MOBILE APP PART 1 (WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE) 1 Mobile App Part 1 (Work Breakdown Structure) Project Requirements The Alkimsth Corp is a...

Mobile App Part 1 (Work Breakdown Structure)

Project Requirements

The Alkimsth Corp is a telecommunication company based on the USA. This company is responsible for international communication amongst family and friends. They are the number one provider of international calling cards. Due to request made by our customers the company is in a high need of an app give their customer’s an easier way to access the pin code used to call internationally. Moreover, the crew wants their customers to be able to start a purchase, pay via online methods and have the pin sent to them directly from theirs mobile devices.

In other words, the Alkimisth Corp needs a mobile App that will be utilized to sell their calling card’s pin number. Hence, this project will summarize the requirements aimed at achieving that tasks which includes project management framework development, software development methodologies, and human resource and development, research and design methods.

Furthermore, this project will assume the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) processes, which includes initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing projects. The way in which this framework aids in describing the project necessities will be explained in the diagram below; it is imperative that certain work activities such as evaluation and reporting would be conducted throughout the project life. The project phases will also use software development methodologies such as Waterfall model, iterative model, increment model & prototype model.

The identified developments demands for resources such as people, finance, software and computing equipment among others to be realized. In other words, implementing the App for Alkimisth will need the assumption provided sections below.

Assumptions

Budget

The development will be worth $95,000 as determined in the budget below;

Human resource and Workload

This project will need about 8 employees working for 1900 hours in order to finalize the project. The development team is going to have different IT professionals, with different areas of expertise, which will include IT professionals with user experience designer, graphics designer, database developer, and programs.

Environmental dependences

It is always imperative to know that the duration of the project will depend upon several factor, which include the collaboration of the financial, development team and partnet’s collaboration. Moreover, we need to note that the labor market cost will have a huge impact of the project’s development as well.

Work breakdown structure (WBS)

WBS is a project deliverable that arranges the team’s work into manageable components. So basically in a nutshell WSV breaks the project into a detailed hierarchical format. It aids the project team have an idea of the project when it comes to the cost, scheduling and governance. The WBS element may have details on product, data and service. The ideologies shaping the advancement of WBS comprise plan outcomes, completion percentage (100% rule). Soly conjointly elements are permitted to be incorporated, coding scheme, level of details, terminal part and consistency to rules. The work of mounting the app for Alkimisth Corp can be decomposed as shown below.

Reference

Fleming, Quentin (2005). Earned Value Project Management (Third Edition Ed.). Project Management Institute. ISBN 1-930699-89-1.

Snyder, C., & Books, I. (2010). A user's manual for the PMBOK guide. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons.