Project Management Principles: Uber Case Study

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRINICPLES
Project Management Principles: Uber Case Study
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES
Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................2
2. Discussion..............................................................................................................................2
2.1 Brief Idea of the Case Study............................................................................................2
2.2 Examination of Project Selection Methods that can be applied to Uber Case Study......3
2.3 Major Processes for conducting the Project Selection Methods......................................4
2.4 Detailed Discussion of the Initial Process Groups and Project Document used as Inputs
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3. Conclusion..............................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES
1. Introduction
Project management for any project could be stated as the most significant practices
to start, plan, implement, manage and finally end the team work to achieve pre-determined
objectives and to fulfil subsequent success criterion at any specific time (Kerzner, 2017). The
major goal for managing a project is producing a completed project that complies with each
and every objective of the client. There are some of the major methods of project selection,
which are needed to be considered in the project work. This following report will be outlining
a brief description on project selection methods and initiation documents for the case study of
Uber.
2. Discussion
2.1 Brief Idea of the Case Study
Uber is one of the major and the most popular cabs in the entire world. It is being
estimated that 3 million drivers of Uber generally spend more than eight million hours being
logged in the specified application. This application is even an important test case for the
entire economy. A new building of the application is being drawn on the technological
components of the new application that was launched in the previous year. The organization
has considered drivers’s suggestions for designing the application and making it even more
effective. Haider Sabri, the engineering lead of Uber has spearheaded a new design
procedure, which has brought “builders” technology.
30 engineers are present, who work on the application and the redesign of the
application has been started with 180 days of change campaign that had been launched for
removing all types of issues and complexities within the application. Due to high
competition, Uber had been losing its drivers and hence they have decided to increase their
profit by providing better applications to the respective drivers. The payment has been