TECHNICAL REDEVELOPMENT OF ARCHIVES WEBSITE IN AUSTRALIA

Running head: TECHNICAL REDEVELOPMENT OF ARCHIVES WEBSITE IN
AUSTRALIA
TECHNICAL REDEVELOPMENT OF ARCHIVES WEBSITE IN AUSTRALIA
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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................2
Critical points to review:............................................................................................................2
Assumptions:..........................................................................................................................3
Project milestones:.................................................................................................................3
Dependencies:........................................................................................................................3
In scope and out of scope parameters:...................................................................................3
Cost benefit analysis and lesson from earlier projects:..........................................................3
Authorizing authorities:.............................................................................................................4
Scope of the project:...................................................................................................................4
Deliverables of the project:........................................................................................................5
Acceptance Criteria:...................................................................................................................5
Project Scope management:.......................................................................................................5
Implementation of change control procedure:...........................................................................7
Changes in the scope:.................................................................................................................8
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................8
References:.................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction:
Website development and user friendliness is one of the most important aspects of
any websites and it should be ensured that they are presentable as well as user friendly for the
uses and all the important data and the information are properly visible in a systematic
manner for a better browsing experience. All the important information on the website should
be properly categorized to ensure that the website is user friendly.
The following study will highlight the different aspects of redeveloping the archives
website for the national archive of Australia. The solution should be worthy of the amount of
money that will be spent and should also allow the users to access the different photographic
collections that are featured on the website. The different stages of carrying out the project
will be discussed in the following paragraphs.
Critical points to review:
Firstly, the broad organizational flowchart of the company has to be understood which
is outlined below in the hierarchical order (Coe, Kenski and Rains 2014):
- Louise Doyle is the Assistant Director General of Access and Public Engagement.
- Linda Macfarlane is the Assistant Director General of Collection Management.
- Jason McGuire is the acting Assistant Director General, Corporate Services.
- Yaso Arumugam is the Assistant Director General of Information and
Technology.
- Teressa Ward is the Assistant Director General of Digital Archives Taskforce.
- The Director General’s office consist of Shaun Rohrlach who is the Executive
Officer, Alicia Smith who is the Executive Assistant and Danielle D’Agostino
who is the acting Executive Support Officer.

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Assumptions:
The assumption that has been done is that majority of the users who will be accessing
the redeveloped website will be technically friendly people so that they can make optimum
use of the new features.
Project milestones:
The project milestone will be the initial testing before the r rollout of the final
website, which should be done in a very quick span of time in order to ensure the successful
implementation of the website and on time.
Dependencies:
The dependencies include the proper passing of information from a team member who
is working on the initial design of the website to another member who is supposed to take
over from the design to the next step such as testing.
In scope and out of scope parameters:
The factors that are controllable and in the scope of the project are the cost factors as
well as the quality of the website that has to be ensured by the project manager.
The out of scope parameters include the level of computer literacy that the end users
will have which cannot be controlled by the project manager.
Cost benefit analysis and lesson from earlier projects:
This analysis will help the project manager to understand the advantages as well as
the disadvantages of the project such as the better user experience that the users will be able
to enjoy in the website. However to improve the website user experience as well as the other
aspects there are development as well as maintenance charge involved that has to be incurred
by National archive of Australia. Some of the features can be omitted form the website
depending upon the discretion of the management, which in turn will also make the website
simpler and help in cost cutting for the company (Hocking et al. 2016).