Software Project Management · Unit 6 · 4 hrs
Monitoring and Control
Exam-focused notes for Monitoring and Control (Software Project Management, CSC425): what the TU syllabus asks and how it has actually been tested, with 6 solved past questions from this unit.
What this unit covers
- Introduction
- Collecting data
- Visualizing progress
- Cost monitoring
- Earned value analysis
- Project control
Visualizing progress
Explain any two methods of visualizing progress of a project. [5]
After collecting data about project progress, a project manager needs effective ways to represent that data. Two important methods for visualizing project progress are: --- A Gantt Chart is one of the oldest and simplest techniques for tracking project prog...
Full solved answer →List techniques that are used for progress visualization and explain them. Why do you think project monitoring and control is very challenging?[10]
Progress visualization techniques help project managers track the current state of a project against the planned baseline. The following are the key techniques: --- A Gantt chart is a horizontal bar chart that represents the project schedule. Each activity ...
Full solved answer →Differentiate between Gantt chart and slip chart. [5]
A Gantt chart is one of the oldest and simplest techniques for tracking project progress. It is an activity bar chart that indicates scheduled activity dates. It plots activities against a timeline using horizontal bars, where each bar represents the durati...
Full solved answer →Earned value analysis
Earned Value Analysis
Activity Duration (days) Precedence Cost/day (Rs.) BAC (Rs.) ------------------------------------------------------------------ A 6 - 100 600 B 6 A 100 600 C 8 B 200 1600 D 4 B 300 1200 Total BAC = 600 + 600 + 1600 + 1200 = Rs. 4000 Progress at end of Day 1...
Full solved answer →Earned Value Analysis
Activities: Activity Duration (days) Precedence Cost/day (Rs) Total Cost (Rs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- A 5 - 200 1000 B 5 A 200 1000 C 10 A 100 1000 D 5 A, B 200 1000 Total planned budget (BAC) = $1000 \times 4...
Full solved answer →Earned Value Analysis
Activities: Activity Duration (days) Precedence Cost/day (Rs.) BAC = Dur × Cost/day ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A 8 - 200 1600 B 4 - 200 800 C 4 A, B 300 1200 D 4 B 400 1600 Total Budget (BAC) = 1600 + 800 +...
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