DQ 2 / IT project management

Assignment1

1. Discuss why many IT professionals may overlook project cost management and how this might affect the ability to complete projects within budget.

2. Explain some of the basic principles of cost management, such as profits, life cycle costs, tangible and intangible costs and benefits, direct and indirect costs, and reserves.

3. What is meant by a sunk cost? Give examples of typical sunk costs for an IT project as well as examples from your personal life. Why is it difficult for people to ignore them when they should?

4. Give examples of when you would prepare rough order of magnitude ( ROM), budgetary, and definitive cost estimates for an IT project. Give an example of how you would use each of the following techniques for creating a cost estimate: analogous, parametric, and bottom- up.

5. Explain what happens during the process to determine the project budget.

7. What is project portfolio management? Can project managers use it with earned value management?

8. Describe several types of software that project managers can use to support project cost management.

Assignment2

1. Discuss some of the examples of poor quality in IT projects presented in the “ What Went Wrong?” section. Could most of these problems have been avoided? Why do you think there are so many examples of poor quality in IT projects?

2. What are the main processes in project quality management?

3. Why is quality assurance becoming more important? What types of jobs are available related to quality assurance, and what qualifications are required for those jobs?

4. How do functionality, system outputs, performance, reliability, and maintainability require-ments affect quality planning?

Chapter 7: Discussion Questions 1-5 (page 303).

Carefully consider the Discussion Questions and thoroughly address every part of each question.

 

ASSIGNMENT 2

Chapter 7: Discussion Questions 7-8 (page 303).

Chapter 8: Discussion Questions 1-4 (pages 350-351).

 

DUE SUNDAY

 

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