ITC505 ICT Project Management: Application Development Project

Case study – Social Media Research Centre

During a meeting with his boss (David Wright), Bruce has been asked to establish a researcher centre. The research centre, which will commence operations in February 2018 first as an informal research group, should be established by June 2017. Alex’s decision to proceed with this major project is spurred by the fact that an associated organizational centre, which researches in a closely related area, has recently ceased operations. There is also a tremendous pressure from David’s senior executives to produce high quality research that is focused in nature. In fact one of David’s senior executives’ comments was that David’s Unit does not have a clear identity when it comes to its scholarly research output compared to the one in Australian National University. After several meetings with subject matter experts (consultants) and a rigorous analysis of the current trends in research in the area of information technology it has been decided that the most appropriate research area for the proposed research centre to focus on is social media. Fortunately several of David’s Unit staff are active researchers in this area. What made this direction even more attractive is that demand from Master and Doctoral students has been largely for programs in this area. David’s Unit also enjoys a very good relationship with an international expert Craig Bamworth in the social media area who has kindly agreed to offer his expertise to Bruce (the program manager).

One of the projects within the Social Media Research Centre larger project that Bruce has identified as important is the development of a web application for the proposed centre.

Your manager, Bruce has given you guidance that the project needs to be completed within 8 months and that costs should be minimised wherever possible with given budget of AUD 50000.00

Task 1: Prepare Project Charter

Basic details Including: Title of the project, Name and email of the Project Manager (yourself), Duration of the project, and High level budget

MOV - Measurable Organisational Value

Task 2- Communication Plan

Answer:

Project Charter

Date: 5^th May 2017

Title of the Project: Web Application Development Project

Information of the Budget

Project of Web Application Development

Analysis of requirement

Project Manager

Formation of Project Plan

Planner

Commencement of the Project

Analysis of design requirement

Software Development

Making of design outline

Software Development

Completion of Design Phase

Programming requirement analysis

Programmer

Application programming

Programmer

Coding Phase

Selection of suitable coding method

Coder

Completed of coding phase

Alignment of design, code and the program developed

Tester

Review of the application

Tester

Testing of the function

Tester

Final Review and Documentation

Final modification

Software developer, programmer and coder

Signing of the documents

Project manager, business analysts

 Objective of the Project:

• The project was developed to form a appropriate project plan to develop and implement a web based application for the various operations of the Social Media research centre. The project would be helpful to make the various processes of the organization easy. Modification and development of operations are two major influencers of this research process.
• The main scope of this project is the modification of system requirement. The web based application would be helpful to store the research done by the organization. It would be a helpful tool in accessing their research and in forming of their own analysis with the help of stored data and information in the system.
• The primary deliverable of the project is the development of a web-based system for the organization. A database server would be connected to the application. It would allow the students to resister in the application to access the data and information.
• The major benefit of the development of this kind of system is that it would help the students in their study. The modified system would assist the students by providing data and information.

The use of change evaluation and implementation would not be included in this project. The change management is an important factor in invoking the development of strategies and tools to carnage the project.  

MOV - Measurable Organisational Value

MOV Statements: The MOV statement is shown below:

2^nd – Operational

3^rd – Customer

• Better- The main objective behind the development of this project is to make process of searching necessary data and information easy for the students of Social Media Research Centre.
• Faster – The clients requires the efficiency of the operations of the organization. It would assist the students to search for the relevant data and information for their study and research purposes.
• Cheaper – The modification of the operations of the project is the purpose of scheduled project management operations.
• Do More – The clients had been attempting the development of the operations of the project.

• To evaluate the expected cost and its flow after implementation, the process of cost analysis would be used.
• Net Present Value would be used to get the internal rate of return (IRR)

Assumptions and Constraints

• Any assumption made at the time of the project

List of constrains that need to be addressed

List of the Stakeholders

Communication Plan Template

Purpose of the Plan: In order to form a operability and effective plan for the project operation, the communication plan is a helpful tool. To convey one’s idea and the development of more systematic plan is the main reason behind the development of communication plan. To complete the project objectives, the overall team philosophy plan is a helpful factor. The lateral communication depends on the hypothetical development of the plan. It helps to form functional and effective functional operation of the project. The downward communication plan shows the channeling of thoughts, ideas and messages. To form an effective and smart communication plan, the upward communication is an important factor.

1. Work division of the project
2. Effective implementation plan formation
3. Convey issues and to solve them
4. Development of change requirements

 Bibliographies

Garton, C., & McCulloch, E. (2012). Fundamentals of Technology Project Management. MC Press, LLC.

Kerzner, H. (2013). Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.

Walker, A. (2015). Project management in construction. John Wiley & Sons.