Mobile App Development Project Report

This assignment presents a detailed project report for a mobile app development initiative. It outlines key milestones like initiation, functional requirements approval, design gate, prototype completion, and release 1 development. The report analyzes the project's progress against its schedule and budget, highlighting variances and potential risks. The document also includes explanations for schedule delays and summarizes major changes since the last report.

PPMP20007
Assessment Item 2 Coversheet
Group Members:
Student Name: Student Id:
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Part A
Question 1
The MS Project file is submitted along with the module as ‘PartAQ1.mpp’
Question 2
i. a. The duration of task ‘5.3. Prototype User Acceptance Testing’ has changed
from 10 days to 5 days due to doubling or resource ‘TE’.
This change in duration and because of resource has changed the overall duration
form 200 days to 184 days, it could happen because the activity ‘5.3. Prototype
User Acceptance Testing’ is in critical path of the project and any change in
duration either way can impact the overall schedule duration.
b. Always the duration of a task cannot be decreased by simply adding the
resources, because there are various other criteria which guide the reduction of
duration, like the relations with the successor and predecessor activities and the
technical requirement of the activity. Suppose, if the activity is like ‘curing of
concrete structure works needs 3 days to take any additional load above it’ so if
we keep on increasing the resources to cure it 24 hours still any external loading
cannot be done before 3 days. So always by increasing the resources the duration
of the activity cannot be decreased.
ii. The MS Project file is submitted along with the module as ‘PartAQ2.mpp’
Question 3
i. The resource over allocation issues can be resolved either by adding additional
resources or by delaying the activities. But the issue remains where the activities
are in critical path the duration cannot be increased so the only options remain is
to add extra resources.
But there is also another option available is to distribute the available resource
within the float available in the activity so that the overall duration does nt gets
impacted but the resources also gets leveled with in the available +ve float
duration by applying below checks

ii. Yes, there will be the impact of any resource constraints on the overall project
duration, but as long as the resource constraints are in the critical path activities.
Otherwise the resources may get leveled within the available float in the activity.
The project duration as per PartAQ2.mpp was 184 days, but after the resources
have been leveled within the available slack, the overall duration got reduced and
simply shown that the resources ‘Project Manager’ and ‘Business Analyst’ are
over loaded, which needs leveling. They are now currently shown as red colored
as shown below:
Question 4
To,
The Director of Mobile App Development,

Subject: Project Report
Madam,
The Project reports are as below:
i. Expected completion date of the project: 31st May 2018
Total duration of the project: 164 days (excluding holidays
and weekends)
ii. The project took so much of time due to the issue in availability of
additional resources. If the ‘Business Analyst’ had been allocated one
more the duration could have been reduced more.
iii. The estimated direct labor costs for each of the resource types working on
the project are as below:
Resource Name Cost
Project Manager $30,400.00
Business Analyst $20,800.00
App Developer $101,320.00
Test Engineer $22,080.00
Project Officer $4,320.00
Marketing Officer $15,600.00
Total Direct Labor Costs $194,520.00
Question 5
Yes, I believe that there are few tasks / activities or deliverables that have been
overlooked and should have been included in the WBS ‘1. System Concept & Planning’
are the preparation of risk mitigation plan, preparation of project management plan,
development of quality management plan and the human resource management plan.
Part B
Question 1
The impact of each of the following changes on the project duration is shown in a table
below:

Change Impact on Project
duration (Longer /
Shorter / No Impact
By how
much
Explanation
Change in person-
days required for
7.1 & 7.2
Duration got longer 5 days
longer
(Overall
duration
169
days)
By adding additional duration
in 7.1, there was no increase in
overall duration of the project.
Please see changes marked in
Color in PartB.mpp file
But while adding the duration
in 7.2, being the activity in
critical path has changed the
overall duration of the project.
Please see changes marked in
Color in PartB.mpp file
Allocation of All 3
AD to 7.1 & 7.2
The status remained 0 days The status remained same as
the AD allocation % was
already made as 300%
Change in person-
days required for
9.1
Duration got longer 8 days
longer
(Overall
duration
172
days)
Because the activity was in
critical path so any increase in
duration has impacted the
overall duration of the project.
Please see changes marked in
Color in PartB.mpp file
Allocation of BA to
9.1
No change 0 days BA could be utilized in the free
period. BA was not allocated
to any other activity during the
period of ‘9.1’
Question 2

The impact of each of the following changes on the project duration on the direct labor
costs is shown in a table below:
Change Impact on Direct
Labor Costs (More /
Less / No Impact
By how
much
Explanation
Change in person-
days required for
7.1 & 7.2
By changing ‘7.1’
$197,920 - $194,520
= $3,400
By changing ‘7,2’,
$201,320 - $194520
= $6,800 - $3,400 =
$3400 more
$3,400
$3,400
more
Because of the additional 5
days of increase in resource
requirement has caused the
changes in overall direct labor
cost
Allocation of All 3
AD to 7.1 & 7.2
The status remained 0 days The status remained same as
the AD allocation % was
already made as 300%
Change in person-
days required for
9.1
By changing ‘9.1’
$203,120 - $194,520
= $8,600 - $6,800 =
$1,800 more
$1,800
more
Because of the additional 3
days of increase in resource
requirement has caused the
changes in overall direct labor
cost
Allocation of BA to
9.1
By adding BA to
‘9.1’ $210,920 -
$194,520 = $164,000
- $8,600 = $7,800
more
$7,800
more
Because of additional
allocation of BA for 15 days
Rate of BA = $65 / Hour,
15 days = 15 x 8 = 120 Hours
So, overall rate by allocating
BA for 15 days = $65 / Hr x
120 Hours = $7,800

Part C
Question 1
The baseline is saved in submitted MS Project file along with the module as ‘PartC.mpp’
Question 2
Project Name: < The BINCO Project > Status Report <report 8 >
Project Manager: <Student’s Name> (for this assessment item, enter the names of all members
of the group>
Status as of: <26 January 2018> End of Week: <week 16>
Earned value figures
EV AC SV SPI CV CPI BAC EAC VAC
73056 74280 (15304) 0.83 (1224) 0.98 210920 214454.
07
(3534.0
7)
Project Description
<Mobile app developmen.>
Task Name Baseline Start Start Week & Date
Reached
M1. Initiation Gate: Charter approved Mon Oct 2, '17 Mon Oct 2, '17 Start
M2. Functional requirements approved Fri Nov 3, '17 Fri Nov 3, '17 Start
M3. Design Gate - ART detailed design
approval Tue Jan 23, '18 Tue Jan 23, '18 Start
M4. Prototype Development Complete Wed Feb 7, '18 Wed Feb 7, '18
M5. Release 1 Development complete Mon Oct 2, '17 Mon Oct 2, '17 Start
M7. Completion Gate - Project final report
approved by Project Board Fri Jun 8, '18 Fri Jun 8, '18
M8. Post Project Review Report Approval Tue Jun 12, '18 Tue Jun 12, '18
Status summary (schedule and budget)
Schedule
Planned finish date (from Gantt chart): <12 June 2018>
Current estimated finish date (from tracking Gantt chart): <12 Jun 2018>
The planned cost to date: <$88360>
The actual cost to date: <$74,280>
The earned value to date: <73,056>
Schedule Variance: <$15,304>

Summary:
1. < Proect is on time.>
2. <Schedule & Cost both are behind the baseline values>
Budget
The actual cost to date: <74.280>
The earned value to date: <73056>
Cost Variance: <1224>
CPI: <98%>
Summary:
1. <Project is currently over budget>
2. <the EAC is $214,454.07, which is more than the budget. So the project is runnimg late and
cost is over budget. >
Explanations
<the task ‘3.2. Technical Feasibility Assessment’ and ‘3.3. Architectural Reference Team
presentation’ are running delayed.>
Major changes or issues since last report
<Change in SV & CV>
Risk watch:
<No such considerable change>