Imagine that you work as the project manager for an IT department. Your organiza
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Question
Imagine that you work as the project manager for an IT department. Your organization has recently approved the development of a mobile application. As the project manager, you will manage the development of the project. The project will include user experience (UX) design by a consultant, graphic design by a team of two contracted designers, and in-house application development by a team of three (3) programmers and a database developer.
Deliverable 1: Summary (MS Word or open source equivalent) Write a one to two (1-2) page summary document in which you: Summarize the project requirements and other assumptions (i.e., budget, human resources, workload, environmental dependencies, etc.). Define a work breakdown structure and describe the methodology behind constructing one.
Deliverable 2: WBS (MS Project or open source equivalent) Use Microsoft Project or an open source equivalent to create a WBS which addresses the following: Contain at least five (5) main tasks, one (1) for each of the PMBOK® process areas. Contain at least thirty (30) line items distributed in five (5) or more work packages. Contain Work Breakdown Structure Code for each task. Present duration estimates for each task that results in a duration estimate for the project not to exceed the requirements described in the overview.
Explanation / Answer
Executive Summary:
This project involved the design and construction of a mobile application which is being used to serve the important task at construction site level. The primary aim of the task was to design and develop the mobile application keeping in mind the high level field requirement and then deploy it at various construction sites thus making the complete system operational.It also involves providing training to the field people and managing the maintenance part.
Initially, Requirement document has been created by BA team and then, Database design and high level architecture has been designed and will be reviewed by team. UX design will be created and modified as per customer feedback.Development methodology will be Agile and srcum team involves resources from various department which will be assigned to project team by respective HR coordinator.The budget of the project as Quoted is $20,000 dollars and time to deliver is 9 months which include complete project life-cycle. Main deliverable is working mobile application at client's end and whole project is divided into 5 milestone where each has specified deliverable.
The application will be developed on IOS platform for Ipad version 4s and above.Database will be MySQL and API has been used to communicate with third party.Application will be supported on apple product specifically on Iphone and Ipad. Training and support will be provided for apple products only.
Risk and contingency plan will be identified and documented in risk register which will be refereed as per project plan.Change Management will be done using VSS tool and will be documented at each level.Audit will be done before Gate closing i.e at every milestone.Process applicable to the project willl tailored from project Asset library according to project requirement.
Delivery document and working manual will be part of final deliverable.Testing of the product is final Quality check by internal quality team. UAT will be the final approval process from client side which include client feedback and will be worked on mutual consent.
All Stakeholders will be communicated about project development in weekly meeting.Mode of communication will be mail or video-conferencing.
Work Break down structure:It is a tool used for project planning.The WBS organizes the work to be done on a project.In a WBS, a project is broken down into its major components,referred to as modules.These components are then subdivided into detailed sub components,which are further broken down into activities and finally,individual tasks.The end result is a project hierarchical organizational structure made up of different levels,with the overall project at the top of the structure and individual tasks for each activity at the bottom level.The WBS methodology is a good way to identify activities and to determine the individual task,module and project workloads and resource required.It also helps identify relationships between modules and activities as well as unnecessary duplication of activities.