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Software Project Management. Strategic Mgmt. ARAVIND 9901366442.doc

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Software Project Management


1.      What is LOC? Explain disadvantage of this method as a measure of size of a software. Compare Halstead’s length and volume measures of size with LOC measure by giving suitable example.
2.     What is the use of the following tools in Software Project Scheduling? Also, mention its significance:

i)  WBS

ii) CPM

iii)PERT charts
3.     Suppose you are developing a software product in the organic mode. You have estimated the size of the product to be about 1,00, 000 lines of code. Compute the nominal effort and development time.
4.     What is a Software Process? Why it is required to model a software process? List various tools available for process modeling. Explain any one tool with an example.
5.     Define term resource in Project Management. What types of resources are required to develop a software project? Explain the significance of resource allocation phase.
6.     What is significance and role of Project Closure Analysis in Software Project Management? Write steps to perform closure analysis.
7.      What is Software Reliability? How it is different from Hardware Reliability?
8.    Why is it important to track the progress of a project? Explain various monitoring and controlling techniques to track the project progress.


Software Project Management


1.         How does the requirement process can be explained?
2.         What is step wise project planning? Draw a diagram for an overview of stepwise planning.
3.         i) Write the basis for software estimating
4.         What is network planning model? How to formulate network model?
5.         Explain the method of estimating the duration of an activity.
6.         Explain top-down project schedule plan.
7.         Explain the functions and responsibilities of software configuration management.
8.         Discuss in detail any one tool for project management.
9.         Discuss risk management in software development.
10.  Write a case study of a Software Project Management System for an automated education system which contains the requirement, gathering, planning, Implementation, Test Cases and Staffing.


Strategic Management


  1. What is the best option, in your view, for DD?

2.       Analyse the SWOT factors the DD has.

3. Why do you think that the proposed alternative is the best?
a) What is SWOT Analysis?
b) What are the strength of PTC?
c) What are the weaknesses of PTC for entering into the branded snacks market?
d) What kind of marketing strategy was formulated and implemented for Ringo?
What else need to be done by Ringo so as to enlarge its market?
i. What do you understand by the term Vision? What is the difference between ‘Vision’ and ‘Mission’? What vision Dr. Sukumar has at the time of inheritance of Dey’s lab? Has it been
achieved?          
ii.   For   growth           what   business   strategy   has   been      adopted   by   Dr.      Sukumar?    
iii.What  is   the            marketing   strategy   of   Dr.        Sukumar       to   overtake  its    competitors?
iv. In your opinion what could be the biggest weakness in Dr. Sukumar’s business strategy?
1.  Identify and discuss briefly, the three themes of strategy implementation of activating strategies, managing change and achieving effectiveness in the case of Deepak Nitrite.
2. picking up data from the case, demonstrate how formulation and implementation of strategy are interdependent.



Retail Management. Safety Management. Sales & Distribution Management. SALES & DISTRIBUTION. SAP MANAGEMENT. Shipping Management. Total Quality Management. ARAVIND 9901366442.doc

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Retail Management


1. What are Retailing? Explain the functions of retailing
2. Describe in detail various ‘theories of retailing’
3. What are the several types of store locations ? Discuss
4. Describe three type of shopping centers
5. What is ‘customer relationship marketing’ ? briefly explain ‘Relationship Marketing strategies’ in
Retailing
6. What is meant by ‘Relationship Marketing’ ? Compare and contrast the relationship marketing in
organized and unorganized retail sectors
7. What are different ‘Retail promotion strategies’? Why media selection is a very important issue in
retail management
8. What do you mean by sales promotion? Write in detail different tools of sales promotion



Safety Management


1.         Why safety is a must in an industry? Discuss.
2.         Name at least ten personal protective equipments used in chemical industries, their brief descriptions and utilities.
3.         What are the different methods for hazarad identification? Define HAZOP and describe the end result of such a study.
4.         What is the difference between hazard and risk? Give examples.
5.         Explain with examples how industrial workers can be motivated by the management.
6.         Explain how management can be motivated.
7.         Explain the following:
a)         Fire prevention and fire protection. b)   Accident prevention.
8. Explain safe working environment and workmen compensation act in industries.



Sales & Distribution Management


1.  Identifying of buyers from non-buyers and eliminating calls on non-buyers is the prime and prudent work of an effective sales person’’ – Explain.
2.  Explain in detail various statistical sales forecasting techniques.
3.  Discuss the essentials of a good compensation plan
4.  Identify major channel alternatives considering type, number and responsibilities for distributing
FREEZE ice creams.
5.  Explain the major activities involved in physical distribution.
6.  What are the characteristics that you look for in
(a) In house demonstrators (b) Door knockers.
7.  State the pros and cons of Sea transport and Air transport.
8.  Explain different methods to be used in training sales force of an organization selling perishable goods.
9.  Discuss in detail the theories of selling with its uses in personal selling.
10. As a sales person in selling a service product say, debenture. List down the difficulties you encounter and the methods you chose to close the sale.


SALES & DISTRIBUTION


Q1. What do you mean by distribution management? Explain the need for distribution channels with suitable examples.
Q2. What is sales organization? Discuss the different types of sales organization structures
Q3. If you were Ashok Desai, what would you do to achieve superior results in terms of sales and net profit as expected by the General Manager (Sales)?
4. Shakti Masala is a market leader in spices in North India and is planning to launch its ‘Swad’ brand of spices in Western India. Design a marketing channel for it specifying the channel intermediaries, channel levels, and the distribution intensity. Justify your recommendations.
Q5. What is meant by Channel Information System? Explain any four elements of a channel information system.
Q6. Discuss the distribution channel options available to companies willing to sell its products in international markets.
Q7. Discuss the basic types of compensation plans used for compensating salespeople. Which plan will be suitable for compensating an insurance agent? Justify.
8.         Briefly explain the meaning of ‘Sales Territory’. Describe the steps involved in designing sales territories.



SAP MANAGEMENT



1. Write a comprehensive note on SAP Net weaver & ECC?
a.) How Does SRM’s tight integration with PLM benefit your SRM users
b.) How does SAP CRM maximize your profitability?
c.) Does security restrict access in Query reporting?
d.) What do you mean by year dependent in fiscal year variants?
e.) What are posting keys? State the purpose of defining posting keys?
f.) What are the Steps in consignment processing?
g.) What is SAP Net weaver’s Rapid installer?
h.) What is core value of SAP xApps?
i.) How does SAP KW support searching?
j.) How will be the Ticket process flow happens in a Production support project?
k.) What is document type, and what does it control? Examples
l.) What is chart of account and how many charts of accounts can be assigned to a company
m.) What does Field status group assigned to a GL master record controls?
n.) How is case used in SAP?
3. In your own organization, research how many repositories or “ system of records’ of master data
     you have. Are you a good candidate for SAP MDM?
3. Define the term Variant? What does it mean to “protect’ a variant. Create two new variants for a  
     familiar report, and then re-execute the report using each of the variants
1. Comment on the relevance of this article in today's times. Cite an example to support your
    comments.
2. Write in not more than 500 words your ability to create wealth in the community/company you
     work in. Wealth may not necessarily be in terms of money. It may refer to your ability to contribute
     to the wealth of your organization. Write in the context of above article.



Shipping Management


1} Towards the last quarter of 2007 the crude oil prices rose to unprecedented levels approaching $100 per barrel. Discuss the impact that a sustained rise in crude oil prices is likely to have on shipping and the global economy in both the long and short term.
2.} Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of in-house or independent ship operation and management for your fleet.
3.} Discuss the following with regard to marine insurance contracts:

a)         Role and Function of P & I Clubs  b)       Role of a marine insurance broker  c)     Assignment of a marine insurance policy  d)           Implied warranty of legality
4.} Letters of credit are the ‘lifeblood’ of international trade and the different types of letters of credit are of benefit to both the buyer and seller. Explain why you would agree or disagree with the above statement and why the documentary credit system is more popular outside the EU Single Market.
5.} Describe how the container terminal interface should be geared in a multimodal transportation system. How can good road/rail connections improve the efficiency of terminals? Use examples to elaborate your answer.
6.} Explain the importance and benefits of proper inventory management systems for a company and the options available to manage the costs together with their limitations and risks.
7.} Describe the role of logistics in the context of ‘globalised world’. Answers should cover all modes of transportation.
8.} Cost management is key to business success and shipping is no exception. Identify the cost elements that ship owners are able to control and how their cost base may be reduced. Graphs recommended.


Total Quality Management


1. "TQM is a total system approach and is an integral part of corporate strategy. It works horizontally
across functions and departments involving all employees from top to bottom." Explain and
elucidate the ramifications of the statement.
2. Examine the role and responsibility of top management of an organization in achieving centered
focus on strategic planning.
3. The American quality crisis of being prolonged by what Darning called "the seven deadly diseases"
associated with traditional management practices. What are these seven deadly diseases? Explain.
4. Describe the type of documentation required for implementing ISO 9000 in an organization and
seeking registration.
5. What are the general requirements in a quality award process? Examine one of the quality awards
critically and identify the factors contributing towards performance excellence in an organization.
6. "TQM requires a different kind of thinking about customers, suppliers and shareholders/owners."
7. What is meant by "Customer Value? Explain the concepts of 'Value Realized, "value Sacrificed' and
'Net Value'.
8. Discuss the primary applications of control charts.


Research Methodology. Quantitative Methods. Purchase Management. Public Relationship Management. Project Management. ARAVIND 9901366442.doc

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Project Management

1.       What quality control methods prevalent in project management? Explain why TQM is important in project management,

2.      Explain the finalization of project implementation schedule.

3.      Discuss the problems in organizing human resource in a project.

4.      Define ‘organizing systems’. Discuss the various designs of systems.

5.      What are the factors, which control the cost of a project? Discuss briefly on each. How does time over-run affect the project cost?

6.      Bring out the difference between CPM (Critical Path Method) and PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Techniques) and their suitability of use. Explain critical path for the above with suitable examples.
7.       
8.     What is resource leveling in relation to PERT/CPM? 10+30 (b) List of activities for erecting a canteen in the factory is given below with other relevant details. Job A must precede all others while job E must follow all others. Apart from this, jobs can run concurrently also:

(i)  Draw the network and identify critical path

(ii) Crash the network fully to find out minimum duration.

8.     If indirect costs are Rs. 300/day determine the time-cost trade off for the project. The time and cost estimates of different activities of a project and their precedence relationship are ' given below:

Overhead costs amount to Rs. 1,000 per week. It is stipulated that the contractor will have to pay a penalty of Rs. 2,000 per week for completing the project beyond 16 weeks

(i)  Show the critical path in the network Diagram.

(ii) Find out the cost slope for every activity using normal and crash date for time and cost.

(iii) Crash the project to 16 weeks, Estimate the total cost of crashing.



Project Management


1. Define Project. What are the five characteristics that help differentiate projects from other functions carried out in the daily operation of the organization.
2)        Under what condition would it be advisable to use a strong matrix instead of a dedicated project team?
3)        What do you believe is more important for successfully completing a project, the formal project management structure or the cultural of the parent’s organization?
4)        You are in charge of organizing a dinner-dance concert for a local charity. You have reserved a hall that will seat 30 couple and have hired a jazz combo
a)     Develop a scope statement for this project that contains example of all the elements, assume that the event will occur in four week and provide your best guess estimate of the date for a mile stone s.
b)        What would the priorities likely be for this project
5) Develop a community plans for an airport security project, The project entails installing the hard ware and software system that
1) scan passenger eyes
2) fingerprints the passengers and
3) transmits the information to a central location for a evolution.
6) Project risk can/cannot be eliminated if the project is carefully planned. Explained.
7) Explain the difference between budget reserved and management reserves.
8) Present six reason scheduling resources is an important task.
9) Why is conductor of an orchestra an appropriate metaphor being a project manager? What aspects of project managing are not reflected by this metaphor? Can you think of other metaphors that would be appropriate?
10) What are the difference between the five stage model of team development and the punctuated equilibrium model?


Project Management



1. What happens if these are not present?
2. You manage a hotel resort located on the South Beach on the Island of Kaui in Hawaii.
You are shifting the focus of your resort from a traditional fun-in-the-sun destination to
eco-tourism. How would you classify the following projects in terms of compliance,
strategic, and operational?
3. How would you respond and why?
4. Why is a conductor of an orchestra an appropriate metaphor for being a project manager? What
aspects of project managing are not reflected by this metaphor? Can you think of other metaphors
that would be appropriate?
1. If you were Steele, what would you do?
2. What, if anything, could Steele have done differently to avoid this problem?
3. What could the management of Cerberus do to more effectively manage situations like this?
1) Explain the difference between budget reserved and management reserves
2) Present six reason scheduling resources is an important task.
3) What are the difference between the five stage model of team development and the
punctuated equilibrium model?
4) Under what condition would it be advisable to use a strong matrix instead of a dedicated
project team?
5) Define Project. What are the five characteristics that help differentiate projects from
other functions carried out in the daily operation of the organization?


Public Relationship Management


  1. List out the various innovative techniques of Public Relations.
2.      Explain the prevailing condition of public relations in India.
3.      What do you understand by Public Relations? How is it different from Advertising and Publicity?
4.      How useful is the concept of the ‘public sphere’ in the context of government communication and PR?
5.      How helpful are the strategic management or systems approaches in explaining public relations as a strategic activity? What are their strengths and weaknesses? Are there other more appropriate approaches?
6.     “Public relations is a strategic communication process that builds mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their publics.” Explain.
7.      You are a CPRO of Municipal Cooperation. About 500 persons in the city become victims of dog bits every day. Design a multimedia public relations campaign indicating the four Step of public relations process to solve the dog menace problem in the city.
8.     Public relations practice is the discipline which looks after reputation.’ Discuss


Purchase Management


  1. Discuss the benefits to buying the company of certifying its suppliers. Discuss the benefits to a supplier of being certified?
2.     Discuss the reasons why top-management commitment is essential to the success of supplier management and development.
3.     How does the international sourcing process is differ from the domestics-sourcing process? What are the most important reasons for pursuing worldwide sourcing today?
4.     What are the benefits from the total cost of ownership for a purchased item? Are they any potential disadvantages of this approach? If so, what are they?
5.      What are the important item s that should be used any time you decide to enter into a long term contact with a supplier?
6.     Why do you believe that more companies have not adopted EDI over the past 20 years?
7.      What performance areas do you think will benefit most from purchasing involvement in the future?
8.     What are the benefits associated with a comprehensive policy and procedure manual?



Quantitative Methods


1) A manufacturer of baby dolls makes three types of dolls: Doll A, Doll B, and Doll C . Processing of these dolls is done on three machines, M1, M2 and M3 . Doll A requires 2 hours on machine M1 and 3 hours on machine M3 .while doll C requires 5 hours on machine M2 and 4 hours on machine M3 . There are 8 hours of time per day available on Machine M1, 10 hours of time available on machine M2 and 15 hours of time per day available on machine M3, The profit gained from doll A is Rs 3 per doll, from doll B is Rs 5 per doll and from doll C is Rs 4 per doll .
What should be the daily production of each type of dolls? Which machine(s) would be idle according to this plan? By how much?
2. Write a note on the economic interpretation of the dual .
3. Explain the transportation method of solving a transportation problem . Also give its schematic.
4. What do you understand by an assignment problem? Give a brief outline for solving it.
5. A trip from Chennai and Bangalore takes six hours by bus. A typical time -table of the bus service in both the directions is given below:
6. Discuss the cutting -plane algorithm for solving integer programming problems .
7. How would you use Gantt Chart for solving sequ encing problem? Why is it not employed for solving larger problem?
8. What are the relevant costs for inventory decisions? How are they obtained in real life situations?


Research Methodology


1. State the aspects which differentiate science and common sense. Discuss in detail the
characteristic of scientific research.
2. What are the types of scientific research and explain the same with the help of suitable examples.
3. What are the various methods of collecting data? In this regard discuss the various aspects that
need to be kept in mind while using the questionnaire methods.
4. What is observation? State and discuss the requirements and importance of observation methods
for collecting data.
5. Discuss the various steps for writing a research report.
6. Write shorts notes on:
1) Aims of social research 2) Methods of research 3) Format for report writing 4) Problems of observation.


Research Methodology


1.         State the aspects which differentiate science and common sense. Discuss in detail the characteristic of scientific research
2.         What are the types of scientific research and explain the same with the help of suitable examples
3.         What are the various methods of collecting data? In this regard discuss the various aspects that need to be kept in mind while using the questionnaire methods.
4          What is observation? State and discuss the requirements and importance of observation methods for collecting data.
5.         Discuss the various steps for writing a research report.