Report On Developing An Automated Information System For Woolworths Limited – Project Management

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Woolworths was the targeted company who is facing lots of trouble in the modern environment while trying to make a higher place among the competitors. The proposed solution was to establish an automated information system that can allow the organization to deliver operational activities in an efficient and effective way. The proposed system will allow the employees and the consumers to avail better and efficient ways for operational deliveries and better services respectively. This report will be analysing the figures and constraints represented in the previous part in manner to analyse its feasibility and efficiency and how it could be managed to deliver the project output in much effective and efficient way without altering the quality of the project. The following report includes PERT analysis, early, and late, start and finish calculations in manner to highlight the critical and non-critical activities. An earned value analysis has also been proposed in this report in manner to highlight the expected and on-going project constraints and how these could be managed for the delivery of the project in an efficient and effective manner.

Project Early start, Early Finish, Late Start, and Late Finish

Figure 1: Pert Analysis

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The above present PERT analysis demonstrates the critical path of the project emphasizing on the slowest path that can be taken for the completion of the project without altering the output and performance of the project. The critical activities must not be altered in manner to meet the project constraints however, the critical activities timeline can be changed with respect to the critical activities.

The following graph represents the earn value analysis in single graph:

Figure 2: Cost Benefit Analysis

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The above calculated values provide cost variance and schedule variance negative that states that the project is behind the schedule and under the budget. One of the constraint is beneficial for the project however, the schedule variance is lagging as per the planning. The work % of the stakeholders can be increased in manner to accomplish the project activities much faster than the present scenario. This will be helpful in meeting the future constraints for the project assuring that the delivery of the project is within the estimated time and cost. It is necessary to manage the timeline even if it brings the actual cost reaches to the estimated value. The schedule variance should be a positive figure or in other words the project should be ahead of the schedule along with the under budget of the project only then, the project planning can be considered as feasible and ready to deliver. Thus, the health of the project can be categorized in moderate level that needs certain modifications in manner to implement the necessary changes those can be further executed for meeting the objectives and goals of the project.  

Analysing project schedule

Contemporary project management practice include the cutting-edge and time-tested project management techniques those can be of great value for the project manager in delivering the efficient and effective project. Agile and PMBoK practices have been very trending in the modern project delivering practices. Traditional project management practices emphasizes on the upfront planning and wasting lots of time and thus, it could be a lagging factor for the modern project management practices. However, the requirement of the modern time keeps changing with the time and thus, it could be not much effective to deliver modern projects. The contemporary project management practice emphasizes on the application of modern software and application that can be used for the planning and better estimations based on the calculative and quantitative values. The project constraints can be measured and planned in much efficient and effective way through the application of the MS project for the delivery of the project related activities. It allows the project manager to explain every aspect of the project in far better and effective way through highlighting every project constraints in association with many automated calculations for the necessary future strategies those could be adopted for the delivery of the project.

Conclusion

Based on the above report it can be concluded that the above report analyses the proposed project plan in part A. The MS Project 2016 project and Excel 2016 has been used for analysing the figures proposed in the previous section and make sure that the project meets the necessary production and output. The above report presents the PERT analysis on the same data as it was proposed in part A with the proposed estimated early start, late start, early finish, and last finish calculations. The proposed PERT chart can be followed for delivering the project within least estimated timeline moreover, the critical activities’ constraints must not be altered as such alteration will alternatively reflect on the entire project. On the other hand, non-critical activities can be altered to some extent even if the project is on schedule as it will not influence the entire project delivery.

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