Application Development for Treat Your Own Back: IT Project Management

This IT project management assignment outlines the development of a mobile application for the book 'Treat Your Own Back.' The project aims to create an app compatible with both Android and iOS platforms, providing users with access to exercises for back pain relief. The assignment includes a detailed project plan, objectives, and a SWOT analysis of the current situation. It addresses the problem statement, critical assumptions, and constraints, followed by an analysis of options and recommendations, emphasizing the use of project management principles and smart technology. The financial analysis includes an initial investment, recurring costs, and expected inflows, along with NPV, ROI, and payback analysis. A budget estimate details resource allocation and costs, while a Gantt chart provides a schedule estimate. The assignment concludes with a list of potential risks, and a bibliography of relevant sources. This comprehensive project serves as a practical application of IT project management principles.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Project Background................................................................................................2
2. Description of the Project Objectives..........................................................................................2
3. Description of current situation: SWOT Analysis.......................................................................2
4. Problem/Opportunity Statement.................................................................................................3
5. Critical Assumptions and Constraints.........................................................................................4
6. Analysis of Options and Recommendation................................................................................5
7. Financial Analysis.......................................................................................................................5
8. Budget estimate...........................................................................................................................6
9. Schedule Estimate........................................................................................................................7
10. List of potential Risks................................................................................................................9

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1. Introduction: Project Background
The project of Application Development for Treat Your Own Back is developed for
ensuring that the project activities are aligned for the deployment of the improved functional
development. The Treat Your Own Back is a book written by Robin Mckenzie (owner and
director of Treat Your Own Back Pvt. Ltd.) and it provides some basic exercises for the patients
who are suffering from back pain. The project would comprise of developing an application by
which the people can get access to the exercises.
2. Description of the Project Objectives
The project of Application Development for Treat Your Own Back is developed for
forming the application compatible for both Android and IOS platform for ensuring that the
people can get the benefit of the book Treat Your Own Back. The objectives of the project are,
 To develop an application for Treat Your Own Back compatible for both Android and
IOS platform
 To form the project plan sustaining the feasibility and compatibility of the
Application developed
 To complete the project in the estimated time duration and calculated budget
3. Description of current situation: SWOT Analysis
The SWOT analysis of the project of Application Development for Treat Your Own Back
is shown in the table below,
Strengths Weaknesses

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i. Renowned Book and Author providing
some exercises
ii. Treating People across the globe for
treating neck and back pains
i. Lack of the integrated system for the
information processing
ii. Discontent among employees about the
various strategies
Opportunities
i. Use of Smart Phone technology for the
development of the application for the
book
ii. Provide assistance for all age groups
such as elderly and aged people,
teenagers, and individuals
Threats
i. Competition from the rival companies
for the capture of the market
ii. Issues in integration of the mobile
application within the organization’s
activities for treatment of the back pain
4. Problem/Opportunity Statement
The problems of the project lie on the factors of time duration and the technology used
for the mobile application development. The time duration is the first issue of the project as the
overall project should be completed in 4 months (120 days). The technology is the second issues
as the mobile application must focus on the development of easy solution to the sharing of the
exercises.

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The project would help in developing plan of application development so that the people
can get the benefits of the treating their back and neck pains with the help of the physical
exercises. The project would provide the opportunity of the getting relief from the neck and back
pain due to the use of the application developed.
5. Critical Assumptions and Constraints
The project of Application Development for Treat Your Own Back would comprise of
the following assumptions,
a) All the resources would be available for the development of proper project plan
b) Budget made includes the option of the adding any resources (human or material)
during the project progress
c) Project would be completed in the estimated time and the application would be
compatible for both Android and IOS platforms
The project of Application Development for Treat Your Own Back would comprise of
the following constraints,
a) Duration of 4 months of time for the project completion
b) Cost Budget of $120,000.00 for the project resources
c) Favourable test results for the application developed

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6. Analysis of Options and Recommendation
The project schedule is developed using the Waterfall Methodology for the integration of
the improved operations (Fang et al., 2015). The waterfall methodology would help in ensuring
that the appropriate technology for mobile application is developed in the estimated time
duration and the budget.
The recommendations for the project of Application Development for Treat Your Own
Back are given below,
Use of Project Management Principles: The project management principles for the
project schedule, cost, and communication development would be helpful for attaining the
successful project completion.
Inclusion of Smart Technology: The technology of smart phones would allow the IT
team for the development of the mobile application for Treat Your Own Back.
7. Financial Analysis
The project of Application Development for Treat Your Own Back is implied for the
development of an Application so that the users can get the benefit of improved exercises for
treating their back pains. The project has an initial investment of $ 120,000.00 for the
development of the project. The recurring costs of the project were $14,000, $18,000, and
$18,000 in first, second, and third year respectively. The expected inflow of the project is
$110,000 at the end of every year.
The NP, ROI or return of investment and Payback Analysis (based on the net cash flow
and the time duration) is shown in the image below,

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8. Budget estimate
The budget estimation for the project is done on the basis of the resource usages and the
rate of the resources (Mishan, 2015). The resources used are both human and material type and
hence the alignment of the effective resources would be managed by the implication of the
improved operations. The budget of project of Application Development for Treat Your Own
Back is shown in the table below,
Application Development for Treat Your Own Back
Project Budget Estimation

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Resource Name Resource
Type
Duration/Units Rate Total
Project Manager Human 208 $150.00 $31,200.00
Consultant Human 160 $140.00 $22,400.00
Digital Image Specialist Human 160 $145.00 $23,200.00
Programmer 1 Human 156 $65.00 $10,140.00
Programmer 2 Human 156 $65.00 $10,140.00
Database Hardware and Software Material 1 $5,000.00 $5,000.00
Designing Tools Material 1 $3,000.00 $3,000.00
Programming tools Material 1 $4,000.00 $4,000.00
Testing Tools Material 4 $2,500.00 $10,000.00
Manuals Material 1 $920.00 $920.00
Total Budget $120,000.00
9. Schedule Estimate
The project of Application Development for Treat Your Own Back would run for 105
days (75 working days and 30 holidays (Saturday and Sunday)) from Monday 5th of February
2018 to 18th May 2018. The Project schedule is shown in the Gantt chart below,

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ID Task
Mode
WBS Task Name Duration Start Finish
0 0 Application Development for Treat
Your Own Back
75 days Mon 2/5/18 Fri 5/18/18
1 1 Project Initialization 10 days Mon 2/5/18 Fri 2/16/18
2 1.1 Project Kick off meeting 1 day Mon 2/5/18 Mon 2/5/18
3 1.2 Analysis of the requirements 2 days Tue 2/6/18 Wed 2/7/18
4 1.3 Development of project initiation documents3 days Thu 2/8/18 Mon 2/12/18
5 1.4 Charter Document is formed 2 days Tue 2/13/18 Wed 2/14/18
6 1.5 Documents are Reviewed 1 day Thu 2/15/18 Thu 2/15/18
7 1.6 Sign up of documents 1 day Fri 2/16/18 Fri 2/16/18
8 2 Plan Development 10 days Tue 2/13/18 Mon 2/26/18
9 2.1 Selection of Plan methodology 3 days Tue 2/13/18 Thu 2/15/18
10 2.2 Development of plan outline 4 days Fri 2/16/18 Wed 2/21/18
11 2.3 Review of plan outline 2 days Thu 2/22/18 Fri 2/23/18
12 2.4 Plan Approval 1 day Mon 2/26/18 Mon 2/26/18
13 3 Design of Application 14 days Tue 2/27/18 Fri 3/16/18
14 3.1 User Interface is designed 5 days Tue 2/27/18 Mon 3/5/18
15 3.2 Design Simulation 4 days Tue 3/6/18 Fri 3/9/18
16 3.3 Design Review 2 days Wed 3/14/18 Thu 3/15/18
17 3.4 Design Approval 1 day Fri 3/16/18 Fri 3/16/18
18 4 Application Development 15 days Mon 3/19/18 Fri 4/6/18
19 4.1 Database is Designed 7 days Mon 3/19/18 Tue 3/27/18
20 4.2 Integration of database 4 days Wed 3/28/18 Mon 4/2/18
21 4.3 Making System Framework 5 days Mon 3/19/18 Fri 3/23/18
22 4.4 Programming the functions 6 days Mon 3/26/18 Mon 4/2/18
23 4.5 Aligning the database 4 days Tue 4/3/18 Fri 4/6/18
24 4.6 Compiling the information 4 days Mon 3/26/18 Thu 3/29/18
25 4.7 System is developed 6 days Fri 3/30/18 Fri 4/6/18
26 5 System Testing 18 days Mon 3/12/18 Wed 4/4/18
27 5.1 Simulation Testing 2 days Mon 3/12/18 Tue 3/13/18
28 5.2 Prototyping the system 2 days Wed 3/28/18 Thu 3/29/18
29 5.3 Black Box Testing 2 days Tue 4/3/18 Wed 4/4/18
30 5.4 White Box Testing 2 days Fri 3/30/18 Mon 4/2/18
31 6 Training and Deployment 15 days Mon 4/9/18 Fri 4/27/18
32 6.1 Development of training manuals 4 days Mon 4/9/18 Thu 4/12/18
33 6.2 Training program is developed 4 days Fri 4/13/18 Wed 4/18/18
34 6.3 Training Sessions are executed 7 days Thu 4/19/18 Fri 4/27/18
35 6.4 System Deployment plan is made 4 days Mon 4/9/18 Thu 4/12/18
36 6.5 System is deployed 7 days Fri 4/13/18 Mon 4/23/18
37 7 Final Documentation and Closure 15 days Mon 4/30/18 Fri 5/18/18
38 7.1 Making Final Documents 6 days Mon 4/30/18 Mon 5/7/18
39 7.2 Documents are Reviewed 4 days Tue 5/8/18 Fri 5/11/18
40 7.3 Sign off the documents 3 days Mon 5/14/18 Wed 5/16/18
41 7.4 Project is Closed 2 days Thu 5/17/18 Fri 5/18/18
Project Manager
Consultant
Project Manager
Project Manager
Project Manager
Project Manager
Consultant
Consultant
Project Manager
Project Manager
Digital Image Specialist,Designing Tools[1]
Digital Image Specialist
Programmer 2
Programmer 2
Database Hardware and Software[1],Digital Image Specialist
Digital Image Specialist
Programmer 2
Programmer 1,Programming tools[1]
Programmer 1
Programmer 2
Programmer 2
Testing Tools[1]
Testing Tools[1]
Testing Tools[1]
Testing Tools[1]
Manuals[1]
Consultant
Consultant
Programmer 2
Programmer 2
Project Manager
Project Manager
Project Manager
Project Manager
T F S S M T W T F S
Jan 7, '18 Feb 11, '18 Mar 18, '18 Apr 22, '18 May 27, '18
Figure 1: Project Gantt chart

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10. List of potential Risks
The list of potential risks for the project of Application Development for Treat Your Own
Back is given below,
S. No Risk Name Risk Type
1 Delay in Completion Operational
2 Cost Overrun Financial
3 Design Issues Technical
4 Conflict among team members Human
5 Change in scope Strategic

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