CQUniversity MGMT20140: Mobile App Proposal for AB Bank Australia

This report presents a proposal for the development of a mobile application for the AB Bank of Australia, aiming to enhance its business processes and competitiveness in the banking sector. The project outlines the opportunity to implement a mobile application for both Android and iOS users, improving business opportunities and aligning with the bank's strategic intent. The report details the project's description, strategic alignment with CQUniversity's innovation goals, and alternative solutions. It includes stakeholder analysis, a project approach with a detailed schedule, resource allocation, and risk management considerations. The project follows the software development life cycle, covering planning, analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation phases, culminating in project closure and documentation.

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PR2: Proposal Report
Project Name: Project proposal to implement a Mobile Application for AB Bbank in Australia
Proposal Author Name and Student number:
Campus and Tutor:
1. Project Description
1.1 Opportunity/Problem
The AB Bank of Australia wants to expand its business processes and wants to increase
the activities that are associated with the bank. The bank needs to implement all the latest
technologies that other banks are following in Australia so that they can give a tough competition
in the banking sector in Australia. This project aims to implement a mobile application for the
bank that will be useful for both the android users and iOS users. This project offers the bank to
implement an application that helps organization to maintain its business processes.
The key stakeholders associated with the project are the project manager who is of ager
37 and he needs to manage all the activities in the project. There are other stakeholders as well
that specifies the bank, other business partners and the suppliers or the vendors. The age of the
bank is two years.
The opportunity or the target of the application that is being built is the citizens of
Australia and the customers who are associated with the bank. The opportunity that is involved
in this project is to have an application that improves the business opportunities of the
organization.

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1.2 Proposed Project
The project in this report is developing a mobile application for the AB Bank. The goal of
this project is to evaluate the estimated schedule, the total time taken to complete the project, the
scope that is included for designing the project, and lastly deploying the mobile application in the
banking firm. The software that is to be implemented is to go through software development life
cycle that includes phases like planning, analysis of the requirements, designing, developing,
testing as well as implementing the application and the last phase is closing of the project. This
proposed framework describes outline of the project.
1.3 Strategic Alignment
Strategic Direction Project alignment
(a) The CQUniversity Strategic
Intent 2017-2027
This project satisfies the engagement and innovation that is
intended in the CQUniversity. The project includes growth of the
innovation and helps the project developer to have leadership
quality.
(b) Unit learning outcomes This project is application for post graduate and the learning
outcome of the project is able to develop a project that can
lead to a successful completion of the project.
2. Alternative
Alternative solution for enhancing the business process of the bank is implementing
cloud computing concept in the bank to store their data securely in the cloud.

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Stakeholders
Stakeholder Name Stakeholder
Category
Role in the
stakeholder
Project Impact to
Stakeholder
Project manager Internal Stakeholder Needs to manage the
activities that are
involved in the
project and fulfils the
scope of the project
and project
deliverables are
completed within the
due date.
In successful
completion of the
project manager will
maintain its
leadership quality in
completing the
project successfully.
The project manager
also schedule the
activities and notes
that all the work are
done with the time
frame.
Banking Firm Sponsor This stakeholder
provides the fund
needed for the
project.
The bank will be able
to enhance its
business process after
successful
completion of the

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project.
Government External Stakeholder Government makes
sure that the project
areas are maintained
and the project
deliverables are done
according to the
regulation of the
project.
The government can
get more number of
customers for the
bank. The
government increases
the technology of the
country by
implementing the
application in the
bank.
Vendors and
Suppliers
Supplier This
stakeholder provides
the equipment that
are required for
completing the
project.
The vendors can
supplier will be paid
for the materials they
provide for the
project afters
successful
completion of the
project.
Project Approach

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ID Task Name Schedule
1.1 Project Initiation 8 days
1.1.1 Project Kick-Off Meeting 1st week
1.1.2 Technical Feasibility Analysis 1st week
1.1.3 Operational Feasibility Analysis 1st week
1.1.4 Project proposal and approval 2nd week
1.2 Requirements Analysis & Project Planning 22 days
1.2.1 Study of the Business Case 2nd week and 3rd week
1.2.2 Data Collection for Defining Requirements 3rd and 4th week
1.2.3 User Requirements Specification 5th week
1.2.4 Project Scope Definition & Management 6th week
1.2.5 Project Estimations - Schedule, Costs 6th week and 7th week
1.2.6 Risk Assessment & Management 8th week
1.2.7 Milestone 1: Project Plan 8th week
1.3 Project Design & Development 74 days
1.3.1 Procurement of tools and equipment 9th week and 10th week
1.3.2 Development of design diagrams 10th week and 11th week
1.3.3 System interfaces 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th week
1.3.4 Source code development 15th and 16th week
1.3.5 Unit testing of the code 16th and 17th week
1.3.6 Review and analysis 17th and 18th week
1.3.7 Release the build 18th week
1.3.8 Milestone 2: Source code 18th week
1.4 Application Testing 120 days
1.4.1 Testing Methodology & Approach 19th week
1.4.2 Test scenarios and test case creation 20th and 21st week
1.4.3 Test execution 22nd week
1.4.4 Milestone 3: Defect Report 22nd week
1.5 Project control & implementation 7days
1.5.1 Application reviews and inspections 23rd week
1.6 Project Closure 34 days
1.6.1 Application deployment 24th, 25th and 26th week
1.6.2 System Documentation 6days
1.6.2.1 User-manual 27th week
1.6.2.2 Assistance documents 27th and 28th week
1.6.3 Final Project Documentation 10 days
1.6.3.1 Project Closure Report 29th week
1.6.3.2 Project Review Report 30th week
1.6.3.3 Final Status Report 31st week
1.6.3.4 Milestone 5: Project Closure Report 31st week

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Resources, Cost & Funding Source
Resource Category Cost Funding Source
Project Manager Human Resource $90.00/hr Bank
Business Analyst Human Resource $80.00/hr Bank
Programmer 1 Human Resource $70.00/hr Bank
Programmer 2 Human Resource $70.00/hr Bank
UI Expert Human Resource $65.00/hr Bank
System Designer Human Resource $65.00/hr Bank
Functional Tester Human Resource $60.00/hr Bank
Security Tester Human Resource $65.00/hr Bank
Performance Tester Human Resource $65.00/hr Bank
Test Analyst Human Resource $65.00/hr Bank
Technical Expert Human Resource $70.00/hr Bank
Technical Writer Human Resource $65.00/hr Bank

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Network Engineer Human Resource $65.00/hr Bank
Implementation
Engineer
Human Resource $60.00/hr Bank
Finance Officer Human Resource $80.00/hr Bank
Legal Advisor Human Resource $80.00/hr Bank
Ethics and Risk Management (3 marks)
Risk Category Considerations for this Project Mitigation
Fails in
understanding the
requirement
related to the
project
All the requirements that are
included in the project are to be
considered and there should be clear
understanding of all the projects that
are included in the project.
The project requirements are to be
cleared by the project manager and
all requirements are to be done.
The requirement of the project
should be made clear so that the
team members of the project
development team will be able to
understand the requirement and
scope of the project.
Increasing the
schedule of the
project and the
time schedule
The time schedule of the project and
the budget of the project is increased
for the project.
All activities included in the
project should be divided in to
small parts so that the time and the
cost evaluation can be done from
time to time.

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Resource
shortage
The resource that are to be included
in the project should be made
available in successful completion
of the project.
There should be availability other
vendors and suppliers for one fails.
Changing design
of the project
The design of the application is not
user friendly and the team members
are not able to decode it.
The design of the project should be
done so that the team members are
able to analyze the design of the
application.
Non research
project
I confirm that this project will NOT
require the collection of data from
humans for the purposes of research.
YES

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