Project Management: Analysis and Development of Cobden Golf Club App

This project management report analyzes the development of a mobile application for the Cobden Golf Club. It includes an executive summary, project background, objectives, current situation analysis using SWOT, problem outlines, critical assumptions, and constraints. The report presents various options and recommendations, financial analysis (NPV, ROI, payback), preliminary project requirements, budget and schedule estimates, and a list of potential risks. The aim is to create an optimized app for both Android and iPhone devices. The report suggests features such as subscription services, golfing tips, booking lessons, newsletters, and a ranking system. It also addresses the challenges and constraints that the project might face. The project also provides a detailed budget estimate, schedule, and risk assessment, and concludes with recommendations for project management tools like Azendoo, Evernote, and OneNote.

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project management
(Cobden Golf Club App)
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
Author Note

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Executive summary
The virtual team expert of the Cobden Golf Club has applied for the tender for developing an
application for the organization. The project background, project objectives, current situation outline
of problem, details of critical assumptions and constraints and the analysis of the options and the
recommendations is analyzed in the report. The study has also included the financial analysis,
preliminary project requirements, budget schedule estimation and the list of potential risks.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction:......................................................................................................................................3
2. Description of project background:...................................................................................................3
3. Description of project objectives:......................................................................................................3
4. Description of the current situation:..................................................................................................4
5. Outline of the problem:......................................................................................................................6
6. Critical assumptions and constraints:................................................................................................6
6.1. Assumptions:..............................................................................................................................6
6.2. Constraints:.................................................................................................................................7
7. The analysis of the options and recommendations:...........................................................................8
7.1. Options:.......................................................................................................................................8
7.2. Recommendations:.....................................................................................................................8
8. Financial analysis:.............................................................................................................................9
8.1. The NPV (Net Present Value):...................................................................................................9
8.2. The ROI or Return of Investment:..............................................................................................9
8.3. The payback figure:..................................................................................................................10
9. Preliminary project requirements/scopes:........................................................................................11
10. The budget estimate:....................................................................................................................11
11. Schedule estimate:........................................................................................................................16
12. List of potential risks:..................................................................................................................16
13. Conclusion:....................................................................................................................................17
14. References:....................................................................................................................................18

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1. Introduction:
The Cobden Golf Club Pty Ltd has been delivering the popularly referred experience in the
sports of golf. It has been an outstanding surrounding of club encouraging people of all ages.
The virtual team expert of the organization has applied for the tender in order to develop an
application for Cobden Golf Club.
The report has analyzed the project background, project objectives, current situation outline
of problem, details of critical assumptions and constraints and the analysis of the options and the
recommendations. It has also included the financial analysis, preliminary project requirements,
budget schedule estimation and the list of potential risks.
2. Description of project background:
The virtual team specialists have been working for the Sports Software Inc. since the
previous three months in the department of mobile application. The company has urged for a tender
in developing the application for the organization. Because of the significance of this project, Karrie
Webb, CEO of the Sports Software and Minjee Lee the director of the mobile development, has
prioritarized the project. At first the investment in this project has been expected to be eighty
thousand dollars. Then for the development cost for the next year id ten thousand dollars and so on.
Sports Software Inc. has needed a seven percent discount of rate.

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3. Description of project objectives:
The aim of the project is to suggest an application that must be optimized for Android and I-
Phone devices.
This must permit the tourists, golf enthusiasts and the golfers to subscribe and make
payment for accessing a database. This database comprises of the golfing tips along with
explanations of numerous games and scoring methods related to golf.
The users could book individual or team golfing lessons and clinics. The readers could
subscribe to the organization’s newsletter and the relevant upcoming events. Along with many other
features, the app must help the users to give a ranking of the organization according to quality of
services and information (Molinari & Leech, 2015).
It is expected to be an overall three months project with the cost of $105,000 to be expended
for the venture.
4. Description of the current situation:
The present situation could be described by the following SWOT analysis.
SWOT Analysis
Strength Weakness
 a beautiful course
 a well-maintained, natural setting
 proximity to town
 efficient and good equipment and golf
carts
 slow in having the seasons started
 not sufficient promotion and
advertising for the course, the
Clubhouse, and the Stay and Play
 training for the Clubhouse staff

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 outstanding good volunteer base
 loyal membership
 a friendly atmosphere
 costs of lowest membership in the area
 very excellent reputation
 Capability to diversify with the
Clubhouse, the Stay and Play, special
events facility and many more
(Savarese & McGill, 2014).
 The shortage of money
 The membership has been aging and
not adequate young golfers (Koenig et
al., 2016).
Opportunities Threats
 The discounted rates on the carts for
the members
 The reduce of fee for the evening golf
prices
 Improvement of the advertising
particularly for the restaurant
 The computerized handicap systems
 The specials for both the course and
the clubhouse
 The corporate sponsors for the signage
 The golf lessons
 The expanded rentals of the clubhouse
and the course (Bentley & Bose,
2015).
 Downturn in the tourism and the
economy
 Competing with the other activities at
other area equipment break down
Lack of student funding Low
infrastructure funding
 The rise in costs for course
maintenance and the supplies (Turner
et al., 2017).

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5. Outline of the problem:
There have been various challenges anticipated as the tender gets successful. They are
discussed below.
Sports Software has been from the very first focusing on the improvement of the sports based
on the learning apps for the children. However Karrie Webb, the CEO has been emphasizing on the
necessity to raise the profits through tapping into the other markets. This has been also including the
projects of sports market.
The kinds of individuals who have been working on the project of kid’s learning have been
generally distinct from those who have been working on the latest projects of sports marketing.
These people generally possessed various educational backgrounds, ideals and skill sets. Maximum
of the people who have been hired in the previous years were hired for supporting the new markets.
Although the virtual team analyst and the project team of Cobden Golf Club have been trying
to do an outstanding task through managing the primary stakeholders, there have been some
challenges. These have been rising from the various workers who have been disagreeing with the
new strategies of market for the Cobden Golf Club Pty Ltd.
6. Critical assumptions and constraints:
6.1. Assumptions:
The important assumptions have been including the following:

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 It has been anticipated that each of the requirements and the operations phases would take
one week time.
 As the phases of analysis design and testing would be taking two weeks each, the coding
phase must take approximately about four weeks.
 The team must be consisting of two programmers and one specialist in digital image.
 These three team members must be spending the equivalent of about half day in a week on
the activities related to project management and the rest 4.5 days over the development.
 They must be paid at the rate of 57 dollars per hour. The project also requires to access to one
golfing consultant
 The pay rates and the consultant and liaison have been negotiable and would only be only
needed for one week utmost.
6.2. Constraints:
Performer constraints:
These have been including the mental and physical factors like the motivation, attention and
skill and so on.
Technical constraints:
This has been including the technical support of the required application in the expected devices.
Task constraints:
This had been including the game rules, available equipments and the relative condition of
the gaming (Andler, 2016).

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7. The analysis of the options and recommendations:
7.1. Options:
 The plan has been to roll out the review of the current information, conducting research and
gathering new materials.
 The prototype, final version, alpha, beta and the detailed storyboard has to be developed.
 The applications require be examining, and promoting before the rolling out.
 It should be referred to as success as it generates within scope budget and time. Moreover the
stakeholders must be pleased with the reporting process and communication (Jeffery &
Komorous-King, 2016).
7.2. Recommendations:
When the to-dos have been changing into project various tools could help to organize every
task. They are recommended below.
Azendoo:
This has been a project management and hybrid task tool. It has been plugging into other
devices like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Evernote for storage.
Evernote:
It has been killer tool of note-taking. With the help of this multiple projects could be created
as the organization has been easy and accessing everything has been simple.
OneNote:
This has been an outstanding personal planner. It has been depending how it could be used.

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8. Financial analysis:
8.1. The NPV (Net Present Value):
Cost/Benefit Analysis for Smartphone
App implementation
Year of
Project
year 0 year1 year 2 year 3 year 4 year 5
TOTAL
S
Net economic
benefit $80,000.00 $10,000.00
$10,000.
00
$5,000.
00 $0.00 $0.00
Discount
Rate 7% 1 0.9346 0.8734 0.8163 0.0000 0.0000
PV Of
Benefits $0.00 $9,345.79
$8,734.3
9
$4,081.
49 $0.00 $0.00
NPV of all
BENEFITS $0.00 $9,345.79
$18,080.
18
$22,161
.67
$22,161
.67
$22,161
.67
$22,161
.67

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One Time
Costs
($105,000.00
)
Recurring
Costs ($80,000.00)
($10,000.00
)
($10,000
.00)
($5,000.
00) $0.00 $0.00
NPV Of All
Costs ($80,000.00)
($90,000.00
)
($100,00
0.00)
($105,0
00.00)
($105,0
00.00)
($105,0
00.00)
($105,0
00.00)
Overall NPV
($82,83
8.33)
8.2. The ROI or Return of Investment:
ROI 0.21
Actual ROI in % 2.11063
5339
Breakeven analysis
Yearly NPV Cash
flow
($105,000
.00)
$80,65
4.21
$81,919
.82
$82,838
.33
$82,83
8.33
$82,83
8.33
Overall NPV Cash
flow
$0.00 $80,00
0.00
$120,00
0.00
$140,00
0.00
$0.00 $0.00

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Project Breakeven occurs
between year 2 and 3
0.02
8.3. The payback figure:
Year Costs Benefit
s
Cum
Costs
Cum
Benefits
0 80,000 0 80,000 0
1 10,000 80,000 90,000 80,000
2 10,000 120,000 100,000 200,000
3 5,000 140,000 105,000 340,000
0 1 2 3
0
100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000
500,000
600,000
Payback
cumulative costs cumulative benefits
Year
$
Payback