Project Quality Management Report: Treat Your Own Back Mobile App

This report presents a comprehensive project quality management analysis for the development of a mobile application for "Treat Your Own Back," a company specializing in books and information on back and neck issues. The report begins by defining the project scope, which involves creating an app to provide users with direct access to exercises and content. It then details a stakeholder register, outlining the roles of technical staff and internal IT liaisons. A team contract is established to ensure effective collaboration. Financial analysis, including cost and benefit projections, is conducted. The report justifies the selection of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) model and outlines its phases: planning, analyzing, designing, implementation, and maintenance. A work breakdown structure (WBS) and Gantt chart are created for project scheduling. A communication management plan is presented to ensure effective information sharing among stakeholders. Potential project risks, such as cost and schedule risks, are identified and mitigation strategies are proposed. Finally, the report addresses project monitoring and control, ensuring project success. The report concludes with a summary of the project's key aspects and offers valuable insights into managing and executing a mobile app development project.

Project quality
management
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CONTENTS
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Project Scope...............................................................................................................................3
Stakeholder Register....................................................................................................................3
Team contract..............................................................................................................................4
Financial analysis.........................................................................................................................4
Justify the appropriate SDLC model for project..........................................................................5
Communication management plan..............................................................................................6
Potential risk in the project..........................................................................................................8
Monitoring and controlling the project success...........................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Project management is defined as the set of activities that are performed in order to lead
the team and managing the activities involve in the project by integrating them so that set
objectives can be achieved (Alias and et. al., 2014). The current report is about the Treat Your
Own Back which is company that sell books which contain information about dealing with the
back and neck issues by suggesting exercise and now planning to launch a mobile application
where people directly get access to videos, contents etc. in this regard for availing services more
conveniently.
MAIN BODY
Project Scope
This project has a wider scope as there are majority of people who are facing neck and
back pain issues of all age group due to change in lifestyle pattern. As a result of which they are
seeking assistance in term of identifying the exercise that they can perform while staying at
home to deal with their pain and issues they face (Burke and Barron, 2014). On other side the
Treat Your Own Back is highly appreciated book which represent the proven exercise and
provide basic information about such kind of issues. So by providing it the mobile application
assistance it will be widely explore and adopted by the people throughout the world. It is so
because mobile has now become a major tool or device which hold solution to all problem and
when people get clinc based exercise assistance over their handy tool then it will get more widely
spread.
Stakeholder Register
Stakeholders Stakeholder management strategy
Technical staff The technical staffs are one of the key parts for this project as they
perform the actual work of development of the application, so it is
crucial to manage they as per the requirement of Treat Your Own
Back Pvt Ltd. So, for managing them regular performance
evaluation strategy will be used where the technical staffs will be
provided with the guideline and time scale for set of activities to
be performed and there will be a regular reporting about their
progress and testing of their work after completion of each stage
by project manager to ensure that program will be developed as
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the demand.
Internal IT liaison The Liaison is responsible for maintaining the communication
with the project manager about the progress of project and then
interact with the Treat Your Own Back to provide them assurance
regarding their work to be accomplished in timely manner. So, in
order to manage with IT liaison, it is decide that their will be
meeting organised in advanced regarding the resources and
manpower require and after starting of the project their will be a
meeting in every week where the work of whole week will be
discussed with the Liaison.
Team contract
It is basically defined as the agreement between the project manager and team mates
regarding the terms over which the whole team will operate. It is much effectively for getting
outcome without errors or mistake. It is so because when team mates know their role and
responsibilities at individual level then work can be performed more easily and efficiently.
For this mobile application development project some terms are deicide by the project
manager for its team mates so that work can be perform in more effective manner as per the
schedules plan. In this a meeting will be organised each day before starting of work where each
individual will be assigned with their work part (Eskerod and Jepsen, 2016). After that in the
evening each one has to report to tehri superior about the whole day work and progress, error etc.
after that in every Friday their remains a meeting with project manager where the whole week
report will be represented, errors would be discussed and required resources will be identified so
that each resources available to them and issues can be resolved on timely manner so that final
outcome do not get affected.
Financial analysis
Financial analysis is considered to be a crucial part of a project as it help in determining
the actual cost that get incurred for performing a particular project as well as actual inflow or
profit that the company will get with the execution or accomplishment of project. The financial
analysis for the mobile application project of Treat your Own Back is mentioned below
A B C D F
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Discount rate 12%
Year (amount in $)
0 1 2 3 Total
Cost 120000 13000 18000 19000
Discount factor 12% 12% 12% 12%
Discounted cost 14400 1560 2160 2280
Benefits 130000 120000 120000 370000
Discount factor 12% 12% 12% 12%
Discounted benefit 15600 14400 14400 44400
Justify the appropriate SDLC model for project
SDLC or Software development life cycle is a model mainly used as a framework which
consist of several stages that allows a step by step execution of work to design, develop and test
the high-quality software or application. The Baby Care Software Inc. will make use of this
framework whi8ch allows the project manager to effectively execute the project plan and
develop a better mobile application as demanded by the Treat Your own Back (Heldman, 2018).
The SDLC phases are explained below:
Planning: - This is the first stage of this framework where a proper plan will be
formulated about the mobile application to be developed. For this first of all the Baby Care
Software will firstly perform the feasibility analysis about the viability of project and resources
available to them (Heldman, 2018). After that proper planning regarding eth activities to be
performed, responsibility of the people involve in work, how, when and by whom to be
executed, what will be the feature so the project etc. These will be planned and then document
under a project management plan where Gantt chart and WBS will be mentioned that represent
the team members and their corresponding roles in project.
Analysing: - Once the plan, has been prepared the project manager and sponsors of the
project will perform internal analysis to determine the availability of resources or external
sources from where the remaining resources can be arranged. After arranging all the resources
and allocating them as per the requirement of activities planned the next step is to prepare a
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prototype which involve the feature planned for mobile application in order to test how it work
or will it will be successful. If it remains as per the plan and function properly then the order get
passed to start work over the original mobile application.
Designing: - In this stage all the resources are gathered, allocated and team members
start working over developing the program for backend operation of mobile application and to
design the work or feature that it will involve or help in executing the project (Lock, 2016). In
this stage all the operational related work get executed and whole mobile application get
designed along with its functioning in this stage.
Implementation: - After the mobile application get developed, the next step is to
implement the actual plan of the Treat Your Own Back company by launching the mobile
application for the motive for which it is being designed. At the starting phase, for checking up
the market feasibility and performance the mobile application will be launched at a very limited
market share on the basis of pilot testing where only few of the company’s existing customers
will be provide access to this as a sample to take their feedback. Once all the feedback related
with its working has been collected the next is to determine all the gap and error along with eth
reason behind it and taking corrective actions to improve.
Maintenance: - After totally improving and removing all the errors the next is to launch
the mobile application at the border level for all the people who want to get the services provided
by this mobile application. Along with this there remain a regular check for at least 2 to 3 years
in order to ensure smooth functioning and providing proper assistance or maintenance to the
application for its better performance.
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Preparing the work breakdown structure (WBS) for this project at appropriate level
Preparing a Gantt chart using above work breakdown structure
Gantt chart along with Estimate activity durations, activity resources and sequence
activities:
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Critical Path Method (CPM)
Earliest time to finish this project is 16 weeks. The critical path for “Treat Your Own Back
Mobile App project” is represented below:
Schedule Trade-Offs
Float is the difference between early start time and late start time, as the early and late start
time or this project is same, the float or slack or each activity is zero as shown below:
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Communication management plan
A project communication management plan is consider to be a simple tool which enables
one individual to communicate effectively over the project with client, team or other stakeholder.
It support in setting up the clear guidelines regarding how the information will be shared as well
as individual that remain responsible for or required to be in loop over each project
communication (Marcelino-Sádaba and et. al., 2014). The communication plan for this project of
mobile application for Treat your own back is mentioned below which will be executed by the
project manager,
Communication Method Frequency Goal Owner Audience
Project status
report
Email Weekly For reviewing the
status as well as
having a discussion
about potential issues
that found while
working over the plan
of the project so that
these can be removed
on timely manner.
Project
manager
Project team
and project
sponsor
Team standup Meeting Daily Discuss the work that
is to be performed my
the team member in
morning before
starting the work to
maintain clarity in
work and removing
any confusion.
Project
manager
Project team
Project review Meeting At
milestones
This is performed to
present the project
deliverables, gathered
feedbacks over work
and discuss about the
Project
manager
Project team
+Project
sponsor
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future course of action.
Post mortem
meeting
Meeting At project
end
This is done to
analysis what things
goes right and what
was wrong and have a
discussion about the
actionable takeaways.
Project
manager
Project team
Task progress
update
Team
Gantt
Daily Share the daily
progress that made
over the project task
through evening
discussion.
Project
manager
Project team
Potential risk in the project
The risk assessment is very crucial for brining efficiency in the project as it hep in
determining the potential risk that are involve in the project before its execution so that
contingency plan can be formulated in advices which provide a set of guidance about the actions
to be taken if such risk get arises (Marcelino-Sádaba and et. al., 2014). The risk register for this
mobile development project undertaken by the baby care Software Inc. is mentioned below:
Risk type Impact
Cost risk It refers to that risk which result into increase into the cost of the
project due to inappropriate estimation of amount required or any
damage that occur while execution of the work. This risk can be
confront by the team of baby care software while developing mobile
application as it require high tech systems and any damage to them can
increase the cost fo project. For mitigating such type of risk the project
manager must thorough check all the resources as per the man power
and activities. Other than this it must keep the cash reserve in advance
so at the time of contingency this can be used.
Schedule risk This type of risk area associate with activities that take more time to
get complete then it is planned or expected at the starting of the project
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which in turn may increase the cost of the project. In order to mitigate
from such kind of risk the project manager must try to regularly
evaluate the activities and then compare it with the planned schedule
so that such kind of schedule risk can be identified earlier.
Technological risk It is defined as the risk associated with the technological failure or
some technical issues that may be faced by the application developer
while executing the plan. This can be increasing bugs in program or
error, or it can be due to some technical issue in system used for
application development which may restrict the program to execute
further. For dealing with this issue the project team must be provide
training to deal with such issues without the requirement fo third party.
Monitoring and controlling the project success
This is very crucial for the success of project as by regularly monitoring the activities the
chances of error get reduced and by controlling the errors to get spread or affecting the whole
work by taking instant actions will support in maintain the quality of work. So for controlling
and monitoring the project success there will be a regular analysis of work and weekly
discussion about the issues and actions to overcome those issues.
CONCLUSION
From the above-mentioned information, it can be conclude that the project management
plays a significant role in success of a project as it involve set of tactics for managing each and
every activity that get executed under a project. Other than this plan also support in guiding the
workers about eth actions to be performed and measures to be taken for dealing with risk.
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