Proper management of any project is responsible for its successful implementation. Proper management of the project requires development of a proper project plan, analyzing the risk and risk management, analysis of the stakeholders associated with the project and proper scheduling of the project (Kerzner and Kerzner 2017). Proper scheduling of project is an important aspect of the IT project, program and the processes. While implementation of the project, different project criteria are considered which include the development planning, contract, risk management and the management of the stakeholders associated with the project. The project is associated with the development of a website for Lizzie Leather Belt, which is a medium sized company. This project therefore falls in the category of the Information technology project and therefore, it needs proper planning and scheduling. In order to successfully complete the project, the project plan is implemented at the beginning of the project. A proper project management approach is considered for project implementation that is very essential for successful execution and completion of the project (Burke 2013). Working in a well managed team is one of the most essential criteria of successful project implementation and therefore, it is very essential to have knowledge about the strength and weaknesses of the team members.
Choice of a proper project management approach is essential as it determines how project will be executed in the later stages. In this project, scrum project management approach is chosen for the project as scrum is a quick adaptive and flexible methodology to consider for the IT projects. One of the major advantages of the implementing the project in a scrum methodology is that, it supports change management in the project. In scrum project methodology, the daily project progress will be tracked, which will further help in implementation of the project in a set schedule and according to project plan (Jammalamadaka and Krishna 2013). In scrum the entire project is divided into three major stages, which are pre development phase, development phase and the post development phase (Larson and Gray 2013). Furthermore, in scrum the project scheduling plays a major role and therefore, it guarantees implementation of the project within the pre set schedule. These are the major reasons behind choice of the scrum project methodology in development of the website for the project.
Project scheduling is one of most important stages of project management since it defines the structure of the project and the implementation strategy of the project. In this project, the scheduling is therefore done at the project initiation phase and the schedule is set for 3 months, which will include 3 sprints release.
The work requirements for the project are also identified after scheduling. Proper information gathering is essential in order to understand the project requirements and the successful implementation of the project. The requirements gathering techniques that is followed in this project includes one to one interview, joint application development, group interview with the identified stakeholders, facilitated sessions, prototyping and brainstorming. A time of 1 week was allotted for gathering the requirements of the project (Schwalbe 2015). Use of scrum project management methodology has ensured that these phases or tasks are implemented at the beginning of the project (Rubin 2012).
The choice of scrum project management approach has a great impact on the risks associated with the project (Alhawari et al. 2012). In this project, one of the major risks involved was to implement the project in the scheduled time. The scope creep was another major risk associated with the project, which was managed by dividing the project into manageable sprints (Cagliano, Grimaldi and Rafele 2015). There it can be said that the choice of scrum project management approach has helped in performing the risk management in the initial stages of the project.
In order to deliver a good quality code, the entire project was divided into certain manageable stages. In the development phase of the project life cycle, the coding for the website is done. The coding is done according to the requirements of the project. The website of Lizzie’s leather belt will be selling their goods online and therefore a user friendly website will be designed (Harrison and Lock 2017). The use of scrum project management approach ensures that the coding of the website is completed within the scheduled time.
One of the main advantages of implementing a project using scrum methodology is that the project is delivered in a scheduled time (Nguyen-Cong and Tran-Cao 2013). With every sprint release a part of the project is delivered to the client for review, which indicates that the following sprint might incorporate certain modification.
Therefore it can be said that the choice of scrum project methodology had a positive impact on the project schedule, code quality and the delivery value to the customers. Since the scrum methodology has the scope for project review, it generally develops a customer centric product thus satisfying the customer (McNeil, Frey and Embrechts 2015). Furthermore, since the risk management is performed at the beginning of the project, it is possible to implement the project in a risk free environment.
Working in a team ensures successful and easy implementation of any project. Proper management of the working of the team and their work is therefore essential as well. In order to manage the entire project effectively the different tasks associated with the project has been effectively divided among the project team members. This includes analysis of stakeholders by Sai Kiran Bomma, gathering the requirements of the project by Noshanth, Scheduling by Chakravarthi, Team work description by Rajashekhar and the identification of the project approach and high level requirement by Krishna Sravanthi Cherka.
The responsibility of the team members towards the project has been determined according to their strength and weaknesses, which ultimately reflects to the strength and weakness of the team. Teamwork mainly refers to the combined action of a group towards a particular project. Proper Evaluation of the strength and the weaknesses of the team members are essential for understanding the overall capability of the team (Heagney 2016).
The major strength of the team work is as follows-
These are the major strengths of my team members. Proper identification of strength of each team member has helped in aligning the identified strength with the responsibility of the project. My team members have proper knowledge about the importance of choosing a proper project management approach, which in turn is responsible for proper implementation of the project and this is one of the strength of the team work (Flyvbjerg 2013). Incorporation of strengths of the team members in scheduled review has further helped in setting achievable business goals. Furthermore, the strength of a particular team member can be an inspiration for the other team members for working harder. The entire team has maintained a friendly work environment, which in turn has helped in easier implementation of the project. Identification of the strength of the individual team members has therefore helped in easy distribution of the different responsibilities associated with the project implementation and associated team work, which in turn ensured successful implementation of the project.
However, there are certain weaknesses associated with my team members and the teamwork was effectively addressed in order to make the team more efficient in project implementation. The weakness of the team members and their associated team work are discussed below-
The above points indicate the major weakness associated with the project team and the team work, which was successfully managed before implementation of the website development project for Lizzie’s Leather Belts. Although the team members had very little experience about the implementation of the project, this weakness was managed by through research about the different project management approach. Furthermore, it took a considerable amount of time in development of the team and making them work as a team as it was undeveloped. Since some of the team members had little knowledge about the different project management tools, the team leader had ensured that the team members perform adequate and necessary research that will be needed for successful implementation of the project. The project was implemented following a scrum project management approach and therefore, the project team was properly trained about the different tools and techniques used in scrum project approach.
The professional and the legal issues associated with the project are as follows-
The above stated points are the major professional and legal issues associated with a project. However, since the project is to be implemented by a inexperienced team, there are certain other things that are needed to be considered, which include the legal risks associated with the analysis of the requirements and the requirement gathering techniques. Requirements gathering for the project are needed to be conducted in a legal way. It is the responsibility of the entire project team to ensure project implementation in a legal manner.
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