Website Development Business Plan for HWE Accessories Project

This project presents a detailed business plan for the development of a new website for HWE Accessories. The plan outlines the project's scope, objectives, and key phases, including initial development, defining project goals, creating a website wireframe, organizing website content, and the website development itself. A project plan is provided with a timeline of 3 months, detailing specific tasks within each phase. The assignment also includes a risk matrix, identifying potential risks such as scope creep, underestimation of time and resources, cross-platform compatibility, overrun of project costs, and lack of resource availability. Each risk is evaluated for its impact and probability, with corresponding mitigation strategies. The project concludes by highlighting the two highest priority risks and the strategies to address them, providing a comprehensive approach to website development project management.

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Business Plan for Website Development for HWE Accessories
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Project plan to develop business plan for the new HWE Accessories website
Figure 1: Project Plan
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The project plan for developing a business plan on website development of new HWE
Accessories is required to display the series of the project tasks required for the development.
The project manager creates a detailed project plan to structure entire work with confidence
as well as chance to meet with the project goals on scheduled time as well as estimated
budget (Heagney, 2016). The total duration for entire project plan is 3 months, with start date
as 25-03-2020 and end date as 28-07-2020. Following are the main project tasks required to
plan the website development work for the company as:
 Initial development phase: This project phase determines the completion of
project requirements by setting the schedule, estimate the budget and assign
team to project tasks. The total duration for this phase is 13 days.
 Define project goals and objectives of website: This phase will describe how
the project will accomplish as well as achieve the business values. The main

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goals of the website is to increase in sales by a well-organized web content
(Kerzner, 2019). In this phase, there is gathering of client’s requirements to
develop the business plan. The total duration for this phase is 16 days.
 Create a website wireframe: This phase is consisted gathering of tools for the
wire framing, target the users and perform a design research on the user
interface of the website. Then, there is required to create mock-ups and
prototyping of the website. The total duration for this phase is 27 days.
 Organize website content: This phase is consisted with creating a website
design and structuring of the navigator structure (Marchewka, 2016). The
developed website is provided with color and graphics and the content is
presented to the project client. The total duration for this phase is 23 days.
 Website development: This phase is associated with developing the website by
coding and performing usability testing (Heldman, 2018). Then, the final
website is designed as per the project and client’s requirements. The total
duration for this phase is 18 days.
Risk Matrix
The risk management is used for assessment of the project risks while developing a
new website for new HWE Accessories. It helps to determine the risk impact as well as
probability of occurrence of risks against each category of identified risks. From the
management perspective, the risk matrix is used to increase in risk visibility as well as assist
mitigation strategies to overcome with the development risks (Xia et al., 2018). Below is the
risk matrix:

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Risk
ID Risk Types Description Impact Probability Mitigation strategies
1 Scope creep New features of website is requested
that is not form part of the project brief.
Additional features of website provides
impact on decisions and project time. Major Moderate
There should require to manage the
project scope by taking prior approval
of the project scope from project
client.
2 Underestimation
of time and
resources
There is underestimation of time
required to complete due to improper
project planning (Paquin, Gauthier, &
Morin, 2016). All the project team
members require granted time with
their duties and responsibilities. Extreme Moderate
The project time as well as resources
are scheduled based on the project
requirements. All the project tasks are
considered based on client's
requirements of website development.
3 Cross platform
compatibility
It is hard to get the website to function
in perfect way on each version of the
Moderate Moderate The website should be designed for
one particular platform and browser so

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browser and orientation.
that it should not cause any technical
failures.
4 Overrun of the
project cost
It is hard to determine the cost of the
project as it is difficult to estimate cost
for maintenance, development, value of
the owners and users at the project
initiation phase (Xia et al., 2018). Major Likely
There should conduct a proper cost
management so that all the project
tasks are managed properly including
its project expenses for all required
materials and resources.
5 Lack of
resource
availability
The resources those are involved in the
website development are having lack of
technical skills to design it as per the
project requirements. Moderate Likely
The technical staffs should require to
hire for the website development so
that it should design by considering
the project and client's needs.

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Based on the above risk matrix table, it is concluded that there are two high project
risks: underestimation of time and resources and overrun of the project cost, which are
required to mitigate at high priority. Three medium project risks are scope creep, cross
platform compatibility and lack of resource availability, which are mitigated by mitigation
strategies against each category.

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References
Heagney, J. (2016). Fundamentals of project management. Amacom.
Heldman, K. (2018). PMP: project management professional exam study guide. John Wiley
& Sons.
Kerzner, H. (2019). Using the project management maturity model: strategic planning for
project management. John Wiley & Sons.
Marchewka, J. T. (2016). Information technology project management: Providing measurable
organizational value. John Wiley & Sons.
Paquin, J. P., Gauthier, C., & Morin, P. P. (2016). The downside risk of project portfolios:
The impact of capital investment projects and the value of project efficiency and
project risk management programmes. International Journal of Project
Management, 34(8), 1460-1470.
Xia, N., Zou, P. X., Griffin, M. A., Wang, X., & Zhong, R. (2018). Towards integrating
construction risk management and stakeholder management: A systematic literature
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Management, 36(5), 701-715.