Case Study You should read this case study carefully, then, refer back to it frequently while preparing your answers to each question. You are part of a small team developing mobile phone applications. Your current project involves developing a game that can be played on a mobile phone and allows Bluetooth connectivity for network play. The game is to have a winter theme, and management wants the game available by 1 June 2025. The Marketing Department needs a prototype of the game by 1 May 2025 to allow sufficient time to market the game to the target audience. The total budget allocated for this project is $3000. The Marketing Department has also indicated that it is your team's responsibility to identify the target audience and conduct a survey of a sample of them to identify the most appropriate distribution channel for your game. Management would like to see your team's project plan before giving the go-ahead on the project. Thus, you are required to provide the following on behalf of your team..................

For this assessment task, students will form into groups of 3 or 4. Students are required to critique and evaluate the assigned (see the task list below on page 2). Building on AT2 (Project Plan and Business Report), students apply project management principles and justify the changes to the plan. Applying project management principles, students will also revise scope definition, scheduling, resourcing, and budgeting. They will utilise risk management and change control, quality management, and other project management tools and procedures to implement the revised final project plan and submit a 3000-word report...... Task List 1) Assume that your project team starts falling behind schedule. Describe strategies for making up lost time and avoiding schedule slips in the future. 2) Develop a list of quality standards or requirements that meet both senior management and customer expectations, focusing on stakeholder expectations. Provide a brief description of at least four different requirements. For example, a requirement might be that the new feature is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 3) Create a risk register for the project, using the template in slide 42 (week 8) as a guide. Identify six potential risks, including at least two positive risks. 4) Plot the six risks on a probability/impact matrix, using slide 29 (week 8) as a guide. Assign a numeric value for the probability of each risk and its impact on meeting the main project objectives. 5) Provide Risk mitigation strategies for those six potential risks identified in question 3. ......................

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INTRODUCTION

Good change and project management skills are necessary to manage challenges that come with ICT projects, above all those embracing new technology, cross-functional teams, and changing stakeholder needs. It is a review of the Winter Wonderland Mobile Gamea seasonal game supporting Bluetooth technology that aims for casual games with real-time socialisation over the holidays.

Throughout the project's life cycle, the development team faced several high-level problems that subjected the robustness of the initial plan to the final test. They varied from technical issues such as inconsistency problems for Android and iOS operating systems for Bluetooth integration, lack of resources because of the inevitable unavailability of some team members, and tight deadlines as a result of seasonality in games. The stakeholder feedback also brought about changes to the game components and access requirements at extremely late project stages, resulting in scheduling and quality control issues.

These highly restrictive requirements highlighted the need for responsive change management and adaptive planning. To respond to this, this report applies project management practices outlined in the PMBOK Guide (Project Management Institute, 2021) to present a formalised reaction to such concerns. It establishes how lost time can be recovered, establishes quality parameters from management and customer expectations, and institutes a formalised system of risk management. Secondly, the inclusion of academic studies adds theoretical support and practical backing, so therefore the solutions proposed are still consistent with the best practices of the industry and contribute towards effective and sustainable delivery of the project.

STRATEGIES FOR MAKING UP LOST TIME

Two weeks' delay in the Winter Wonderland Mobile Game project during the Bluetooth integration stage were primarily due to Android and iOS development environment compatibility issues and temporary absence of crucial technical personnel. Such delays are characteristic of ICT projects in which platform heterogeneity, limited team capacity, and evolving user specifications converge (Baccarini et al., 2004). These constraints not only threatened the timely launch of the product but also threatened stakeholder dissatisfaction, seasonal market timeliness, and cost overruns.

Strategy 1: Fast- Tracking

Fast-tracking is a schedule compression technique where activities that are normally performed sequentially are instead overlapped. In this case, user interface (UI) and Bluetooth debugging were done in parallel to prevent time lost and gain back lost time. While such a strategy maximised time usage, it increased rework possibilities due to coupling between UI factors and functionality performance. In addition, fast-tracking involves a coordination effort that is accompanied by more oversight to handle simultaneous task performance, thus making indirect cost growth of rework and quality checking (Project Management Institute, 2021). These impacts are the traditional cost-time-quality trade-off in project management (Zwikael & Smyrk, 2012).

Strategy 2: Crashing

Crashing involves adding more resources to activities on the critical path to reduce their duration. To accelerate integration testing, the team brought in an additional backend developer and a part-time mobile tester. Although this measure successfully reduced the timeline, it was at an estimated 15% increase in personnel costs. According to Kerzner (2017), the crashing decision must be supported by a cost-benefit analysis, in which the marginal benefit of reduced duration must be greater than the additional cost. In this project, the additional cost was justified by the strategic imperative of meeting seasonal market demand and avoiding reputational damage from delays. Yet, the repeated application of crashing is not possible and generates diminishing returns unless avoided.

Strategy 3: Agile Feature Reprioritisation

Adopting an Agile framework, the development team had a sprint planning meeting to categorise backlog items under "must-have," "should-have," and "could-have" features. The reprioritisation enabled the team to prioritise an MVP delivery and thereby meet stakeholder expectations within the shortened timeframe. Features such as background animations and language localisations were relegated to post-launch updates. While this strategy did not directly reduce costs, it optimised the use of resources by avoiding scope creep and focusing effort on high-value deliverables. It acts as proof of the Agile delivery principle of regular delivery and ongoing value optimisation (Behutiye et al., 2020) and shows how time-based decisions can capture product quality and budget at the same time.

Strategy 4: Future Schedule Assurance: Real-Time Monitoring and Buffering

To minimise the likelihood of delays occurring in the future, the team employed live tracking of the project through the implementation of using Gantt charts for planning at a general level and Kanban boards for task management at a sprint level. These allowed early warning of delays as well as the possibility of self-tracking of progress by team members. The new plan also incorporated buffer periods between dependent tasks, creating room for schedule flexibility without reducing overall project goals. While this innovative intervention does stretch perceived boundaries, it reduces the occurrence of budgetary shocks by falling back on crisis-resourcing. It has also been observed that use of schedule risk buffers enhances stakeholder confidence and general delivery reliability (Nozhati et al., 2018; Leach, 1999).

Strategy 5: Stakeholder Engagement

To maintain ongoing alignment with stakeholder expectations and respond to concerns ahead of time as they occurred, a formal stakeholder engagement plan was integrated into the project schedule. This includes biweekly sprint review meetings with internal stakeholders (developers, QA, marketing) and monthly meetings with external stakeholders such as beta testers and client sponsors. A second feedback loop, consisting of formalised surveys and ad hoc user testing sessions, was used to verify progress and feature alignment throughout the development process. This continual engagement cadence worked to groom the backlog, prioritise deliverables, and ensure that project decisions reflected real-time feedback from business as well as end-user perspectives.

QUALITY STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS

Winter Wonderland project quality is not a one-dimensional notion and involves factors beyond functionality. It involves such factors as reliability, usability, performance, accessibility, and to what extent the final product satisfies stakeholder expectations. The Winter Wonderland Mobile Game project utilised a user-centered quality model based on ISO/IEC and feedback received during initial stages of stakeholder consultations. The quality requirements listed below were prioritised not only based on technical standards but also on logical reasoning regarding user preferences and behavioural expectations.

24/7 Multiplayer Availability

Given the game's core value propositionreal-time multiplayer gameplayuninterrupted access is essential. The decision to target 99.9% uptime was based on user expectations of accessibility, particularly in mobile gaming environments where connectivity downtime is linked with user dissatisfaction and abandonment (Jain et al., 2012). Multiplayer interruptions are frequently cited in user complaints and can damage app store ratings and brand reputation. To support this availability standard, the development team implemented load balancing, failover clustering, and auto-scaling infrastructurestrategies proven to enhance service reliability in cloud-based applications (Kavis, 2014).

Full Cross-Platform Compatibility

Stakeholder interviews suggested that most of the target audience use heterogeneous mobile devices, broadly categorised across the Android and iOS platforms. Being unable to provide a uniform experience across either platform would sacrifice market coverage and infuriate users who love smooth cross-device transitions. According to research by Seffah et al. (2006), inconsistent UI behaviour across platforms is one of the top causes of user rejection of mobile applications. To cater to this, the development team utilised the Flutter framework, through which shared codebase deployment is possible while maintaining native performance and user interface design. Rigorous cross-device testing protocols were conducted using emulators and real devices with varying screen sizes and OS versions.

Minimal Downtime During Updates

In-app update downtimesespecially during peak playing hoursare widely recognised as disruptive and detrimental to player engagement. The decision to cap update downtime at five minutes was informed by benchmark data from successful mobile games such as Clash Royale and Among Us, both of which employ hot-patching or rolling update systems to maintain session continuity (Rashid et al., 2020). Blue-green deployment and container orchestration (via Docker and Kubernetes) allowed our team to roll out backend changes with minimal service downtime, safeguarding user trust and business continuity.

Accessibility Compliance (WCAG 2.1)

From both ethical and commercial perspectives, accessibility is a non-negotiable component of software quality. The game was created using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) so that it could be played by visually or cognitively impaired users. These range from high-contrast UI skins and keyboard navigation all the way to dynamic font size adjustment and alt-text on icons. According to the Australian Human Rights Commission (2019), there are over 4 million Australians living with some form of disabilitya minority group that is underrepresented in digital gaming. Addressing this gap enhances inclusiveness as well as increases the number of users and is part of digital accessibility best practice (Henry et al., 2014).

Performance: Speed & Responsiveness

Performance is a quality characteristic that is most critical in games, with loading latency or lag severely impacting the user experience. The user generally expects a mobile game to load in 3 seconds with a robust frame rate of 60 FPS upon play (Park et al., 2015). Such a deviation from this norm can cause low perceived quality and affect retention. To guarantee optimal performance, we define two performance norms:

Load time for games should not be more than 3 seconds on hardware released in the last 5 years.

Game animation must be no less than 60 FPS on all supported hardware.

To accomplish this, the development team employed asset bundling, runtime memory optimisation, and async loading approaches. Firebase Performance Monitoring was also adopted to monitor real-world performance levels upon deployment.

RISK REGISTER

Proactive risk management was implemented with an aim to identify and categorise cutting-edge uncertainties that would influence the success of the Winter Wonderland Mobile Game Project. As per the PMBOK Guide (Project Management Institute, 2021), risks were elaborated under Technical, Market, and Resource categories with adequate traceability and prioritisation.

Risk Categorisation Summary

• Technical Risks: R1, R3, R5
• Market Risks: R2, R4
• Resource Risks: R6

This classification process is further supported by Tomanek and Juricek (2015), who are also strong advocates of systematic risk categorisation for enhanced project management. The risk assessments were obtained through a 5x5 Probability and Impact matrix to rank the actions in turn.

Risk 1

• Rank: 1
• Risk: Bluetooth integration delays between platforms
• Description: Interoperability between mobile operating system environments (iOS and Android) and Bluetooth modules has been found to be periodically unstable in alpha testing, undermining downstream delivery.
• Category: Technical Risk
• Root Cause: Inconsistencies within Bluetooth APIs and firmware behaviour across platforms; lack of cross-platform unified handling.
• Triggers: Handshake sync failures, multiplayer test lag, or platform-specific integration debugging mistakes.
• Risk Responses:
• A CI/CD pipeline was established using GitHub Actions and Firebase Test Lab to enable automated integration testing on physical iOS and Android devices.
• Cross-platform testing was carried out after each major code integration, thus detecting incompatibilities early.
• In addition, the developers were divided into separate groups for the iOS and Android platforms that held daily coordination meetings to foster independent problem-solving.
• Risk Owner: Development Team Lead
• Probability: HighImpact: High
• Status: Mitigation underway; CI tools implemented and concurrency at sprint level.

Risk 2

• Rank: 2
• Risk: Beta tester signups peak offering quality feedback
• Description: Large beta user base would deliver actionable feedback, which would lead to improved product quality and user experience.
• Category: Market Opportunity
• Root Cause: Strong seasonal branding, community promotion, and social media momentum.
• Triggers: Pre-launch sign-ups, high feedback submission rates, pre-launch app store interest.
• Risk Responses:
• We had a dedicated in-app feedback portal where UX feedback by feature was collected in real-time.
• The triage team for feedback existed to merge, label, and prioritise issues through a tag system in Airtable.
• The beta testers were given exclusive skins and rank badges as a reward, which led to more feedback.
• Risk Owner: Marketing Lead
• Opportunity: Medium
• Impact: High
• Status: Exploit strategy in place; UX enhancements in progress using real-time feedback.

Risk 3

• Rank: 3
• Risk: Compatibility problems with legacy mobile platforms
• Description: Users who have older phones might experience delays, crashes, or limited features, which can influence game scores.
• Category: Technical Risk
• Main Cause: Different devices and lack of testing on older Android/iOS devices.
• Triggers: Crash reports on legacy devices, bad app store reviews, FPS fluctuation.
• Risk Responses:
• A "Low Performance Mode" was added to the game settings, which reduces particle effects and background animations.
• Android 9 and iOS 12 regression testing was included in the test suite via Firebase emulation.
• Core gameplay was separated from compatibility updates so asynchronous patches would not delay the core release.
• Risk Owner: QA Lead
• Probability: Medium
• Impact: Medium
• Status: Optimisation and targeted regression testing underway.

Risk 4

• Rank: 4
• Risk: Viral seasonal popularity on social media
• Description: Holiday-themed game virality can drive exponential downloads and high user engagement.
• Category: Market Opportunity
• Root Cause: Holiday themes, visual content, and influencer partnerships.
• Triggers: Instagram/TikTok high share, trending hashtags, influencer re-shares.
• Risk Responses:
• A winter campaign calendar was initiated, including "Winter Win Week" challenges and limited-edition character skins.
• Short-form content influencers were employed on Reels/TikTok by employing the hashtags like #WinterWonderGame.
• Backend servers were auto scaled using AWS Lambda for warm-up during traffic surges.
• Risk Owner: Communications & PR Lead
• Probability: Medium
• Effect: High
• Status: Positive risk ongoing; roll-out of campaign mid-November.

Risk 5

• Rank: 5
• Risk: Critical bugs too close to dev cycle
• Description: Bugs too close to deadline during dev cycle may jeopardise release schedule or receive poor reviews.
• Category: Technical Risk
• Root Cause: Limited QA window due to previous delays; system test procrastination.
• Triggers: Regression test case failures; bandit MP disconnection; UI rendering bugs.
• Risk Responses:
• The team utilised Firebase Crashlytics for timely alerting and automated bug reporting.
• Bugs were triaged by severity level with Tier 1 bugs (critical) triggering a 48-hour emergency sprint.
• Code freeze was performed 5 days before ship to close the environment.
• Owner: QA Lead
• Chance: High
• Consequence: High
• Status: Hotfix process and escalation procedures in place.

Risk 6

• Rank: 6
• Risk: Resignation of lead developer in last sprint
• Explanation: Specialist loss (e.g. backend or integration lead) would imply that deliverables lag.
• Category: Resource Risk
• Root Cause: Dependent on small team; documentation culture not good.
• Triggers: Withdrawal of the developer, long absences, receiving notices of resignation.
• Risk Responses
• Documentation of workflows and modules every day, onboarding packages to external devices.
• One "shadow developer" was trained in Bluetooth and game engine modules.
• Pre-existing emergency freelancer agreement ready for expedient replacement.
• Risk Owner: Project Manager
• Probability: Low
• Impact: High
• Status: Onboarding and knowledge transfer in effect.

Change Control Approach

To track changing requirements and maintain the project schedule, a formal change control process was implemented for the Winter Wonderland Mobile Game Project. Being aware of the time constraints of the project due to seasons and limited resources, the team formed a Change Control Board (CCB) with the Project Manager, Technical Lead, and Sponsor. All changes, whether we requested them, or they were suggested through stakeholder feedback, were recorded in the project change control system through Jira. A standard Impact Assessment Matrix was used to assess each request on four areas of importance:

• Scope impact
• Cost increase
• Schedule delay
• Risk escalation

Changes were marked as Approved, Deferred, or Rejected, and reasons were recorded. Each entry included:

• Originator of the change
• Affected feature/module
• Estimated time to complete
• Dependencies
• Priority level (P1-P3)

Version control best practices guaranteed all filtered changes went through a two-step code review before merging to avoid scope creep or instability.

Example

The Marketing Team, during development, suggested introducing a new multiplayer tournament feature to draw in more users. This was logged in the Change Request Log as CR#027. The Impact Assessment found that

• A 14-day projected delay
• 8% budget over-run
• More complexity in user interface and Bluetooth synchronising.

As there was limited time left before the December holiday period, the CCB resolved to include the feature would compromise on the MVP launch. Therefore, they postponed the change request to after the launch and prioritised enhancing the planned core gameplay features. This indicates how the system of change control enabled the team to make an innovation vs. feasibility trade-off and keep essential project parameters in safe custody without hurting future opportunities for development.

PROBABILITY / IMPACT MATRIX

On the Winter Wonderland Mobile Game Project, we have applied a 5x5 matrix, rating each of the six risks we had listed using the ratings that we had defined in our risk register. The Probability rating and the Impact rating (each is 1-5) combinedreferred to as the Risk Scoreput it onto the matrix and mark it on the matrix as low (in the green zone), moderate (in the yellow zone), or high (in the red zone) severity.

Purpose and Methodology

The matrix can facilitate three significant decision-making modes:

• Prioritisation: It provides an indication of risks that need to be captured at an early stage (for instance, high-risk items within the red quadrant).
• Resource Allocation: It enables efficient usage of buffers contingency by drawing a distinction between tolerable risk and critical one (Hillson & Simon, 2020).
• Strategic Differentiation: It enables the difference between threats (minus risks) and opportunities (plus risks) to be made, allowing for defensive planning as well as proactive planning (Zwikael & Ahn, 2011).

For our matrix

• R1 (Bluetooth integration delay) and R5 (Bug found) are in the red zone, which means that these are high-risk technical threats with high likelihood and high consequence. These risks have direct quality assurance and schedule implications. As a result, mitigation activities like parallel development and hotfix pipelines have been assigned high priority.
• R2 (High beta tester adoption) and R4 (Viral appeal), being favourable risks, fall in the yellow region, suggesting high positive potential if properly exploited. Capitalisation on these opportunities can improve the end user experience and enhance market penetration without additional cost of feature development (de Bakker et al., 2010).
• R3 (Legacy device issues) and R6 (Developer resignations) are also in the yellow category, meaning moderate threats. While not necessarily catastrophically imminent, these require preventative action such as backward compatibility testing and contractor onboarding strategies.

In addition, visualisation of severity and likelihood is useful not only for risk identification but also for pre-emptive awareness of failure modes where and how they are likely to occur, and where they will do most harm (Stamatis, 2003). This information proves useful in time-critical projects like ours, when seasonal entry of the market enhances the effect of even minor delay.

Integration with Broader Project Framework

Risk matrix is not standalone but forms a part of the greater Integrated Change Control and Schedule Management Plan. Red and yellow zone risks have direct correspondence with change levels within the project dashboard. Escalation is auto-enabled for the project board for high-severity risks (R1, R5) with agile resolution and swift decision-making guaranteed. The Probability and Impact Matrix utilised in the Winter Wonderland Mobile Game Project is not just a graphical toolit is a thinking tool that transforms risk analysis into actionable strategy. By mapping risks across a severity matrix and feeding this analysis into our overall management processes, we improve visibility, response capacity, and stakeholder trust. This matrix ensures that threats as well as opportunities are not just documented but managed in the pursuit of successful and timely project delivery.

RISK MITIGATION STRATEGIES

Each identified risk in the Winter Wonderland Mobile Game Project has been alleviated using tailored mitigation strategies based on the described risk response techniques in the PMBOK Guide (PMI, 2021). In addition to the primary responses, there are contingency plans that can be implemented in the case of demonstration of proactive risk readiness and escalation paths. Such a two-layered approachmitigation + contingencyis the best of today's project risk management practice (Hillson & Simon, 2020).

R1 - Bluetooth Integration Delay

• Primary Strategy:

Divide two platform-specialised development teams concurrently to develop iOS and Android platforms, with integration checkpoint testing during sprint reviews.

• Justification:

This strategy isolates platform-specific code issues, enabling earlier resolution and minimising cross-platform regression.

• Contingency Plan:

In case integration slippage exceeds five days, start a backlog reshuffling towards single-platform release (Android first, depending on market studies), followed by iOS deployment within one week using staggered rollout.

R2 - High Beta User Engagement (Positive Risk)

• Primary Strategy:

Make the most of it by including a formal feedback gateway in the beta version and incentivising testers with special in-game rewards (e.g., avatars, badges).

• Justification: High participation facilitates rapid UX tuning and promotes loyalty among membersprimary sources of early velocity for mobile games (de Bakker et al., 2010).
• Contingency Plan:

If feedback volumes exceed team processing capacity, use triage process with AI-assisted clustering software (e.g., NLP text summarisation) to cluster feedback topics, with problems happening most frequently first.

R3 - Incompatibility with Devices

• Primary Strategy:

Run regression and compatibility tests on devices with OS versions more than 2 years old (e.g., Android 10, iOS 14), and enable a "low-performance mode" for memory optimisation.

• Justification:

This also opens the market and prevents negative word-of-mouth because of crashes or lag, especially in developing markets where older hardware is prevalent.

• Contingency Plan:

If pre-launch compatibility is not feasible to be solved, publish an official device compatibility list and give store notifications to users announcing constraints. Offer light APK builds by direct download for Android devices as a workaround.

R4 - Positive Media Coverage (Positive Risk)

• Primary Strategy:

Leverage the potential by scheduling collaborations with seasonal influencers and social media challenges (e.g., "Winter Win Week") in the December peak.

• Justification:

Seasonal buzz maximises downloads through organic visibility and word-of-mouth participation, especially among 13-24-year-olds (Singh & Hess, 2017).

• Contingency Plan:

If low media traction is observed, reallocate surplus promotional budget to paid promotion on Instagram and TikTok to areas of highest beta sign-ups (AU, NZ, CA).

R5 - Post-Mortem Discovery of Major Flaws

• Master Strategy:

Risk-taking and having an automated hotfix release pipeline with crash reporting (e.g., Firebase Crashlytics). Implement internal severity levels in order to govern bug response.

• Rationale: Risk-taking allows lean investment in experimentation as long as there are thoroughly practiced and resilient recovery plans.
• Contingency Plan:

Tier 1 (Major Flaws): Repair within 48 hours of discovery through emergency sprint. Tier 2 (Major Bugs): Repair in a isolated post-launch bug-fix sprint within a week. Pre-announce to users in changelog and app store description subject to patches for transparency and trust.

R6 - Resignation of Lead Developer During Final Sprint

• Primary Strategy:

Risk-mitigate by having an always-current documentation hub (e.g., Notion, GitHub README) and pre-hiring riskier module freelance developers on stand-by.

• Justification:

Ensuring business continuity even in case of sudden unavailability of knowledge carriers of experts during the middle of a sprint.

• Contingency Plan:

In the case of a resignation within 10 days of release, activate a shadow developer (already trained), who takes over with access to codebase and continued Slack integration. Non-critical feature freezes will be put in place for. stabilising output.

This intended strategy, with master plans aligned with scalable contingency plans, enhances project resilience and stakeholder trust. Willumsen et al. (2019) indicate that multi-layered preparedness is indirectly connected with ICT environment project success factors through removal of downtime, reputational risk, and firefighting loops.

CONCLUSION

The following document is a strategic and comprehensive management plan for the Winter Wonderland Mobile Game Project, which was beset by time lag issues, quality assurance problems, and risk ambiguity. By implementing a mix of fast-tracking, crashing, and Agile feature reprioritisation, the team managed to recover lost time and redirect development efforts towards delivering the most critical functionalities of highest value to end users. These practices, which are based on PMBOK-conformant schedule compression and Agile backlog management, were essential to achieve delivery on time despite the initial setbacks. Of similar importance was the definitive clarification of quality criteria specifically designed to meet the internal stakeholders' (management, developers, and testers') and external stakeholders' (customers, app stores, and accessibility watchdogs') needs. By targeting qualities such as uptime reliability, cross-platform performance, accessibility compliance, and responsiveness in-game, the project was to deliver not only a functionally correct product but also one that satisfied industry best practices and user satisfaction metrics.

Also, creation of an all-encompassing risk register, a Probability/Impact Matrix, and incorporation of mitigation and contingency plans for negative and positive risks enabled dynamic resources preparation and response planning. Structures in place to initiate early action on high-impact threats, as benefits were strictly realized to build product value and access to market.

Critically, success of the project was also based on sustained stakeholder engagement and effective communication channels. Internally, cross-functional alignment among developers, quality assurance, and project managers ensured that near-instant feedback was addressed in a timely basis. Externally, engagement with beta testers, marketing teams, and end-users ensured ongoing validation and market responsiveness. This two-faced model of communicationinternally for execution alignment and externally for expectation alignmentprovided transparency, responsiveness, and mutual trust throughout the project life cycle. All these project management practices as a whole provide a solid platform for effective deployment and subsequent post-launch engagement and customisation to ensure the product is able to evolve in response to user requirements and to be maintained in the face of a dynamic competitive environment.