Assignment 2

Project Planning and Management

Deadline: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 ( 11:59 pm)
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Task 1: (10 Marks)

Described below is a new paper production company. The company wants an appropriate software process
model for managing the development of the following system:

“Great papers” is a paper manufacturing and distribution company that has decided to automate its billing,
customer service and inventory systems due to an increase in their sales volume and customer strength.

• The company has no experience in automation because this is for the first time that they are planning
for automating their basic services. The client too has no idea about the size, cost, and the duration of
the project.
• They have assigned the automation project to Xtech.
• Being a member of Xtech you need to analyze the system’s paper printing company and present a
prospective: working model of the software product.
• Only after the working model is approved the team will draw up a specific project plan and create a
development team.
• An analysis team is formed to create the working model, arrange meetings with the client, accept
feedback, and implement all practicable feedback to the working model.
• The team at Xtech intends to reuse the technology and the working model to further develop and
complete the creation of the software product.

Q-1.1. Explain why a linear model cannot be accurately used for this project? Why is a spiral model more
realistic? Or not?
Q-1.2. Identify the stakeholders, three major goals with as many objectives and sub-objectives as you want,
Q-1.3. Write down the Project success statement?
Q-1.4. For the project listed above, identify any two risks for each of the category mentioned below.
a. Project risk
b. technical risk
c. Business risk
Task 2: (10 marks)

Present the solution using Microsoft project.

For the project described in Task 1, use Microsoft project for listing the tasks and subtasks of the project.
List down the necessary activities and sub-activities for this project in MS project. Assign a suitable start
and finish date, task dependents, effort in hrs and duration of each task. The total duration of project is 60
days starting from Feb 1, 2023. No activity lasts for more than 15 days. No activity finishes in less than 2
days. You must include at least one risk management activity to improve customer satisfaction. Export the
timeline to pdf and paste it as a solution to this task. This task only requires the picture of your timeline. If
you do not have access to MS project you can use the trial version that is valid for 30 days.

Task 3: (10 marks)

Design the timeline of your FYP in Microsoft project listing the activities and sub-activities that you will
work on to achieve your objectives.