MODULE : SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Paul Smith was the president of a software house that specialized in developing mobile applications and providing full-service support. The staff consisted of programmers, analysts, database specialists, Web designers, software testers, project managers among others. The firm had 50 full-time people and planned to hire at least 10 more in the next year. The firm also planned to increase the number of part-time consultants it used. The company had done very well during the past few years, but it was recently having difficulty winning contracts due to fall out of the economy caused by Covid 19. Spending time and resources to respond to various requests for proposals from prospective clients was becoming expensive. Many clients were starting to require presentations and even some prototype development before awarding a contract.

Paul knew he had an aggressive approach to risk and liked to bid on the projects with the highest payoff. He did not use a systematic approach to evaluate the risks involved in various projects before bidding on them. He focused on the profit potentials and on how challenging the projects were. His strategy was now causing problems for the company because it was investing heavily in the preparation of proposals, yet winning few contracts. Several employees who were not currently working on projects were still on the payroll, and some of their part-time consultants were actively pursuing other opportunities because they were being underutilized.

Based on the above facts, you are required to apply appropriate project management strategies to solve the problems that the software house are facing.

• Identification of problems faced by the software house
• Objectives (set of 5)
• Description of the Project Management methodologies to meet these objectives
• Application of the project management techniques to solve the problems faced
• Recommendations & Conclusions