What is Benchmarking? – the continuous process of measuring products, services and practices against the toughest competitors or those companies recognized as

Industry leaders

Please place the definitions of basic estimation techniques in proper correspondence: Using group of people to improve an estimate – Wideband Delphi. Using computer models to enter values and generate an estimate for a project – algorithmic/parametric. Similar to Wideband but using a restricted set of numbers – Planning Poker. Using experienced people to help generate estimates – expert judgement. Wild altogether guess – WAG.

In general, there is no need to mitigate risks in project – False

Business reorganization canNOT cause changes in current projects (for the same organization). True/False? – False

WBS in project management refers to – work breakdown structure

Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text. Translate thought to language –

encode. Method to convey message – medium. Output of encoding – message. Translation back to thought or idea – decode. Interference with transmission and understanding – noise.

What organizational structure is most project focused? – projectized

Match the term with appropriate definitions are major points of achievement, or significant events in a larger projects. They are usually monitored in a project milestone report – milestones. the person responsible for ensuring that a project is delivered to specification on time and on budget. Project managers have to co- ordinate the activities of a great many specialists. – project managers. the extent of what the project is designed to do. This covers functionality systems, interfaces, processes, departments, and external stakeholders (such as suppliers and customers) As well as stating what is included in a project and its boundaries, it is sometimes helpful to specify certain things that are out of scope for the project as well. – project scope.

The primary part to the definition of the project: ● The number of requirements divided by the resources times the hours doesn’t exceed three times the scope development time. – The goal of a project is clear and singular

What type of Stakeholder do you know? – Primary and Secondary

What TECHNIQUE we do use to determine CRITICAL PATH in SCHEDULE? –

Forward pass

Metrics cannot identify, explain or predict everything – True

The schedule is a good way to track a project – True

Data used in project can be CI – True

Every software engineer has to be concerned how changes are made – True

Match the correct definition with item for scope: Customer defined boundaries on the solutions; Things the team must do; things the team can’t do: - objectives, non goals. Why the customer needs the product; areas of the customer’s business which will be affected by this new product when built: - goals. What customer needs; items to build; Features the system should have; Stories that represent the customers’ needs: - requirements

It is best to represent risks in an IF-Then format – True

Budgetary or scheduling constraints can cause changes – True

Projects need a schedule for many reasons, but one of the most important is balancing resource loading. – True

User manual is an example of Configuration Item? – False

SRS acronym is stand for Software Requirements Specification – True

Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text. provides measuring units to depict values, threshold, constraints, scope, duration, maximums, minimums, and average, etc – metrics. represents information to establish a common understanding of status, condition and position of something. – measures. Tools for anyone involved in software engineering to understand varying aspects of the code base, and the project progress – software project metrics.

Which metrics more likely to be Quality metrics? – re-work

What does the abbreviation PERT stand for? – project evaluation & review technique

In SCM processes “Change control process” – used to ensure that changes to a product or system are introduced in a controlled and coordinated manner

What types of software testing can involve Users? – beta testing & usability testing

Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text. ● A use of measure to evaluate the state of a process or tasks that are being completed – metrics. ● The process of ensuring that the product or goal is met with certain expectations and abilities meeting what the customer or user wants from the product. – quality. ● The product that mechanism to ensure that as developed is under control to the point that any version of the product along its lifecycle can be produced – configuration management. ● The understanding of the total existence of a project or product from its first inception to the point at which it is stopped and never acted upon. For the living creatures it is birth to death. – lifecycle. ● A representation of the methods that will be used to achieve a goal. – process model.

Which metrics more likely to be Quality metrics? – issues

What is risk? Select T(rue) statement – Risk is neither good or bad it just occurs every time we make a decision

Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text. ● The amount of budget deficit or surplus at a given point in time, expressed as the difference between the earned value and the actual cost – CV(cost variance). ● The amount by which the project is ahead or behind the planned delivery date, at a given point in time, expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value – SV(Schedule variance).

● The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work – PV(Planned Value). ● The realization cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period – AC(Actual Cost)

Configuration management is all about – change control

The triple constraints in project management are: - scope, time, cost

CPI = EV / actual cost – True

Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text. Match the terms with appropriate definitions ● The amount of budget deficit or surplus at a given point in time, expressed as the difference between the earned value and the actual cost – cost variance. ● A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization’s quality policies will be implemented – quality management plan. ● A grid that links product requirements from their origin to to the deliverables that satisfy them – requirement traceability matrix. ● A bar chart of schedule information where activities are listed on the vertical axes, dates are shown on horizontal axes – Gantt chart

Defining and committing to a clear picture of success establishes the common ground rules for a project

by making the basic project goals explicit. The technique is known as Threshold of Success.

Influences of organizational Structures of Project Management