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Question: Describe about the Software Project Management for Retrieved? Answer: Outline specification of project implementation: Project business direction Project goals- Development of a website Purpose- increasing awareness and providing health tips for old obese people Business opportunity- The website will be used by people of Pinner care home in Middlesex. As the website provides health tips and solves health related issues, number of users will be high Project background- The project is being undertaken to reduce health related problems among aged people of Middlesex. Project scope description Project Outcome- successful development of the website Quality objectives- Successful implementation of the features such as online queries, daily health tips and awareness programs into the website Organizational requirements The website will be able to provide solutions for health problems faced by aged people Project performance quality objectives- Development of user friendly website within estimated time and budget Project plans Time schedule- the project will start from 01 /04/15 and is expected to be finished at 23 /08 / 15 Project milestone definition- Analyzing requirements Start date- 02 /09 /14 End date-22 /09 /14 Analyzing feasibility of the project Start date- 02 /09 /14 End date-03 /09 /14 Developing design of website Start date 04 /09 /14 End date 24 /09 /14 Developing the website Start date 02 /09 /14 End date -31 / 10 /14 Testing and fixing issues Start date -02 /09 /14 End date -05 /11 /14 Project Budget Analysis of requirements -$ 80,000 Feasibility study-$ 1,600 Application design-$136,000 Application Development-$120,000 Installation -$84,000 Project organization and stakeholders Organization- Pinner care home Stakeholders- project team, Pinner care home and resident aged people Project quality system Total Quality management Table 1: Specification of project implementation 2. Project specification: Timescale: Name of the task Time span Start date Finish date Initial meeting 1 day 01 /09/14 01 /09/14 Analyzing requirements 21 days 02 /09 /14 22 /09 /14 Meetings among members of project team 1 day 03 /09 /14 03 /09 /14 Identification of resources required 15 days 04 /09 /14 19 /04 / 14 Documentation of identified resources 5 days 24 /09 / 14 28 /09 /14 Analyzing feasibility of the project 2 days 02 /09 /14 03 /09 /14 Assessing the requirements 1 days 02 /09 /14 02 /09 /14 Preparation of feasibility report 1 day 03 /09 /14 03 /09 /14 Developing design of website 20 days 04 /09 /14 24 /09 /14 Deciding user interface and conducting server setting activities 15 days 04 /09 /14 18 /09 /14 Designing user interface 5 days 04 /09 /14 09 /09 /14 Analyzing infrastructure requirements 1 month 04 /09 /14 03 /10 /14 Developing the website 2 Months 02 /09 /14 31 / 10 /14 Development of functional units 15 days 25 /09 /14 09 / 10 /14 Integration of functional units 20 days 02 /09 /14 21 /09 /14 Testing and fixing issues 65 days 02 /09 /14 05 /11 /14 Testing of functional units 15 days 02 /10 /14 16 /10 /14 Testing of integrated system 15 days 23 /10 /14 06 /11 /14 Installation of infrastructure 15 days 01 /11 /14 15 /11 /14 Fixing issues 07 days 22 /11 /14 27 /11 /14 Table 2: Milestone chart Table 1 describes the time scales for proposed website development project. According to the chart, the project will take more than two months for being completed. At the first stage of project financial and human resources which are required for developing the website will be identified. At this stage the identified resources will be documented. Next stage of the project deals with analyzing feasibility of the project and preparing documents. At the next stage design of the website will be developed. Analysis of the mile stone chart reflects that the tasks of developing website and testing the new website will require maximum time. Both the tasks include several sub tasks and the developers will require about 2 months for completing those tasks successfully. Deliverable: Analysis of the project scope enables the team to identify deliverables of the project. On successful completion of the current project a new website will be delivered. The website will provide services for aged people who are suffering from obesity. Scope analysis also reflects that the services are designed for residents of Pinner care home in Middlesex. The website will be used by aged people for getting information about health. The people also can use this new website for changing their habit and leading healthier life. The features of this proposed website includes free consultation services, providing tips for healthy lifestyle and creating awareness about obesity among people. Users of this website will be able to post their query regarding any problem online. These posted queries will be answered using help of doctors. The service providers can hire doctors for providing consultation services to the target user group As the project aims to encourage aged people for leading healthy life, it will provide tips for leading healthy life on daily basis. The website will also work for increasing awareness among its users regarding various diseases such as asthma , cancer and diabetes. Although the website will provide free health services to aged people, it will be ensured that the confidentiality about the patients identify will be maintained. Although the doctors will work for the website for charity, they require maintaining code of conducts. The website will also provide information on the negative effects of treatment policies before starting the treatment. Quality assurance systems and quality plans: As the project primarily aims at increasing health consciousness among aged people, quality of the deliverables is important for enhancing its effectiveness. Quality of the deliverables of each stage in a project requires being checked for maintaining quality of the final deliverable (Xu, 2013). However in this project quality of the website will be checked at every stage of its development. The project management team can implement total quality management techniques for ensuring that the final product is able to meet requirements of target user group (Schwalbe, 2014). Implementation of total quality management techniques also enable the management to monitor quality of the deliverables after each stage (Randolph, 2014). Quality plans: The strategies of quality management will be implemented from the first stage of website development. At the first stage of design development, all requirements of the target user group will be analyzed for deciding on the features of proposed site. As the website will be used by aged people, it is important to develop it as user friendly. Ponnappa (2014) stated that developing user friendly interface increases the acceptability of a website. The developers will create different units of the website so that identification and fixation of errors becomes easier. Sufficient time is allocated for developing the website. It will also improve quality of the tasks. After being integrated the site will be tested in several stages. Analysis of the milestone chart indicates that the testing will take about 60 days. It also ensures that the project team will be able to identify and fix all the issues. As the project deals with development of a heath related website quality of the services is also important for improving quality of the final product. The project management team is aiming at hiring doctors for providing effective solutions to the queries asked by users. Apart from this, the project management team will also implement proper code of conducts for dealing with patients. Plans for monitoring project: Ong, Chang Lee (2013) stated that communication among team members is important for completing a project successfully. Miesenberger (2012) also opined that communication among team members improves quality of the tasks. Topic of communication Description of communication Frequency Medium of communication Participants Deliverables Organizer of communication Indentifying the requirements Communication for preparation of documents regarding resource requirement Before starting the project E-mails All members of the project team Final documentation of required resources Project management team Developing Human resource management technique and monitoring performances Indentifying required professionals Before starting the project and weekly Meetings and e-mails Project managers, HR manager Report of requirement on Professionals and performance of members HR manager Progress in work Details of work done by members Each Week E-mails Leaders of every team, project managers and members of each team Report on current status of work Project manager and team leaders Periodic report on expenditure Report preparation on the expenditures of different teams Each Week E-mails Leaders of every team, project managers and members of each team Report on financial requirements and budget allocation Project managers Requirement for modifications in project Identification of the required modifications in website design Whenever required Meeting and e-mails All members, team leaders, project managers Report on change management strategies Project manages and team leaders Scheduling communication plans Developing communication plans Each week and whenever required E-mails Management team of the project Documentation on schedule of meetings and agendas Project manages and team leaders Table 3: Monitoring plans Table 2 describes the monitoring plans which are going to be implemented in the website development project. As the project managers are planning to check quality of the deliverables at every stage of website development, tasks conducted by the members at every stage requires being monitored. Analysis on the communication plan indicates that the required resources will be identified before starting the project. The project management will communicate with other members to understand the need of resources. The management of project team will be responsible for assessing the performance of other members on regular basis. Close monitoring on team members leads to better utilization of the available human resources (Pinto, 2014). Table 2 also describes that the work status of the project will also be monitored on each week. Lock (2014) stated that getting information on progress in work enables management to understand whether the tasks will be completed within time or not. Lief (2013) a lso opined that regular communication with the project team regarding expenditure reduces the chance of interruption in project execution. In this project, the management will conduct meetings on each week to get information regarding the expenditures of each unit in project. Monitoring the performance of the developed product enables management team to understand whether the existing design needs to be modified or not (Kodukula, 2014). Analysis on the project plan indicates that managers of the website development project are responsible for assessing performance of the developed website. It will enable the managers to understand the need of modification in existing design of the website. Project plan: Lane (2012) stated that successful completion of project depends on the effectiveness of its planning process. Kim Jeong (2013) opined that the management team predicts the required resources by developing project plan. Development of project plan enables the management to identify scope of the project. Project planning deals with development of budget allocation plan , human resource planning and communication planning (Hans, 2013). However Eric Kirkland (2014) states that development of project plan also includes planning for testing and modifying the deliverables. In the website development project the planning process includes development of plan for managing schedule, human resource allocation plans, budget allocate and expenditure plans and procure management plan. Plan for managing schedule: Schedule management plan of a project deals with developing time scales and milestones for completing each task in the project (Dinsmore Cabanis-Brewin, 2014). Plans for scope analysis, milestone development and estimation of required time for completion of the project will be developed as a part of schedule management plan in the website development project. Human Resource plans: Activities in HR plan include identification of the requirements for professional. The plans also deal with allocation of HR resources for specific tasks. In this project, the managers will be responsible for developing plans for monitoring progress in work. Budget allocation, expenditure plans and Procure management plan: Devedzic (2015) stated that development of effective budget allocation plans leads to uninterrupted execution of project works. Budget allocation plan of the website development project deals with estimation of required financial resources .Plan for managing expenditure of each team will be developed as a part of budget allocation plan of this project. However the managers are also responsible for ensuring that the different units of project team are being provided with sufficient financial resources for completing their tasks successfully. References Devedzic, V. (2015). Software Project Management. 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