PROBLEMS AT VCS

Problems at VCS

Problems at VCS

Introduction

This paper is based on the topic of project management in IT industry. The case study revolves around the VCS Company. The company is planning to launch a new version of Time-Track software. This particular software is used to maintain the bills and payments made to the potential clients of the firm. The firm is facing myriad of problems on the strategic level. There are some issues related to the system in use and the version of the exiting software. In addition to these, the Company is facing some acute problems that relate to employees, working there. They have got personal problems and problems related to behaviour and commitment. In this paper, the prevailing situation at VCS is analysed in detail and some candid recommendations are also presented, enabling the company to get rid of the nightmarish situation (Cleland, 2006, 36).

Discussion of the Problems with a Project Management Perspective

Project Management of Information Technology provides the tools for control, monitoring and reporting to proactively ensure that the processes of implementation of technological tools are carried out within the parameters of time, cost and quality. First of all, we need to understand the fact that the software development projects differ from other engineering projects, because of the logical nature of the software product. One thing is that the software is developed, not manufactured in the classical sense. In all engineering projects, quality is acquired through good design, but in case of software, the development phase impacts poorly on quality. Thus it can be said that a software project can not managed as if it were a manufacturing project (Cleland, 2006, 36).

Strategic Issues

Root Causes

Time lapses and Cost control

In addition to the direct costs that are easily countable, there are indirect costs that are surely much more important than what may be expected - if not then the fault was to promote a project that did not provide much value to the organisation. The VCS faced the same problem. They were unable to makeup for the loss of time consumed during the development of the new version for the software product. This primarily impacts the productivity slowdown in some area of ??the organisation and an opportunity cost of not having a result that was an important link in the chain of critical success factors set out in the overall strategy (Courter, 2007, 54).

Project Planning Monitoring and Project Reporting

Once the project is running you must closely monitor and compare actual progress with the project. Progress reports need to be producing project team members. At VCS, the project managers failed to register variations between actual and projected, both in terms of costs, such as a timeline and scope. Must report changes to its top and key stakeholders to take corrective action before these offsets are too large (Daellenbach, 2004, 25).

The project managers at VCS were unable to adjust the plan. If the project manager changes one of these, then one or two remaining elements will inevitably be adjusted ...