DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.Sc (Software Engineering)(5 Years Integrated)
DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2018.
SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND METRICS
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — x 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.
1. Write about waterfall model of conventional software
management.
2. Elucidate the pragmatic view of peer inspections that
improves software economics.
3. Distinguish inception phase form elaboration phase.
4. Give a note on engineering artifacts sets.
5. What are major milestones of process checkpoints?
Discuss.
6. Narrate the concept of evolutionary with breakdown
structures.
7. Discuss the project organizations and its evolution.
8. List out the management indicators that are inevitable
for project control and process instrumentation.
Sub. Code
42
DE-4156
2
Sp 2
SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. Write notes on the following:
Software economics
Pragmatic software cost estimation
10. What are the major components to be focussed to reduce
the software product size? Explain in detail.
11. Summarize the old and new ways of software
management renaissance.
12. Describe the process of management artifacts and
pragmatic artifacts.
13. Give a detailed description on model based software
architecture.
14. Explain the different project environment of process
automation.
15. What are modern project profiles that are important to
have good software project? Explain in detail.