Project Scenario:

Assume that you are building a website with a database back-end for a bookshop which specialises in antique and rare books. The bookshop does not have any web presence at the moment and the long-time staff and owners have minimal experience of the use of computers and the Internet. You are the Project Leader for this project and you need to develop sections of a Project Plan as outlined below. (The website itself will not be a deliverable of this project and will not be assessed as part of the Applied Software Project Management Module). The documentation which will be submitted will be developed on a portfolio basis building on what has been covered in the labs and lectures week by week.

The Project Documents should include the following:

Feasibility Study: (20%) A feasibility study before embarking on the project. You will need to outline how a feasibility study could be carried out and will also need to provide a sample Return on Investment (ROI) Calculation and a sample Net Present Value (NPV) or Internal Rate of Return (IRR) as part of the study. You should explain what these values represent and what they are used for. You will also need to make some assumptions on how the project could make profits and value those profits, for example by saving headcount costs or through increased sales revenues.