Business Report: Automotive Parts Website Development

This business report focuses on the development of an e-commerce website for selling automotive spare parts. It begins with an executive summary and introduction, setting the context for the project. The findings section details the steps involved in website development, including requirement analysis, digital strategy formulation, web page conceptualization, and deployment phases. It also explores stakeholder engagement methods and the agile methodology under the SDLC lifecycle. The report outlines project timelines, challenges faced, mitigation strategies, and the pros and cons of various web development technologies like Java, Python, and Angular. The conclusion emphasizes key considerations for creating an interactive and responsive e-commerce platform, followed by recommendations for fast loading, mobile accessibility, and order tracking. The report references multiple sources to support its findings and recommendations.

Business Report Title
1. Executive Summary
The assignment discusses regarding the website development of a site that
deals with selling automotive parts. The report has parts where it discusses
regarding the findings that had been obtained from the study, it also discusses
regarding the ways by which stakeholders of the project can be engaged. A
flowchart for website development has also been provided. The challenges faced by
the project along with their mitigation strategies and various technologies that can be
utilized for this project have been mentioned in the table format.
2. Introduction
This assignment deals with website development for an e-commerce websites
that sells automobile spare parts, the assignment discusses regarding various
factors that need to be considered for this purpose.
3. Findings
The project of website development can be carried out by using various steps, these
steps include
 Requirement analysis
 Formulate a digital strategy
 Web-page conceptualization
 Web development
 Evaluation as well as fine-tuning
 Data migration phase
 Pre-deployment phase
 Website handover
 Search engine indexing
 E-marketing/ SEM/SEO
The stakeholders involved in this project can be engaged using various
methods, some of them include identifyingthe diverse stakeholder groups as a
specific part of the project’s environmental scan before it begins the strategic
planning process, identifying the stakeholder representatives, creating a system to
solicit their feedback and lastly incorporating their feedback into the strategic
planning process.
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Diagram 1: flowchart for website development
(Source: Ullah, Alauddin & Zaman, 2016, p. 143)
This particular project would be carried out using the agile methodology under
the SDLC life cycle (Chen, Yen &Pornpriphet, 2015). This methodology
wouldinclude adaptive planning, fast delivery, evolutionary development, continuous
improvement. This methodology will also be utilized in order to obtain flexile and
highly rapid responses to various external factors of the project. The developers of
the website would rely on the cross functional and highly collaborative framework
along with a clear set of principles as well as objectives (Luo, Han & Yu, 2016). This
will speed up the development process of the website.
The phases included in the project along with their timelines are as follows
Task Timeline
Planning 2 weeks
Analysis 3 weeks
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Design and development 4 months
Testing 2 months
Implementation and maintenance 1 month
Table 1: phases to be undertaken within the project
(Source: Chen& Wang, 2016)
Challenges that would be faced along with their mitigation plan is as follows
Challenges Mitigation
Security The website can include a privacy setting
with which the users can limit the amount
of data related to users that the website
can access.
Unclear requirements Requirements must be changes on the
basis of business needs and customer
requirements.
Launching the website is a serious
challenge
The website can start from pre-
configured installation on a platform that
would be easy to modify.
Table 2: risks faced along with their mitigation strategies
(Source: Abdallah & Jaleel, 2015)
The web development technologies that would be used along with their pros
and cons are as follows
Web Development
technologies and
programming languages
Pros Cons
Java Java would make the
website less prone to bugs
or loopholes and it would
run faster.
Java programs are very
slow to write hence it
would consume more time
whole coding.
Python Using python would
require less coding and
prototypes can be built
Using this programming
language might make the
website slow and the
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easily. website would not be
available for using in
mobiles.
Angular Front-end based
application can be created
easily without use of any
other plugins. It would also
improve the performance
of the server
For using this technology,
the support of JavaScript
would be mandatory.
Table 2: technologies used in website development
(Source: Sobihah, Mohamad&Ali, 2015)
4. Conclusion
From the above assignment, it can be concluded that there are numerous
factors such as technologies and programming languages that must be considered
while developing an interactive as well as responsive e-commerce website that
deals with selling automotive spare parts. The assignment discusses regarding
these factors in details.
5. Recommendations
 Fast loading is a feature that must be included in the process of development
because customers do not prefer to wait while a page is loading
 The website must be developed such that they are accessible through mobile
devices because most people prefer using e-commerce websites through
mobile devices (Sun, Yang&Wang, 2015).
 Tracking must be enabled in the website so that the customers get an idea
regarding where their order is (Paris, Bahari&Iahad, 2016). This would help them
to know the exact reason if there is any kind of delay in delivery of the order.
6. References
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