Project Proposal For E-commerce Implementation In 4Phones Website

Performance objective

Task 1: Introduction

 I.Scope:

4phone a small IT company has decided to develop e-commerce to their site. HPMG a consultant company also developed a business case for e-commerce that could be useful for 4phone. By developing e-commerce to their website, 4phone will be able to enable online transaction for sell products or services. This report will assist them to develop the e-commerce system to their website.

II. Aim and objectives:

There are certain objectives needs to be achieved through this project proposal. The aim of this report is proposed an effective proposal to introduce the e-commerce to their website.

• To enable the online transaction for selling products and services.
• Another objective to develop e-commerce transaction.
• To evaluate HPMG business case to assist 4phone.

III. Feasibility Study

Throughout the IT industry, most of companies utilizes e-commerce in their website to enable online transaction that provides the most optimal and reach experience. Through proper implementation of e-commerce the website can be used to buy or sell products and services through online.  This approach will assist them to grow their business even more.

 IV.Project Title: Implementation of e-commerce in the 4phone website.

Description: The consulting company, HPMG, developed a business case for ecommerce, which looked very promising. The company decided to go ahead with the project. But 4phones internal team sees this has high risk factors, since it  is  a  complex  task  that  4phones  has not  done  before.

V.Sponsor Details:

Most of the fund will be provided by the company owners. 4 phone also have a little save fund which was intended for investment opportunities in areas that complement or supplement existing business. Money from this fund will be utilized. Other sponsors details are below:

• AussieBig Bank
• Packfax News
• AGH Ltd
• BMP Insurances
• Wintel
• Koka-Kola

 VI.Organization Chart:Task 2: project Planning

 I. Requirement and Risk

This particular project needs many resources such as huge amount of investment, time and stakeholders. The project of 4phone e-commerce implementation for customer information system is an IT based project and the completion of the project would have to face several issues and problems. The analysis of the risk factors had tended for forming the development of the effective mitigation strategies (Schwalbe 2017). The following table would show the various risk factors for the project,

1. Resources required for the completion of the project would be available and can be aligned with the implication of the effective alignment of the operations
2. Project would be completed in the estimated time and resources accumulated in the project
3. The team members would not face any quarrel or conflict among each other 

 II.            Schedule:

 Task 3: Establish IT project team

I.Roles and Responsibility

There are several team members essential to complete the project effectively. 

 II.Training and support:

Every team member must familiar with their roles and responsibility. They should have proper knowledge of the particular area to be able complete individual goals and ensure project competition (Leach 2014).  The team members must be trained to manage the time and other resources to complete the project according to the plan. They needs constant support from the higher-ups in terms of wages and special allowance. They must be familiarized with the real time project processing rate.

Knowledge Evidence

III.Team Values and Standard Behavior

Effective team work is essential in order to complete the project under allocated resources. For effective team management severs factors needs to be measured and defines such as team value and behavior standard.  Every individual must treated accurately and needs to be co-operate with each other. Some standards for behavior controls is also applicable such as

• proper communication,
• actively seek and receive feedback for improvement
• and Support and promote intra- and inter-departmental teamwork.

• Consistently share knowledge and information.

Task 4: Manage project execution activities

1. The activities of the project team work on the individual phases of SDLC are planning, system requirement and analysis, design of the system, development of the system, system testing and integration, implementation of the work, maintenance and operation phase.
2. The methods used to monitor and control the quality of the deliverables of the project are:

• To provide regular status of the reports as they would be outlined in the plan of communications
• To track and manage the risks and the various issues related to the project.
• To conduct the change of the management of the project.
• To perform the quality management.

III. The methods, which should be taken in order to control the risks and issues within the SDLC are Acceptance, Avoidance, Control, Transfer, and Continuous Monitoring.

1. Alpha Testing or Beta Testing could be applied on the project in order to perform system testing.
2. Task 5: Coordinate project Closure
3. It support plans:

During the life-cycle of the project, project manager may need different type of documentation to facilitate tracking, planning and reporting of the project. 4Phone organization should widely focus on this facilities to control the lack of visibility, weak security, loss of data and limited collaboration (Kerzner and Kerzner 2017).  There are certain ways to support the project throughout the lifecycle as shown below.

• Work Flows
• Vision Control
• Collaboration
• Document Capture
• Analysis and Reporting
• Sign off Form

This form validate that the project was completed. The authentication signature will prove that the authorities also acknowledged the project. They also ensure that the project met all their standards and organization’s standard.

 I. Post-Project Review:

Even though the project plan was completed and met all the standards that does not mean the project is successful (Harrison and Lock 2017). Simply completing the project does not ensure that the organization benefits from the project’s outcome.  The objective was not to deliver the process but rather to deliver the process that addresses specific business and check for further improvement.

            There are several factors needs to consider for review the post-project. Post-project review was conducted by certain methods and practices as discussed below.

 Disaster plan: every plan requires to review once a year. This project also needs to review each time environment of the market changes. Disaster recovery plan is essential in order to review and update the project with two factors (Boud, Cohen and Sampson 2014).

• Environmental factors and the disaster recovery Plan: Environmental factors often alters within the organization (Burke 2013). Most common environmental changes they can face are evolvement of new facility and hardware and software updates.
• External factors and disaster recovery plan: the project can effected by many external factors such as third party access and data loss.
• Computer room environment: computer rooms needs to be secure with climate control and alternate power supply.
• Data and Restoration: the information of clients must be stored in a secure system. The information also needs to be backed-up in case of data loss.
• Hardware and Software: network, server and other periphrases needs to be monitored properly.

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