AMT Project: Developing a Plan for Course Expansion and Website

This report presents a project plan for AMT, a training company, aiming to expand its course offerings and establish a stronger market presence. The project begins with defining a project management team structure, outlining roles and responsibilities, including system analysts, business analysts, and software developers, with associated costs. A detailed business case is presented, highlighting the objectives of the expansion, which includes adding new courses and expanding to new locations. The report includes a project plan with a product flow diagram, defining tasks, durations, and dependencies. The project approach focuses on website development, outlining key steps and milestones. The report concludes with a project management team structure, detailing roles such as project board, project assurance, and project support. The project aims to increase profitability and market share through course expansion and website development.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
SOFTWARE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM STRUCTURE......................................................................3
BUSINESS CASE...........................................................................................................................7
PROEJCT PLAN...........................................................................................................................10
PROJECT APPROACH................................................................................................................16
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18

INTRODUCTION
Project management is being defined as the process of application of different types of
the methods, process, skills and knowledge in order to attain a specific project objective. The
present study is based on AMT and its development and expansion project. AMT that is Agile
Management Training is a spin off training company coming from a large university which is
based in central Scotland. The company has been successfully being delivering a wide range of
management courses to the student. In the present report the company is seeking for leveraging
its presence within the marketplace. Hence, the key objective of the present report is to develop a
project for the expansion of the various courses in order to become the market leader. The
current project management of AMT will start by structuring the team for the completion of the
project. Further, the business case for the project will be made which will make clear the
objective of the study. Moreover, the project will also outline the plan of project with help of
flow diagram and project deliverables. In the end, project approach that is how the website will
be created will be analysed.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM STRUCTURE
For the success of project, the most essential aspect is that company must make a well-
educated and skilled team member (Ika and et.al., 2020). This is particularly because of the
reason that when the company will be having good team then this will increase the working
efficiency of the project management. The reason pertaining to this fact is that all the stages
within the project management will be undertaken by the employees only. Hence, if the team
members or employees within the project management will not be good then this will affect the
working capability and successful completion of the project to a great extent.
Hence, for the success of the project of development of a website for AMT the personnel
will be selected in such a manner that it results in successful completion of the project. The team
for the successful completion of the project involves the following-
Position Number of employee
required
Role Rate per hour
System analyst 1 The major role of the
system analyst in
project management
£120

software development
is to analyse and
design various types
of business problem
with help of the
technology. Another
crucial role is to
examine the current
system and software
being used and
analyse the new or
modified version.
Business analyst 2 This is the person who
continuously work
within the company in
order to improve the
performance and
process of company.
the major role of
business analyst is to
conduct the research
work in order to find
the current market
trends and apply it
within the business.
£110
Software developer 2 This is the person who
is responsible for the
proper researching,
designing and
development of the
software within the
£90

business. this will
assist the company in
managing the work in
effective and efficient
manner and this will
result in successful
completion of the
project.
By referring to this, it can be stated that there are three position and five vacancies which
is necessary to be fulfilled in order to successfully accomplish the project. The estimated cost of
hiring the employees has also been listed and with help of this AMT can estimate the total cost of
employment within the project (How to manage a project team? 2021). In addition to this these
employees will be working on part time basis as they are already having prior work and
commitment. In addition to this they will only be providing five hours a day. This implies that
the estimate cost for every employee will be as follows-
Job position Per hour rate Hour of
work
Per day cost
(per
employee)
Per week cost
(per employee)
For two
employees
System analyst £120 5 600 3600
Business
analyst
£110 5 550 (1100 for
two
employees)
3300 6600
Software
developer
£90 5 450 (900 for
two
employees)
2700 5400
Total 2600 (for five
employees)
9600 15600
Hence, with this table it is clear that for the per day the rate for employees is 600 for
system analyst, 550 for one business analyst and 1100 for two. In the similar manner for the

software development 450 is for a single software developer and for two it will be 900. Further
the total cost of five employees of the project team per day will be 2600. Along with this they
will work five hours every week. So the total cost of all the five employees for the week will be
15600.
Project team structure
This is the structure which outlines the structure that is which people will be included in the team
and will undertake the work in effective manner.
Role Name and position of person Reason for their selection
Project board Chief executive officer- Jack Daniels
Marketing director- Rollo Koaster
IT director- Harry driver
The project board involves
the CEO, marketing
director and IT director as
the CEO is responsible for
taking all the decision. In
addition to this the website
will be developed by IT
director and for marketing
all the decision will be
undertaken by the
marketing director.
Project assurance role Finance director- Kash Register Without finance the work
cannot be undertaken and
because of this assurance
will be provided by finance
director only. Hence, this is
the major reason behind
selection of finance director
in assurance role.
Project support role Training delivery director- Jed I.
Knight
For completion of the
project of website
development for AMT
expansion the support is

very necessary and for this
training delivery director is
selected. This is particularly
selected because of the
reason that there may be
many changes taking place
in external environment and
all these will be
implemented with help of
training director only.
BUSINESS CASE
The business case involves the actual problem or the aim of the project that is the reason
for which the project has been initiated. In the present case of AMT the major aim of the project
is to develop and expand the business in such a manner that operations of the company increases
along with increase in market share (Radujković and Sjekavica, 2017). The major reason behind
the development of the business case is that this will provide a brief overview to the employees
and the team member that is what work need to be undertaken. In the present case of AMT they
are planning to improve the operations of the company by adding to the courses which will be
provided to the student. This will involve providing the student with more option for the student
to learn different types of courses and want to expand the business in three different locations
within Scotland that is Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.
The different types of courses being provided by AMT are as follows-
Name of course Status of course Description of course
Prince2 Open This is a course which will
assist the student in
developing knowledge relating
to how to manage the project
with help of the PRINCE2
methodology. The duration of

the course will be 32 hrs.
Programme management Closed This is another course which is
being offered by the AMT
which involves the knowledge
relating to the modern project
management. This course is
generally for around 34 hrs
and exam will be undertaken
after the course is completed.
Management of risk Booked up This is a certified course
relating to the management of
risk which will outline the
different types of the risk
which can take place during
the project. This course will
assist the students in
developing knowledge relating
to the fact that how they will
have to mitigate the risk. The
course duration of this
programme is around 40 hrs
and a test will be conducted
after the course is being
complete.
Change management Open/ closed This course involves the
knowledge relating to the
various models which will be
assistive in the development
and implementation of
different types of the models
relating to change. This course

has a duration of 50 hrs and an
online test will be conducted
to assess the fact that whether
student have gained
knowledge relating to the
course or not.
ITIL Open/ booked up This is referred to as
Information Technology
Infrastructure Library which
involves the analysis of
detailed practices relating to
the IT service management.
The duration of the course is
approximately 45 hrs and a
test of 2 hours will also be
conducted to ensure that the
student gained all the
knowledge relating to the
course or not.
Further the business case expanded on the case that for the successful implementation of
the new courses and expansion a business will be provided and along with development of a
website (Silvius, 2017). The major cost of the development of course is the payment made to
every personnel within the team. In addition to this another cost will be the cost of infrastructure,
researching cost and implementation cost of the new website and marketing of it. Along with this
cost the major benefit of this expansion will be that when student will join the courses then this
will improve the profitability of AMT. The average gross profit per student coming for the
course will be £50 and the business overhead will be 10 % of the gross profit. In addition to this
average number of delegate per delivered course is 8. Furthermore, the venue for the course will
be undertaken only for 10 months in a year as they also have to cater for the holiday of the

student as well. Moreover, the marketing team of AMT assumes that when they will generate
website then this will attract and stimulate extra one or two delegates per course.
PROEJCT PLAN
The project plan is a document which outlines the steps that are undertaken in order to
complete the study and implementation of project in successful manner (Papke-Shields and
Boyer-Wright, 2017). The reason pertaining to the fact is that when project plan will be clearly
mentioned and described then this will motivate the employees to work in required manner.
Hence, this is pertaining to the reason that this project plan will give guidance to the employees
as how they have to work in order to complete the work in effective and efficient manner.
Product flow diagram
Task
Mode Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
Auto
Scheduled Project initiation 15 days Tue
3/9/21
Mon
3/29/21
Auto
Scheduled
Developing project idea for website
development 3 days Tue 3/9/21 Thu
3/11/21
Auto
Scheduled
Identifying and developing of team
for website development 5 days Fri
3/12/21
Thu
3/18/21 2
Auto
Scheduled Defining stakeholder of the project 3 days Fri
3/19/21
Tue
3/23/21 2,3
Auto
Scheduled Developing deliverables of project 4 days Wed
3/24/21
Mon
3/29/21 3,4
Auto
Scheduled Project planning 16 days Tue
3/30/21
Tue
4/20/21
Auto
Scheduled
Defining of objective of project for
website development 3 days Tue
3/30/21 Thu 4/1/21 5
Auto
Scheduled
Designing the layout of activities
for website development 5 days Fri 4/2/21 Thu 4/8/21 7
Auto
Scheduled Developing milestone for project 2 days Fri 4/9/21 Mon
4/12/21 7,8
Auto
Scheduled Resource analysis 5 days Fri 4/2/21 Thu 4/8/21 7
Auto
Scheduled Communication plan 6 days Tue
4/13/21
Tue
4/20/21 9,10
Auto
Scheduled Risk management plan 3 days Fri 4/9/21 Tue
4/13/21 10
Auto
Scheduled Project execution 12 days Tue
4/13/21
Wed
4/28/21
Auto Assigning resources for website 6 days Wed Wed 10,12

Scheduled development 4/14/21 4/21/21
Auto
Scheduled Procurement management 5 days Thu
4/22/21
Wed
4/28/21 14
Auto
Scheduled
Installation of tracking system for
ensuring success of website 3 days Tue
4/13/21
Thu
4/15/21 9
Auto
Scheduled
Meeting to discuss the execution of
website development 2 days Fri
4/16/21
Mon
4/19/21 16
Auto
Scheduled Project monitoring 12 days Tue
4/20/21
Wed
5/5/21
Auto
Scheduled Monitoring of overall performance 5 days Tue
4/20/21
Mon
4/26/21 16,17
Auto
Scheduled Quality deliverable 1 day Tue
4/27/21
Tue
4/27/21 19
Auto
Scheduled Cost tracking 4 days Tue
4/27/21
Fri
4/30/21 19
Auto
Scheduled Project performance 3 days Mon
5/3/21
Wed
5/5/21 19,20,21
Auto
Scheduled Project closure 12 days Thu
5/6/21
Fri
5/21/21
Auto
Scheduled Reporting of project 10 days Thu 5/6/21 Wed
5/19/21 22
Auto
Scheduled Final submission 2 days Thu
5/20/21
Fri
5/21/21 24