Project Management Assignment: Managing BizTalk Application Project

This report details a project management assignment focusing on the development of a BizTalk application within the XYZ organization, an e-commerce service provider. The author, acting as an IT project manager, selects and justifies the application of five key PMBok knowledge areas: Project Integration Management, Project Scope Management, Project Time Management, Project Cost Management, and Project Quality Management. The report outlines the project's relevance, emphasizing BizTalk's role in automating business processes, integrating systems, and connecting trading partners. The report describes the processes followed, including project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure, and explains how the selected knowledge areas contribute to successful IT project management. The report also highlights the importance of BizTalk expertise in managing complex integrations and ensuring operational efficiency, concluding with a discussion of the benefits of automating the deployment process.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT- I
“MANAGE PROJECT WITH PMBok PROCESS”
Executive summary
To complete the running process in the right way and with fruitful output, management of the
project is very essential. In this report, the author will explain the current project of the XYZ
organization. XYZ is handling the so many IT projects. But here author will only discuss the
one current project, which is a BizTalk application. BizTalk application is a part of an
implementation of BizTalk Server. This helps in troubleshooting, controlling and
implementing different solutions of BizTalk Servers. In this study, five crucial process and
areas of knowledge are demonstrated. These are helpful to manage BizTalk Server. Lastly,
this selection is justified and contributed to control this project.
Introduction:
Work the project without the right project management is a totally wrong economy.
So, for the success of the running project, right management is very essential. The IT project
management is the process to plan, organize and delineate the roles of the particular
information technology goals. XYZ is a small organization, which provides the E-commerce
services to their clients. XYZ currently work on the BizTalk application development project.
The BizTalk application is one of the features of BizTalk Server, making that more
comfortable and quicker to troubleshoot, manage and deploy various solutions of BizTalk
Servers.
Here, Author as an IT project manager, has selected and planned five fundamental
processes and knowledge areas relevant to managing of BizTalk server. Then the author has
justified this selection and contribution to managing the project. For the current project
BizTalk development, the author follows the PMBok process.
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Description and relevance of selected project
The software development of BizTalk is chosen to understand the business process
and analyze the current software applications for deploying and develop the enterprise
application. This is helpful to automate the complete business procedure. The project would
be beneficial to limit the amount of code that should include custom libraries, custom
adapters and custom pipeline components (Beckner & Jones, 2017). Further, the Business
Activity Monitoring framework is helpful to create tracking and controlling the BizTalk
based solutions. This would be used by information workers to monitor the condition of the
present business process.
BizTalk is a popular industry initiative of the current era. This is headed through
Microsoft for promoting XML or Extensible Markup Language. This can be regarded as the
standard language for data exchange regarding application integration and e-commerce
around the Internet (Familiar, 2015). On the other hand, Azure BizTalk is an extensive,
robust and straightforward cloud-based integration service providing B2B or Business-to-
Business and EAI or Enterprise Application Integration for delivering hybrid and cloud
integration solutions.
Overall, BizTalk Server has been permitting merchants to control their supply chains
from different factory to an online store. This has been also delivering infrastructure to
connect application irrespective of their platforms and develop, expose and then consume
different brand-new services. The standard-based and proprietary systems have been
interconnected to BizTalk Servers to work with .NET Framework. This has been also
providing connections to platforms, applications and individuals using them.
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Selecting and justifying five main knowledge areas to be
implemented
Selection of the specific area
of knowledge Justification
Project Integration Management
This is to be developed as the roadmap to reach a successful
goal. For initiating phase of the project, project charter is very
important. It is written and approved by a high authority of the
organization than Project Manager (PreparePM, 2017).
Project Scope Management Validating scope during the project helps in assuring that
deliverables are approved at a regular basis by stakeholders
and sponsors. And It includes the all required work which is
important for the completion of the project (PreparePM, 2017).
Project time management With sequencing the tasks, the resources needed are assigned
an estimated here.
Project cost management With the expert judgment and vendor bid analysis tools and
techniques, It is determines the project budget as all the costs
are considered in project process.
Project quality management This includes a quality assurance to ensure that various quality
standards are met (Joslin & Müller, 2015).
Description of process for the current project
The primary usefulness of PMOK guidelines in the current BizTalk guidelines is the
universal library that can be drawn from and used to create ease of communication around
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projects. The instructions described below stems project management methods leveraging
ideas depicted in this list (Joslin & Müller, 2015). The following process for the present
scheme of BizTalk Application development has followed PMBOK guidelines:
Project Initiation
This is the initial phase of the project, and the goal is to
be defined here at a more extensive level.
Input: Guidelines, work instruction or previous project
report
Tool & Techniques: Various department within the
organization
Output: Project management plan
Project Planning
This is the key to successful project management and
focusing on developing roadmaps to be followed by
everyone.
Input: Develop Project Management Plan
Tool & Techniques: Planning
Output: Project management plan
Project Execution
Here, the deliverables are completed and developed.
Input: Project plan, Supporting details, Organization
policies and Corrective action
Tool & Techniques: General management skills, status
review meetings.
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Output: Work results and change requests
Project
Performance/Monitoring
This includes measuring of project performance and
progression and assuring that all the things get aligned to
project management plan (Beckner & Jones, 2017).
Input: Work results or Performance report
Tool & Techniques: Inspection or Control charts
Output: Updated documents/decisions or rework.
Project Closure
Here the contractors hired for software development at
BizTalk Application is intended to work mainly on the project
terminated at this time.
Input: Acceptable deliverables
Tool & Techniques: Performance review or Trend analysis
Output: Final product, service or Organizational process
assets updates
Planning for executing the knowledge areas
Project Integration
Management
This includes trade-offs among different competing
alternatives and objectives for meeting or exceeding
stakeholder expectations and needs.
Project Scope This can be started by defining objectives, scopes, purposes
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Management and deliverables to be generated.
Project time management This knowledge area of time management has been referring
to the tools, skills and techniques utilized in managing time.
This must be done by accomplishing particular goals, projects
and tasks (Kerzner, 2018).
Project cost management This includes determination of policies, documentation and
procedures used to plan, execute and control project costs.
Here the most important output of this procedure is a cost
management plan. Further, cost estimation is a highly crucial
element of cost management.
Project quality
management
The quality management is the method to assure that every
project tasks are needed to develop, plan and deploy all the
efficient and active parts of a project. This is for its objectives
and performances and is a consistent method to start and end
the project (Hedberg, La Cour & Weare, 2014).
Justification of contribution in managing IT projects:
The above mentioned project management knowledge sectors coincide with process groups.
This includes project initiation, project planning, project execution, controlling and
monitoring and project closing.
The knowledge areas, discussed above occur during any one of these process groups.
As the process groups are horizontal, the knowledge areas are vertical.
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As the project managers of BizTalk Application development become aware of the
above knowledge areas, they execute projects more effectively and much more productively.
Different skills gained through understanding those knowledge areas are helpful for the
project managers in avoiding a crisis. This also includes scope deviation (Familiar, 2015).
These help the project managers to undertake proactive decisions. Hence, as the project
manager knows the ideas of those knowledge areas thoroughly, they turn out to be proficient
in managing the given projects and different people included in them.
The BizTalk server would help in transforming and converting data from distinct
formats and applications to common and independent form. Moreover, BizTalk never gets
stopped at the company’s frontier. The project outcomes would be also helpful to inter-
connect applications of the agencies such that one can connect trading partners or B2B and
create efficiency in the complete value chain (Hedberg, La Cour & Weare, 2014). Here a
successful implementation of that BizTalk Server System is helpful to integrate systems,
develop the capability of various stakeholders and employees for the benefits of the business.
Here for achieving the most successful outcomes BizTalk developer or architect can be hired
for designing, deploying and configuring an integrated system and execute troubleshooting.
The suitable BizTalk expert for the job needs skills and experiences (Serote et al. 2015).
Conclusion:
BizTalk Server is one of the most popular and useful tools to handle present-day
integrations. In the past, scopes of deployment for BizTalk applications has been time-
consuming, manual and limited. However, currently, there has been various tested and
existing tools available helping to automate the complete process. The above study assures
that BizTalk applications could be implemented in any scenarios in tested and working order
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with full traceability of what has been modified and when. It should be reminded that
connecting system communication points have been core to the operational efficiency of the
business. Thus it is seen that deployment and management of integration of complex
integration tools are complicated and needs particular expertise. Further, BizTalk expertise
has been helping to keep complex integration points inter-connected. This is done by
achieving flexible monitoring and different proactive, supportive solutions.
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