MBA41 : Strategic Project Management : Website Redevelopment Project

Statement of Work

The document shall have the project background, highlights of project scope, and project work requirements. The SOW shall also have a detailed account of the project schedule with start and finish dates of the project activities, duration of the activities, and deliverable/milestone schedule. The cost of each project phase along with the total cost and acceptance criteria are the mandatory sections in the SOW (Zwikael and Globerson, 2004).

Project Plan

The document shall list out the project description, aims, objectives, project scope, project schedule, project costs, stakeholder list, resources, test plan, implementation plan, training, and transition plan (Pandit and Tahiliani, 2015).

 Website Design Proposal

The design proposal shall have UI/UX design and wireframes for each of the web page and the design diagrams as well. The Project Manager and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) must approve the deliverable (Braganca, Vieira and Andrade, 2014).

 Source Code

The lines of code for each of the web pages and the validation/verification of the same after carrying out unit testing

Defect Report

The detailed account of project defects as detected after the conduction of testing activities. The defect shall have the fields as a unique defect id, defect summary, description of the defect, reproduction rate, resource responsible for resolution, steps to reproduce, and defect status (Ditlevsen, 2003).

Review Report

The report shall have the comments of the reviewer with the sections as areas of improvements, points to remember, and list of changes. The date of review, name of the reviewer, and additional comments are the other necessary elements for the deliverable (Mossalam and Arafa, 2016).

Closure Report

The final deliverable of the project must have the sections as lessons learned, areas of improvements, project limitations, and a brief summary of the project activities (Zohrehvandi, 2017).

Acceptance

The contractor named below provides acceptance on the Statement of Work (SOW). The parties have the authority to recommend the changes unless the required level of quality is present.

References:

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Braganca, L., Vieira, S. and Andrade, J. (2014). Early Stage Design Decisions: The Way to Achieve Sustainable Buildings at Lower Costs. [online] Available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/365364 [Accessed 4 Aug. 2018].

Corvello, V., Will, A. and Ratta, A. (2017). Routine project scope management in small construction enterprises. International Journal of Project Organisation and Management, 9(1), p.18.

Ditlevsen, O. (2003). Decision modeling and acceptance criteria. Structural Safety, 25(2), pp.165-191.

Fageha, M. and Aibinu, A. (2013). Managing Project Scope Definition to Improve Stakeholders’ Participation and Enhance Project Outcome. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 74, pp.154-164.

Malahova, A. and Tiwari, A. (2014). A Methodology for Developing Web-based CAD/CAM systems. International Journal of Science and Engineering Applications, 3(6), pp.159-166.

Mirza, M., Pourzolfaghar, Z. and Shahnazari, M. (2013). Significance of Scope in Project Success. Procedia Technology, 9, pp.722-729.

Mossalam, A. and Arafa, M. (2016). The role of project manager in benefits realization management as a project constraint/driver. HBRC Journal, 12(3), pp.305-315.

Pandit, P. and Tahiliani, S. (2015). AgileUAT: A Framework for User Acceptance Testing based on User Stories and Acceptance Criteria. International Journal of Computer Applications, 120(10), pp.16-21.

Rose, K. (2013). A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)-Fifth Edition. Project Management Journal, 44(3), pp.e1-e1.

Tran, T. and Park, J. (2014). Development of integrated design methodology for various types of product — service systems. Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, 1(1), pp.37-47.

Zidane, Y., Johansen, A. and Ekambaram, A. (2015). Project Evaluation Holistic Framework – Application on Megaproject Case. Procedia Computer Science, 64, pp.409-416.

Zohrehvandi, S. (2017). Planning project closure phase in combined cycle power plant projects. Procedia Computer Science, 121, pp.274-281.

Zwikael, O. (2009). The Relative Importance of the PMBOK® Guide's Nine Knowledge Areas during Project Planning. Project Management Journal, 40(4), pp.94-103.

Zwikael, O. and Globerson, S. (2004). Evaluating the quality of project planning: a model and field results. International Journal of Production Research, 42(8), pp.1545-1556.