The Purpose of the Project
- Development of dedicated interactive website for Social Media Research Centre
- To support higher education from Masters to PhD level through the research documents and the articles from the research journals.
- Offer support to update the research documents.
- Offering value to the research process. (Turner, 2014)
The development of the website can offer major support for the academic research process specially for the student of the Masters and PhD level. The website will work as one stop solution in this regard. The academic research support will be getting catered by the web option and at the same time it will work for the promotional papoose. The relevant information regarding the events in the research centre will get dominate through the website and the information during the time of te event and after the event will get cater to the user of the website (Kerzner, 2013).
Facilitating academic researcher is the major intention of the project. The project does offer the support to the academic researcher from Masters to PhD level by offering them the effective and helpful documents, in order to improve the quality of the research. The key important area of the propjet is the web application. The web application can provide information regarding the user of the website. It can offer the information regarding the number of people those who have already visited the site or join in the portal. It can offer clear information regarding the paid member of the website (Burke, 2013). It can offer a clear perspective regarding the use of the academic researcher such as the students of Masters and PhD level. The development cost of the website is cheaper in compare to the benefit that the user can get from the website. Relevant research information is indispensible for the higher academic pursuit such as Master and Doctoral level the student of that qualification can progress their study out of the help they are getting from the website. The demand for the research program in the domain of social Medias is getting increased day by day. The research in this direction is getting facilitated by the media centre by serving the defined need of the researchers. The website is the revenue development unit of research centre. It can generate at least 17% revenue for the research centre (Larson & Gray, 2011).
The impact of the functional website of the research centre is following,
Customer: The targeted customer for the website is the Master’s and Doctoral students. This community can get their research support from the website. The information cater by the site suppose to be relevant and supporting for the student of this category.
Revenue generation: The website is the tool of the revenue generation for the research centre. The revenue of the research will get 17% increased out of the website.
Expected Benefits
Operational: The website can help to improve the professional efficiency of the research centre. The quality and accessibility of the research data will get increased in this regard. the user of the data can enjoy the better accessibility of the data and the credibility of the research centre will get increased in this case. The website will display the report of the event in the field of social media research (Meredith, & Mantel 2011). .
Social: The website can generate a profuse impact over the academic research from master’s as well as up to Doctoral level.
Strategic: the development of the website is one of the strategic move of the research centre towards the direction of the more revenue. The website and credibility of contain and accessibility of the website to the end user of the information. The end users of the website are student community of the master’s or Doctoral level. The use of website can help the research centre to improve it revenue of the organisation (Wysocki, 2011).
Stakeholder Project sponsor Project manager Technical architect Web designer Tester Website hosting and service provider Academic researchers |
Target The successful compilation of the project within 1.12.17 budget of $50000 Has to complete the website with the specific time period of 1.12.17 and within the prescribed budget limit of $50000 Need to complete the project within the decided time period and lowest possible budget. Maximum $48800 Need to complete the project within the specific time period (1.12.17) and convey te requirement before the compilation of the project. Development of a dedicated website for the academic researcher. That can support the research data and the relevant information. There must be and option to update the information in the website. Designing an interactive website within 1.12.17 The testing process need to get complete within 1.12.17. Hosting need to get done within $2500 Access the site from 2.12.17 |
Expectation Timely compilation within the budget limit and optimum quality (Walker, 2015). Need to compete project within the specific time period and the within the prescribed budget and expected quality. Meeting clients requirement and completing the project within the specific time. Figure out the exact requirement of the project. Confirm all the relevant technical specification of the project (Leach, 2014). The website need to be user friendly and attractive. The effectiveness and accuracy level need to get judge Offering support to the research centre with high bandwidth User friendly and informative website |
Risk Financial loss. Loss of credibility in the, market. Loss of professional credibility. Failure of the project. Failure of the project Substandard design can be the cause of client dissatisfaction Failure of the project Failure of the project Failure of the project |
Acceptance criteria: The dateline of the project is the major criteria of acceptance. In this case the date line is 1.12.17 the project needs to get completed within that time. The quality of the website is another area of concern. The website must be user friendly. The information of the site must be credible and facilitating for the academic researcher of Mater’s and PhD level. The interface of site need to be user friendly so the user can use the information from the site without any struggle or complication. The process of uploading the material must easy so the website can remain up to date every time. the project need to get completed within the specific budget of $50000 (Heagney, 2016).
- Conclude the project within 1.12.17
- The project cost need to keep within $ 50000
- Include the optimum functionality such user friendly and uploading friendly attributes along interactive interface that can help the user of the website to use it in a proper manner.
- To satisfy the sponsor of the project (Verzuh, 2015).
Milestone
Project approval Concluding documentation of the requirement Technical review of the project Break down structure design Concluding the project schedule Completing within schedule time and cost Stakeholder analysis Test case creation |
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 |
One month One month One month One month One month One moth One month One month |
- Paucity of needed resources
- Lack of the skilled team member (Hwang & Tan, 2012)
- Project manager and the team personnel harbour the skill to complete the project successfully
- Availability of the required resources.
Project sponsor: The responsibility of this type of stakeholder to sponsor the project.
Project executive: Manage the project till the conclusion of the project.
Project manager: He is responsible for the attainment of the project objective.
Business analyst: The exact requirement of the business defined by them in a proper manner.
Subject matter expert: Can offer the right platform for the project
Technical expert: Development of the technically sound website and effective interface.
Website designer: The designer can make the website attractive and effective for the users.
Website developer: They offer the platform to offer input in the website.
Tester: Test the website
Website hosting: Hosting in minimum cost (Gido & Clements, 2014)
Master and Doctoral student: Ability to use the website for the research.
- Planning is the base of project management
- Analysis of stakeholder expectation
- The responsibility used to get distributed on the basis of the skill competency
- Mutual understanding and respect in needed in the team
- Responsibility must get defined among the team member.
- Top down communication
- Bottom up communication
- Middle-out communication
- Status report on monthly and weekly basis
- Regular meeting of the steering committee
- Bi monthly team status meeting
- Use of the website
The main purpose of this project is to develop an attractive website for social media research centre within the time limit i.e. November 2017 to February 2018. Instead of this, another objective of this project is to complete the project within the particular budget and also assists the clients to access information in easier and fast manner.
List of the stakeholders |
Data to be shared |
Frequency associated with information share |
Area of information or data exchange |
Objective of communication |
Media used to communicate |
Project executive |
Project progress report regarding accomplishment , change report |
Regular |
Personal communication, emails and Face to face communication |
Given information regarding progress of the project |
Meeting and email |
Project sponsor |
Project progress report, change report |
Regular |
Meetings |
Given information regarding progress of the project |
Meeting and report |
Project manager |
Progress report regarding project |
In project starting |
Meetings |
Update and inform |
Meetings and reports |
Business analyst |
Project deliverable and needs |
During project stating |
Emails |
Update and inform |
Formal paper based report, demos and meetings |
Technical architect |
Information regarding technical aspects |
Whenever needed |
Emails and meetings |
Update and inform |
Formal paper based report, demos and meetings |
Web designer |
Specification associated with the web designing |
Whenever required |
Emails |
Update and inform |
Formal paper based report, demos and meetings |
Tester |
Test the entire project |
End of the web development |
Face to face |
Update and inform |
Formal paper based report, demos and meetings |
In order to complete the project within the time limit and associated budge, entire project is divided into the several milestone using work breakdown structure. Moreover to establish better outcomes project manager continuous monitor the project progress that helps them to determine project progression in effectively manner and decided whether change is needed or not (Burke, 2013). If project manager required some changes then effeciefvly communicate with the project sponsors and the head of the team department and deciding whether change is effective or not.
Meeting agenda helps to set objective and purpose of the project in better manner. In this project meeting is conducted among the project sponsor, project managers, and head of the developers for purpose of making better decision and determining that objective is fulfill or not.
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