This study shall strengthen the projects potential to:
• Ensure a competitive level of service for their customer
• Make them become more accessible to their customers
• Enable them improve customer engagement
• Create new channel for direct marketing
• Improve on their brand identity
• Become more visible to both existing and new customers
Objectives
1. Identification of the functional requirements for the development of mobile B2B business applications within the food
market for caterers
 Stakeholder Analysis
 Software Benchmarking
2. Identification of the structural requirements for the programming and implementation of the mobile application within
the current company structure and capabilities
 System Environment Analysis
 Personnel Analysis
 Risk Identification and Analysis
3. Identification of the resources required by the client to provide for programming, implementing and operating the mobile
B2B application Project
 Time Planning
 Life-Cycle Cost Analysis
Supporting Evidence
Objective Based:
Stakeholder Analysis:
System Environment Analysis:
Personnel Analysis:
Risk Identification and Analysis:
Project Time Planning:
Life-Cycle Cost Analysis:
Glinz, M. and Wieringa, R.J. (2007) – used to explain the role of stakeholders in the provision
of a wide-ranging of necessary information as part of requirement gathering process.
Power (2010) – Defines software stakeholders to be persons, organisations or other groups
whose interest affect or are affected by the software. It further provides clarity on who the
relevant project stakeholders are and their varying level of importance to the project.
Nicholas, J.M. and Steyn H. (2012) – used to explain the study of the process involve in
programming and implementing the project within existing IT system environment
Otero et al. (2009) - used to methodically evaluate current organizational personnel skills in
relation to the exact personnel requirement of the project
Nicholas, J.M. and Steyn H. (2012) – used for risk identification, analysis, planning and control
with the aim of measuring the structural requirements of the client for the realization of the
requirements of project.
Maley (2012) – used for project time planning by breaking down the project into several
activities so as to derive a basis for time estimation and scheduling for each of the activities
which are then used to create the Gantt Chart.
Nicholas, J.M. and Steyn H. (2012) – used to analyse the all-inclusive financial requirements of
the project as it has the relevant programming and implementation costs, with inclusion of
follow other cost such as operating, maintenance, support and disposal costs. This represents
cost from project initiation till the end of life of the product
Gantt Chart Timeframe (6 months = 26 Weeks)
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List of Activities
Client Topic
To undertake a scoping study to help determine the requirements of developing a business app for a SME Company who is
providing food products to the catering trade.
List of Tasks
A
Project Meeting Kick Off
B
Objective 1 - Functional Requirements
C
Stakeholder Mapping
D
Indentifying Stakeholders
E
Stakeholder Engagement
F
Stakeholder Categorisation
G
Stakeholder Ranking
H
Software Benchmarking
I
Data Gathering and Recording
J
Data Analysis
K
Objective 2 - Structural Requirements
L
System Environment Analysis
M
Engagement of Subject Matter Expert/ IT Expert
N
IT Environment Graphics Production
O
P
Data Analysis
Personnel Analysis
Q
Project Role Planning (Identification and Classification)
R
S
Staff Skills Analysis
Risk Identification and Analysis
T
Risk Identification
U
Risk Evaluation
V
Risk Ranking (Matrix)
W
Objective 3 - Resources Requirements
X
Project Time Planning
Y
Project Breakdown and Time Evaluation
Z
Network Diagram Creation
AA
Creation of Gantt Chart
AB
Life Cycle Cost Analysis
AC
Analysing Types of Cost and Important Activities
AD
Data (Cost) Collection for Identified Activities
AE
Cost Aggregation
AF
Report Writing
AG
Recommendation
AH
Report Submission
AI
Presentation of the Report
AJ
Final Evaluation Meeting
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Critical Path
Dependency
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Contribution
Industry Based:
Software Benchmarking:
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Watson (1993) - used to explain the practise of comparing own organisational operations
with industry leaders, thereby leading to achieving an improved organizational operation
through the application of the data gathered from the industry leaders.
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Will respond to the questions of how the individual methods contribute to the identified objectives and the overall aim of revealing
all requirements for programming and implementing a business mobile application for the company.
The outcome will enable the client to evaluate if they have the capabilities of undertaking the project inhouse or if they need to
outsource the project.
It will also provide the initial steps of project planning, requirement gathering, time management and cost saving in case they are
going to be undertaking the project development with inhouse staff.
The Client will be provided with comprehensive and technical method detailing insights about the possibilities and potentials for any
future IT Projects within their organization.