Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Business Project Management

Question: Discuss about theBusiness Project Management. Answer: Introduction: Definition of Project Methodology Sheffield and Lemtayer, (2013) stated that the term project management methodology is referred to as a combination of logically relevant organizational processes, practices and methods that enable a successful evaluation of a project within the organization. The methodology has the capability to plan, develop and maintain a project implemented within the organization. Additionally, the methodology continues working appropriately until the designed project implement properly. According to Partsch, (2012) project management is a scientifically proven systematic and organized approach that helps to implement and execute a proper business plan. Role Plays of Project Management It plays vital role in every organizational structure. This is the initial step as the rest of the processes follow these steps. The concept of project management was traditionally and today also implemented in every organization to manage the project process and to reduce the risks that might occur within the organization (Lewandowski Wierzbicki, 2013). It consists of series of constructive stages. The role plays by project methodologies are followed: It is used to measure the feasibility study of the project that is whether the project that is going to be implemented is feasible in the competitive marketplace or not. It is used to calculate weather the software, hardware and the network platform using for the project planning are beneficial for the organization or not (Mahalakshmi Sundararajan, 2013). Initially it helps to predict the maintenance cost. During the implementation of the project methodologies it plays the role on black box and white box testing where the software developer team measures the validation and verification of the software product. One of the traditional approaches is classical waterfall model. The model is easy to process and most of the organizations use this model to implement the planned project (Kumar, Zadgaonkar Shukla, 2013). Though waterfall model is easy to design but in real rather practical life the implementation of this model is not possible. These methodologies play a vital role in the project management. Project management can also represent the hierarchical structure (John Kadadevaramath, 2014). These are as followed: Project management framework Methodology Lifecycle stages Process and process management Tasks and activities Different Methodologies Selection of two Methodologies Among different project methodologies and processes that are implemented in organizations two project mythologies are selected: Waterfall model and SDLC (Software development lifecycle). These are the most efficient product methodologies used in differ organizations in order to improve the organizational outcome. Figure 1: Waterfall Model (Source: Sheffield Lemtayer, 2013, pp- 460) Analyses Compare and Contrast Between SDLC and Waterfall Waterfall model and SDLC models both are used in for the organizational project development. There is a different between SDLC and Waterfall model. Software development life cycle models are of different types such as- classical waterfall, evolutionary, prototype, spiral model (Lewandowski Wierzbicki, 2013). It means that SDLC contains all the features of waterfall but waterfall model does not contain all the features of SDLC. SDLC Waterfall model SDLC is the parental model of the entire software development model which is contains requirement, design, development, testing and maintenance. Waterfall model consists of 6 steps such as- feasibility study, requirements gathering, requirements analysis, designing, modeling, coding and unit testing, integrated testing implementation and maintenance. Spiral model is another sub model of SDLC, which is meta model because it contains the integrated features of evolutionary model, prototype model (Kumar, Zadgaonkar Shukla, 2013). Waterfall model is easy to design but in real life projects the implementation is not appreciable. In prototype model a dummy model is initially used and all the experiments go through the dummy and then according to the consumers demand changes are made. This model is formed in the initial stage and cannot be changed after implementation (Partsch, 2012). According to the users demand a core model is designed in the evolutionary model and changes are made step by step (Sheffield and Lemtayer, 201). This is not a user friendly project model and thus, can be used in real life organizational experiments. Relationship of SDLC and Waterfall Models to the Project Life Cycle (PLC) The SDLC and Waterfall models are widely used in Project life cycles. The project life cycle model firmly focuses on the phases, processes, tools, knowledge and skills that are required to manage an organizational project development. SDLC is a part of PLC and waterfall model is a part of SDLC (Mahalakshmi Sundararajan, 2013). The development activities followed in PLC includes five steps of management such as setting of the organizational goal, planning of the project, execution of the project, closing and evaluation of the project. References John, B., Kadadevaramath, R. S. (2014). A methodology for achieving the design review defect density goals in software development process.International Journal of Manufacturing, Industrial Management Engineering,2(1), 181-191. Kumar, N., Zadgaonkar, A. S., Shukla, A. (2013). Evolving a new software development life cycle model SDLC-2013 with client satisfaction.International Journal of Soft Computing and Engineering (IJSCE),3(1), 2231-2307. Lewandowski, A., Wierzbicki, A. P. (Eds.). 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