Project Management: Drone Delivery System Project Proposal and Plan

This document presents a comprehensive project proposal and plan for implementing a drone delivery system, focusing on improving the efficiency of e-commerce logistics. It includes a rationale for the project, highlighting the growing popularity of e-commerce and the challenges in product delivery. The purpose and justification emphasize enhancing customer satisfaction and strengthening business-customer relationships. The proposal outlines research questions related to the technical viability, throughput maximization, and potential benefits of drone delivery. A conceptual framework details the input, process, and output of the system. The methodology employs an object-oriented approach, while risk analysis identifies and addresses potential issues such as weather, hardware damage, and connectivity problems. The project plan includes deliverables like project blogs, schedules, posters, and budgets, along with a work breakdown structure (WBS) and Gantt chart, estimating a 164-day duration. The ethical considerations and compliance requirements are also addressed, ensuring legal and operational improvements. The document concludes with references to relevant research and publications.

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Table of Contents
Title:...........................................................................................................................................2
Project Blog................................................................................................................................2
Weekly Progress Reports Plan...................................................................................................2
Rationale....................................................................................................................................2
Problem domain.....................................................................................................................2
Purpose and justification........................................................................................................2
Supervisor Approval..............................................................................................................3
Research Questions................................................................................................................3
Conceptual or Theoretical Framework...................................................................................3
Methodology..........................................................................................................................3
Analysis of sources of information........................................................................................4
Research method....................................................................................................................4
Data collection or systems design methods...........................................................................4
Ethical Issues..........................................................................................................................4
Compliance Requirements.....................................................................................................4
Project Plan................................................................................................................................5
Deliverables............................................................................................................................5
Work breakdown structure (WBS).........................................................................................5
Risk Analysis.........................................................................................................................5
Duration..................................................................................................................................6
Gantt chart..............................................................................................................................8

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References..................................................................................................................................9

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Title:
Emerging Technology and Innovation Topic
Project Blog
The web address of the project blog is provided below:
http://thinkspace.csu.edu.au/dronedeliveryblog/2019/03/10/drone-delivery-s…commerce-
company/
Weekly Progress Reports Plan
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Rationale
Problem domain
There is huge popularity of e-commerce in the current market in the field of
information technology. However, there are a number of issues that are faced with the current
situation of the e-commerce organizations. The issues are generally faced with the delivery of
the product for the e-commerce organizations. Hence, the need for the implementation of the
drone services for the delivery of the products (Cattaruzza et al., 2017). This would reduce
the anomalies that occur in the system and improve the overall efficiency of the system.
Purpose and justification
The main purpose of the project is to evolve the delivery process of the e-commerce
systems. The drone delivery system would also be helpful in the improvement of the
customer satisfaction of the organizations (Reynolds et al. 2016). The project would also be
helpful in maintain a good relationship in between the customers and the business and also

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relationship of the staffs of the system with that of the company would be improved to a great
extent. Hence, the organization would anticipate towards the development of the project
Supervisor Approval
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Research Questions
The research question that are to be addressed by the implementation of the project
are:
 How the short time technical viability of drone delivery system can be measured?
 How can the drone delivery system maximize the overall throughput of the e-
commerce system?
 What would be the main benefit that company would gain due to deployment of the
drone delivery system for the e-commerce organization?
Conceptual or Theoretical Framework
The conceptual framework for the Drone Delivery System has been described below:
Input Process Output
Select the product for
delivery
Select the address for
delivery
Select the time and date for
the delivery of the product.
The product selected by the
customer is being processed.
The location detection for
the delivery of the product is
being done
The scheduling of the
delivery is processed
The product is packed and
made ready for delivery.
The location for delivery is
uploaded on the drone.
The delivery is done by the
drone.

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Methodology
The object-oriented methodology is being selected for the development of the project.
Different objects are to be selected for the implementation of the system (Revellino &
Mouritsen, 2017). Methods are to be created for the deployment in the system. The different
classes are to be included in the system so that the methods can be implemented in them.
Analysis of sources of information
The information sources used for this specific project include journals, books, articles,
blogs etc. According to Jones (2017), the primary obstacles for delivering drone usage in
each country are always widely highlighted these days. The commercial drone regulations are
varied substantially for different countries. It is the responsibility of the regulatory body to
adopt recent new technology based laws.
Research method
In order to prepare this project mixed research design and method approach is being
followed in terms of both primary and secondary. A questionnaire has been prepared to
gather primary data and journals, blogs; literatures are analyzed to collect secondary data.
Data collection or systems design methods
Both quantitative and qualitative data are collected from the literate review and
interview to prepare the project proposal outline (Cheng et al., 2015).
Ethical Issues
 Favouritism as well as prejudice
 Not following all the safety standards and needful measures
 Accepting blame
 Conflict of interest

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Compliance Requirements
 Reducing all the legal challenges
 Improvement of all the technical operations and safety
 A better public relationship
 Higher employee retention
Project Plan
Deliverables
The deliverables for the project are provided below (Kerzner & Kerzner, 2017):
 Project Blogs
 Project Schedule
 Poster
 Project Budget
Work breakdown structure (WBS)
Drone delivery system
Project initiation
Needs analysis
meeting with the
clients
proposing the
project
Project Approval
Project Planning
Project Design
Budget evaluation
System Functional
requirements
defination
System
Non-Functional
Requirements
defination
Project schedule
Project team
allocation
Project Implementation
Procurement of raw
material
Hardware Setup
software
development
System integration
Hardware
Installation
Database
development and
integration
Risk Assessment
Risk Identification
Risk Mitigation
methods
Project Testing
Device Testing
software Testing
Updating systems
Project Delivery
Allocate resource
for maintainance
Devise maintainance
plan
Project team sign off
Risk Analysis
In order to analyze the risks the different risk response strategies those are required include:

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 Risk acceptance: The risks in the system are to be accepted and identified so that they
can be avoided in the near future (Williams, 2017). The major risk identified are bad
weather troubles, hardware damages and the connection problems.
 Risk mitigation: The identified risks in the projects are to be mitigated so that the
efficiency of the system is maintained and the mitigation policy of the risk is to be
formulated.
 Risk resolution: The risks identified in the system are to be resolved so that the faults
arising in the system can be reduced to a greater extent.
Duration
The project is to be completed within 164 days which starts on 18-07-2019 and ends
on 03-03-2020. The details of the project is provided below:
Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
Drone delivery system 164 days Thu 18-07-19 Tue 03-03-20
Project initiation 5 days Thu 18-07-19 Wed 24-07-19
Needs analysis 2 days Thu 18-07-19 Fri 19-07-19
meeting with the clients 1 day Mon 22-07-19 Mon 22-07-19 2
proposing the project 1 day Tue 23-07-19 Tue 23-07-19 3
Project Approval 1 day Wed 24-07-19 Wed 24-07-19 4
Project Planning 17 days Thu 25-07-19 Fri 16-08-19
Project Design 4 days Thu 25-07-19 Tue 30-07-19 5
Budget evaluation 2 days Wed 31-07-19 Thu 01-08-19 7

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System Functional
requirements definition
2 days Fri 02-08-19 Mon 05-08-19 8
System Non-Functional
Requirements definition
2 days Tue 06-08-19 Wed 07-08-19 9
Project schedule 1 day Thu 08-08-19 Thu 08-08-19 10
Project team allocation 6 days Fri 09-08-19 Fri 16-08-19 11
Project Implementation 110 days Mon 19-08-19 Fri 17-01-20
Procurement of raw material 8 days Mon 19-08-19 Wed 28-08-19 12
Hardware Setup 21 days Thu 29-08-19 Thu 26-09-19 14
software development 30 days Fri 27-09-19 Thu 07-11-19 15
System integration 16 days Fri 08-11-19 Fri 29-11-19 16
Hardware Installation 21 days Mon 02-12-19 Mon 30-12-19 17
Database development and
integration
14 days Tue 31-12-19 Fri 17-01-20 18
Risk Assessment 7 days Mon 20-01-20 Tue 28-01-20
Risk Identification 2 days Mon 20-01-20 Tue 21-01-20 19
Risk Mitigation methods 5 days Wed 22-01-20 Tue 28-01-20 21
Project Testing 18 days Wed 29-01-20 Fri 21-02-20
Device Testing 7 days Wed 29-01-20 Thu 06-02-20 22
software Testing 3 days Fri 07-02-20 Tue 11-02-20 24

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Updating systems 8 days Wed 12-02-20 Fri 21-02-20 25
Project Delivery 7 days Mon 24-02-20 Tue 03-03-20
Allocate resource for
maintenance
2 days Mon 24-02-20 Tue 25-02-20 26
Devise maintenance plan 4 days Wed 26-02-20 Mon 02-03-20 28
Project team sign off 1 day Tue 03-03-20 Tue 03-03-20 29

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Gantt chart

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Jones, T., 2017. International commercial drone regulation and drone delivery services (No.
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Revellino, S., & Mouritsen, J. (2017). Knotting the net: From ‘design by deception’to an
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