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Assignment 1 Front Sheet: Qualification BTEC Level 5 HND Diploma in Computing Unit Number and Title Submission Date
Assignment 1 Front Sheet: Qualification BTEC Level 5 HND Diploma in Computing Unit Number and Title Submission Date
Unit number and title Unit 06: Managing a Successful Computing Project
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Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 4
I. Devise project aims and objectives for a chosen scenario.(P1)................................................................................................................................... 5
1. Introduction to Project Management (PM)................................................................................................................................................................. 5
2. The key stages of project management....................................................................................................................................................................... 6
3. Project charter............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 8
I. Produce a project management plan that covers aspects of cost, scope, time, quality, communication, risk and resources.(P2)............................11
1. Project management plan......................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
2. Cost............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 11
3. Scope......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
4. Time........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
5. Quality....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16
6. Communication.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16
7. Project risk..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16
III. Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt Chart to provide timeframes and stages for completion.(P3)....................................................18
1. WBS........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20
2. Schedule.................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20
3. Resource allocation.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 24
4. Cost............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 24
IV. Carry out small-scale research by applying qualitative and quantitative research methods appropriate for meeting project aims and objectives.
(P4) 25
1. Qualitative research................................................................................................................................................................................................... 26
2. Quantitative methodology......................................................................................................................................................................................... 36
3. Secondary Research: Definition................................................................................................................................................................................. 42
Conclusion............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 43
V. References................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 43
The project will employ sensors such as heart rate monitors, blood pressure monitors, oxygen saturation monitors, and other
measuring devices to evaluate the patient's health during sleep. The data collected will be transmitted to a centralized system
through internet connectivity for analysis and assessment of the patient's sleep quality.
The system will issue notifications to users regarding sleep-related issues such as insufficient sleep time, excessive sleep time, poor
sleep quality, or chronic insomnia. This will enable patients to receive timely care and intervention from healthcare professionals,
enhancing their ability to combat sleep-related issues.
The IoT Smart Sleep project for patients has the potential to bring numerous benefits to patients' health, helping them manage and
improve the quality of their sleep, increase productivity, and overall health.
As a software developer at BTEC FPT, we have an exciting plan to develop a smart IoT sleep monitoring system. Our goal is to
leverage cutting-edge technology to provide users with a comprehensive view of their sleep patterns and help them optimize their
sleep quality. With the rise of IoT devices and increasing awareness of the importance of sleep on overall health and well-being, we
believe that our project has the potential to make a significant impact in people's lives.
Through our IoT sleep monitoring system, users will be able to track important metrics such as sleep duration, quality, and
disruptions. Our software will analyze this data and provide personalized recommendations to help users improve their sleep habits.
We will also integrate features such as sleep soundscapes and alarms to enhance the overall sleep experience.
To achieve our goals, we will be working closely with experts in sleep science and using the latest technologies in IoT and machine
learning. Our team is dedicated to developing a high-quality and user-friendly product that will help people improve their sleep and
ultimately their overall health and well-being.
We are excited to embark on this journey and look forward to sharing our progress with the world. Stay tuned for updates on our
IoT sleep monitoring system!
Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve goals and meet success criteria at a specified
time. The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals within the given constraints. This
information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. The primary
constraints are scope, time, budget. The secondary challenge is to optimize the allocation of necessary inputs and apply them
to meet pre-defined objectives. Project management was developed to save time/money by properly planning a project and
considering all relevant factors which may affect its outcome.
It’s created during the project planning phase and is a compilation of several other documents. It is more than just a
schedule or a task list, though it does include those things. The project management plan is formally approved at the
beginning of the project and then progressively updated throughout the course of the project.
C. Project Execution
The execution phase is usually the longest phase in the project life cycle; and the most demanding. Your team carries
out all the planned activities during this stage, constructs the deliverables, and presents them to the project
stakeholders.
This is the phase that is most commonly associated with project management. Execution is all about building
deliverables that satisfy the customer. Team leaders make this happen by allocating resources and keeping team
members focused on their assigned tasks. Execution relies heavily on the planning phase. The work and efforts of the
team during the execution phase are derived from the project plan.
In project management, there might be hiccups along the way but if you catch them early on, it’s easy to course-correct.
You’ll need to continuously track the project’s progress and ensure that the milestones and deliverables stick to the
project schedule. For this reason, the execution stage always happens in concurrence with the next phase–project
controlling and monitoring.
D. Project Monitoring and Control
Monitoring and control processes continually track, review, adjust and report on the project’s performance. It’s important
to find out how a project’s performing and whether it’s on time, as well as implement approved changes. This ensures
the project remains on track, on budget and on time.
Figure 3: Monitoring & Control process.
3. Project charter
Scope Description:
- Research to develop the automatic smart sleep controlled by an application on user's
smartphone.
- Technology companies and research groups alike recognize the potential for
smartphones, IoT devices, and smart home technology to install electrical and
electronic equipment can be controlled automated or semi-automatic, replacing
humans in performing one or several operations of management and control. This
electronic system communicates with the user through a home electronic board,
mobile phone application, tablet or a web interface.
Deliverables:
Application for everyone in or out of the country
User manuals, support service 24/7
Research document.
Application document
FINANCIALS
PROJECT MILESTONES
Milestones Target Completion Date
Presentation. 14-12-2022
RISK
- Technical difficulties
- This is our first project, and the team lacks this expertise.
- The wrong procedure, lack of money, no work experience, broken projector.
- The printer is broken, broken laptop, sick leave personnel, and death personnel.
2. Cost
This is an important part of the report because it includes all the expenses which are spent in meeting day to day activity of
the business. Because the project is divided into several parts there is a requirement for the fund to meet their activities.
Several expenses included in this are staffing, equipment costs, hiring of some equipment, technologies, manpower so on.
4. Time
This decides the duration of the project for completing a project. It decides the ability of an individual person and how much
time they take in achieving an assigned task. After, it ensures planning, setting goals, and priority of work for better
performance. When structured is made with their time duration then it helps in completing work on time.
PROJECT TIME
6. Communication
It is a process for parties to communicate with each other in various ways, in which one is the sender and the other is the
receiver. This plays an important role in achieving the success of the project plan. Cloud computing is the best way to
transfer information from one person to another. This path includes the purpose, approach, goals, objectives, tools,
methodology, roles and messages of communication at a high level. Social media and the internet are also a source of
communication
7. Project risk
Risk is any unexpected event that can affect your project — for better or for worse. Risk can affect anything: people,
processes, technology, and resources. An important distinction to remember is that risks are not the same as issues. Issues
are things you know you’ll have to deal with, and may even have an idea of when they’ll occur, like a team member’s
scheduled vacation, or a big spike in product demand around the holidays. Risks are events that might happen, and you may
not be able to tell when — such as flu season hitting your team all at once, or a key product component being on backorder.
Risk management is an important process because it empowers a business with the necessary tools so that it can adequately
identify and deal with potential risks. Once a risk has been identified, it is then easy to mitigate it. In addition, risk
management provides a business with a basis upon which it can undertake sound decision-making. For a business,
assessment and management of risks is the best way to prepare for eventualities that may come in the way of progress and
growth. When a business evaluates its plan for handling potential threats and then develops structures to address them, it
improves its odds of becoming a successful entity.
In addition, progressive risk management ensures risks of a high priority are dealt with as aggressively as possible. Moreover,
the management will have the necessary information that they can use to make informed decisions and ensure that the
business remains profitable.
III. Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt
Chart to provide timeframes and stages for
completion.(P3)
Define requirement:
A work breakdown structure (WBS) is a key of ORAI project deliverable that organizes the team's work into
manageable sections. The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) defines the work breakdown structure as
a "deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team." The work
breakdown structure visually defines the scope into manageable chunks that a project team can understand, as each
level of the work breakdown structure provides further definition and detail. (Work break down structure, n.d.)
Project Idea : Identify and design an autonomous robot that can assist people at home who are too busy for
daily or weekly floor cleaning, for families with children. In particular for the elderly who live by themselves
and do not have the strength or ability to clean
Data Collection: customer information security surveyed about the need to use robotic vacuum cleaner. The
project collects information from various sources, validated and verified. The goal is to seek out and fully
comply with the law.\
Evaluate and analyze: Users will insert their information in the app and connect the app on their phone
with their robotic vacuum cleaner. The system will track user and will evaluate, analyze the average time
user use the application to control robotic vacuum cleaner in 1 day, 1 week or 1 month.
1. WBS
Figure 4: WBS
2. Schedule
Schedule is the process of defining project tasks and their durations, dependencies, and assigned resources in order to
complete the project within a designated time frame. It also includes monitoring and reporting on the schedule to ensure the
project is delivered on time.
Time is one of the three constraints in the “Iron Triangle” (with Scope and Budget) of Project Management, and any delay in the
schedule can be very costly. Therefore, Schedule Management is crucial to ensure project success.
The primary purpose of the project schedule is to guide the team to the end. The schedule is the measuring stick for
assessing the project performance, evaluating progress, and getting to project closure as soon as suitable.
Because it is a research project, the money is mainly divided among the members. All members have a salary of $ 5 / hour -
for standard rate and $ 7 / hour - for overtime rate. The working shifts are divided equally, no member is overloaded with
work.
Between phases of the project, there is time for members to rest. Materials: Laptop is used for research (Secondary research
phase) and Interview tools are used for Interview (Primary research phase).
4. Cost
I calculated the cost for the whole project. Mostly money is paid to team members. According to calculations, the project
when completed will have a cost of 5,995$ not exceeding the original estimate in Project charter
IV. Carry out small-scale research by applying qualitative
and quantitative research methods appropriate for
meeting project aims and objectives.(P4)
The following research is focused on the "Quantitative" and "Qualitative" research methods. The former method is all
about estimating and collecting quantitative data. On the other hand, the latter is all about calculating and collecting
qualitative data. The quantitative data helps in concluding the project aspects and important sections from a large amount
of sample. However, in any case, this method is not very suitable, especially where data regarding behavior vigor and
other qualities are needed. In such cases, qualitative data collection methods are used. The sample size in this research
method is very small. To collect the primary research, a field survey is done that aims at collecting both qualitative and
quantitative data. The sample size is 50 and people will be selected randomly to avoid any data biases and discrepancies
1. Qualitative research
Answers to the survey: The survey was conducted by 5 random people of different ages with different usage
needs and opinions about robotic vacuum cleaner.
Surveyor 1:
A: What is your name?
B: Answer: My name is Mai Bao An
A: Do you have heard about IoT in
life? B: Answer: yes
A: Did you ever hear about IoT help
people? B: Answer: No
A: What do you think about using robotic vacuum cleaner instead of the traditional vacuum cleaner and human
power? B: Answer: I think it is very good to help human.
A: What do you think about smart devices used in the home to replace
humans? B: Useful.
INTERVIEW REPORT
Surveyor 2:
A: What is your name ?
B: Answer: My name is Tran Hoang Anh.
A: What do you think about smart devices used in the home to replace humans?
B: Answer: It’s can’t replace humans in many things.
A: What do you think about using robotic vacuum cleaner instead of the traditional vacuum cleaner and human
power? B: Answer:I think anything will have bad and good side. For example, people have one less thing less to
make. But sometimes when the device fails, it requires the use of human power
A: If you choose to buy a robotic vacuum cleaner, what features will you be interested
in? B: Answer: Yes
INTERVIEW REPORT
Surveyor 3:
A: What is your name ?
B: Answer: My name is Do Thi Dao
A: What do you think about smart devices used in the home to replace
humans? B: Answer: That sounds interesting!
A: What do you think about using robotic vacuum cleaner instead of the traditional vacuum cleaner and human
power? B: Answer: That is ok if the cost is suitable.
A: If you choose to buy a robotic vacuum cleaner, what features will you be interested
in? B: Answer: Yes
A: Do you think you will buy a cheap robotic vacuum cleaner on the market instead of buying big brand
machines for warranty?
B: Definitely yes!
INTERVIEW REPORT
Surveyor 4:
A: What is your name ?
B: Answer: My name is Lanh Thi Lan
A: What do you think about smart devices used in the home to replace
humans? B: Answer: I think it can help people save time after coming home
from work.
A: What do you think about using robotic vacuum cleaner instead of the traditional vacuum cleaner and human
power? B: Answer: I think that's very good because it saves us time and effort.
A: If you choose to buy a robotic vacuum cleaner, what features will you be interested
in? B: Answer: Yes
A: What are the limitations of using a robotic vacuum cleaner in your opinion?
B: To make people depend too much on the machine and it will not clean the house completely like a human.
INTERVIEW REPORT
Surveyor 5:
A: What is your name ?
B: Answer: My name is Lanh Toc Dai
A: What do you think about smart devices used in the home to replace
humans? B: Answer: I think it can help people save time after coming home
from work.
A: What do you think about using robotic vacuum cleaner instead of the traditional vacuum cleaner and human
power? B: Answer: I think that's very good because it saves us time and effort.
A: If you choose to buy a robotic vacuum cleaner, what features will you be interested
in? B: Answer: Yes
A: What are the limitations of using a robotic vacuum cleaner in your opinion?
B: Its size is quite large so it is difficult to clean up grooves and corners in the house.
INTERVIEW REPORT
2. Quantitative methodology.
Quantitative methodology is the dominant research framework in the social sciences. It refers to a set of strategies,
techniques, and assumptions used to study psychological, social, and economic processes through the exploration of
numeric patterns.
Quantitative research gathers a range of numeric data. Some of the numeric data is intrinsically quantitative, while in
other cases the numeric structure is imposed. The collection of quantitative information allows researchers to conduct
simple to extremely sophisticated statistical analyses that aggregate the data, show relationships among the data, or
compare across aggregated data.
The purpose of quantitative research is to generate knowledge and create an understanding of the social world.
Quantitative research is used by social scientists, including communication researchers, to observe phenomena or
occurrences affecting individuals. Social scientists are concerned with the study of people. Quantitative research is a
way to learn about a particular group of people, known as a sample population. Using scientific inquiry, quantitative
research relies on data that are observed or measured to examine questions about the sample population.
o Door-To-Door Interview: As face-to-face interviews, in-person interviewers interview respondents at home.
Therefore, the survey and interview should be conducted in a short time to avoid making the respondents
impatient.
o Central Location Test: Respondents are invited to a location, and at that location they will be interviewed for
some product content, advertising, or information about the brand's new business idea.
o Home Placement Test: This is a form of information collection by placing a trial product at the home of an
audience that matches the criteria of potential customers. Usually, the product trial period will be from 3 to 5
days and then the brand will interview the customer about the product experience.
o Telephone Interview: This method is often used by brands to external agencies. The agency will call customers
to interview about the service/product they have experienced. From there, the brand will understand the level of
customer satisfaction, and what products need to be adjusted to better suit the tastes of the market...
o Online Survey: It is a form of information collection by having the respondents who fit the criteria answer the
survey information by themselves. Choosing the right interview method is one of the important prerequisites
when businesses want to apply quantitative research in business. The right method and right approach will help
businesses collect valuable information from consumers, from target customers, from which to draw accurate
conclusions about the market.
Topic: Survey of customers on demand for using the robotic vacuum cleaner by qualitative research.
List of questions in the survey: Survey of customers on demand for using the robotic vacuum cleaner (google.com)
Figure 10: Survey
Figure 11: Survey
Figure 12: Survey
Figure 13: Survey
3. Secondary Research: Definition
Secondary research or desk research is a research method that involves using already existing data. Existing data is
summarized and collated to increase the overall effectiveness of the research. Secondary data is pre-collected and
published data. Easy to collect, less time and money during the collection.
Secondary research includes research material published in research reports and similar documents. These documents
can be made available by public libraries, websites, data obtained from already filled-in surveys, etc. Some government
and non- government agencies also store data, that can be used for research purposes and can be retrieved from them.
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Conclusion
In conclusion, the IoT Smart Sleep project for patients is an innovative solution that uses the power of technology to help people
with sleep issues, particularly those suffering from insomnia or chronic sleep deprivation. By utilizing IoT devices and sensors to
collect and analyze data, the system provides accurate assessments of the quality of patients' sleep, while sending notifications to
users about any sleep-related issues that may require medical attention.
The project offers a range of benefits, such as improved sleep quality, enhanced health and productivity, and greater access to
timely medical intervention, all of which can significantly improve the well-being and quality of life of patients. As technology
continues to advance, it is clear that the IoT Smart Sleep project has the potential to revolutionize the healthcare industry and
become a vital tool in the ongoing fight against sleep disorders.
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