FoodBear Malaysia is a food delivery service in 6 cities in Malaysia with many happy customers.

Using the
easy smartphone app or the website, anyone can find their favorite restaurants near them and order their
favorite dish, drinks or even groceries.As the business continues to grow, the company realizes they need
a custom computer system to support their operations. With the computerized meal-delivery system, they
hope to be able to obtain information at the end of each week about orders by restaurant, orders by area
of town, and so on. This information would help them decide about advertising and contracts with
restaurants. In addition, the company would like to provide a Web site featuring its services and enable
its customers to place orders online. The company has commissioned you to develop the required system.
Assume that the project duration is 1 year.

Software project problems may be categorized as follows:

• Problems faced by the project manager,

• Problems faced by developers, and

• Problems faced by customers.

Discuss THREE (3) possible problems that may be encountered in this project. Note that your answer
should include a problem from each category of software project problems.

How to develop a winning proposal?

Question 2 [April 2016 Q2a]

Table 1 shows the annual cash flow of Project X and Project Y.

Table 1: Forecasted cash flow of Project X and Project Y

Year Project X Project Y
0 -100,000 -100,000
1 50,000 70,000
2 40,000 60,000
3 30,000 20,000

a) Using a 10% discount rate, calculate the Net Present Value (NPV) for both projects and propose which
project is the most beneficial to pursue.Show your working and use 4-decimal points in your calculation.

b) Calculate the ROI for the both projects and explain which project is more worthwhile to be undertaken.