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Project Management Techniques
Project Plan
4/9/2019

Project Management Techniques
Table of Contents
Project Overview...................................................................................................................................2
Project Background...........................................................................................................................2
Project Objectives..............................................................................................................................2
Project Scope & Exclusions...............................................................................................................2
Project Deliverables & Constraints....................................................................................................3
Project Structure................................................................................................................................4
Project Stakeholders..............................................................................................................................4
Project Manager Skills.......................................................................................................................7
Work Breakdown Structure...................................................................................................................7
Key Skills of Project Manager...........................................................................................................9
Project Schedule..................................................................................................................................10
Technique 1 – Phased Estimation....................................................................................................10
Technique 2 – Bottom-up Estimations (Critical Path Method)........................................................12
Use of Techniques by Project Manager...........................................................................................13
Deal with Slippage of Schedule.......................................................................................................14
Key Skills of Project Manager.........................................................................................................14
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................15
References...........................................................................................................................................16
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Project Overview
Project Background
The project includes the development and deployment of an IoT-based healthcare application.
The application will be developed for a medium-scale healthcare firm. The firm was
established in the year 1990 and has been expanding since then. It has succeeded in capturing
large patient base. However, with the increase in the healthcare services and operations and
the expansion of the customer base, there are issues of deterioration of the quality of service.
The patients wait for several hours before they get to see a medical professional. There is a
lot of burden on the medical professionals as well. The project aims at providing the patients
with the ability to avail the health services and care from the remote locations. The Internet of
Things based application will integrate the patients and the medical professionals along with
their health details on a common platform.
Project Objectives
The objectives of the project areas listed below:
 To increase the patient satisfaction levels by at least 65% with the deployment of the
application.
 To reduce the burden on the medical professionals and nursing staff by at least 40%.
 To make sure that the value of cost variance and schedule variance is not negative at
any instance of the project.
 To achieve 100% legal, ethical, and quality compliance.
Project Scope & Exclusions
The scope of the project will cover the following tasks and activities that will be conducted
by the members of the project team.
 Initiation & project planning phase of the project will include analysis of the business
case and preparation of the project proposal. There will also be conduction of
feasibility study and determination of cost-benefit analysis.
 Project knowledge areas, such as scope, schedule, budget, stakeholders,
communication, quality, risks, and resources will be planned (Atkinson, Crawford and
Ward, 2013).
 Distribution of roles will be performed by the Project Manager
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 Research & analysis phase will include collection of the data sets using the primary
techniques and collection of the data sets using the secondary techniques. The
application of the automated analytical tools will be done to obtain the analysis results
and patterns
 Execution phase will include setting up the IoT infrastructure that will cover
identification of IoT components, network Set-up, installation of the sensor
equipment, procurement of healthcare tools and equipment, and procurement of
computing tools and equipment.
 Application UI Design will also come under the execution phase and it will include
UI designs for the front-end and wireframes
 Application Development will cover source code and unit testing
 Integration of the front-end with the IoT components will be done by the members of
the project team (Jeong, Han and You, 2016).
 Control & closure will be the last phase in the project and it will involve quality
assurance and control, implementation and change management, reflection and
documentation, and final closure.
The marketing of the IoT-based application will not be done by the members of the project
team. They will also not carry out any of the negotiations with the healthcare authorities.
Project Deliverables & Constraints
 Project Proposal: This will be the first deliverable that will cover the details of the
business case and the project goals and objectives identified (Cuevas et al., 2018).
 Project Plan: This will be the second deliverable and it will cover the planning details
of all the project knowledge areas.
 Analysis Results: The data sets will be collected using primary and secondary
techniques. The analysis results will include the analysis of these data sets along with
the trends and patterns involved.
 IoT Infrastructure: There will be numerous components associated in the IoT
application. The setting up of the infrastructure will be done.
 Application Design: The users will access the application through a front end and the
team will deliver the project design in the form of UI aspects and wireframes.
 Developed Application: The application developed will be delivered in the form of its
source code.
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