Professional Project Plan For Warcraft Ltd For Developing And Promoting Battle Games And Live Action Role Play

Project Objectives

This project focuses on creating a professional project plan for Warcraft Ltd Company to serve the sole purpose of developing and promoting the battle games and live action role play. Through this role play the players will be able to relate themselves with the fantasy characters involved in a particular game. These types of games that are known as live action role play games (LARP) can represent real world characters also. However, according to the current status the company is facing major loss and reduction of their players. In order to resolve these issues the managing director of the company is willing to redesign their company websites with a contract to Tech solutions.

The time phase is allowed for 5 months in order to develop the company website. For developing this project team member, expected Return on Investment, risk register and other considerations are elaborated in this report. Estimated schedule, SWOT analysis, financial analysis, and schedule analysis, potential risks are also identified and illustrated in this report.

The objectives of this project are as follows:

• To redesign the website and mobile app for Warcraft Ltd establishing contract with Tech solutions
• To design the project budget is su8ch a way so that it can obtain a 22% Return on Investment
• To attract new customer and retain existing customers with secured advanced android and ios game version

“To reduce the present issues by redesigning the company website and mobile app to allow the players to play the fictional characters in reality”

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Strength · Develop and promote live action role play battle and war games from the world of fantasy video games · Allows the players to play live action role play games · Thinking of redesigning the website with a  mobile app that can be operated in both ios and android · Signed contract with Tech solution a well known project developer	Weaknesses · The number of players for the Warcraft company is reducing day by day · Week website presence · Uses only traditional marketing approach for  promoting the company services · Week risk management and stakeholders management approaches
Opportunities · Will help the Warcraft Ltd to gain measurable revenue and Return on Investment · Retain the existing customers and can grab new players also for the live action role play	Threats · Weaker marketing and managerial approach may lead the company bankrupted

3. Outline of problem/opportunity statement3.1 Problem statement

The numbers of current live action play role players are reducing each day due to lack of managerial and marketing approaches

3.2 Opportunity statement

If Warcraft Ltd successfully redesigns the company website with an additional mobile app then it will help the company to gain measurable revenue, business growth and huge number of customers

• The project is assumed to the completed within 5 months by Tech solution
• Two professional programmer and one digital image specialist is expected to be the members of the project development team
• It is also assumed that if all necessary components are considered during the redesigning phase of the website it will help the Warcraft Ltd to obtain 22% or RIO from competitive market

4.2 Constraints

For this project triple project constraints are considered. After analyzing the details of the project background it has been found that, the project can be completed within 5 months, with the professional performance of the digital image specialist and programmer. The budgets that are going to be invested for the successful project implementation are respectively $170,000, $25,000, $25,000, $20,000 for 0, 1, 2, 3 years. However, with a total estimation it is determined that the total budget for the project will be 240,000.

There are different options on project budget such as investment on year basis or direct total investment. As Warcraft Ltd Company needs the project to be completed within 5 months thus, the project should be completed within $170,000. Often it is found that the members of a project team belong to different educational and working backgrounds. Thus, for avoiding intra organizational and inter organizational conflict necessary communication and training and development strategy should be arranged and followed by the members of the Tech solution company. In addition to this, at the project initiation phase risk identification, analysis and risk mitigation strategies should be developed to avoid customer loss.

SWOT Analysis

Apart from this, website security is another factor to be recommended, proper security mechanism in terms of encryption and application firewall must be incorporated to avoid unauthorized information access and financial credentials hijack. Though the company follows good stakeholders’ management strategies but still Warcraft Ltd should also focus on advanced stakeholders’ management business level strategies.

Input for the cost benefit analysis
Cost required for hardware	$         18,000.00
cost required for Software	$              850.00
Team salary development	$           7,000.00
cost estimated for the training	$           1,200.00
Total Development Cost	$         27,050.00
Hardware operating cost	$         10,000.00
Software operating cost	$              300.00
Labor operational cost	$         12,000.00
Net Operational Cost	$         22,300.00
expected salary savings	$         80,000.00
Total reduced cost for the operation	$         10,000.00
Total Benefit	$         90,000.00
Discount Rate Used	10.00%

Project Cost-Benefit Analysis
Analysis Variables:	Enter values for the cost-benefit analysis in the INPUT_VALUES worksheet.
Discount Rate Used	10.00%
Annual Benefits	$     90,000.00
Annual Operational Costs	$     22,300.00
One-Time Development Cost	$     27,050.00
				Year of Project
		0	1	2	3	4	5	TOTALS
Economic Benefit		$0.00	$   90,000.00	$   90,000.00	$      90,000.00	$   90,000.00	$      90,000.00
Discount Rate		1.0000	0.9091	0.8264	0.7513	0.6830	0.6209
PV of Benefits		$0.00	$81,818.18	$74,380.17	$67,618.33	$61,471.21	$55,882.92
NPV of all BENEFITS		$0.00	$   81,818.18	$ 156,198.35	$    223,816.68	$  285,287.89	$    341,170.81	$     341,170.81
One-Time COSTS		$(27,050.00)
Recurring Costs		$0.00	$  (22,300.00)	$  (22,300.00)	$     (22,300.00)	$  (22,300.00)	$     (22,300.00)
Discount Rate		1.0000	0.9091	0.8264	0.7513	0.6830	0.6209
PV of Recurring Costs		$0.00	$  (20,272.73)	$  (18,429.75)	$     (16,754.32)	$  (15,231.20)	$     (13,846.55)
NPV of all COSTS		$(27,050.00)	$  (47,322.73)	$  (65,752.48)	$     (82,506.80)	$  (97,738.00)	$   (111,584.54)	$    (111,584.54)
Overall NPV								$     229,586.26
Overall ROI
Break-even Analysis
Yearly NPV Cash FLOW		$(27,050.00)	$   61,545.45	$   55,950.41	$      50,864.01	$   46,240.01	$      42,036.37
Overall NPV Cash FLOW		$(27,050.00)	$   34,495.45	$   90,445.87	$    141,309.88	$  187,549.89	$    229,586.26

6.2 ROI

For this particular project the estimated ROI is calculated below:

ROI= (Financial value-project cost)/project cost*100

ROI= (170,000-70,000)/70,000

ROI= 1.42

Break-Even Chart
B-E Analysis Over 5 Years:	0	1	2	3	4	5
NPV of all BENEFITS	$0.00	$   81,818.18	$ 156,198.35	$ 223,816.68	$        285,287.89	$     341,170.81
NPV of all COSTS	$ 27,050.00	$   47,322.73	$   65,752.48	$   82,506.80	$         97,738.00	$     111,584.54

The scopes of the website development project for Wrcraft Ltd are as follows:

The scope of the company is to redesign the website and also development of a mobile app for the live action role play games. In order to design the desired website proper materials and necessary equipments are also required those are the scope. The leading scope is to implement the website in such a way so that the company can grab new consumers and retain existing players in addition to high business growth and revenue values.

For this particular project waterfall model is chosen by the website developers which is consists of 6 phases such as: initiation, planning, design, development, testing and maintenance phase.

WBS	Task Name	Duration	Start	Finish	Predecessors
0	Schedule for website redesigning for Warcraft Ltd	141 days	Tue 5/8/18	Tue 11/20/18
1	Project initiation	18 days	Tue 5/8/18	Thu 5/31/18
1.1	Analyzing current features of the website	12 days	Tue 5/8/18	Wed 5/23/18
1.1.1	Identifying changes to be incorporate	2 days	Tue 5/8/18	Wed 5/9/18
1.1.2	Raw material identification	6 days	Thu 5/10/18	Thu 5/17/18	3
1.1.3	Gathering information for redesigning the website	10 days	Thu 5/10/18	Wed 5/23/18	3
1.2	Analysis of Mobile app development requirements	6 days	Thu 5/24/18	Thu 5/31/18	5,4
2	Planning	34 days	Fri 6/1/18	Wed 7/18/18
2.1	Designing plan	22 days	Fri 6/1/18	Mon 7/2/18
2.1.1	Creating project group	12 days	Fri 6/1/18	Mon 6/18/18	6
2.1.2	Outlining website presentation	10 days	Tue 6/19/18	Mon 7/2/18	6,9
2.2	Others planning	12 days	Tue 7/3/18	Wed 7/18/18
2.2.1	Risk management plan	5 days	Tue 7/3/18	Mon 7/9/18	10
2.2.2	Communication plan	3 days	Tue 7/3/18	Thu 7/5/18	10
2.2.3	Procurement plan	4 days	Tue 7/10/18	Fri 7/13/18	12,13
2.2.4	Stakeholder management plan	4 days	Fri 7/6/18	Wed 7/11/18	13
2.2.5	Time and budget management	3 days	Mon 7/16/18	Wed 7/18/18	14,15
3	Design	61 days	Thu 7/19/18	Thu 10/11/18
3.1	Prototype designing	27 days	Thu 7/19/18	Fri 8/24/18
3.1.1	Prototype modeling	12 days	Thu 7/19/18	Fri 8/3/18	16
3.1.2	Coding	15 days	Mon 8/6/18	Fri 8/24/18	19
3.2	Development	34 days	Mon 8/27/18	Thu 10/11/18
3.2.1	Individual graphic elements designing	10 days	Mon 8/27/18	Fri 9/7/18	20
3.2.2	Developing content management system	12 days	Mon 9/10/18	Tue 9/25/18	20,22,10
3.2.3	Involving necessary functionalities	12 days	Wed 9/26/18	Thu 10/11/18	23
4	Testing	20 days	Fri 10/12/18	Thu 11/8/18
4.1	Unit testing	10 days	Fri 10/12/18	Thu 10/25/18	24
4.2	Integrated testing	10 days	Fri 10/26/18	Thu 11/8/18	26
5	Maintenance	8 days	Fri 11/9/18	Tue 11/20/18
5.1	Change management from customer feedback	3 days	Fri 11/9/18	Tue 11/13/18	27
5.2	Stakeholder signoff	3 days	Wed 11/14/18	Fri 11/16/18	29
5.3	Post maintenance plan documentation	2 days	Mon 11/19/18	Tue 11/20/18	30

WBS	Task Name
0	Schedule for website redesigning for Warcraft Ltd
1	Project initiation
1.1	Analyzing current features of the website
1.1.1	Identifying changes to be incorporate
1.1.2	Raw material identification
1.1.3	Gathering information for redesigning the website
1.2	Analysis of Mobile app development requirements
2	Planning
2.1	Designing plan
2.1.1	Creating project group
2.1.2	Outlining website presentation
2.2	Others planning
2.2.1	Risk management plan
2.2.2	Communication plan
2.2.3	Procurement plan
2.2.4	Stakeholder management plan
2.2.5	Time and budget management
3	Design
3.1	Prototype designing
3.1.1	Prototype modeling
3.1.2	Coding
3.2	Development
3.2.1	Individual graphic elements designing
3.2.2	Developing content management system
3.2.3	Involving necessary functionalities
4	Testing
4.1	Unit testing
4.2	Integrated testing
5	Maintenance
5.1	Change management from customer feedback
5.2	Stakeholder signoff
5.3	Post maintenance plan documentation

During the development of the project on website redesign and mobile app development it has been found that, certain risks may interrupt the success of the project within estimated budget and time. It is necessary to resolve those risks at the very preliminarily stage. In order to resolve or mitigate the potential risks a risk register is elaborated in the below section:

No.	Rank	Risk	Description	Category	Root Cause	Triggers	Potential Responses	Risk Owner	Probability	Impact
1	4	Too many decision makers	In order to make final decision for the project if is recognized that there are too many decision makers then it will cause internal conflict	Internal	Inaccurate stakeholder management plan	High	Proper designation category and stakeholders management approach should be considered.	Project leader	High	High
2	1	Staff turn over	If staffs are found to be leaving or resigning from the project team then that will cause project risks	Internal	Improper staff engagement approaches	Medium	Professional employee engagement program should be incorporated during the project planning phase	HR manager	Medium	Medium
3	3	Scope creep	If during the project development phase new project requirements are added then that will lead to project failure	Internal	Incorrect requirements analysis	Medium	In the project initiation phase proper requirement resources  should be identified and then based on the background those should be collected and analyzed accordingly	Project leader	High	High
4	2	Improper selection of development lifecycle	If correct project development methodology is not adopted then the project will not be successfully accomplished within estimated time and budget as well.	Internal	Lack of experience	High	Project team members should be hired after examining their technical skills, knowledge and experience.	Project team members and leaders	High	Medium

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