Deck 10: Software Project Management and Risk Assessment: Best Practices and Strategies.

Question 1

Why is it important for software developers to make use of measurement to guide their
work?

Answer 1

Developers need to measure so that they can tell whether they are improving or not.Without measurements this is extremely difficult to achieve.

Question 2

List 3 principles for scheduling software projects.

Answer 2

Compartmentalization,interdependency,time allocation,effort validation,defined responsibilities,defined outcomes,defined milestones

Question 3

What are four useful indicators of software quality that should have measures defined and
monitored by the software project team?

Answer 3

correctness,maintainability,integrity,usability

Question 4

What resources are typically included in the project estimation process?

Question 5

List 4 of the 6 critical software practices required by performance-based management.

Question 6

What steps can be take to avoid many of the problems that cause software projects to fail?

Question 7

In software project scheduling work,what is a task (or activity)network?

Question 8

What are the goals for using object-oriented software metrics?

Question 9

What activities are associated with reverse engineering?

Question 10

What is "earned value analysis" as it relates to project scheduling?

Question 11

What is forward engineering?

Question 12

How are project risks different from technical risks?

Question 13

What is the objective of project planning?

Question 14

Why is a feasibility assessment part of the planning process?

Question 15

Describe the process of building a risk table.

Question 16

What are the four P's of effective project management?

Question 17

How do software process metrics differ from software project metrics?

Question 18

List three issues that must be dealt with in an effective strategy for dealing with risk.

Question 19

What are the benefits of software restructuring?