Uber project Case Study

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A company was begun within the San Francisco named as UberCab, letting the clients book a cab utilizing the smartphones. Since the company got to be popular and known as Uber. The company Uber may be a transportation benefit supplier company central station arranged in San Francisco, California Joined together States. The company employments smartphone apps to get the rides, and for the users’ company gives on-demand administrations asking through smartphone apps, IOS or from android gadgets. The company Uber has changed the transformation of nearby transportation administrations, amid its development the company confronted various challenges from the taxi industry and from the legitimate conventions. In a few states, the taxi drivers arranged challenge against Uber, as they claimed that the company incited the neighborhood laws and making unjustifiable competition within the industry. Extra administrations of the company incorporate Uber Eats, Uber Pool (Wyman, 2017).

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This presentation addresses the development of an update for the existing Uber app.

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The project lifecycle consists of certain processes, and all of the can be used for the Uber project. The 5 processes that will be used to manage the execution of the Uber application update project are:

Initiation: The project will be initiated with the initial definition of the scope of the update for the app, gathering all required approvals or authorization to kick start the project

Planning: Here all initial requirements like risks, scope, time, cost, quality etc will be decided for the project

Execution: Here the update for the app will be executed as per the planned schedule and budget

Controlling and Monitoring: Here the PM will measure the overall project’s performance in regards to the goals outlined from the start and the alterations made along the way.

Closing: This will be the finalization of the update to the app

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Choosing the right Project Management methodology is imperative for the success of the project. They are a set of rules required for successful project accomplishment. Various methods describe and provide scope to a specific type of projects.

For the Uber project, AGILE will be the most suitable form of project methodology due to its iterative, and adaptive nature. This approach is beneficial for creative projects with goals that are flexible and can be modified midway. Continuous collaboration is key, both among team members and with project stakeholders, to make fully-informed decisions. And AGILE allows one to do that. Thus, by using AGILE, the execution of the update will be smoother.

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The method classes are the sequential stages in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), and knowledge is conveyed at all levels during the system groups.

These are the 10 Project Management knowledge areas (Hartney, 2016):

1. Project Integration Management
2. Project Scope Management
3. Project Schedule Management
4. Project Cost Management
5. Project Quality Management
6. Project Resource Management
7. Project Communications Management
8. Project Risk Management
9. Project Procurement Management
10. Project Stakeholder Management

All these knowledge areas can be applied to the Uber update on different levels of the project.

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In order to achieve the most of the project management, and conclude a successful project, certain best practices need to be followed:

• Document project requirements
• Avoid estimating projects in a vacuum
• Use a project brief to get stakeholder buy-in
• Establish a clear project plan
• Mind your team’s workload
• Clarify project roles and responsibilities
• Communicate early and often
• Monitor task progress
• Manage risk
• Keep scope creep in check
• Conduct a project post-mortem
• Iterate on your process
• Develop leadership skills

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A project said to be effective if the administration achieves its objective in a particular timeframe and spending plan. This is the benchmark utilized in most of the organizations so as to assess the achievement of the project. Be that as it may, if there should arise an occurrence of improvement of the project, the achievement is something more than meeting up with the time span and planning objectives. In this angle, it includes getting together with the desires for the partners, subsidizing offices and recipients, and so on. Notwithstanding that, characterizing such an element of progress is a basic undertaking for the task directors and can be assessed after years the project has been cultivated. A task is said to be fruitful in the event that it is getting together with three-level, coming up next is the degree of accomplishment. So as to help the project chiefs to separation will be made between venture the executive's achievement and task achievement. Task achievement can be estimated by assessing the adequacy of the undertaking, notwithstanding that, the project achievement can likewise be estimated by deciding if the undertaking results are meeting with the desires for the partners (Harrison and Lock, 2017). Then again, project management achievement can be estimated by inspecting the degree of productivity the task accomplished to achieve its last objective.

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The group of project managers clarifies the structure of the task, which can recognize through analyzing its data, exercises, equipment, innovative headway and results. Every one of these procedures are associated with PMBOK and are isolated into ten distinct measurements. Task managers that can meet the criteria of accomplishment are included by the usage of a repeatable, steady and unsurprising system supporting the accomplishment of the project. These are the criteria utilized by the associations to decide the accomplishment of a project