Project Management Principles: Uber App Redevelopment Analysis

This report delves into the essential principles of project management, emphasizing their critical role in achieving project success, particularly in the context of the Uber application redevelopment. It explores project management practices, including defining scope, objectives, deliverables, communication, tracking progress, and risk mitigation, illustrating their impact on project outcomes. The report also examines project implementation as the crucial phase where plans become reality, and highlights the influence of these practices on project completion timelines, costs, and quality. Furthermore, it discusses the competencies required within project teams, focusing on the skills and abilities necessary for successful project execution, and how these competencies affect risk management and overall project outcomes. The report uses the Uber app redevelopment project as a case study to demonstrate the practical application of these principles and competencies.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
Project Management Practices and Implementation:......................................................................2
Competencies of Project Team:.......................................................................................................4
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................6
References:......................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction:
Principles of project management is important so that a project can be completed
successfully (Kerzner, 2017). In this aspect a project has been initiated which is regarding
redevelopment of Uber application. By the redevelopment of Uber application directive approach
will be provided to the drivers of the Uber and due to this fact a fast driving experience will be
achieved. It has been assessed that the project management practices and implementations has a
greater inspiration on the success or the failure of the project (Kerzner, 2018). The practices and
the implementations must be done in a proper way so that the project becomes successful. With
that it has been also assessed that project competences also impacts the success and the failure of
the project.
Thus in this aspect first the practices of project management and implementation will be
discussed and following that how these factor impact the success factor or failure factor of the
project will be discussed. In the further section of this project, competencies regarding project
team will be discussed and how they impact success and the failure of the project.
Project Management Practices and Implementation:
From the project of the Uber application redevelopment I have learned various aspects
related with project management. In this case, one of the important aspect was the project
management practices and implementation. I have successfully assessed that project
management practice and implementation is crucial for completion of the Uber application
redevelopment. I have successfully assessed that practices of project management and
implementation are the methodologies, techniques and tools, process and many more other
aspects which is crucial for completion of the project. I have successfully learned that there are

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various of project management practices which can be trailed for the project execution. In this
aspect there are various of important project management practices which needs to be
implemented so that successful completion of the project can be achieved. I have successfully
assessed that project scope defining and the objective of the project is one of the important
practices so that project can be completed successfully. Scope and the objective of the project
must be defined properly before commencing to the project so that project always remain in the
right track. Another important aspect of the project management practices is the defining
deliverables of the project. The deliverable of the projects must be defined properly so that
execution of the project can be tracked with the respect of project deliverable. In this aspect,
proper communication also need to be established with the project team so that project each and
every detail of the project can be forwarded to the project team which is also very much
important for redevelopment of the Uber application. I have also learned that tracking and
reporting of the progress of the project crucial for successful project completion. While the
project is in the execution stage it must be tracked properly so that it can be ensured that project
is always heading at the right direction. In this aspect reporting of the progress of the project is
also crucial (Heikkinen, 2016). While the project of Uber application redevelopment will be in
the progress, I have also learned that there can be various type of risks in the project. Here all of
the risks of the project must be mitigated adequately so that successful outcome of the project
can be gained. Risks can affect the project heavily and can have negative impressions on the
project (Kliem & Ludin, 2019). Thus risk must be mitigated properly for the projects. These are
the important practices regarding the projects which must be followed properly for success
outcome of the project. All of these project practices is also applicable for the Uber application
redevelopment. In the aspect of project implementation I have learned that it is a specific phase

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where the actual plans and vision of the project becomes reality. The project implementation is
the logical conclusion of the whole project which is determined after evaluation, visioning,
detailing and planning.
The practices of project management is also having a greater influence on the success or
the failure of the project (Golini, Kalchschmidt & Landoni, 2015). The success and the failure of
the project depends on several of parameters which includes time for project completion, cost for
the project and quality of the project. A project become successful when the project completes
within the deadline (Hande & Phillippi, 2018) of the project and the project cost is also feasible
in nature. Also, the project must maintain all of its quality to become successful in nature. So, I
have learned that the project must fulfil these criteria to become successful in nature. Now, the
project management practices can impact all of these criteria heavily. Like, if the project is not
having any type of deliverables set then the cost of the project cannot be set (Eskerod & Jepsen,
2016). If a project is not having a proper budget, then the project very likely going to be failed.
Also, if the scope of the project is not placed properly then chances of completing the project
within the deadline is very much less and if the project does not completed within deadline then
also the project becomes fail. Thus indirectly, the project management practices are actually
influencing successful completion of the project. If the practices of project management are
followed properly then the success rate of the project becomes much higher (Binder, 2016)
where if the practices of project management is not properly then it is very much natural that the
project is going to be failed.
Competencies of Project Team:
The basic elements of the project team is the peoples who carries out the project. Upon
the decision of the project team member success or the failure of the project depends (Brière et

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al., 2015). Thus selection of the proper people for the project team is very much important. For
achieving the project success it is very much crucial that the project team member consists some
important skills and competencies so that they will be able to perform entrusted tasks. Defining
the concept of competences is quite difficult. In basic way, the competence is the skills, abilities
and the qualifications (Nicholas & Steyn, 2017). These competences need to be possessed by the
team members of the project for success outcome of the project.
In this project of Uber app redevelopment I have also assessed that the project
competence has a great influence over the success and failure of the project. The competences
regarding project team is very much important so that project completed successfully. The
competencies of the project is actually the skills and the abilities which are possessed the project
team members. If the project members is not having proper skills and the abilities for project
execution, then the project is likely going to be failed. For successful project completion it is
very much important that the project team members must consist proper skills and abilities so
that they can use it in the project which will be helping to complete the project (Radujković &
Sjekavica, 2017). In this way the project competences will be impacting the overall project so
that it becomes successful.
Risk management is another important aspect of the successful project completion where
the project team competencies has a greater influence (Hopkin, 2018). For the project of Uber
app development, some specific tools and techniques has been utilized which are based on the
risk management of this project. For this project of Uber app redevelopment, review of
documentation is one of the standard way of assessing the risks and it can be done by review of
the project related document which includes organizational processes, lessons learned and
project related assets. For this project brainstorming is also performed with some specific group

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of people where the main focus was risk identification in the app development project of Uber.
Here the targeted group is the drivers of the Uber. In this aspect it will be analyzed that whether
the Uber application will be benefitting the drivers for picking up the passengers from the
location of pickup as well as reaches them to their destination point.
Conclusion:
The above discussion concludes that project management practices and implementation is
very much important for successful completion of the project. It has been assessed that there are
various of project management practices which must be followed properly for the successful
project completion. Here the project of Uber application redevelopment has been considered and
important project management practices for this project has been identified in this case. A brief
explanation of the project management practices has been discussed in this report. It is also
discussed that how the project management practices can influence the success or failure of the
projects. In the further section of this report competencies of the project team has been also
elaborated and a brief understanding of the project team competencies has been discussed. In this
case also how the project team competencies has a greater impact on the success of the project
has been elaborated.

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