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.

Project Plan Sections : (80%) Using your website as the context for the plan, you are asked to submit sections of a project plan which will detail the following:

• Methodology (20%) Details of what project approach will be used during the project and a full explanation as to why this approach was chosen.
• Work Breakdown Structure (10%) The plan should include a work breakdown structure diagram which will decompose the project and show the main tasks that need to be completed.
• Task Duration Estimation (15%) You should also provide an estimate of how long the activities will take. You should explain how function points can be used to provide an estimate for how long each piece of development activity will take. Provide one worked example to illustrate your explanation. (You could for instance use the development of a form that allows for the insertion, deletion, query and update of all details regarding a particular book on the system. List any assumptions you will need to make.)
• Stakeholders (15%) The project plan should identify all stakeholders and their concerns and present a plan as to how you will interact with each of the groups of stakeholders.
• Risk Management (20%) You need to conduct a risk analysis to identify areas in the plan where risks can occur and include the risk analysis, risk planning and risk monitoring and management actions as part of the project plan.

NB. You must apply course concepts to the case study and carefully consider the impacts of the target users and owners of the website, as described above.