Project Management- Modifying the Billing Software

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project Management
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT1
Executing the plan
The purpose of the project was to revamp the online billing system of ABC limited. The
project scope focused on modifying the billing software within the budget of $ 10,000 and time
of 30 days. The initial project plan estimated the completion of the project within 28 days.
However, due to the lack of necessary resources the project was taking more time than expected.
The project status report showed that in the execution phase, the prototype development will
require additional of two days. Initially buffer time was allocated to each to ensure that the
project would stay on schedule resulting in timely delivery. However, a significant slippage was
identified in the project status report in the prototype development phase 2. The prototype
development two was a critical task which affected the timeline of the overall schedule.
Baseline 2 of the report showed that there was a lack of manpower in the prototype
development phase 2 which was delaying it. Therefore, initially all the critical tasks in the
execution phase were identified to check the tasks affecting the deadline of the project. A root
cause analysis was conducted to check the task which was actually causing the issue and added
human resource was incorporated which increased the cost but reduced the time of the overall
project. It helped in achieving the desired time.
Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
Project plan 28 days Mon
4/20/20 Wed 5/27/20
Initiation phase 7 days Mon
4/20/20 Tue 4/28/20
Identify the current
problems with the system 3 days Mon 4/20/20 Wed 4/22/20
document the
requirement 2 days Thu 4/23/20 Fri 4/24/20 2
Develop budget 1 day Mon 4/27/20 Mon 4/27/20 3
sent for approval 1 day Tue 4/28/20 Tue 4/28/20 4
Milestone 1: initiation
phase completed 0 days Tue 4/28/20 Tue 4/28/20 5
Design phase 6 days Wed
4/29/20 Wed 5/6/20
Prototype
development 1 3 days Wed 4/29/20 Fri 5/1/20 6
prototype
development 2 3 days Mon 5/4/20 Wed 5/6/20 8
Milestone 2: Design 0 days Wed 5/6/20 Wed 5/6/20 9

PROJECT MANAGEMENT2
phase completed
Implementation
phase 13 days Thu 5/7/20 Mon 5/25/20
Develop the prototype 4 days Thu 5/7/20 Tue 5/12/20 10
second phase 4 days Wed 5/13/20 Mon 5/18/20 12
Testing the design 5 days Tue 5/19/20 Mon 5/25/20 13
identify bugs and
glitches 3 days Tue 5/19/20 Thu 5/21/20 13
Make changes 2 days Fri 5/22/20 Mon 5/25/20 15
Milestone 3:
Implementation phase
completed
0 days Mon 5/25/20 Mon 5/25/20 16
Closure phase 2 days Tue 5/26/20 Wed 5/27/20
Relaunch the software 1 day Tue 5/26/20 Tue 5/26/20 17
sign the project
closure agreement 1 day Wed 5/27/20 Wed 5/27/20 19
milestone 4: Project
closed 0 days Wed 5/27/20 Wed 5/27/20 20