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Unit 4: Programme Management & Project Evaluation

9. Cost/Benefit Analysis can be carried out using only financial costs and financial benefits. Notes
What do you understand from this statement?
10. Offshore program and project management involves many critical activities. Explain.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. organized 2. Planning
3. Projects 4. steering committee
5. expenditures 6. PMO
7. Resources 8. Vision Statement
9. key components 10. change

11. benefits 12. damage
13. minimize 14. Governance
15. offshore

4.11 Further Readings

Books Robert K. Wyzocki, Rudd McGary, Effective Project Management, WILEY-
Dreamtech India Pvt. Ltd., 2000.
Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering a Practitioner’s Approach, Fourth Edition,
McGraw Hill International, 2000.
Lan Somerville, Software Engineering, Fifth Edition, Addison Wesley
Publications, 1996.

Bob Hughes, Mike Cotterell, Software and Project Management, Tata McGraw-
Hill Publishing Company Limited, Third Edition, 2004.
Walker Royce, Software Project Management, Addison-Wesley, 1998.

Online links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_evaluation
http://managementhelp.org/evaluation/program-evaluation-guide.htm

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