifacts? Explain engineering artifact with example?
- What is the purpose of architecture in technical perspective vs. management perspective, explain?
- Explain major and minor milestones of software life cycle and list the benefits of status assessment checkpoints
- Explain staffing principle by Barry Boehm? Explain default software project organization and explain different project level roles and responsibilities.
- Explain the role of effort estimation for software management? Why function point estimation is better than COCOMO?
- List the seven core software metrics. Describe in depth the quality indicators.
- Write short notes on any two:
- Next-generation cost models.
- Work break down structure
- c) CMMI