Capstone Project Proposal: 1699 Virsa Store - Melbourne Polytechnic

This document presents a project proposal for the "1699 Virsa Store," an online retail business focused on providing Punjabi heritage products to the Sikh community in Australia. The proposal outlines the project's background, objectives, scope, and plan, including a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and project schedule. It details both functional and non-functional requirements for the website, such as user-friendly interface, account creation, online payment processing, product management, and security measures. The System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology, specifically the spiral model, is chosen for its flexibility and iterative nature. Key success factors, including time, scope, and cost management, are identified, along with assumptions, constraints, and risks. The proposal concludes with a terminology section and references to relevant literature.

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Peter Shackleton
123 Main St
Collingwood Vic 3123
<Date in the form of 23 September, 2013>
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Dear M/s (name),
It is proposed that I am preparing a document that provides basic information about the
online website prepared for the Sikh community in Australia. The name of the website will be
1699 virsa store. This store will help in providing the religious products to the people in
Australia.
I hope this letter will grant me the permission to perform this project onwards.
Yours faithfully,
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Melbourne Polytechnic
BIT371 Capstone Experience
PROJECT PROPOSAL
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This document deals with the proposal for the development of the project named as 1699
Virsa store. This will be an online retail business of Punjabi heritage products in the
Australia. This project will aim to provide heritage products to the Sikh community on the
Australia. Therefore, the scope of the project will be reacted to the retail business of the
Punjabi heritage products in the Australia. The objectives of the project has been discussed
in the document. The Work Breakdown Structure of the project has been provided in the
proposal.
There is a project schedule provided in the proposal that helps in understanding the planning
of the whole project. The SDLC methodologies has been taken in the proposal for
developing the path for the project. There are some assumptions and terminology has been
provided in the end of the proposal.
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Table of Contents
Title:........................................................................................................4
Introduction............................................................................................4
Project Background and Justification.................................................4
Project Background......................................................................................................4
Project Objectives........................................................................................................4
Alternatives............................................................................................5
Project Scope.........................................................................................5
Project Plan (WBS) and Deliverables:..................................................5
Project Schedule....................................................................................5
System Development Methodology.....................................................6
Acceptance (Key Success Factors).....................................................6
Assumptions, Constraints and Risks..................................................6
Terminology.............................................................................................6
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Title: 1699 VIRSA STORE
Introduction
This is a proposal for the online web store project “1699 Virsa Store”. This document
describes about the outlines of the whole project. The document specifies introduction and
justification for this project. The scope of the project has been discussed in the proposal. The
overall planning f the project and deliverables are explained in the proposal that provides a
blue print for the whole project. The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) has been followed
with a proper schedule and fulfilling the objectives of the project.
Project Background and Justification
Project Background
The chosen project is an online web based project that will helps in selling the Sikh heritage
products. The birth of the Khalsa in 13 April 1699 has been a memorable day in the history
that encourages naming the website as 1699 Virsa in which Visa means Heritage.
The team has been residing in Australia for two years and found difficulties in discovering
their cultural heritage products in the country. The daily use of the religious products
including turban and religious books are not available in the country (Dartt et al. 2015).
Therefore, the team decided to expand their business in the cultural sector. This website will
helps in purchasing the Punjabi cultural heritage products in Australia. The business will be
online that will help in reaching to a large number of people at one click. Therefore, the name
of the website is 1699 Virsa Stores.
Project Objectives
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The primary objective of the project is to sell the Punjabi heritage products to the
people in Australia. The Punjabi heritage products are found in various stores in the
Australia but at a high cost or low quality. Therefore, this website will help in finding these
heritage products to the individuals at low cost and high quality. The online website will help
in providing Punjabi traditional culture to the people in Australia.
The website will be user-friendly that will help in providing the products to the
targeted audience. The website will work efficiently in multiple browsers. The search engine
for the website will be added with the shopping cart features (Beaulieu et al. 2015). The total
duration of the project will be 26 weeks that will help in making an efficient website. The
focus of the website is to maintain the heritage culture of Punjab in the Australia. This will
increase the sales and revenue of the company in the market.
The whole project is based on the online retail business in the Australia. The aim of
the research is to sell various products in the Australia. The goal is to serve the Sikh
community in the Australia with best services of the website (García-Peñalvo et al. 2016).
The website will contain various features including user account, shopping cart, best
graphics and information security. The scope of the website is to expand the business. The
stock will be imported from India and sell in the Australia.
Project Scope
The scope of the project will contain both non-functional and functional requirements that are
necessary in the creation of the project.
There are few requirements of the website that will be required:
Customer
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 User Friendly interface
 Creating an account and profile
 Checking the availability of the product
 Online payment using credit card, debit card and PayPal.
Administrator
 Adding and deleting products and details of the products
 Adding and deleting contents of the website and GUI promotions
 Adding and deleting details of the customers
There will be various functional requirements of the project including:
 A frontend system will be integrated that will be centralized with the backend
inventory system
 A centralized backend inventory system that will consist databases
 Showing of the product dynamically
 Taking orders from customers
 Secure the payment mode
 Order shipment
The non-functional requirements of the project will include:
 Technical requirements
For the hardware and software environment
 Performance requirements
How the system will perform (e.g. response time)
 Usability requirements
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How the website looks like, GUI, customer service etc.
 Security requirements
Physical and software access control (e.g. access rights to the database. Protection against
viruses)
To achieve the requirements, we will need to create a database (Gilligan 2014)
 All customer accounts and products information should be in database
 Easy to access by admin
 We can also add new product and promotion to database so that It can appear on
website.
 We create service help desk. We will create this because we will respond to our
customers.
 Security gateways for making payment secure and easy
Project Plan (WBS) and Deliverables:
1.0 Planning
1.1 project request
1.2 Prepare project proposal
1.3 Prepare WBS draft
1.4 commence progress report – planning stage
2.0 Analysis
2.1 determine layout of website pages
2.2 define system requirement
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3.0 Design
3.1 design website (GUI) using PHP and HTML
3.2 show product and promotion
3.2 create shopping cart
3.3 create testing plan
3.4 commence programming and testing
4.0 implementation
4.1 continuation of programming and testing
4.2 customer service facility
4.3 create and test system reports
5.0 closure and support
5.1 prepare PowerPoint presentation
5.2 completed progress report
5.3 completed website development
5.4 cutover-sign off project
Project Schedule
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System Development Methodology
This project will follow the SDLC methodology to fulfill the requirements and goals of the
project. This project will choose the spiral SDLC methodology during the development phase
(Miller 2017). The spiral methodology is a flexible methodology that helps in iteration and
repetition. As mentioned by Moura and Zhang (2017), the project will pass through four
phases over the spiral and gaining the feedbacks of the customers in the market. As
commented by Kennedy (2017), this model will helps in creating a highly customized project
and user feedback will be incorporated in the project.
Acceptance (Key Success Factors)
As mentioned by Mehler (2017), there will be three basic factors for the acceptance of the
project in the market. These factors re as follows:
Time, Scope and Cost
The time, scope and cost of the project is maintained properly during the development cycle.
This will help in maintaining an efficient working of the website over the internet (Huss 2017).
The key deadlines during the deliverables
The deadlines of the deliverables to the customer will be strictly maintained that will help in
satisfying the customers with the services provided by the website on the market (Wang,
Wang, and Wang 2017).
Specification
All the specification of the web-based system will be maintained in the project that provides a
legal agreement between the project management and the client (Nguyen 2017).
Assumptions, Constraints and Risks
The terms regarding the tine and scope of the project will be mentioned in the legal terms
with the project manager and the client (Mazur 2017). There will be no requirement of any
special kind of terms and regulation in the project. The basic assumptions that will be made
includes the efficient management of scope, client regulation, time and cost management
during the project and proper availability of resources for the project (Ko and Kirsch 2017).
Constraints will be minimal, as the manager will able ti access the web-based systems in the
meantime. The progress of the project will be accessed on demand (Weissbrod and Bocken
2017).
Terminology
WBS- Work Breakdown Structure
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MYSQL- My Structured Query Language
SDLC- System Development Life Cycle
HTML- Hyper Text Markup Language
SRS- Software Requirement Specification
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García-Peñalvo, F.J., Cruz-Benito, J., Griffiths, D. and Achilleos, A., 2016. Virtual
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pp.47-54.
Gilligan, C.A., 2014. A Major Project Proposal Creating Community: A Mosaic Art Project
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Huss, J.M., 2017. Vertically Aligning Evidence and Argument in the Elementary Education
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