Project Plan for Online Food Delivery App Development

Individual Assignment
1. Introduction
The proposed new business is an online food delivery application for smartphones and computer using
which, the customers will be able to search for nearby restaurants and food joints and order some food that
will be delivered directly to his location at minimal or even no cost. For this new business, a website for
access using computers and app for smartphones need to be developed. In addition to the development of
the app, some other requirements are to be fulfilled including sealing partnerships with various popular
restaurants and food joints for the including within the service scope and getting other service benefits.
In this report, a project plan has been developed for the development and implementation of the new
business venture.
2. Project scope
The overall scope of the project includes the following items.
 Development of an online website for the new food delivery business
 Development of a smartphone app for the food delivery business
 Contact with restaurants and food joints for license and partnership
 Hire delivery boys
 Purchase bikes for the delivery boys
 Purchase delivery bags and print company logos on the same
 Purchase company logo inscribed t-shirts for the delivery boys
In addition of the scope and objectives, the website and the app will need to have the following features.
Online registration system for new users and login system for already registered users
Enter information for personal profiles of the users
List of all restaurants in the selected area
Detailed food menu and prices of dishes under each restaurant
Selection of dishes from a restaurant
Place order
Make online payment / choose cash on delivery
Get contact details of assigned delivery boy
Track location of the delivery boy in the in-built map
The overall work breakdown structure is as follows.

Figure 1: Work Breakdown Structure
(Source: Created by Author)
2.1 Selected feature (s)/ deliverable(s)
The selected feature for this particular assignment is the booking selected food dishes and receiving
delivery from the delivery boy. The elaborated WBS for this deliverable is shown in the following diagram.
3. Project schedule to deliver a selected feature
Task Name Duration Start Finish Resource Names
Development of 96 days Mon Mon
Food Delivery
Service
Receive Order Assign Delivery
Boy
Track Delivery
Boy
Deliver Food to
the Customer

Food Delivery App 6/18/18 10/29/18
Project Planning 19 days Mon
6/18/18 Thu 7/12/18
Develop Business
Case 5 days Mon
6/18/18 Fri 6/22/18 Project Manager
Survey of Existing
Market 5 days Mon
6/25/18 Fri 6/29/18 Finance Manager, Project Manager
Determine Market
Competition 2 days Mon 7/2/18 Tue 7/3/18 Finance Manager
Prepare List of
Requirements 2 days Wed 7/4/18 Thu 7/5/18 IT Supervisor, Project Manager
Develop Project
Charter 2 days Fri 7/6/18 Mon 7/9/18 IT Supervisor, Project Manager
Prepare Schedule 1 day Tue
7/10/18 Tue 7/10/18 IT Supervisor, Project Manager
Prepare Budget 1 day Wed
7/11/18
Wed
7/11/18 IT Supervisor, Project Manager
Proceed with
Project 1 day Thu
7/12/18 Thu 7/12/18 IT Supervisor, Project Manager
Project Initiation 10 days Fri 7/13/18 Thu 7/26/18
Hire Developers
and System Testers 3 days Fri 7/13/18 Tue 7/17/18 Project Manager
Provide Budget for
Project 2 days Wed
7/18/18 Thu 7/19/18 Project Manager
Procure Hardware
and Software 5 days Fri 7/20/18 Thu 7/26/18 Procurement Manager, Hardware[1],
Software[1]
Project Execution 60 days Fri 7/27/18 Thu
10/18/18
Start Development 2 days Fri 7/27/18 Mon
7/30/18 Developer, Tester
Develop Online
Website 10 days Tue
7/31/18
Mon
8/13/18 Developer, Tester
Add Map 2 days Tue
8/14/18
Wed
8/15/18 Developer, Tester
Add Restaurant
Information and Food
Menus
5 days Thu
8/16/18
Wed
8/22/18 Developer, Tester
Develop Mobile
App 20 days Thu
8/23/18
Wed
9/19/18 Developer, Tester
Add Features 10 days Thu
9/20/18
Wed
10/3/18 Developer, Tester
Test the Website 5 days Thu
10/4/18
Wed
10/10/18 Developer, Tester
Test the App 5 days Thu
10/11/18
Wed
10/17/18 Developer, Tester
Project Handover 1 day Thu
10/18/18
Thu
10/18/18 Developer, Tester
Project Closing 7 days Fri Mon