Project Management: Planning, Scheduling, Resource Allocation, Feasibility Analysis, Progress Evaluation and Conclusion

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project Management
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Table of Contents
A. Project Planning..........................................................................................................................3
A1. Description of Scheduling Technique...................................................................................3
A2. Project Schedule...................................................................................................................3
A3. Resources Required..............................................................................................................6
B. Overall Project Duration and Critical Path.................................................................................7
B1. Description of Overall Project Duration...............................................................................7
B2. Critical Path Analysis............................................................................................................7
C. Resource Allocation....................................................................................................................9
D. Feasibility Analysis and Crashing of the Project......................................................................12
D1. Feasibility Analysis of the Project for Crashing.................................................................12
D2. Crashing of the Project.......................................................................................................13
E. Progress Evaluation of the Project............................................................................................16
F. Second Crashing........................................................................................................................17
G. Modified Project.......................................................................................................................20
G1. Project Progress (50%-70%)...............................................................................................20
G2. Third Corrective Crashing..................................................................................................22
H. Project Conclusion....................................................................................................................25
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................27

A. Project Planning
A1. Description of Scheduling Technique
The project scheduling techniques are some software or tools that are used by the project
managers for developing, controlling, and monitoring of the project operations in a schedule
format. Task List, Gantt chart, and Calender are three main scheduling techniques that are
commonly used by the project managers for the development of project schedule (Cicmil et al.
2017). For the Software Development Project, Gantt chart is being used and it would allow the
easy tracking and progress reporting for the project. The most important benefit of using the
Gantt chart is that it allows the quick estimation and development of the project plan. The Gantt
chart is typically a bar chart for displaying all the activities of project in sequential order along
with a timeline (Hegazy 2013). The activities of the project is represented by a bar reflecting
start date, duration, and date of the activity. The Gantt chart has the following advantages,
 Ease of viewing the progress and modifying the progress
 Assigning the resources and tasks within short time
 Can be adopted in all the projects and industries
A2. Project Schedule
The project plan was developed with the help of Ms-Project Software and it followed the
SDLC for ensuring that the Software Development Project would be aligned easily (Larson and
Gray 2013). The effective development of the operations with the help of the Gantt chart would
allow the development of the software for the organization. The project schedule has been shown
in the table below,

WBS Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
0 Software Development Project 106 days Thu
12/7/17 Thu 5/3/18
1 Project Initialization 27 days Thu
12/7/17 Fri 1/12/18
1.1 Concept review process 5 days Thu 12/7/17 Wed
12/13/17
1.2 Resource Accumulation 10 days Thu
12/14/17
Wed
12/27/17 2
1.3 Initial Documentation 4 days Thu
12/28/17 Tue 1/2/18 3
1.4 Charter Documentation 4 days Wed 1/3/18 Mon 1/8/18 4
1.5 Submission of the Documents 2 days Tue 1/9/18 Wed
1/10/18 5
1.6 Review and Signup 2 days Thu 1/11/18 Fri 1/12/18 6
2 Plan Development 17 days Mon
1/15/18 Tue 2/6/18
2.1 Plan Outline development 5 days Mon
1/15/18 Fri 1/19/18 7
2.2 Review of the plan 3 days Mon
1/22/18
Wed
1/24/18 9
2.3 Complete Plan Development 8 days Thu 1/25/18 Mon 2/5/18 10
2.4 Plan Approval 1 day Tue 2/6/18 Tue 2/6/18 11
3 Designing of the Software 17 days Wed 2/7/18 Thu 3/1/18
3.1 Selection of design platform 2 days Wed 2/7/18 Thu 2/8/18 12
3.2 Obtaining the tool required for
designing 4 days Fri 2/9/18 Wed
2/14/18 14
3.3 Making Design of the software 5 days Thu 2/15/18 Wed
2/21/18 15
3.4 Simulation of the design made 3 days Thu 2/22/18 Mon 16

2/26/18
3.5 Modification of the design made 2 days Tue 2/27/18 Wed
2/28/18 17
3.6 Design Approval 1 day Thu 3/1/18 Thu 3/1/18 18
4 Database Development 20 days Wed 2/7/18 Tue 3/6/18
4.1 Selection of database platform 2 days Wed 2/7/18 Thu 2/8/18 12
4.2 Database Migration 5 days Fri 2/9/18 Thu 2/15/18 21
4.3 Prototype testing 7 days Fri 2/16/18 Mon
2/26/18 22
4.4 Storage Media is selected 2 days Tue 2/27/18 Wed
2/28/18 23
4.5 Stored in the new storage device 3 days Thu 3/1/18 Mon 3/5/18 24
4.6 Database is completed 1 day Tue 3/6/18 Tue 3/6/18 25
5 Software Development 30 days Wed 3/7/18 Tue 4/17/18
5.1 User Interface is developed 5 days Wed 3/7/18 Tue 3/13/18 26, 19
5.2 Functions are aligned 6 days Wed
3/14/18
Wed
3/21/18 28
5.3 Coding the program for the software
function 10 days Thu 3/22/18 Wed 4/4/18 29
5.4 Black box testing 4 days Thu 4/5/18 Tue 4/10/18 30
5.5 White box testing 4 days Wed
4/11/18
Mon
4/16/18 31
5.6 Software is developed 1 day Tue 4/17/18 Tue 4/17/18 32
6 Documentation and closure 12 days Wed
4/18/18 Thu 5/3/18
6.1 Making final reports 6 days Wed
4/18/18
Wed
4/25/18 33
6.2 Submitting the reports 2 days Thu 4/26/18 Fri 4/27/18 35
6.3 Signing off 1 day Mon Mon 36

4/30/18 4/30/18
6.4 Go Live Software 2 days Tue 5/1/18 Wed 5/2/18 37
6.5 Project is closed 1 day Thu 5/3/18 Thu 5/3/18 38
A3. Resources Required
The resource table showing the name, type, and rate of the resources required for the project
Resource Name Type Std. Rate
Project Manager Work $80.00/hr
Documenter Work $50.00/hr
Planner Work $45.00/hr
Designer Work $65.00/hr
IT Engineer Work $70.00/hr
Database Developer Work $75.00/hr
Designing tool Material $599.00
Documents Material $50.00
Simulation Software Material $179.00
Prototype Software Material $189.00
Storage Device Material $499.00
Computer Devices Material $1,299.00
Network Connection Material $349.00
Equipments Material $1,500.00
Coding Software Material $209.00
Testing Software Material $169.00