Project Management: Feasibility, Team Roles & Software Effectiveness

This report provides a detailed analysis of project feasibility assessment methods, team roles in project development and delivery, and the evaluation of different project management software. It reviews technical, economic, legal, operational, and resource aspects of project feasibility, using the implementation of an Information System (IS) in Saifco Travel and Tourism LLC as a case study. The report also evaluates the roles of project managers, finance teams, operation managers, HR teams, system development teams, and application programming managers in project delivery. Furthermore, it examines the uses and effectiveness of project management software such as TargetProcess, Exo Platform, and caseCamp.com, highlighting their features, practical applications, and overall effectiveness in managing projects.

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Project Management
Task 2
2.1 Review how project feasibility can be assessed for individual projects.
1. Consider more than one Project. Consider the method(s) of assessment for Project feasibility.
2. Review the approach/method of assessment for Project feasibility.
For the nominated project “implementation of Information System in Saifco Travel and tourism LLC” the
details are elaborated in the below section:
The approaches on assessment of the project Review on the assessment of the project
For developing an Information System (IS) for
this company the different measuring aspects
those have been considered included in the
below section:
Based upon some of the major assessment
criteria the project will be assessed. This review
revealed that, all the projects are accomplished
through the evaluation criteria. However,
according to the need of the project the weight
of the criteria are to be changed accordingly.
After reviewing the details of the chosen case
project the score for each of the aspects are
illustrated in the below section:
 Technical assessment: out of 10
 Resource: 6 out of 10
 Economic: 8 out of 10
 Legal: 5 out of 10
 Operational and functional: 8 out of 10
The other review includes the below aspects:
Review on the design project prototype
Technical aspect: This particular area of
assessment deals with the functional and non
functional requirements associated to the
project (Naedele, et al. 2015). In addition to
this, accurate security mechanisms those are
also incorporated to the system in terms of
encryption, decryption and firewall are also
other aspects that are considered.
Resources: In order to develop an advanced
and secured Information system for increasing
the business effectiveness resources are the
other important aspects that have been
considered. Technical experts can only deploy a
secured system for the consumers and
employees.
Legal: All the background programs should run

successfully with the help of software and
hardware supporting applications. The legal
requirements in terms of software license are
another thing to be considered.
Review on other project specifications
Selection of system designer and requirement
suppliers
Permission and license for the required set of
software
Operation and function: Whether the company
has the ability to manage all its operation or not
are analyzed with the help of this aspect
(Schumann et al. 2015).
2.2 Evaluate the role and choice of individuals and teams in project development and project delivery.
Evaluate the Role of individuals and Teams in project development and project delivery.
Evaluate the Choice of individuals and Teams in project development and project delivery.
For a selected Project, Role of Individual and Teams for project development and project delivery is listed as
below:
Project Development
Role of Individual and Teams
The assigned project manager for the Information system implementation project for Saifco Travel
and tourism LLC is responsible to control and monitor the project progress. With the help of a
project status report the current status of the project can be evaluated and accordingly the
required changes can also be identified and incorporated by the project manager (Ferrucci,
Harman and Sarro 2014). In order to reduce the project complexity and time oriented issues, the
project manager is responsible to design a project schedule or time frame. For each of the project
activities different resources are assigned and it is their role to complete the task within estimated
timeframe and budget. The development team is consists of system developer, designer and
tester. Starting from the design of the prototype up to their testing and market launch are done by
assigned project development team members.
Choice of Individual and Teams
For this specific IS implementation project the selected individuals and project team are as follows:
 Project manager
 Finance team
 Operation manager
 HR team
 System development team
 Programming application manager
Project Delivery.
Role of Individual and Teams

Project manager: To deliver a long term sustainable Information system to the consumers
Finance manager: to accomplish the project within the estimated budget
Operation manager: To make sure that all the project operations are running successfully
Application programming manager: To design and implement such a system which can decrease the
current organizational issues and increase the overall business efficiency.
System development team: To deliver a secured and efficient system to the employees and consumers.
HR team: To manage all the associate project team members.
Choice of Individual and Teams
 A sub system of website
 A sub system of Mobile app
2.3 Evaluate the uses and effectiveness of different project management software.
1. Consider different project management software in use.
2. Evaluate the uses of the selected software.
3. And Evaluate the effectiveness of the selected software.
In order to evaluate the usability and effectiveness of the different project management software
the project management software those are considering for this section include the following:
1. TargetProcess
Overview
Basically for those projects which are using the concept of Agile project development methodology
this project management software is very much effective. Since 2004 the project managers are
using this software for managing their projects (Fleming and Koppelman 2016). For the agile
application this particular tool offers holistic approaches. The standardization data among the
management solution and the data transfer can be eliminated through this application. For the
real time project alignment and meeting the business strategies this software is very helpful. It
also offers correct view for information by different directions.
 Evaluation of the software in practical field
 Offers correct information view regarding information through drag and drop, testing and
managing
 It also offers high quality managerial application and distributed team support
 The workflow can be easily and specifically identified through this software
 It rather helps to develop a customized structure for the consumers
Effectiveness of the software
 The interdependency among the different data can be easily identified and structured as
well
 Offers flexible tools for the successful project level solution
 It gives high quality consumers support

 Data can be represented in different forms and history of the data can also be shown
lcearly to the consumers
2. Exo Platform
Overview
This is one of the most well known open source project management software used by the project
owners. Regardless of the size of the projects this software can be used by the developers. The
enterprise Digital collaboration is best known as the Exo Platform, helps the internal teams as well
as ecosystem connect to successfully interact and collaborate. It gives high level facilities for the
cross functional projects with high private security and full featured collaboration space.
Evaluation of the software in practical field
 This software has the ability to leverage content templates as well as publication life cycle
for creating and publishing engagement level contents in a minute (Baumann and
Trautmann 2016)
 Easily create connection along with the rest of the members associated to the project
 The user friendliness of the system offers work efficiency and collaboration remotely along
with the rest of the devices
Effectiveness of the software
The IT companies those will use this software for managing their projects will be able to gat
commercial benefit from their services. It has a better ability to accommodate, connect, and
communicating with the rest through strategic communication approaches. This digital
collaboration platform acts as a backbone in the workplace that also help to promote
interoperability. It has the ability to accommodate for additional further use case within similar
platform.
3. caseCamp.com
Overview
This particular project management software is developed by DevelopScript , a cloud based project
management solution. Regardless of the size of the business this particular business can be used
by the organizational heads. The products developed by this are cater for both the inhouse as well
as all outsourced IT development team. Part from this, the other activities that are effectively done
by this software include resource management, budgeting, time management tracking, reporting
functionalities, project roadmaps etc. Besides this, for iOS and Android also this app is available
(Marzband et al. 2017). This software also helps to track the location of the staffs that are placed
in remote locations. Even the total amount of time can also be tracked with the help of this
particular software including details payroll calculations.

Evaluation of the software in practical field
Case management is another important aspect that can possibly evaluate with the help of this
software. The users can create tickets and also assign them to different people by updating the
project status. All the application associated to the project is shown in a dashboard and through
the help of this dashboard the entire project can be managed by the project manager. In addition
to this, it also offers live chat, through which the user’s collaboration is possible. This software
offers professional integration with the GitHub (Braglia and Frosolini 2014). The other
functionalities that shows the success of the software include user friendly usability, quality of
services, consumers support and effective operation and functionalities.
Effectiveness of the software
 The history tracking ability of the product is appreciable
 Offers easy uploads, integration and change management
 Gives the top most priority due to their change driven activities
 Valid and variety solution provider along with complete catalog upload ability
 It shows a CAMP ambiance that covers all the project case

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