Project Management Plan for Digital Wellbeing Research at Pegasus

This project management plan outlines a research project conducted for Pegasus Software Ltd, focusing on digital wellbeing. The project aims to investigate how digital technologies impact people's lives, with a particular focus on whether they improve or distract from overall wellbeing. The plan details the project's objectives, scope, potential risks, required resources, and estimated costs and timelines. Key objectives include assessing the impact of technology on mental and physical health, improving customer satisfaction, and encouraging a healthier relationship with digital devices. The project includes a work breakdown structure, Gantt chart, and detailed budget. The plan also addresses quality management, communication strategies, and risk mitigation, providing a comprehensive framework for the successful completion of the research and the development of digital wellbeing solutions. The project is scheduled to be completed in 41 days or 6 weeks.

[Project Management Plan]
[Digital Wellbeing]

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Project Aims
The project plan is focused on conducting a small scale research for the local company,
Pegasus Software Ltd. The selected title for this plan is digital wellbeing. It is about
fashioning as well as sustaining healthy relation with the digital technologies. The
manager of the company, Pegasus Software Ltd decided to develop their business along
with finance tools for supporting the businesses. It will help the company to make changes
in their business direction by introducing digital technologies assist with health along with
wellbeing of person.
The aim of this study is investigating on if the digital technologies are improving life or
distracting from it. Efficacy of the products along with its features are designed to make
improvement in health as well as wellbeing. The expected benefits of digital wellbeing are
increasing emphasis on the physical activities along with health. It experiences support to
mental as well as physical health of people in assessable technique.
Project Objectives
Objective No Objective Description
1 The goal of this research project is to investigate
if the digital technologies improve or distract life
with a timeline of 41 days.
2 The objective is to implement digital wellbeing
technology in future to improve in mental and
physical health of people by second quarter.
3 The goal is to make the existing customers
happier with improving customer satisfaction rate
by 50%.
4 The objective is to encourage people to focus on
health related issues and get solutions using
digital wellbeing technologies.
5 The objective is to investigate causes and
reasons of life distraction by using this
technology in 3 weeks.
Scope
The digital world is being growing and rapidly changing with young people are spending
time with the digital devices. It has technological impact on people with positive effects to
increase in scope of learning of new knowledge as well as connecting with people all over
the world. The scope of this project plan is to investigate benefits and issues of digital
wellbeing on life of people. The digital technologies as well as internet can simplify life of
people along with distract their life by causing anxiety and making them upset. Therefore,
it is required to make control over the technology to gain benefits from it (Meredith,
Mantel Jr and Shafer 2017). It is growing among young people so that it helps them to
grow psychological, physical and public wellbeing.
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Risks
 Scope creep: The project team members may neglect the management of project
changes cause scope creep.
 Budget risk: Estimated budget for the project may overrun due to some amount of
uncertainty in the project expenses.
 Resource risk: The resources involved in project planning are not having sufficient skills
to manage the digital work (Heagney 2016).
 Schedule risk: The estimation and assumptions made in the project are not proper as
per the project requirements and cause project delays.
Resources
 Project Manager- Participating in planning as well as development of digital wellbeing
 Project Sponsor- Collecting funds for the project
 Project team members- Providing support to the project manager
 HR Manager- Recruitment and selection of employees to achieve project objectives
 Financial Manager- Estimate the project budget based on project requirements
 Senior Manager- Serve as the leader of project changes (Fleming and Koppelman 2016).
 Supplier- Selling goods and services to business and delivering products to company
Deliverables
 Project proposal
 Statement of work
 Project scope statement
 Work breakdown structure
 Gap analysis report
 Quality management document
 Communication plan
 Risk management plan
 Budget plan
Time
The total time required to complete the project plan is 41 days or 6 weeks. The main
project milestones for the project are stated as initiating the project, requirements,
planning the project, executing the project, monitoring the project, documentation and
closing. The project milestones are shown in following figure of Gantt chart.
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Figure 1: Gantt chart
(Source: Created by author using MS Project)
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Work Breakdown Structure
Research Project Plan on
Digital Wellbeing
Initiating the Project
Feasibility study on
the three projects
Create project
proposal
Review project
proposal with client
Make suggested
changes to proposal
M1: Completion of
initiation phase
Requirements
Create evaluation
criteria/requirements
specification
Review with client
Make suggested
changes
M2: Completion of
requirement phase
Planning the project
Qualitative/Quantitative Research
Create
Questionnaire/survey/interview
etc
Review document
with manager
Make any suggested
changes
Contact relevant
candidates for
interview
Organize date, time
and room
Confirm room, time
and date with
candidates
M3: Completion of
planning phase
Executing the Project
Conduct
qualitative/quantitative
research
Check information
/Validate information
Type up report
Present statistical
data in Excel format
M4: Completion of
execution phase
Monitoring the Project
Proof read and
check grammar,
English, spelling
Review against the
requirements
specification
Presentation draft
document/presentation
to Manager
Discuss suggested
changes
Review and update
Confirmation of
completed
report/presentation
M5: Completion of
monitoring phase
Documentation
Report
Presentation
M6: Completion of
documentation
Closing
Hand over the
report to client
Handover the
presentation to
client
M6: Completion of
closing phase
Figure 2: Work Breakdown Structure
(Source: Created by author)
Costs
The total cost for the project is calculated as $43,200.
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Figure 3: Budgeted cost
(Source: Created by author using MS Project)
Quality
The quality of the product ensures that it meets with quality standards as well as
requirements of this research project. The work processes are being performed
professionally and recognized properly. The main purpose to develop quality plan of this
work is to elicit the expectations of the customers in terms of quality (Kerzner 2019). It
should ensure that the customers are satisfied with usage of digital wellbeing devices by
making improvement in health of human beings.
Communication
Reason for
communication
Frequency Communication
channel
Audiences
Final approval of project
milestones and strategic
project directions
Major project
milestones
High level project
timeline and budget
via email
Project Manager
Project deliverables
approval
Weekly Weekly project
meetings and emails
Project Manager
Approval of project budget Daily Daily emails and
weekly presentation
Project Manager
Project related documents Weekly Email Project Manager
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References
Fleming, Q.W. and Koppelman, J.M., 2016, December. Earned value project management.
Project Management Institute.
Heagney, J., 2016. Fundamentals of project management. Amacom.
Kerzner, H., 2019. Using the project management maturity model: strategic planning for
project management. John Wiley & Sons.
Meredith, J.R., Mantel Jr, S.J. and Shafer, S.M., 2017. Project management: a managerial
approach. John Wiley & Sons.
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