Project Development Project Management Engineering

Question: Describe about the Project Development for Project Management Engineering. Answer: Introduction: The assignment is based upon creating a Network Infrastructure and system arrangement for the Australian Labs. The project will address problem analysis and system development for the lab facility. Australian lab contacted XYZ Informatics for the job and us at XYZ Informatics analyzing and preparing a system which can be compatible with the present scenario. The lab is currently working with traditional sample collection and report distribution system. They are willing to acquire new facilities regarding the lab sample collection and reporting. Problem Analysis: The Australian Labs is associated with lab testing service for a variety of clients, which includes doctors, medical offices throughout the country. In the working culture, the clients send test vials to the Australian Labs and then they analyze the vials and send a report to the client. The Australian lab testing center generally tests the samples and analyze it provide a report associated with different diseases. They usually send the report via fax. We can analyze these working steps can be considered as more time consuming as well hectic. Testing, reporting, and collection these are three things which require proper collection and reporting. 1. System development is a process through which a system can be analyzed, created, tested and at last deployed in the working environment. The system development life cycle is applied in the case of Information system. In general, there are different approaches which can be applied for the system development life cycle. I have selected two most popular approached which are Waterfall approach and Agile approach for the project Development. Project managers mostly select these two approached for the project development. Waterfall approach: The waterfall approach is one of the widely used approaches for the project management. The waterfall approach is mainly used to divide the whole project into different objectives. It mostly emphasizes in the planning and time schedule as well project budget. It is considered as one of the tightly controlled project management which can be considered as a loophole with this approach (Maylor and Jones, 1996). Agile Approach: Agile approach is one of the best and most used method for the project management. This method is considered as one of widely used and flexible method for the project management. It promotes adaptive planning and continuous improvement. The agile method for SDLC is considered as one of the widely used methods for the software development. It supports rapid and flexible response towards the change. The agile method first creates a team for the project then planning, coding, testing and at last, the product is demonstrated to the stockholders. It also encourages stockholder association with the project. The development team also contributes their thoughts and approach in between the project. These are some of the benefits of the agile project development approach in SDLC (Maylor and Jones, 1996). The six source of softwares are Information technology services firms In - house developers. cloud computing vendors enterprise - wide solutions packaged software producers open source software Off the shelf softwares are those which are ready made and open to sell to the public. We can use the Off-the-shelf softwares for the Australian Labs with some modifications. If we do some modifications to the software which are needed as per the clients needs. 2. The primary functional requirement for the project in the case of Australian Labs are; There must be a network Infrastructure. Website Database Security system Computer system Barcode generator Scanner Tracking system Internet Barcode reader Non- Functional requirement: There are some non-functional requirements associated with the project. The functional requirement of a system is generally supported by non-functional requirements. These are, Accessibility Performance Security Functionality Robustness Privacy Quality Maintenance Fault Tolerance 3. The project cost-benefit analysis is a total sum up of the money invested in a project and the difference between the equivalent money values of the benefits which are accessed due to the project. In the case of the Australian Labs, the cost-benefit analysis of the company seems to good as the project cost is something lower than the value of the money associated with the benefits. AS total cost for the project is about $ 80, 000. At the very first year the net economic benefit is 0, but from the next year, the economic benefit is about $ 40,000 with a recurring cost of $25,000. The recurring cost is something which is attached to the function of the organization. The increase in the benefit is directly proportional to the increase in the demand. As the system will facilitate the organization to work quickly with the samples and reducing the time associated with the testing and reporting of a sample so the marginal benefit is going to increase with the time. So as per my analysis, the project is going to benefit the organization in long term and cost associated with it is lesser than the return due to benefits (Sassone and Schaffer, 1978). 4: WBS: Gantt Chart This Gantt chart shows the time and the work associated with the project Development. The following project schedule shown in the Gantt chart describes the overall time associated from the starting of the project till the termination of the project. This contains different objectives and milestones. The first is the project selection when the Australian Labs has consulted us for the project work they wanted to create something which is suitable for their organization. The management of both teams agreed upon the time and budget and legally made an agreement or Memorandum of Understanding. As per my views, the project schedule is appropriate, there are different meetings between the stockholders and well as with the team members. The 1-day meeting is aimed to brief about the development in the project and how these are going to benefit the organization. The overall time for the project development is about 12 days which is considered as enough as the company wants the project completed for a limited time so that the working culture of the company does not get affected by the project. The main thing is the training of the employees. The team from the development company will train the employees so that they can effectively work with the new system and utilize the benefits to get work done quickly. 5: Stakeholders are the persons or organizations who are directly or indirectly involved with the project. Internal Stakeholders: Software Developer Project manager System administrator CEO of the company Company staffs Network Engineer System Engineer Project manager from the Australian Labs. Factory manager External Stakeholders: Supplier companies Government authorities Internet providersThe traditional technique for collecting requirements includes different aspects, which are interviewing and listening, making questionnaires, observing the users and analyzing procedures and other relevant documents. These are the 4 methods which are generally needed while making requirements, the interviewing and listening is one of the most used methods. In this process, the team generally interviews the users and find out their views regarding the present and what they want to be induced in future. These help the team in analyzing the situation. The questionnaire is another thing which is created when the numbers of users are in large numbers. In this case, the questionnaire helps the team in analyzing the requirements. If the numbers of users are high then questionnaire can be considered as the best option. The three mostly used traditional methods are ; Interviewing and Listening Creating Questionnaires Observing users All of these three can be considered as relevant in the case of project requirement analysis. The Interview can be conducted if the numbers of users are less and the requirements are directly involved with their work culture. The Questionnaire is also one of the most used methods in requirement analysis, if the organization is big and a company has to conduct requirement analysis then they can simply create a question set which needed to be answered by the employees. This procedure directly reflects the requirements are the development company can choose the most demanded aspect of the project. The last traditional technique is Observing users, in this approach the project team generally observe the users of the system and create a set of requirements based on their observation. In the case of Australian Labs, the users can be interviewed for the requirement analysis (Verma and Institute, 1995). Conclusion: The report is basically made on creating a system for the client company Australian Labs. The client company is involved in the lab testing works with having clients from different parts of the country. I have analyzed the situation and created a WBS as well as Gantt chart to show the required aspects of the project management. Apart from these, I have listed the stockholders who are directly or indirectly involved in the system development. Reference: Anderson, R.J. (2008). Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley Maylor, H. and Jones, D. (1996) Project management. London: Trans-Atlantic Publications. 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