Bandcamp Playlist Service: Enhancing Music Discovery with Multilingual Features

This project report explores the development of a new multilingual playlist service for Bandcamp, a popular online music platform. The project aims to enhance user experience by providing access to music from diverse regions and languages, thereby attracting a wider audience and increasing user engagement. The report details the project selection process, planning, implementation, and evaluation, highlighting the use of project management methodologies like Gantt charts and PERT analysis. It also presents the project outcomes through various graphical representations, demonstrating the impact of the new feature on user statistics and satisfaction levels.

Project Design
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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................4
LO1: Be able to formulate a project......................................................................................................5
1.1 Formulate and record possible outline project specifications.....................................................5
1.2 Identify the factors that contribute to the process of project selection....................................10
1.3 Produce a specification for the agreed project..........................................................................13
1.4 Produce an appropriate project plan for the agreed project.....................................................17
LO2: Be able to implement the project within agreed procedures and to specification.....................21
2.1 Match resources efficiently to the project.................................................................................21
2.2 Undertake the proposed project in accordance with the agreed specification.........................22
2.3 Organise, analyse and interpret relevant outcomes..................................................................24
LO3: Be able to evaluate the project outcomes..................................................................................28
3.1 Use appropriate project evaluation techniques........................................................................28
3.2 Interpret and analyse the results in terms of the original project specification........................30
3.3 Make recommendations and justify areas for further consideration........................................32
LO4: Be able to present the project outcomes....................................................................................33
4.1 Produce a record of all project procedures used.......................................................................33
4.2 Use an agreed format and appropriate media to present the outcomes of the project to an
audience..........................................................................................................................................36
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................39
References...........................................................................................................................................40
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List of figures
Figure 1: Work breakdown structure and Gantt chart.........................................................................16
Figure 2: WBS structure.......................................................................................................................17
Figure 3: Gantt chart............................................................................................................................18
Figure 4: Budget chart for project.......................................................................................................20
Figure 5: Navigation diagram...............................................................................................................23
Figure 6: WBS......................................................................................................................................24
Figure 7: Project Logbook....................................................................................................................24
Figure 8: Feedback graph....................................................................................................................25
Figure 9: User feedback line chart.......................................................................................................26
Figure 10: Project cost graph...............................................................................................................27
Figure 11: PERT diagram......................................................................................................................29
Figure 12: Gantt chart Vs. PERT chart..................................................................................................31
Figure 13: Task scheduling...................................................................................................................34
Figure 14: Gantt chart..........................................................................................................................35
Figure 15: Users statistics before and after the new features implementation...................................36
Figure 16: Users reaction graph...........................................................................................................37
Figure 17: Increased user’s statistics...................................................................................................37
Figure 18: Users satisfaction statistics.................................................................................................38
Figure 19: Work status.........................................................................................................................38
List of Tables
Table 1 Project factors for selection....................................................................................................10
Table 2: Project budget.......................................................................................................................18
Table 3: Feedback of users..................................................................................................................25
Table 4 PERT analysis...........................................................................................................................28
Table 5: PERT vs Gantt chart................................................................................................................30
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Introduction
The project development is the major process that every organization needs for
implementing the new project. The report will discuss the Bandcamp online music company
that offers the platform to those who love music and the artists who sing it or plays it. The
company earns a great profit of approximately $100 million by selling the artists albums on
the application and by giving the members subscription on periodic based. The artists on the
platform can sell their music albums on the price they wish too in any currency as well. The
Bandcamp wants to gain the top position in the market for selling the music and this could
be possible if the Bandcamp upgrades their application by adding new features to satisfy the
customers. Different projects will be identified in this report for Bandcamp where he can
improve. After the project determination based on different selection factors, the
appropriate project will be chosen on which the project development lifecycle will be
implemented. The report will discuss the project life cycles and will also discuss the
different methods used for project development and implementation. Further different
analysis and interpretations will be done based on different aspects like project work status,
user’s satisfaction, number of users and more.
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LO1: Be able to formulate a project
1.1 Formulate and record possible outline project specifications.
Bandcamp is the music company that is a web-based website established in 2008 by the odd
post who is the co-founder of Ethan diamond and his 3 more partners. The Bandcamp
headquarters is located in California. The Bandcamp is the music community that operates
globally that discovers music and support artist directly. On the Bandcamp website, artists
can easily upload their video and can label it and have authority to control the selling
procedure by entering the price on which they want to sell. The user can easily download
the music or can stream their purchased music on the website.
The Bandcamp has several artists like Amanda Palmer and the developers of many songs
like Sanctum, Bastion, to the moon, Minecraft, fez and more. The company status has been
increased from the year 2010 after the Amanda Palmer has started selling the albums on the
website. Its popularity has increased more in the year 2011. The artists associated with the
Bandcamp are Palberta, Martyn, Fluff, Moonshine brand, and thousands of artists
(Bandcamp, 2007).
The services that Bandcamp provide to its stakeholders are;
Artists
It allows the different artist to upload their albums on the application and can sell the
albums on the price artists want to.
Fans
The user can stream or download their purchased album, can follow their favourite artists,
make their own wish list and can explore from the wide range on music present on the
application of Bandcamp.
The Bandcamp application has various features that are;
 It provides the best experience to the fans.
 It offers the flexible use of the application to the artists.
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 It offers the platform to worldwide artists and allows the artists to sell their albums
in any currency.
 Provides the real-time statistics
 Gives a special code to different music albums on the Bandcamp.
The major role of the project life cycle in The Bandcamp is to get the design for diverse
project implementation all together with the specifications about the updated system and
its features.
Project: music shows online video or sound streaming
Task Definition:
The Bandcamp enterprise didn’t offer the music show online video and audio streaming
facility to the customers. So the discussion was done on this by the management person and
decided to provide this feature to the individuals who purchase the subscription on
Bandcamp and enjoy different artist’s music online. This similarly will offer the downloading
services for offline streaming of the music show to the subscribed customers. This
characteristic will enhance their performance and also improve the Bandcamp growth by
earning more profit (Dhir, Kumar, and Singh, 2018).
Project objective:
 The audio and videos downloaded may be heard together with different persons.
 It offers the facility of music that could be stream from any location.
 It gives the online streaming facility from customer’s locations.
 It decreases the issue of pass availability for watching the music show live.
 It also provides the facility to stream the live music show afterwards if one is
available at the show time.
Challenges in the project:
 Implementation of new features in the present system will take more time
 The finished project might be introduced in more than one month.
 The trouble in tracking customer place to provide online music show.
 The storage cost for the web streaming can be greater.
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 Time-based subscription
Project Risks:
 The project may not be delivered on time as the development team may take more
time in development.
 The storage cost might be higher than expected if the memory gets full.
 The cloud storage and server connection issue might fail the video/ audio streaming
of music.
Expected outcomes:
 The customers could easily stream the audios and videos after the system got
updated.
 The rate of server traffic may boost than the present day visitor’s rate.
 Customers will use the Bandcamp platform more than before and hence the
Bandcamp customer increases.
 It provides diverse new features associated with video and audio music to its
customers.
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Task: Services associated with Playlist
Task Definition:
The Bandcamp organization from previous years is giving similar services to the client within
the playlist section. Now, the associations need development so the team decided to
replace and upgrade these services in the playlist by giving music from different zones in
various languages. This element can be empowered by compelling monthly or yearly based
subscriptions.
Project objective:
 It will attract the users from different zones who understand their own language.
 It satisfies the clients' prerequisite by giving different music albums.
 It supplies additional music to each zone and makes an opportunity to contend with
the marketplace.
 By adding numerous new features, the playlist gets upgraded.
 Music is divided into diverse categories and the user gets the different music list.
Challenges in the project:
 The developing the fully functional project in time is a big challenge.
 The payment options provided by the application are limited as the application
doesn’t allow the third-party payment gateways.
 The validation is impossible until the users enter the appropriate OTP at the login
time in the application.
Project Risks:
 Language maintenance of different zones.
 For security purpose, the integration must be done carefully to make some
permissions and terms and conditions for the clients.
 While connecting with Bandcamp.com server traffic issue occurs.
 The issue of dealing with an area for various zones for playlist management.
Expected outcomes:
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 The framework is used by various clients and dealing with their own particular
playlist after the subscription for the understandable language is done.
 After upgrading the application with languages of different zones understandable to
different users around the world will attract new clients on Bandcamp interface
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1.2 Identify the factors that contribute to the process of project selection.
Table 1 Project factors for selection
Project: Online sound or
video streaming for music
shows:
Project: Services associated
with Playlist
Duration Referring to project
development the project will
need around 4 months to
complete its development
and then the project
implementation and testing
are done which needs the
duration of approx. 1 month
for completion.
Referring to project
development the project will
need around 3 months to
complete its development
and then the project
implementation and testing
are done which needs the
duration of approx. 3 weeks
for completion.
Budget For implementing more
modern features in the
Bandcamp existing system
some cost is needed, the
estimated cost or budget for
the project is £27,000
For implementing more
modern features in the
Bandcamp existing system
some cost is needed, the
estimated cost or budget for
the project is £20,000
Technical skill needed Technical tools needed by
the Bandcamp for the
project must be of good
quality. The tool required is
streaming audio recorders,
internet with high speed and
software encoder (Roland,
Iliya, and Dodo, 2017).
Technical tools needed by
the Bandcamp for the
project must be of good
quality. The applications
required are some language
translators like waygo,
Google translates or similar
translators.
HR required Human resources are the Human resources are the
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most important thing
needed to complete the
project. For completing each
project, it is required to
choose correct resources.
The project requires a
project manager having a
great experience and could
handle the whole project till
its completion.
most important thing
needed to complete the
project. For completing each
project, it is required to
choose correct resources. A
human translator is needed
for the projects that can
identify the music album
language and could help in
categorizing the albums
according to the language it
belongs to.
Potential profits This project will have great
benefits and profits to the
Bandcamp as the subscribers
will get more features they
will suggest the Bandcamp to
more users, therefore,
increasing the users hence
profit.
This project will have great
benefits and profits to the
Bandcamp as the users will
get music in more languages
which will attract the users
from different zones around
the world to use Bandcamp
and become subscribers
enhancing the company
profits.
Impacts on company
reputation
It will enhance the
Bandcamp growth and
reputation as the subscribed
customers can get more
benefits and could enjoy
more features directly
enhancing the popularity
and reputation of the
Bandcamp.
It will enhance the
Bandcamp growth and
reputation as the users from
different region or zone can
enjoy the music albums
present on the Bandcamp.
This will increase the users of
Bandcamp directly
enhancing the popularity
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and reputation of the
Bandcamp.
Customer Demand The customer who has taken
the subscription on
Bandcamp needs to stream
and download the live audio
and video which they have
missed and wish to watch
and listen
The customers from
different areas around the
world want to listen or
watch the live music shows
the language they
understand or the region
they belong too.
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1.3 Produce a specification for the agreed project
1 Project Business Direction
1.1 Project Goals
 It will attract the users from different zones who understand their own language.
 It satisfies the clients' prerequisite by giving different music albums.
 It supplies additional music to each zone and makes an opportunity to contend with
the marketplace (Kerzner, 2017).
1.2 Purpose
 The chief purpose is to make the system updated and gain more profit and
popularity for the Bandcamp music company.
2 Project Scope Descriptions
2.1 Project Outcome
The final system will have the updated playlist service feature that will have the albums and
music in more than one language from different regions around the world. The project will
have more usability, reliability and flexibility.
3 Project Plans
3.1 Time Schedule
Task Name Duration Start Finish
project development 53 days Fri 18-05-18 Mon 30-07-18
Planning
Analysis of company
Planning and reporting
9 days Fri 18-05-18 Tue 29-05-18
5 days Fri 18-05-18 Wed 23-05-18
4 days Thu 24-05-18 Tue 29-05-18
Requirement
Selection of resource
9 days Wed 30-05-18 Tue 11-06-18
5 days Wed 30-05-18 Tue 05-06-18
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Collection of resource 4 days Wed 06-06-18 Mon 11-06-18
Listing of stakeholders
Identification
Listing
10 days Wed 12-06-18 Thu 25-06-18
5 days Tue 12-06-18 Mon 18-06-18
5 days Tue 19-06-18 Mon 25-06-18
Implementation
Identification of
application
Device deployment
14 days Tue 26-06-18 Fri 13-07-18
8 days Tue 26-06-18 Thu 05-07-18
6 days Fri 06-07-18 Fri 13-07-18
Testing
Device testing
Feedback collection
11 days Mon 16-07-18 Mon 30-07-18
6 days Mon 16-07-18 Mon 23-07-18
5 days Tue 24-07-18 Mon 30-07-18
4 Project Budget
For implementing more modern features in the Bandcamp existing system some cost is
needed, the estimated cost or budget for the project is £20,000
5 Project Organization and Stakeholders
5.1 Project Organization, Roles, Responsibility and Authority
The project manager is responsible for the project completion with the help and support of
his team. The project manager needs to manage the administration management, business
coordination, project security, its configuration and technical coordination among the team
for a successful project (Nunn, 2016).
6 Project Requirements
6.1 Hardware requirements
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For project development computer-aided system is necessary. Some hardware
specifications that computer has;
 RAM- 4 GB
 Processor- Quad core
 Operating system- Windows, Linux or IOS.
6.2 Software requirements
Every project needs dome software specifications to be fulfilled for the project development
that is;
 Database for storing the different and huge number of albums.
 Translator for different language music.
7 Project Strategies
The translator will be used in the project to add the music albums of different regions in
diverse languages. And further, the songs will be categorised according to their language.
8 Risks
 Language maintenance of different zones.
 For security purpose, the integration must be done carefully to make some
permissions and terms and conditions for the clients.
 While connecting with Bandcamp.com server traffic issue occurs.
 The issue of dealing with an area for various zones for playlist management (Yang,
2012).
9 Work Breakdown Structure and Gantt chart
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Figure 1: Work breakdown structure and Gantt chart
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1.4 Produce an appropriate project plan for the agreed project
The planning stage is the most important phase of the project development, in the planning
phase all the tasks in the project get scheduled and the budget is proposed for the project.
The scheduling is done through the Gantt chant over WBS structure.
Work breakdown structure:
Used for the project schedule analysis of the system. Also, WBS is a starting stage in the
project planning because the development stages and task are defined through WBS.
Figure 2: WBS structure
Gantt chart
Gantt chart is the methodology used for the task scheduling purpose done on the WBS
structure. Gantt chart is used because it makes the project scheduling and cost estimation
easy for the project to be developed. Using the Gantt chart schedule could be easily tracked
(Siami-Irdemoosa, Dindarloo, and Sharifzadeh, 2015).
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playlist
services
planning
company
analysis
planning and
reporting
requirements
resource
selection
resource
collection
stakeholders
listing
identification
listing
implementati
on
appliaction
identification
device
deployment
testing
device
testing
feedback

Figure 3: Gantt chart
Table 2: Project budget
Task Name Duration Start Finish Cost
project development 53 days Fri 18-05-18 Mon 30-07-
18
£20,000
Planning
Analysis of company
Planning and
reporting
9 days Fri 18-05-18 Tue 29-05-18 £2500
5 days Fri 18-05-18 Wed 23-05-
18
4 days Thu 24-05-18 Tue 29-05-18
Requirement 9 days Wed 30-05-18 Tue 11-06-18 £4000
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Selection of
resource
Collection of
resource
5 days Wed 30-05-18 Tue 05-06-18
4 days Wed 06-06-18 Mon 11-06-
18
Listing of
stakeholders
Identification
Listing
10 days Wed 12-06-18 Thu 25-06-18 £1500
5 days Tue 12-06-18 Mon 18-06-
18
5 days Tue 19-06-18 Mon 25-06-
18
Implementation
Identification of
application
Device
deployment
14 days Tue 26-06-18 Fri 13-07-18 £8000
8 days Tue 26-06-18 Thu 05-07-18
6 days Fri 06-07-18 Fri 13-07-18
Testing
Device testing
Feedback
collection
11 days Mon 16-07-18 Mon 30-07-
18
£4000
6 days Mon 16-07-18 Mon 23-07-
18
5 days Tue 24-07-18 Mon 30-07-
18
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2500
4000
1500
8000
4000
Project Budget for services associated
playlist
Planning
requirememt
stakeholders listing
implementation
Testing
Figure 4: Budget chart for project
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LO2: Be able to implement the project within agreed procedures and to specification
2.1 Match resources efficiently to the project
Every project development needs the resources before it can start due to this resource are
an important phase in the project development. Different types of resources are needed for
the project development.
A human resource is a group of people that is project team and project manager. It the
major resource needed to complete the project.
Capital that means the money is also needed during the project development for purchasing
the needed requirements and to pay to the employees as salary.
Hardware resource like laptops, printers, mobiles etc. are the tools used in project
development for checking and testing the project whether it is working smoothly or not.
Software likes Microsoft project, word, Internet etc. are required during the project to make
the plans and to schedule the tasks in the project appropriately.
Paper materials are needed to prepare the project documentation.
Security software’s are required for audio encoding of the project and to keep the
information access authorized and protected during the project development.
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2.2 Undertake the proposed project in accordance with the agreed specification
Service associated with Playlist requirements based on organization:
Bandcamp needs to implement the playlist service for enhancing the playlist collection
based on the different regional languages for better management of the Bandcamp and to
make the customer relation more appropriate and strong.
Project plan
Before the start of the project, it is necessary to build a prototype for the Bandcamp project
to make the analyses of the project outcomes easy.
Lifecycle selection
For developing the project, it is required to identify the most appropriate. By selecting the
appropriate software lifecycle project development and its management become easier.
Selection of team
For the project development, a project manager has the responsibility of the project
completion and also has the responsibility to the appropriate team who can support him to
complete the project.
Selection of Language
Playlist service development is associated with the communication with the user so a multi-
language option needs to be added for the user to choose the language that is
understandable to the user.
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Figure 5: Navigation diagram
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2.3 Organise, analyse and interpret relevant outcomes
Figure 6: WBS
Figure 7: Project Logbook
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playlist
services
planning
company
analysis planning and
reporting
requirements
resource
selection
resourc
e
collectio
n
stakeholders
listing
identifi
cation listing
implementati
on
appliactio
n
identifica
tion
devic
e
deplo
ymen
t
testing
device
testing
feedb
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Analysis
Table 3: Feedback of users
Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4
Is the interface
functioning
appropriately?
Is the application
providing multiple
language features?
Is the
categorization
of music in
the playlist
correct?
The searching
feature in the
application
properly working?
User 1 Yes Not much Yes Not much
User 2 Yes Yes Yes Yes
User 3 Not much Yes Not much Yes
User 4 Yes Yes Yes Not much
User 5 Not much Yes Not much Yes
Is the interface
functioning
appropriately?
Is the application
providing multiple
language features?
Is the categorization
of music in the playlist
correct?
The searching feature
in the application
properly working?
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
Not Much
Yes
Figure 8: Feedback graph
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0
1
2
3
4
Yes
Not Much
Figure 9: User feedback line chart
Activities Cost
Planning £2500
Requirement gathering £4000
Stakeholders listing £1500
Project Implementation £8000
Project testing £4000
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Planning
Requirement gathering
Stakeholders listing
Project Implementation
Project testing
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
7000
8000
9000
Cost (in £)
Cost (in £)
Figure 10: Project cost graph
Source: (Sequeira, and Lopes, 2017)
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LO3: Be able to evaluate the project outcomes
3.1 Use appropriate project evaluation techniques
For analysis, the project working project evaluation techniques are utilized to determine
that whether the project will be completed by the calculated time or not. The project
evaluation can be done through various methods like Gantt charts, CPM and Pert. For
evaluation of project through these methods needs some formula and calculations for
knowing the actual project progress. The project developed for the Bandcamp is playlist
service (Hajdu, and Bokor, 2016).
Table 4: PERT analysis
Task Name Duration Start Finish PredecessorsResource
Names % Complete
project
development 53 days Fri 18-05-
18
Mon 30-
07-18 100%
Planning 9 days Fri 18-05-
18
Tue 29-
05-18
project
manager 100%
Analysis of
company 5 days Fri 18-05-
18
Wed 23-
05-18 100%
Planning and
reporting 4 days Thu 24-05-
18
Tue 29-
05-18 3 100%
Requirement 9 days Wed 30-
05-18
Mon 11-
06-18 project team 100%
Selection of
resource 5 days Wed 30-
05-18
Tue 05-
06-18 4 100%
Collection of
resource 4 days Wed 06-
06-18
Mon 11-
06-18 6 100%
Listing of
stakeholders 10 days Tue 12-06-
18
Mon 25-
06-18
project
manager and
business
analyst
100%
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Identificati
on 5 days Tue 12-06-
18
Mon 18-
06-18 7 100%
Listing 5 days Tue 19-06-
18
Mon 25-
06-18 9 100%
Implemen
tation 14 days Tue 26-06-
18
Fri 13-07-
18
Software
developer 100%
Identifica
tion of
application
8 days Tue 26-06-
18
Thu 05-
07-18 10 100%
Device
deployment 6 days Fri 06-07-
18
Fri 13-07-
18 12 100%
Testing 11 days Mon 16-
07-18
Mon 30-
07-18
Testing
engineer 100%
Device
testing 6 days Mon 16-
07-18
Mon 23-
07-18 13 100%
Feedback
collection 5 days Tue 24-07-
18
Mon 30-
07-18 15 100%
Figure 11: PERT diagram
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3.2 Interpret and analyse the results in terms of the original project specification.
In this report the project development of Bandcamp is discussed, the new features are
added to the Bandcamp system for their development and to enhance their customer
relationships. For analysis and completion of the proposed system, numerous
methodologies can be used. For the services associated with playlist implementation, two
methodologies taken into account are Gantt chart based on WBS and PERT analysis. PERT is
the project management statistics tool that is used for task analysis and its scheduling. PERT
analysis is used to find that how much time the project will take for its completion by
analysing the time needed by each task (Mohammad, van den Broek, Boots, et.al, 2016).
Gantt chart is another project management scheduling tool used for task analysis and its
scheduling. The Gantt chart includes the beginning and the completion date of the project
and each task in the project. Using Gantt chart and PERT both the development of the
services associated with playlist project has become smoother for Bandcamp. The
interpretation is made by comparing the results of both the approaches.
Table 5: PERT vs Gantt chart
Task Name Gantt chart PERT analysis
project development 53 days 53 days
Planning 9 days 9 days
Analysis of company 5 days 5 days
Planning and reporting 4 days 4 days
Requirement 9 days 9 days
Selection of resource 5 days 5 days
Collection of resource 4 days 4 days
Listing of stakeholders 10 days 10 days
Identification 5 days 5 days
Listing 5 days 5 days
Implementation 14 days 14 days
Identification of application 8 days 8 days
Device deployment 6 days 6 days
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Testing 11 days 11 days
Device testing 6 days 6 days
Feedback collection 5 days 5 days
Planning Requirement Listing of
stakeholders Implementation
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
Gantt chart
PERT chart
Figure 12: Gantt chart Vs. PERT chart
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3.3 Make recommendations and justify areas for further consideration
Following recommendation can be made for gaining more profit by the Bandcamp;
Gap exploration
Gap analysis is associated with the project outcome that it the expected outcome is
compared with the actual outcome to analyse the gaps. Using the gap analysis in project
development the organisation's satisfaction level could be determined.
User satisfaction level
The project is developed and altered for making the user satisfied with the services of
Bandcamp. From the development of the services associated with the playlist numerous
problems faced by the users can be solved. Application usability verification is the chief part
of project development.
Quality test
After the Bandcamp project completion, the organization needs to evaluate and verify the
user’s satisfaction level and gain profit from the newly developed system. The quality testing
can be done through different testing tools. Quality audit is needed to validate the services
and development areas on which the entire application is based to enhance and improve its
performance.
Recommendations and justification
Following are the recommendation that will help Bandcamp in enhancing its management
and to earn more profit;
 For more user attraction and application enhancement, the system needs to be
updated constantly.
 For earning more profits, the Bandcamp can add the advertisement space on its
application for other organization and product promotion.
 While upgrading the application every time a new feature must be added.
 The feedback and review option should be there where customers can share their
perspective on the application and its services.
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LO4: Be able to present the project outcomes
4.1 Produce a record of all project procedures used.
The project development is done in several phases that is
Project Selection
It is important to select the appropriate project before starting its development based on
different factors that are time, budget, the efficiency of the project and the profit gain by it
after its implementation. The project selected is services associated with the playlist.
Project planning
The next phase is prototype building. The project and its working are analysed in this phase.
The project scope is also identified and its usability is determined.
Gathering project Requirements
Every project has some requirement with respect to an organization. The requirement could
be related to technical requirements, hardware requirements and human resource
requirements once the requirements are gathered the project tasks can be scheduled.
Stakeholders listing
It is important to identify the key stakeholders of the project and their impact on the final
project. The primary stakeholders can be determined easily whereas secondary
stakeholders are difficult to determine. Stakeholders include project manager, sponsors,
team members, and users.
Project implementation
Implementation is the chief stage where the actual development of the project took place
by the software and other engineers. This application implements the whole project
determined in the planning phase.
Project testing
After the project is completed it is tested by the engineers and non- engineers to test the
functionality of the application. The testers check whether the project implemented is
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working appropriately and meets the Bandcamp requirements. For the testing of the project
different testing tools can be used.
Figure 13: Task scheduling
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Figure 14: Gantt chart
This produced project for Bandcamp online music Company is services associated with
playlist in which different methodologies are utilized for delivery to the organization in
defined deadline. The organization chooses the best task in the wake of depicting two
undertakings framed the rundown. The project chosen undertakes several stages like a plan
and improvement phases and afterwards entire information is evaluated for checking and
testing the requirements as well as project validation. After going through entire phases, the
project developed conveyed to the customer for the project utilization by using the
functionalities based on various surveys. This task is likewise tested by a quality review for
ensuring the administrations and its interface part (Agyei, 2015).
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4.2 Use an agreed format and appropriate media to present the outcomes of the project
to an audience.
The underneath graphical portrayals decide the advance project development report for
Bandcamp organization. The results of the task valuable for the gathering of people to
appraise the usefulness of new highlights and can without much of a stretch get a thought
of new clients. The advancement group enhance the highlights by taking distinctive client
perspectives to improve the current functionalities (Ríos, Ordóñez, Tapia, et.al, 2016).
40%
60%
Bandcamp users
users before implementation
users after implemntation
Figure 15: Users statistics before and after the new features implementation
The below statistics will show the users reaction on the multi-language songs album feature
after its implementation in the Bandcamp project.
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Before adding the features to playlist After adding the features to playlist
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
Unsatisfied
Satisfied
Figure 16: Users reaction graph
The below statistics will show the new users that are connected with the Bandcamp after
the new features implemented.
60
40
users status
Connected users
New users
Figure 17: Increased user’s statistics
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satisfaction level
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 120%
number of users
Excellent
Good
Average
Poor
Very Poor
Figure 18: Users satisfaction statistics
The below is the graph representing the work status of the project completion by the
members of the team individually. This graph helps in managing and analysing the work
status that is how much work done and left (Lock, 2017).
project
manager Quality
analyst software
developer Business
Analyst Testing
Engineer
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
work status
work status
Figure 19: Work status
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Conclusion
The above report discusses in brief about the Bandcamp project development. After so
much of analysis, it is concluded that Bandcamp organization needs to upgrade their
existing system by adding some of the features in the system that were previously missed.
In the report, two projects were identified from which one is chosen that is services
associated with the playlist in which the language feature will be added so that artists from
different regions can upload their albums and users of different zone enjoy the music on
Bandcamp. The different project development approaches like Gantt chart and PERT
analysis is discussed in brief and project specification for the chosen project is prepared.
Further, at last, different analytics graphs are presented for the comparison of the existing
system and upgraded new system for the Bandcamp.
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