(PDF) Project Management Sample Assignment

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Assignment 1: Project
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Project plan
Background of Aldi:
Aldi is a Germany based retailer supermarket chain consisting two operational group
Aldi Sud and Aldi Nord. Aldi in one of the major international company in globe while
having 10000 stores in 20 countries (Corporate.aldi.com.au, 2016). The annual estimated
turnover is around 80billion AUD. The company was founded in 1913 and split in two parts
in 1946. In Australia the company has 502 outlets under the division of Aldi Sud. The vision
of this company is to provide top quality products in incredibly low price (Rasjidin et al,
2012). In consumer relationship policy the company always keeps their ‘Hapy To Help’
philosophy which is very distinct as well as acclaimed for a retailer company (Aldi.com.au,
2017). The company also maintains a remarkable organisational culture along with suitable
relationship with labour market.
Goods service provided by the client:
The major products are Clothes, Health and beauty products, stationery, Household
Goods, Electronics and Soft tools. Despite that, Aldi has many other subsidiaries and joint
ventures like Aldi talk,Aldi Liquor and Disknot. Both Aldi Nord and Sud provides similar
segments of products and service through their outlets and supermarkets. The company also
has their on-phone consumer helpline and many customer care service outlets (McNeil &
Wilson, 2012). However, the company is currently planning for providing online marketing
and purchasing facilities for their customers to increase their efficiency and profit
simultaneously.

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Exiting Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the website:
Service Level Agreement
Between: Total Web Solution Aldi Sud (Australia)
Date: 14th May, 2018
Definition  “Developers” refers to ‘Total Web Solution’
 “Client” refers to ‘Aldi Sud (Australia)’
 “Website” refers to the online representation and promotional domain
of Aldi Sud (Australia)
Authorisation The developer is an independent software development company provide
online based technical supports to the customers.
The client is a independent and international retailer and super market
chain. Client is engaging the developer to develop their website
Agreement
Details
The Developer is developing an online domain based website under the
administration of the Client. The website will be developing as per the
requirement of the Client and under the supervision and technical designing
of Developer. The administrative operation on chosen domain server will
be handed over to the Client after the finishing the development process.
During operation of the Website the Developer will be bound to serve the
Client when needed.
Payment and
Workflow
Initially the Client is paying one third of the total price
Two third of the price will be payed after the delivery of Website
Any additional requirement after delivery will need additional payment
Any technical guidance and help from Developer side will be always
provided with free of cost
Confirmation
Aldi Sud (Australia) Total Web Solution
Per: Per:
Title: Title:
Witness: Witness:

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Client Needs:
As per the new requirement from Aldi (Client) the following features need to be
added to the official website page of the client:
 Online shopping and purchasing facility for client
 For shopping online the client have to create an account in the official page
 After creation of the consumer account all the consumer details have to be delivered to
the Cloud Storage Data Base system of Aldi
 The consumers can purchase their desired products by online money transaction
 The online money transaction has to be safe and secured
 The transaction process will be completed after the confirmation from the customer
through customer’s e-mail.
 Special offers as well as product service availability notifications have to be delivered to
the customer’s e-mail id when needed.
Research Scope of new opportunities with the clients:
Considering the requirements of Aldi for their online shopping website there are many other
additional facilities and features that can implement as well as improved the utilisation of
requirement identified earlier. These scopes of new opportunities are follows:
 Integrated information exchange within the official website of Aldi and the online
shopping website can improve the operational efficiency of both of these domains where
the potential consumers can easily switch between the official website and online
shopping website of Aldi (Ghandour, 2015).
 In purchasing procedure the user interface can follow the advance online value
transaction frameworks consists of seven steps namely Searching, Filtering, Selection,
Purchasing, Client-details, Transaction, Confirmation and Delivery (Yang et al., 2014).

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 Offer can be filtered as per the consumers behaviour and interest regarding their
searching history and previous purchasing in the Aldi’s online shopping website.
Budget:
Activity Estimated
expense (AUD)
Total (AUD)
Organising multiple meetings with Aldi’s facility
department
800 x 20 16000
Purchasing software for website development 200 x 5 10000
Arranging hardware for development and testing 400 x 5 20000
Payroll for the development and designing process 800x 20 16000
Real-time communication with client 20 x 150 3000
Purchasing domain for the developing website 150 x 1 150
Purchasing data and information security protocols and
softwares
150 x 4 600
Total estimated expense 65750
Timeframe of website development:
Activity Starting time Duration (days)
Identification of client’s needs 20/5/18 10
Acquiring the hardware and software required for
development
25/5/18 8
Making initial design and its Concept 1/6/18 6
Confirmation about further development 7/6/18 5
Designing fundamental Data Flow diagram 10/6/18 15
Purchasing domain server 12/6/18 5
Encrypting the monetary transaction function 20/6/18 12

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Developing User-interface 30/6/18 10
Demonstrating and making essential changes 4/7/18 7
Encrypting the domain licensing and administration
attributes
10/7/18 5
Finalising the project 15/7/18 5
Finalising the project
Encrypting the domain licensing and
administration attributes
Demonstrating and making essential
changes
Developing User-interface
Encrypting the monetary transaction
function
Purchasing domain server
Designing fundamental Data Flow diagram
Confirmation about further development
Making initial design and its Concept
Acquiring the hardware and software
required for development
Identification of client’s needs
15-05-18 29-05-18 12-06-18 26-06-18 10-07-18 24-07-18
Series 1
Gantt chart
Software and Hardware requirement:
The required software and tools are:
 Web based user interface development software
 Java script support browser and operating platform
 Peer to Peer connection for safe and secure monitory transaction
 Real-time functional server domain
 Real-time data security software
The required pieces of Hardware are:

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 Web page compatible personal computer
 Internet connection with adequate speed (min 512 Kbps)
One on One interview with facilitator about the project plan: 700
After conducting the one on one interview with the facilitator of the Aldi the following
components of website development project plan have been identified:
Current proposed plan and prospect for Aldi:
Data integrity  The online website page will be connected with the official
web page of Aldi through a highlighted hyperlink. It will help
the potential consumers to serf through the official page as
well as the online shopping website of Aldi (Sridhar, 2013).
 All the detail information of the online shopping website will
be transferred to the online cloud data base storage system of
Aldi in a real time environment.
 To purchase online the consumer need to create a client
account by providing his or her email id in the Aldi online
shopping website (Park, & Cochrane, 2012).
 After this sign up process all the detailed information will be
sent to the organisational database system.
Platform  Initially the online shopping website will be made with
computability for personal computer based platform and
browsers.
Purchasing process  The customer who already has an account needs to log in with
the user id and password
 There will be a searching option for user to search for desired
products and its price

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 For purchasing the user needs to select the product icon and
proceed.
 At the beginning of the purchasing process the user has to
provide the delivery details with delivery time and address
with emergency contact number of the user (Tanjung &
Dhewanto, 2014).
 In transaction process the user has to proceed with a new
money transaction wizard.
 After confirmation of money transaction process a delivery
message will be sent to the user’s email id mentioning the
unique delivery number and estimated time of the delivery.
Online transaction  At the beginning of the transaction the user have choose the
method of transaction from three provided options namely
Credit card, Debit Card, PayPal
 After selecting the transaction method the user will be asked
for further details of transaction such as card id, PayPal
account number and others.
 In next phase a third party Peer to Peer data transaction
wizard will open where the Aldi’s website will not have any
access. The connection will be handover to the monetary
transaction operation of the respective selected payment
method.
 After completing the money transaction process a
confirmation mail will be sent to consumer email.
Consumer relation  The browsing information of the user within the Aldi’s
website will be sent to the organisational database whenever
the consumer will be logged in.
 Promotional information regarding new offers, product or
service availability will be sent to the consumer’s email id as
per the consumer interest identified from the Aldi’s database.
 Clint will be able to send email to the website administrator
about any complain, feedbacks and review.

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Implementation of business plan as per the organisational guideline:
After developing the business plan Aldi needs to work collaboratively to generate the privacy
and licensing considering a finalised administration of the Aldi facilitator. During the
development of the website the Aldi will only have the read authentication which allows
them to only see the development process without making any change within it (Wan, 2012).
For making any change Aldi will have to inform the developer company about any alteration
or additional requirement. The website read and write authentication will be provided to the
Aldi after finalising the website development process. For online transaction related licensing
the equal involvement of Aldi will required while making online monetary transaction
agreement policy with the banks and the PayPal (Taylor et al., 2012). During developing the
website and data flow the developer will keep collecting the feedbacks and advices from
Aldi.
Identify areas of disagreement:
During the discussion process and interview the facilitator of Aldi has requested to make
some essential changes within the website development plan. These proposals are:
 Aldi want to develop the shopping website compatible with all the mobile devices like
tablet and Smartphone.
 Aldi asked to make a wish-list page where the potential customer can select a product and
store the information for future purchase.
 Aldi wants to incorporate a customisable filter option in the searching process where the
customer can define the specifications for the desired product by which the search result
will be sorted.

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 Aldi wants to have a real time communication system between the customer and the
consumer helpline department during the purchasing process through a chat box
incorporated within the online shopping website.
Amendments and finalise project plan:
After analysing the consumer requirements the some amendments are needed within the
existing website development project plan. After making the amendments the final project
plan is described below:
Data integrity  The online website page will be connected with the official
web page of Aldi through a highlighted hyperlink.
 All the detail information of the online shopping website will
be transferred to the online cloud data base storage system
 To purchase online the consumer need to create a client
account by providing his or her email id
 After the sign up process the detailed information of
consumer will be sent to the organisational database system.
 After the login process the customer can communicate with
the helpline by a real-time chatbox.
 Consumer can select products and store for future purchase in
wish-list menu
Platform  The online shopping website will be made that will be
compatible with personal computer and mobile devises like
smart phone
Purchasing process  The customer needs to log in with the user id and password
 The customer can search for desired products with filtering
process
 For purchasing the user needs to select the product icon and
proceed.
 In purchasing process the user has to provide the delivery

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details and an emergency contact number of the user.
 The transaction process will be proceeding in a third party
money transaction wizard.
 After transaction a delivery message will be sent to the user’s
email id mentioning the delivery number and estimated time
of the delivery.
Online transaction  At the beginning the user have choose the method of
transaction among Credit card, Debit Card, PayPal
 After selection the user will be asked for e-card id, PayPal
account number and others.
 Then a third party Peer to Peer data transaction wizard will
open to continue the transaction process.
 After money transaction process a confirmation mail will be
sent to consumer email.
Consumer relation  The browsing information of the user within the Aldi’s
website will be sent to the organisational database.
 Promotional information will be sent to the consumer’s email
id as per the consumer interest identified from the Aldi’s
database.

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Task: 3
Introduction:
Review the effectiveness of the strategies is the most essential part of the strategic business
plan making (Cotter & Fritzsche, (2014). In this report, the organisational development plan
has been critically analysed. The purpose of this report is to identify the faults and anomalies
within the organisational operation that caused declining revenue growth of 10%, less
consumer satisfaction and lower employee employer relationship.
Review
Responsibilities:
The report and documentation of each department are analysed to identify current operational
position and potential operational position without considering any changes. The business
development department provides the evidences of Financial turnover during the marketing
campaign, Existing market share and potentiality and Target performance measurement of
each staffs and team members (Cowley & Domb, 2012). The operational management was
responsible for measuring the internal profit and loss including the payrolls as well as training
and development process. Accomplishing the current operational objectives and measuring
Potential operational improvement and work flow alterations are the major responsibilities of
the operation management team (Galliers & Leidner, 2014).
Findings and making changes:
From the quantitative analysis and communicational analysis method it has been found that
the department of Business Development needs more campaigns. Similarly, controlling the
time and effort investment for demand and supply measurement as well as in the consumer
behaviour analysis is equally essential.

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The operational efficiency of the Staffs in various departments have been also
analysed. From this analysis it has been found that their performance had decreased
significantly due to lack of information integrity and higher cardinality. Apart from that
disputed recruitment and selection, process have been identified as the major fault behind this
declination.
In order to improve the workforce performance level the Operating Hours have been
changed which can help to use the optimum productivity of the workforce. However it has
been found that the extra time departmental operation especially in marketing and
promotional department is not beneficial (Goetsch & Davis, 2014). Therefore, more smaller
and accurate market operation, promotions and campaigns are required to be implemented.
After monitoring the financial changes within the organisational operation it has been
found that the developed business plan should be measured by the comparing the equivalent
financial report regarding the daily cash-flow.
Making necessary changes within the strategic plan and operational objectives is
crucial part of this review and evaluation process. The target of the alteration process is to
ensure the optimum effectiveness of the current communication plans.
For making changes in organisational development the Forward Plans Refinements
would be the most appropriate tools. Through this tool the key faulty issues in current
organisational development and the potential profitable changes can be identified (Kasemsap,
2013).
If the current workforce efficiency cannot meet the predetermined score required for
KPI, the immediate training will be initiated. If a particular employee does not have the

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potentiality to achieve the minimum target in spite of receiving enough training and
development, he or she can be terminated.
Controlling and evaluation process
From the initial execution to the accomplishment of targeted objectives Evaluation
process will be the chief concern in this organisational development plan. The evaluation plan
will follow certain steps cyclic implementation including data collection, analysis, decision
making, developing alternative plan and execution (Van et al., 2016). In existing
organisational development plan, the alteration stage will be conducted and forecasted in
every alternative week. For each decision making operation, the presence of all the valuable
stakeholders and operationally responsible person is very important.

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