Project Management Techniques for Website Development for Target Australia

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Stage 2: Development of website for Target Australia
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Executive Summary
The report is reflected on analyzing the project management techniques would help Target
Australia to develop their company’s website. The entire project duration for the project plan
is 108 days and the project activities are dependent on each other, therefore there are chances
of project lag and ahead of schedule. In this paper, five project management techniques are
mentioned such as network diagram, PERT, bar chart, critical path analysis and cash flow
management. All the techniques are useful to complete project work on scheduled timeline
and forecasted cost. The scope of this project is determining the critical activities of project
affect the project completion. There is also measuring of inflow and outflow cost for the
project for successful finish of website development project plan.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Project Management Techniques...............................................................................................3
1. Project Network..............................................................................................................3
2. Bar Chart.........................................................................................................................5
3. Critical path method (CPM)............................................................................................7
4. PERT...............................................................................................................................9
5. Cash flow management.................................................................................................14
Conclusion................................................................................................................................19
References................................................................................................................................20
Bibliography.............................................................................................................................21
Appendix..................................................................................................................................22
1. Network and bar chart...................................................................................................22
2. PERT diagram...............................................................................................................22
3. Cash flow management.................................................................................................22

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Introduction
The project plan report is reflected on development of website for Target Australia.
By means of agile project management methodology, the project plan is carried out. The
expected duration of this project is 108 days with start date as 6th January 2020 and end date
is 3rd June 2020. The scope of this project is to develop website for the company to help the
customers buy online products and serve the company in better process. The client should
satisfy with the project timeline and also satisfy with the project scope. The estimated budget
for the plan is $142,320 required to finish work on scheduled timeline.
Project Management Techniques
1. Project Network
The project network is graphical way to view the project tasks and dependencies as
well as critical path of the project plan. The main purpose to establish the network diagram is
mapping the project schedule as well as sequencing project work for project planning. It
helps to track project progress through each project stages (Lock 2017). The project network
also illustrates possibility of the project. The scope of this project is to improve a user
friendly website for Target Australia with right system users. The developed website is
easier to find for the users to order their products from the Target Audience. In the website
development plan, the following diagram of project network is used to demonstrate
interdependencies of plan activities and display progress of the project (Soe and Htike 2018).
The below network diagram shows which task is dependent on what along with its start as
well as end date of the plan activities. It is also showing the project duration of the activities.
The red color boxes show the activities which are critical and blue color boxes show the non-
critical activities.

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Figure 1: Project Network Diagram
(Source: Created by author using MS Project)
2. Bar Chart
Bar chart is also termed as Gantt chart, used for representing the development
activities. The length of the project schedule is proportional to time required to conclude the
project tasks. It is an effective project management tool to manage project work. The bar
chart is graphic opinion of the project tasks arranged over time. It helps to view start as well
as conclusion date of project plan in simple opinion (Harrison and Lock 2017). The bar chart
is helpful to prepare the project manager with information they need to supervise while
managing the website development plan. In case of complex project, the task dependencies
are critical to manage, therefore bar chart is a better tool to identify project progress. The bar
chart helps to understand severity of the project time delays while management of project
work. The bar chart also determines resources required and manages project task
dependencies.
The below bar chart shows that the main activities in the project plan are project
management plan, designing phase, selecting technical framework, implementing technical
framework, creating content, testing website and project closure. Those are the main
activities required to complete the project work. The bar chart shows the task names and
duration of each activities. The horizontal line shows the duration of the project activities and
vertical line shows the task name. From the bar chart figure, it shows that the project
management plan ends in Feb, 20, designing phase ends in month of April, 20 and selecting
technical framework ends in April, 20. Implementing technical framework, creating content
and testing website also ends in the month of May, 20. Finally, the closure phase ends month
of June, 20.