Question: Dear Tutor, I need your help and steps for the following question: Scenario Your company, JJ & Co, is planning to setup a new online

Dear Tutor,

I need your help and steps for the following question:

Scenario

Your company, JJ & Co, is planning to setup a new online platform that will allow customers to upload pictures that can be made into jigsaw puzzles. You have been appointed as the Project Manager for the online jigsaw system project.

Your project is expected to start on 1 Mar 2022 and go live on 1 Aug 2022. Your project team includes 1 System Analyst, 2 Analyst Programmers, 1 System Engineer and 1 User Representative. The team reports to the IT Director. You just had your first team meeting recently to kick-off the project.

Refer to Appendix A on the details of the discussion with your team.

Appendix A - Transcript of Online Project Team Meeting

Project member Comments Made
Project Manager (PM), you

Morning all, welcome to our Project Kick-off meeting, great to see all of you.

Let me start with the key points. We are expecting to start the project on 1 Mar 2022 and go live on 1 Aug 2022, so we have only got 5 months. This means that our schedule is going to be very tight.

I will let Patty walk you through the phases of the project.

System Analyst (SA), Patty We will use the standard Waterfall methodology for this project i.e. Plan, Analysis, Design, Development, Test and Implementation.
Project Manager (PM), you

I will be able to complete the project management plan in 3 days.

Bob, you will be working closely with me. For the signoff at every phase, only the both of us will be required.

User Representative (UR), Bob No problem, happy to be part of the team.
System Analyst (SA), Patty

Linda, you will be in charge of the website and customer module and

Dylan you be handling the billing module.

All 3 of us will be involved in gathering business requirements which should take a week followed by another week to complete the User Requirement Specs. I will review the specs with Bob and that should take 4 days.

Analyst Programmer (AP1), Linda

OK, I should be able to complete a prototype in 3 days.

Reviewing the prototype with Bob should take 2 days.

System Analyst (SA), Patty Once the analysis phase is done, we can start on the design phase. I will be handling the database design personally and should take one week to complete it. Linda, you can start with the website design once I am done.
Analyst Programmer (AP1), Linda The website design will take 3 days.
System Analyst (SA), Patty For the development phase, Ron will take one week to setup development server. I will be doing the coding for the admin module. This will take 24 days.
Analyst Programmer (AP1), Linda Coding for the website should take 18 days and coding for the customer module should take 20 days.
Analyst Programmer (AP2), Dylan Coding for the billing module will take 44 days.
Project Manager (PM), you

We will need to factor in an additional week for unit testing for each module. Once that is completed, we can move on to integration test which should take 2 weeks. Lastly, we will need to conduct the user acceptance test, which should take another 2 weeks.

Ron, during this period, can you also create some test scripts to do a load test and a stress test?

System Engineer (SE), Ron No problem boss, by the way, once the testing is completed, I will need a week to setup the live servers before we do the cutover.
System Analyst (SA), Patty I will be conducting the user training over 3 days.
Project Manager (PM), you Once the system goes live, let monitor it for one week.
User Representative (UR), Bob Do not forget the user manuals, please make sure they are ready before the system goes live.
Project Manager (PM), you I think that is all for the meeting, thanks everyone. I will update our IT Director, Thomas and our Project Sponsor, Daniel hat we have started the ball rolling. I will see you all again at our next project meeting.

Question

Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for your project based on the scenarios above. Your WBS should consider and address the concerns raised by the various team members in Appendix A.

Thank very much for your guidance.

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