PROJECT DESIGN ASSIGNMENT

Project Design Assignment



Table of Contents

OUTLINE3

Purpose3

Analysis of Motivations towards the Project3

The Spiral Model Of Project Management3

Main Requirements of the Project4

Creating/Maintaining User Accounts5

Role Maintenance5

Project Management Organization7

Major Tasks to be Carried Out9

Costs & WBS11

Risk Analysis14

Major Risks That Could Affect the Delivery of the Project15

Gantt Chart17

Critical Path Analysis17

Direct and Indirect Costs and Project Crashing19

Stakeholder Map20

Project Team Structure21

Summary23

References24

Project Design Assignment

OUTLINE

Weblight Solutions ('WLS) is a successful e-commerce development company that specialises in helping companies develop their e-business capability. This often involves the development of appropriate web presence, web applications and any accompanying back-end database requirements. The WLS also host the website in their own dedicated e-commerce server. In the scenario where the client chooses a different company for hosting WLS also advises them of other hosting companies. The WLS have recently won a contract to develop an e-commerce solution for a Frozen yogurt shop chain called the 'FOYO', which already has 5 outlets around the UK, but hopes to increase the number of outlets. Each outlet has a shop manager and upto 5 assistant staff, who, in the majority, have basic IT skills. However, they will be expected to provide customers and/or new staff guidance on using the new company website.

Purpose

To increase sales by extending e-commerce services online.

Analysis of Motivations towards the Project

The outcome of this project is in itself a motivation towards completing this project. This project will result in increasing the sales volume of the company by implementation of an e-commerce system.

The Spiral Model Of Project Management

The spiral model is based upon the principle that we go through the different phases again and again, until we reach a certain degree of maturity of the product to be created which e.g., a customer can accept. It is even possible that one part of our project is still in definition phase while another one is already in implementation phase. Typical examples of this iterative approach would be IT projects, i.e. the design and development of products and services in the IT industry with its short innovation cycles and high probabilities of changing requirements during implementation phase.

Main Requirements of the Project

To advertise and recruit required professionals.

To analyze and document the specifications for the required functionality.

To acquire the needed hardware and software as part of IT infrastructure facilities.

To design, implement, test and operate the entire system.

Next step is defining human resources in terms of category, seniority and hourly cost:

Functional expert(s) - Knows the business process

Technical support - Technical product knowledge

Workflow Business Analyst - Workflow tools expert

System Administrator- Maintain workflow environment

Business Analyst - assist in doing a business process analysis

Creating/Maintaining User Accounts

Superclasses will be developed for use in zuausr to establish workflow users. Creating the user accounts and resetting passwords will be the responsibility of the Technical Services group and will follow our existing practices, with the exception of passwords. Passwords will be maintained following the procedure described in the workflow system administration guide which allows for the user's Banner and workflow passwords to remain ...