Project Management Research Paper

This assignment requires students to write a research paper focusing on various aspects of project management. The provided list of references encompasses diverse topics within the field, including project learning, project management competencies, value management in portfolios, strategic resources, methodological migration, integrated earned value tools, supply chain integration, rural project management, policy analysis and planning, knowledge modelling, web-based project management frameworks, configurable data collection, diary-based primary data, project governance frameworks, and more. Students are encouraged to select a specific area of interest within project management and delve into its complexities through academic research and critical analysis.

Availing Medical Facilities at the doorstep
(App designing for online medical facilities)
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Project management is an important aspect attached with innovation and initiation of a new
business plan in the market. It is necessary that a proper as well as appropriate project plan
should be developed so as to ensure that the project requirements could get fulfilled in a proper
way. For a project developed there are various set of aspects which are required to be taken into
consideration so as to ensure that the project could get managed in the way it should be? Hence,
project report is developed which includes a brief explanation of each and every aspect which
will incur in the project. Report developed includes every single aspect which will help in
completing the project. Such type of activities helps in managing the things in a better way and
provides a set path which helps in completing the project in a smooth and subtle way.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION/OVERVIEW.....................................................................................................4
EXPECTED BENEFITS/CURRENT SITUATION AND MARKET OPPORTUNITIES............5
Market Analysis...........................................................................................................................5
SWOT Analysis...........................................................................................................................5
Output Analysis............................................................................................................................6
PROJECT REQUIREMENTS.........................................................................................................7
List and describe the requirements needed to carry out this project............................................7
List and describe the possible assumptions for this project.........................................................7
List and describe the constraints for this project..........................................................................8
COSTS.............................................................................................................................................8
How much does it cost?...............................................................................................................8
Identify the tools used for cost analysis.......................................................................................9
MAJOR RISKS...............................................................................................................................9
Identify five (5) major risks.........................................................................................................9
Discuss the risks involved and how they will be managed........................................................10
TIMESCALE.................................................................................................................................10
How long will it take to complete the project?..........................................................................10
List and describe the major milestones......................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTION/OVERVIEW
Working on a project and developing all the aspects related to it is a very crucial task. It ensures
that the project should get completed in a smooth manner. A proper plan should be developed in
which all the aspects which will indulge in the project should be focused upon (Petit, 2012). The
project initiated is about developing an application which will help in availing medical facilities
in the rural areas of Australia. An application will be developed which will be connected with the
kiosk machines and with the mobile phones of the people living in the rural areas. Application on
the mobile phones and kiosk machines will be designed in such way which is easy to use and
manage by the people living in the rural areas of Australia. The project initiated will help in
providing better services to the community and will help the people of Australia in managing a
sustainable as well as healthy life (Skibniewski, et. al., 2012). Hence, a project is developed
which will include a proper description of what are the aspects required to be taken into
consideration before working on the project.
It is being evaluated that the people living in the rural areas faces issues in getting proper
medical facilities. Hence, by providing them such type of app will help them in managing the
healthy life and will help the company in providing a 75% hike in the sale as Australia has
various rural areas where the medical facilities are not much effective (Stanek, et. al., 2016).
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EXPECTED BENEFITS/CURRENT SITUATION AND MARKET
OPPORTUNITIES
Projects are developed for the welfare of the business. Aim of developing a new project is to
generate more revenue and to ensure that more refined services could be developed (Thomas,
2015). There are various set of benefits which are required to be taken into consideration. But
before evaluating the benefits it is necessary that various aspects should be focused upon like
market analysis, SWOT analysis and output analysis.
Market Analysis
Market of online health service is a growing sector which is sustaining in the urban market. It is
being evaluated that many of the people are using such type of services and are enjoying them as
they are getting health tips just by making certain clicks (Too, & Weaver., 2014).
There are many of the health service providers who are providing consultations with the help of
online applications in the urban areas.
The online health services are sustaining day by day and are moving on a successful path. Taking
this business to the rural areas will definitely help in the sustainability of the community
(Cengage Lea Schwalbe, 2015).
Providing instant services will help in attracting people of rural areas with the effect of which
organization will move on the path of success and sustainability.
SWOT Analysis
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
Plan developed will help in sustainability of
the community
There is no competition available in the rural
areas
Online Medical services has a growing market
Helping the rural areas to growth is a noble
cause in which government will also provide
It is necessary that the people of rural areas
should provide the knowledge of app, because
low knowledge will affect the sale of the
product and services.
Huge investment is required in the kiosk
machine as well as app development.
Availability of proper set of resources is really
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appropriate set of help for the initiation of
project (Koltsov, et. al., 2015).
tough
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
Low competition in the rural areas
Has a very wide area to cover and attract
people towards the application.
Innovation is there which will help in the
sustainability aspects and gaining proper set of
market share.
Failing to cover maximum rural areas could
have a direct impact on the business.
It could be possible that people of rural areas
may not trust the online app and would rather
prefer to visit health care centres. This will
affect the sale of the business in near future.
It could be possible that new competitors could
enter into the market (Palma-Mendoza, et. al.,
2014). This will have a huge impact on the sale
of the products and services in the rural areas.
Output Analysis
Understanding the market and evaluating the SWOT analysis it could be evaluated that providing
online health services in the rural areas will result in providing various set of benefits to the
organisation.
Market has a huge potential for growth as people available in the rural areas of Australia will
definitely prefer to use the application (Patton, et. al., 2015).
It is required that information camp should be organized in which information related with the
kiosk machines and application should be provided to the people available in rural areas. This
will help in attracting maximum number of people available in the rural areas towards the
application.
There are certain dis-benefits also which are attached with the new project like it could be
possible that people available in the rural areas might not use the application and might prefer to
visit the health practitioners directly rather than using the app (Mainga, 2017).
Lack of knowledge will have a huge impact on the use of application. This will have a direct
impact on the progress of the business and will affect the sale of the same.
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PROJECT REQUIREMENTS
List and describe the requirements needed to carry out this project.
To manage the project in an effective way it is required that all the requirements needed to carry
out the project should be taken into consideration. To manage the project there are several
aspects which are required to be taken into consideration these aspects are:
Stakeholder’s analysis is required to be taken into consideration as it will help in understanding
the requirements and needs they have (Martinsuo, & Killen, 2014). This will help in managing
their requirements and will help managing the project in an effective way.
IT team is also required to be hired for the development of the mobile app and kiosk machine
Kiosk machines are required to be purchased so that they could be availed in every rural area.
Appropriate project management tool will be required to manage the same in a proper way
And 4 systems will be required so that the application could be developed according to the
requirement (Mishra, 2014).
List and describe the possible assumptions for this project
Assumptions are made which helps in developing the understanding with the future aspects
which could incur. It is required that the assumptions should be made in an appropriate way and
decisions should be made accordingly.
It could be assumed that after promoting the app and description of the kiosk machine maximum
number of people will get attracted towards the business and will help in sustainability of the
same and vice versa (Müller, 2015).
It could also be assumed that the project initiated will help in availing appropriate set of services
in the emergency cases which will help in providing sustainability to the community.
Assumption could also be made that this project will help in providing expansion opportunities
to the organisation and will help in the sustainability aspects.
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List and describe the constraints for this project.
Project management is an unpredictable aspect as it is hard to predict all the aspects in a proper
way. There are certain set of constraints which could be left behind and these constraints could
have a huge impact on the project progress (Pandey, 2008).
It could be possible that the IT team could fail in testing the app properly due to which bugs in
will left. This will have a huge impact on the implementation of the project to general public.
It could be possible that people available in the rural areas may not have proper set of knowledge
about the app. Hence, it will again have a huge impact on the progress of the project (Petit,
2012).
COSTS
How much does it cost?
Determining cost of the project proposed is one of the most important aspects attached with the
project plan. It is important that proper analysis of the cost which will indulge in the project
should be done as it helps in providing direction to the project developer and helps in managing
the work accordingly. In the project proposed cost which could be estimated is $36000. It is a
very nominal cost that will in paid by the organisation for the project. Reason behind this cost is
that the organisation is already working in the rural areas and there are various centres which are
already available in those areas. Hence, the main expense which will incur in the project process
will be on the development of the application for mobile and kiosk machines and on the kiosk
machines itself only (Skibniewski, et. al., 2012). There are certain other expenses also which will
incur in the promotion of the app in rural areas. Therefore the all over cost estimated for the
completion of the project is $36000.
Activities Amount ($)
App Designing 11000
Expenses on Kiosk Machines 11000
Expenses on IT team salary 10000
Advertisement 4000
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Total 36000
Identify the tools used for cost analysis
Cost benefit analysis is the tool which will be used so as to evaluate the cost which will indulge
the project. This will help in evaluating the expenses which will incur and the benefit which a
company will get from the expenses it has made on the project. Cost benefit analysis will help in
estimating all set of requirements and will help in making the decision of whether the company
should initiate the project or not (Stanek, et. al., 2016). In cost benefit analysis Net Present Value
of the project will be calculated also it will include return on investment and will include break
even analysis which will help in determining the payback period of the project. With the help of
these aspects company will be able to make the decision of whether it should apply the project or
not.
MAJOR RISKS
There are various set of risk factors which remain attached with the project. It is necessary that
these risk factors should be taken into consideration so as to manage the project and maintain its
requirements. Project management is a very crucial task which requires in depth analysis of all
the aspects. Hence, it is necessary that the major risk factors should be evaluated and strategies
should be developed to mitigate them (Thomas, 2015).
Identify five (5) major risks
Five major risks which are identified in relation with the project are:
Unavailability of the Resources
Unavailability of Funds
Choice and Preferences of the target customers
Natural Disaster
Lack of leadership
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These are the five risk factors which could have a huge impact on the progress of the project. It is
necessary for the project manager to make the predictions with the help of forecasting so as to
gain appropriate set of information related with the risk factors (Too, & Weaver., 2014).
Discuss the risks involved and how they will be managed
Unavailability of the resources will affect the progress of the project as no work could be
processed without having appropriate set of resources.
Unavailability of funds will have a direct impact on the project, it will have a huge impact on the
functions of the project.
Natural disaster is another aspect which can affect the project progress (Cengage Lea Schwalbe,
2015)
Lack of leadership will affect the internal aspects of the project and will lead to misguide the
team working in the project.
Choice and preferences of the target customer will again have a huge impact on the project
progress as it could be possible that people may not prefer to go with online services. This will
lead to cause a huge loss to the company (Ong, et. al., 2016).
TIMESCALE
How long will it take to complete the project?
It will take 2 months to complete the project, which will also include the training of the
employees so that they could work appropriately on the application (Koltsov, et. al., 2015). A
step by step process will be provided which is required to be followed by each and every
individual working on the project. It is important that the time provided for the task should be
followed in an appropriate way so as to ensure that the project could get completed within the
timeframe.
List and describe the major milestones.
Major milestones decided by the project manager for the project are:
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Evaluating the need of the project which will be done within 2 days. In this analysis will be done
of why it is required to develop such type of app for rural areas (Palma-Mendoza, et. al., 2014).
Project scheduling is another aspect which will be focused upon. Project scheduling will be
completed within 5 days (Pigott & Hobbs, 2011).
Time keeping will be done which will be completed in 2 days
Technical design will take 15 days as it will include various programming and developing of the
app.
Testing will be done for the 10 days in which all the bugs will be removed.
And then training will be provided for 15 days to the staff members (Patton, et. al., 2015).
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CONCLUSION
At the end it could be concluded that the project initiated will help in the expansion of the
company. The project proposed will help in managing the requirement of the community and
will help in providing a better set of support to the community. It could be evaluated that for a
project it is necessary that all set of aspects should be taken into consideration and analysis
should be done so as to provide a better set of support for the future success.
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