University Project: Individual Report on Reverse Cooking Chat App

This individual report analyzes a student's contribution to a Reverse Cooking Chat App project, focusing on teamwork, user stories, and stakeholder management. The report begins by assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the team's collaborative approach, highlighting the importance of project plans, active listening, and efficient leadership. It then delves into the use of user stories within an agile methodology, outlining the advantages of breaking down project requirements and facilitating customer collaboration, while also acknowledging potential drawbacks. Finally, the report addresses stakeholder management, emphasizing the design of a communication plan and the identification of stakeholders' roles, interests, and influence. The analysis underscores the need for clear stakeholder communication and detailed documentation for effective project execution and future maintenance. The report also includes a discussion on the challenges of stakeholder management, the importance of a well-defined communication plan, and the implications of not including the names of stakeholders.

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Reverse Cooking Chat App
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s note

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Table of Contents
Individual Report.............................................................................................................................2
1. Team Work..................................................................................................................................2
2. User Stories..................................................................................................................................4
3. Stakeholders.................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Individual Report
1. Team Work
Team work is an important for working together towards the development of project.
High quality of team effort leads to success towards the project. Based on the current project and
working in team, there could be an analysis of strengths and weaknesses of the team approach
(Ramazani and Jergeas 2015). This could directly make an effect towards the quality of team
work.
The strengths of the team that have been analysed during working for the present project
are:
1. During working for this project, we had maintained and sorted a project plan that
would have been able to guide the team throughout the entire project scenario (Lindsjørn et al.
2016). This plan was developed by us to maintain integrity during the processes of work.
2. We also had active listeners who were equally responsible for dealing with the
communications that were been made within the team. The team leader were directing us on
different activities. We were active in listening to those advices and were thus working
accordingly to help the team in achieving the goal for the project. We had listened to the
concerns of our project manager and had actively made the tasks in that manner.
3. Active participation of our team members was another major success criteria within
our team that had helped in framing the idea of team work (Aga, Noorderhaven and Vallejo
2016). Our team members were active in listening to the advices produced by other team
members and thus putting major efforts in completing the work within the stipulated time frame.

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The team members were assigned their own particular task and they had to complete the
assigned task within a particular time frame. This had also ensured that the project remains in
track and meets all the necessary deadlines.
4. We also had an efficient leader who was responsible for directing us throughout the
entire scene of the project development phase (Chan 2014). The team leader had showed their
exclusive leadership skills to bind us together and getting things to be done in the proper way.
During the project phase, there was a high need for a leader who would be able to guide the
entire team. The team leader had developed a strategy to guide the entire team and make
progress towards the success of the project. We were also concerned about meeting the set
deadlines by the team leader and thus meeting with the objectives of the project.
The weaknesses that could be found during the working within the team were:
1. There were some members within the team who were indulged in blaming the other
team member for their own faults (Svalestuen et al. 2015). This had become a challenging task
for the team leader to focus on the delivery of the project while also resolving the grudges
between the members.
2. Although the project could be performed as per the requirements and within the
concerned time period, however there were some circumstances in which some of the team
members were not entirely dedicated towards working.
3. There were some people within the team who were excellent in providing new ideas
towards the development of the project. However, at certain times this situation would change
and this would lead to a clash of ideas (Morley, Cormican and Folan 2015). The team members

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would use to perform their work as per their understanding and application of methods that were
suitable to them. This would lead to a situation of imbalance and affected the project.
Based on the discussion over the analysis of strengths and weaknesses of the team work,
some of the approaches or techniques that could have been used during performing of the work
are:
1. The leader of the team should have proper control and sole responsibility to manage
the entire team. The decisions that need to be taken for conducting the work should be given by
the team leader.
2. The vision and objectives of the project need to be set prior to the initiation of the
project. The team members should understand the objectives and thus develop their personal
skills to help in achieving the success rate for the project.
3. The team members should undergo some kind of training that would help in enhancing
their skills. They should also be more focused towards putting their right efforts into the project.
2. User Stories
One of the concerning challenge during the software development phase is the task for
gathering of requirements and also to ensure that these requirements would remain unaffected
during the code development phase. However, with the help of an agile approach, the
development of user stories have been defined properly.
Some of the major advantages of writing user stories by making use of the agile methods
are:

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1. By writing user stories with the help of agile methodology, the needs for the project are
broken down into several steps and procedures (Lin et al. 2014). These are subdivided into
several features or tasks that could be further implemented.
2. The time taken for delivery of the project by following the user stories could be made
short and precise. This could also take a few hours or days depending on the strength of user
stories and complexity of the project (Salah, Paige and Cairns 2014). By writing user stories with
the help of an agile methodology, there could be early rate of returns. It would also help in
reducing the net amount on investment that might be put by the organization. The ROI for the
project also begins to increase on a significant basis.
3. By writing user stories in a better manner, it helps in connecting with the user and also
deliver a better kind of customer value. The use of agile methodology would also help in
collaborating with the end users (Lucassen et al. 2015). With this aspect of writing user stories,
the team members would be able to directly connect with the end users for the purpose of
identifying their challenges, perspective, opportunities and pain points.
4. With the writing of good user stories, it would give a way to users to collaborate with
the development team concerned with the project. The use of agile technique would also help the
users to connect with users based on proper planning, implementing and delivering high form of
customer value. In the process of writing of user stories, the team members would get highly
encouraged as they would get the idea for the development of product or service (Ayed,
Vanderose and Habra 2014). The discussion supported would also allow different perspectives
and thus provide the team with an innovative and creative way to understand the needs of
customers.

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5. The agile methodology helps in boosting of transparency within the team members,
stakeholders and product owner. The order of writing of user stories create a level of
transparency about the priorities of product owner and the customer segment that would be
addressed (Pope-Ruark 2015). Without a clear level of transparency within the user stories, there
might be problems in delivering a proper solution to the end user. Increase in the level of
transparency between the end user and the development team or management team would be of
great help towards the design of the application. There might be some situations in which the end
user would be able to guide the guide the entire project or might rectify their services. They
might also provide suggestions in improving some lacking areas that might be identified by
them.
The disadvantages that might be faced during the development of user stories with the
help of agile methodology are:
1. There might be some problems based on the needs of compliance. In most of the cases,
the user stories would not be able to suffice to the needs of user.
2. The agile methodology of writing user stories would not suit itself to be possible
during the knowledge transfer between team members. The writing of user stories would not turn
fruitful in such cases (Rover et al. 2014). Repeated change in the team members would lead to
inefficiency within the team in understanding the requirement of the user.
3. Minimum detailing within the user requirements lead to several different
interpretations within the user stories. It might happen that the involved team members might
miss on some detailed conversations. This might lead to errors during the writing of user stories
by using the agile methodology.

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3. Stakeholders
Stakeholder management is an important concern in the recent times. During the
development of the concerned project, it was a major responsibility to design the stakeholder list
and a well-established communication plan for the service. The design of communication plan is
extremely necessary to handle the vast number of communications that are been made between
the team members and the concerned stakeholders within the project (Bourne 2016). Based on
defining of the stakeholder communication plan and the stakeholder list, the advantages and
disadvantages could be discussed.
The advantages of the inclusion of stakeholders list within this project are that it helps in
identifying the persons who are responsible for handling the project. In the current project for the
development of the application, each of the stakeholders have been defined. The desired power
and influence for each stakeholders have also been defines, which has proved to be helpful for
gaining a clear understanding over their responsibilities towards the project. The main interests
of each of the stakeholders have also been defined.
However, the primary disadvantage of the stakeholder list is that the names of each of the
concerned stakeholders have not been defined. This would create a problem for the future
maintenance of the project (Bryson 2018). Without a proper mention of name of each of the
stakeholders, it would be difficult to keep a track of each stakeholders if needed for future work
of maintenance on the project.
The advantages that the stakeholder communication plan provides to the report are:
1. The stakeholder management plan discusses about the interests of each of the
stakeholders within the project. This area has been clearly understood. This would be of great

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help for the project manager or team leader to identify the people who would be working within
the team (Kim 2014). They would also be able to report to the proper person in order to deal with
some issue.
2. Another major advantage of the mentioned stakeholder communication plan within the
report is that it provides a brief overview over the influence and power that is exercised over the
stakeholders. The project manager would be able to judge the concerned stakeholder by knowing
their level of expertise and their holding of power within the project (Gregory 2015). During the
development of the project, there might some situation where the project manager might need
some person to do a particular task. This stakeholder communication plan would thus help them
to get the right person to help in doing the task in a diligent manner.
The disadvantages of the mentioned stakeholder communication plan in this report are:
1. The names of the stakeholders have not been mentioned clearly. This would create a
problem for the project manager as they would not be able to recognise the particular stakeholder
from the entire group of people. A proper mention of each of the names of the stakeholder would
be helpful for gaining a clear understanding of the project manager to keep a track on the
working progress of every individual.
2. The estimated budget that would be allocated to each of the concerned stakeholder or
stakeholder group have not been defined. This would create a problem in paying of money to the
stakeholders after the completion of the project. Without a proper estimation of budget and
allocation list of budget to the proper stakeholders, the project manager would not be able to pay
to each stakeholder involved within the project. Hence, the budget should be made during the
estimation of stakeholder list and the number of resources required within the project.

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