COMP3059 Capstone Project I: MEAL Project Plan and Team Charter

This document presents a comprehensive project plan and team charter for the MEAL project, designed to address hunger and food wastage through an application and website. The plan includes an executive summary, scope definition, deliverables, assumptions, dependencies, and a detailed risk management strategy addressing potential issues like hacking and denial of service. A communication plan outlines reporting frequencies and meeting schedules for effective project management. The work breakdown structure (WBS) provides a task listing with durations and dependencies, covering initiation, planning, execution, control, and closeout phases. The team charter outlines the project's purpose, background, and goals, emphasizing the development of a synchronized application and website to provide real-time food availability information. The project adheres to the guidelines of the COMP3059 Capstone Project I, encompassing all necessary components for successful project execution and delivery.

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Student Name
Course Name
Date
Institution Affiliation

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Project Plan
6. Dependencies
i. Initiation & Planning
 Developing and reviewing project charter
 Creating scope statement
 Identifying team members and starting meetings
 Developing and approving the project plan
ii. Execution
 Verifying the requirements of the customer
 Website methodology design
 Purchasing the required software/hardware
 Installing the development system and kicking of the design of
website
 Staff training and testing
 Live system implementation
iii. Control
 Management of changes in the organization
 Risk management
 Taking and implementing feedback from users
iv. Closeout
 Keeping records for future reference
 External audits
 Records update
 End user and administrator documentation

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7. Risk Management
Potential Risk Severity (H/M/L) Likelihood (H/M/L) Management Strategy
Hacking Moderate High The website and the app
should be tested against all
possible hacking strategies
and kept up to date(Shema,
2012).
Denial Of Services High Moderate Rate limiting in the app,
deploying DDoS protection
appliances, buying enough
bandwidth, building
redundancy options (Jin
Wang, Xiaolong Yang &
Keping Long, 2011).
8. Communication
Reporting
Report Audience Frequency
Project status report Team members and
management
weekly
Project requirements Management One time

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Budget report The management One time
Life-cycle phase Leaders, management and
key stakeholders
As needed
Meetings
The following meetings/communication will be established;
Meeting Purpose Attendees Frequency
Project kick off meeting Review the plan and start the
project
Team members One time
Project status meeting Update about the status of the
project and inform the
concerned people
Team members and key
stakeholders
Weekly
Life-cycle phase reviews Review the completed phases
and measure against the
previously set standards
Team members
Emergency project
meeting
Emergency status and
management of crisis
Team members and all
those that are affected
As
required
9. Task Listing (WBS- Work Breakdown Structure)

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Reference Tasks Duration Dependency
Initiation 1.1 Project charter development
1.2 Approval of the charter
2
1 1.1
Planning 2.1 Scope statement
2.2 Identification of team members and meetings
kick-off
2.3 Creation of the project plan
2.4 Submission of the project plan
1
2
3
1
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_
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2.3
Execution 3.1 Verifying the requirements of the customer
3.2 Website methodology design
3.3 Purchase of required hardware/software
3.4 Website designing and development system
installation
3.5 Staff training and testing
3.6 Live system implementation
2
3
2
4
7
3
_
3.1
3.1
3.3
3.4
3.5
Control 4.1 Team members project tracking meeting
4.2 Changes management in organization
4.3 Risk management
4.4 Feedback system implementation
4.5 Project plan update if needed
1
5
2
1
2
_
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4.2
4.1,4.2,4.3
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Closeout 5.1 Documentation for future reference
5.2 External audit
5.3 Records update
5.4 End-user and administrator documentation
3
3
2
3
_
4
5.2
5.3

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Team Charter
1. Purpose

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This team was put together with the key aim of developing an application and a website
version to help in fighting hunger and avoiding food wastage. The app will assist in the users
being able to know if there is available at the time they are searching.
2. Background
This project is one of the key foundations of our team in achieving its targets of meeting the
food demand and taking food to those who need it and at the right time without delay. It is
basically an application that has a website version that are synched together such that the list
of the food available is always updated.
References
Jin Wang, Xiaolong Yang, & Keping Long. (2011). Web DDoS Detection Schemes Based on
Measuring User's Access Behavior with Large Deviation. 2011 IEEE Global

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Telecommunications Conference - GLOBECOM 2011, 5. doi:
10.1109/glocom.2011.6133798
Shema, M. (2012). Hacking Web Apps. Rockland, MA: Elsevier Science.