System Development Approaches for Visitor Management System

This PMP assignment discusses the system development approaches for Visitor Management System (VMS) for PMP Consultants Pty Ltd. It explains the agile methodology and its phases, advantages and disadvantages of project management methodologies, and risk management strategies. The article also includes a risk priority matrix and references.

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VMS of PMP Consultants Pty Ltd
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System Development Approaches for Visitor Management System
PMP Consultants Pty Ltd wants to deploy a Visitor Management System (VMS) for ensuring
that appropriate information transfer for their operations can be employed. They can choose
either traditional waterfall methodology or new agile methodology for dealing with their process
of developing the VMS (Patwardhan et al. 2016). The project of developing VMS is a software
development project that requires the following of IT development project management
methodologies. The completion of the project would be dependent on the continuation of the
project development strategies and alignment of the improved functional development. The
system development approaches would be helpful for easing the completion of the activities
supporting the utilization of the improved communication methods. The Agile methodology
would be helpful for forming the iterative project execution methodologies for development of
visitor management system of PMP Consultants Pty Ltd. The agile methodology would comprise
of requirements, plan, design, develop, release, and track and monitor (Kuhl 2014). The
following diagram would illustrate the agile development methodology,

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Figure 1: Agile Development Methodology
(Source: Gil et al. 2016, pp- 345)
a) Requirements: The requirement phase analyses the basic requirements that are needed
for the execution of the effective project plan (Gil et al. 2016). The VMS system
development would require effective and useful implication of the operations for PMP
Consultants Pty Ltd. The completion of the analysis phase would help in developing the
list of the required technology, people, equipments, and other resources that would be
needed for the completion of the project. The analysis would also be helpful for
developing the initialization of the project. The requirement analysis would support the
utilization of the improved project plan development.

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b) Plan: The plan phase would be done for making a list of activities that would be helpful
for executing the project of VMS development at PMP Consultants Pty Ltd. The plan
phase would be helpful for executing the activities required for the formation of the
system supporting the deployment of the improved communication process (Kuhl 2014).
The plan development is eased by the implication of the activities that are aligned for
easing the process of deployed methodology methods. The plan would be helpful for
aligning the activities of the project in an integrated list of operations.
c) Design: The design phase is characterized by the deployment of the improved
communication and execution (Mahadevan, Kettinger and Meservy 2015). The
deployment of the design for the VMS system would be developed in this phase. The
execution of the design principles, using the fundamentals of system design, and
integrating innovative design tools would be helpful for forming the complete design of
the system. The design development would be eased by the use of proper design
development and execution. The development of the proper design would help the
completion of the visitor management system for the PMP Consultants Pty Ltd.
d) Develop: The develop phase is characterized by the implication of the proper
documentation and development of improved factors of system design development. The
development of the system by the use of the design would be deployed in this phase. The
agile development methodology is an iterative model and the complete system can be
developed by the use of sprints. Each of the sprints would deliver a specific deliverable
required for the completion of the project. The development of the improved functional
and operational processes can be deployed for easing the utilization of the technology for
the completion of the final project deliverable of PMP Consultants Pty Ltd.

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e) Release: The release of the software using the impactful alignment method would be
helpful for dealing with the supportive and effective implication of the activities (Weber
2016). The software developed would be released in this phase and the completion of the
release activities would support the implication of the improved system development for
PMP Consultants Pty Ltd. The VMS system release would be characterized by the use of
the successive and integrative alignment. The support and development of the agile
methodology would help in releasing the system for being operated at the organization.
f) Track and Monitor: The tracking and monitoring is the phase where the developed
software systems are being checked for the issues and problems. The tracking is a daily
activity that must be done for ensuring that the system is operating well in required
situation and environment (Sohn et al. 2015). The PMP Consultants Pty Ltd. would get
the benefit of keeping the visitor management system checked and controlled.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Project Management Methodologies
Methodology Advantages Disadvantages
Waterfall Waterfall methodologies would
be helpful for supporting the
utilization of the improve
activity development using
sequential operations
It is linear in nature and hence
most of the outcomes are
presumed without any surety of
outcomes of the operations.
Agile Agile methodology supports the
iterative development of the
activities and forming the
project operations in terms of
sprints supporting easy
execution
Agile is iterative and hence the
activities are looped with each
other without forming the
effective implication of factors.

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Risk Management Strategy for PMP Consultants Pty Ltd
Risk management is an improved technique that helps in reduction of the factors of risk
and their impact in the organization (Hopkin 2017). The project of developing the visitor
management system for PMP Consultants Pty Ltd. is a software development process and it can
include several issues and risk factors. The risk management strategies would comprise of the
following steps,
Identification of the risk: The identification of the risk factors plays a significant role
for the deployment of the risk mitigation. The risk management is initiated by the use of risk
factors that would be identified in this phase (McNeil, Frey and Embrechts 2015). The probable
issues that can form the impact on the project would be identified in this phase.
Analysis of the risk: The analysis of the risk factors would be done coherently for
ensuring that the information regarding the impact of the risk factors is collected. The various
risk factors are of technical, financial, operational, and human nature (McNeil, Frey and
Embrechts 2015). Their impact and severity would be analysed in this phase.
Mitigation of the risk: The identified risk would be analysed and then a proper
mitigation strategy for the risk factors would be analysed (Hopkin 2017). The mitigation of the
risk can be deployed for being used successively and forming the alignment of the activities.
Risk Priority Matrix
Risk Type Likelihood Severity Impact
Delay Operational Frequent Marginal Serious
Cost Overrun Financial Occasional Critical Serious
Design Flaws Technical Occasional Catastrophic High

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System Failure Technical Probable Catastrophic High
Human Errors Human Remote Marginal Medium
Quality Issues Procurement Remote Critical Medium
Severity
Likelihood
Catastrophic Critical Marginal Negligible
Frequent Delay
Probable System Failure
Occasional Design Flaws Cost Overrun
Remote Quality Issues Human Errors
Improbable

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References
Gil, J.M.L., Loinaz, M.U., Losada, B. and Castro, I.F., 2016. Field vs. laboratory usability
evaluations: A study on a context dependent mobile application developed with an agile
methodology. IEEE Latin America Transactions, 14(1), pp.339-348.
Hopkin, P., 2017. Fundamentals of risk management: understanding, evaluating and
implementing effective risk management. Kogan Page Publishers.
Kuhl, J.G., 2014. Incorporation of Agile Development Methodology into a Capstone Software
Engineering Project Course. In Proceedings of the 2014 ASEE North Midwest Section
Conference (pp. 1-8).
Mahadevan, L., Kettinger, W.J. and Meservy, T.O., 2015. Running on Hybrid: Control Changes
when Introducing an Agile Methodology in a Traditional" Waterfall" System Development
Environment. CAIS, 36, p.5.
McNeil, A.J., Frey, R. and Embrechts, P., 2015. Quantitative risk management: Concepts,
techniques and tools. Princeton university press.
Patwardhan, A., Kidd, J., Urena, T. and Rajgopalan, A., 2016. Embracing Agile methodology
during DevOps Developer Internship Program. arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.01893.
Sohn, H.J., Lee, M.G., Seong, B.M. and Kim, J.B., 2015, June. A Study of Influence of the
Value-Practice of Agile Development Methodology on the Open Source Project Community. In
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ENGINEERING (Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 399-402).

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Weber, E.V., 2016. Performance Learning of Agile Methodology Using Paired Courses of
Systems Analysis and Design and Web/Mobile Programming. In Proceedings of the EDSIG
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