Learning App Development Project By Mind Inventory Company

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Discuss about the Learning App Development Project by the Mind Inventory Company.

In order to analyze any project at the initiation phase the project manager and the project team members are require to chose suitable stakeholders for the project. A project time schedule considering all the project activities are necessary to be designed and followed accordingly by the project team members to successfully accomplish any project. This report nominates a learning app development project by mind Inventory Company that may reduce the learning gaps that are continuously facing by both the learners and teachers. It is expected that with the successful implementation of the learning app the relationship between the learners and the teachers will become stronger than the previous phases. System approach is nothing apart from the basic problem solving method that will effectively help the company to define the problems much clearly. It will also help to identify alternative solution for the identified problem. After implementing and testing the solution, the viable mix solution can be prepared to effectively resolve the traditional issues of education system and the learning approach.

Electronic business or (E-Business) can drive the traditional learning approach to a more advances method that fills the learning and education gap between the learners and the teachers. The learning app has certain specified actions and can also deliver intangible outcome to the consumers. Both short-term and long-term issues can be resolved with the help of the online learning app.

In order to promote the online app business the most suitable medium is the social media. It gives better business alignment, correct business drivers, correct actions those are helpful for the c=successful implementation of the learning app.

Environmental constraints are the main components that help to define both the pre planned and post planned components of education system and learning app as well.  There are no step specification rather formal system approaches available for the learning app development project. Based on the instructional design, education objectives the learning app should be designed by the company. The learning app must have all features that the traditional classrooms use to have. There must have proper performance measurement action. With the help of the performance measurement the current status of the students and the way through which their knowledge and skills can be improved through the online leaning app are elaborated in this paper.

The number of project stakeholders varies for different projects thus, for this specific project also the stakeholders are also different. It is necessary for the project owners to assign suitable stakeholders for the projects. They must actively play their roles to successfully accomplishing the online learning app development project by Mind Inventory. Classic approaches to business strategy are important to assume for marketing success, technical success and business regulations also. The stakeholders assigned for this project are as follows:

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The successful project outcome will deliver an online platform to the eager learners. It will bridge the gap between the learners and the teachers. The learners will get 24X7 open platform and guidance regardless of their location.  

Triple project constraints such as time, scope and cost have been considered for the online app development project of Mind Inventor. The project is expected to be completed in 6 months with a budget of $30,176.

In order to develop the online learning app for Mind Inventory an accurate business case should also be considered to allow the company gain effective commercial revenue and competitive advantages as well.  The steps followed for the development of the business case for Mind Inventor are as follows:

• The business idea is generated due to the issues that most of the learners are facing   due to time limitation and back dated learning style
• Identification on target audience
• Defining business objectives
• Developing promotional activities through social media such as twitter, Facebook etc
• Inclusion of marketing components and detail research methods
• Analysis from the business ideas, strategies and processes
• Writing business case content and blogs t grab new customers
• Emphasizing high impact elements

Time: 6 months

Scope: To design a secured and advanced online learning app for the eager learners

Cost: $30,176

The project is focused on development of online learning app for the learners of different age group staring from 5 years. The scope of the project is “To design an all time on time service providing online learning app for the learners”.

Figure 1: Work Breakdown Structure for the E-learning app development project

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The cost estimated for the E-learning app development project for Mind Inventory learning app Development Company is shown below:

The earned value management (EVM) mechanism is applied to the project to identify the difference between the actual cost and the planned cost. It is found that, the actual cost estimated for the project varies from the cost.

During the project monitoring phase or project progress period the cost must be estimated to define whether the project is standing beneficial or not. If the estimation crosses the planned estimation then it will be a loss for the company on the other hand if the actual cost if found to be lesser than the planned cost then the project will be defined as a successful one.

For this specific project the actual cost is lesser than the planned cost which implies that the project is feasible.  

Cause and effect approach is referred to as a tool that is used by the project developers to improve the existing quality of the projects. The critical steps involves in the project activities in the process define as the cause.  Due to this cause the project may face serious issues in terms of commercial loss and lag in competitive market.

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A fish bone diagram can represent the cause and effects for this specific project of E-learning app development or Mind Inventory Company.

The causes and effects of the project are shown in the below diagram-

This report details the progress of the project on online E-learning app development project for Mind Inventory. For this specific project five phases or work packages are considered in terms of initiation, planning, development, execution and closure.

Initiation phase: The objectives, goal and aim of the project is developed in this phase

Planning phase: The cost, time, scope and other specifications are planned in this particular phase.

Development phase: The online learning app is developed in this phase by the professional app or system developers

Execution phase: In this phase, the learning app is implemented by the system developers.

Closure: After considering all the project detail specifications I this phase the project is executed and if any changes are required to be implemented then those are defined as the post project maintenance phase.  

The risks associated to the project are as follows:

Lack of expertise: The total numbers of professional experts are less for this project.

Security risks: If proper security approaches are not considered then security risks may occur during the implementation of the project.

Improper time management: If the timeframe designed for the project is found to be limited then the project may interrupt to reach the expected project outcome.

The project developed itself was giving positive return while calculating the ROI and thus no such commercial changes are requested but the only change that has been nominated for this project is change in their security approach. The phases followed are as follows:

• Identification of the improvement specification
• Solid business case development
• Resource and communication management
• Business roadmap development
• App needs security  

The details of project management including its benefits in while developing any project are learned from this learning session. The ways through which the time, cost and project scope can be managed are learned from this. In addition to this, the details of communication plan, risk management, contingency, procurement and HR management plan are also gained from this project management learning session.

The final documentation details shows that the project s approved by the project manager and the sponsors and it is ready for final implementation and also ready to be launched.

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