Project Summary
PROJECT PROPOSAL: INITIATING AND PLANNING
The project is about launching a new software in the
systems of organization that will reflect the availability of material and
physical resources in the company. In addition, it will help in tracking the
inventory, provide production status, and can be accessed by particular
individuals who will be project stakeholders. Since, in general, there are
multiple projects that goes in an organization, there would be limited access
given to each of the project stakeholders such that they could see only their
project related information not anyone else. This way the software holds the
security and authentic nature of the information in its system.
The project will begin in Apr’21 and the final launch
will happen in Jul’21. With the launch of software, a one-week training program
will be organized to teach organization employees about how it is to be used
and its pros and cons. The software will be launched through a series of
processes starting with finalizing software specifications, its design and
implementation, its validation, and lastly evolution (uni-pannon.hu).
Project Objectives
1.
Providing
a new ecosystem in the organization that includes understanding the complexity
of the software, systems interconnectedness, its intrinsic value as per the
outcome it provides.
2.
To
promote digital transactions and transformations within the organization for
error-free record keeping.
3.
To
get real-time information and quick access to the information that will
increase productivity and curb losses.
(Kettunen&Laanti, 2017)
Project Goals
1.
To
speed-up the company processes and making projects result-oriented.
2.
To
match up the complexities of the business environment and meet production goals
according to the demand of the customer.
3.
To
enhance quick decision-making by quick access of information that further
enhances the communication within the organization.
(Kettunen&Laanti, 2017)
The key customers of this project would be the
end-users, that is, organization employees and the two project stakeholders are
project manager and project team members (project planning team and quality
assurance team) from IT department hired specifically for this project. These
stakeholders would be responsible for delivering quality product to the end
users with streamlined functioning and user-friendly features that will make
the product readily adaptable.
Key Milestones/Project Deliverables
Whether the end users are organization employees
(internal stakeholders) or product buyers (external stakeholders), there are
certain essential milestones that are related with every software project. These
are:
1.
To
gather purpose/requirement of the project–Before, designing the software, it is essential for
the developers to imbibe the objectives that will be achieved by the project.
It is also essential to know about the scope of the work to be accomplished
that will put up all the tasks and functions that the software must perform.
2.
Validating
the requirements expected out of the project–After being list down, the requirements must be
validated with the technical team involved in the project for making the final
specifications and how these are going to be achieved. Just designing a
software could be too generic till the tools and functional requirements to be
used in designing the software gets finalized.
3.
Predevelopment
Planning–The planning
teams involved are technical design team that plans the resources, interfaces
such as user, hardware, software, and communications, and system features like
performance, safety, security, and quality. The project planning team would be
considering the suitable project management model amongst agile and waterfall
method. The third team involved in predevelopment is Quality Assurance team
that has to decide on the test cases to be conducted according to the software
requirements. It will design the test script and set up the conditions for
testing before development begins(Smith).
Key Tasks and Project Status Report
The possible timeframe can be as follows:
Project Overall Cost and Staffing
The factors responsible for overall pricing of the
project are:
Technical factors – platform, UI/UX design,
development, and testing.
The cost of the project can be ballparked as Project
Resource Cost x Project time = Project cost.
~$1,000/day – for a developer*
~$10,000/week for a team*
The rough costing taking into account the factors like
experience, role, size, and location also needs to be considered. Based on this
costing, following is the pricing chart prepared for the project:
Small Medium Large Enterprise
Software Modification $3k-$10k $20k-$50k $80k-$150k
$100,000+
Web Development $10k-$30k$20k-$60k$60k-$150k$80,000+
Software Integration$15k-$40k$50k-$80k$70k-$100k$80,000+
New Software$25k-$60k$50k-$100k$100k-$250k$125,000+
(Wilson, 2020)
Key Staffing and Non-staffing resources
Project Manager
Project Planners
Software Developers
Quality Assurance
Conclusion
It can be concluded that the success of the project depends upon end user experience.
USA 
India