Project Goals and Objectives

In this current era of technology automated system has become one of the most vital solutions for the business organizations to gain competitive advantages and structured commercial revenue as well. It is necessary for any business organization to design an automated Information System for their company to resolve previous security and manual data entry level errors. For this specific report the chosen case project is “Implementation of Information system in Woolworths Limited”.

The targeted company is required to convert their traditional data management system into an automated data system. For the chosen case project a project charter considering a systematic literature review will be illustrated. In addition to this, a WBS and a schedule plan is also developed for the case project that has to be designed. Not only this but also a network diagram for the project is also represented in this report.

Name of the project: Implementation of Information system in Woolworths Limited
Project  goal  To design an automated system over manual  data management system existing that is already existing in Woolworths Limited Save Time On Research and Writing Hire a Pro to Write You a 100% Plagiarism-Free Paper. Get My Paper
Project objectives To develop a secured automated Information System (IS) for the company To gain huge numbers of consumers from Australia and New Zealand through both the online and offline business operations To reduce the overall rate of business level risks
Project budget: The total budget estimated for the project is $ 54,000	Project duration: The project is expected to be completed within 6 months
Project scope  After analyzing the existing operational and functional issues of Woolworths Limited an Information System (IS) is required to be designed. With the help of IS the company will be able to serve a secured system to their consumers in terms of reduced rate of risks and time efficiency. In order to retrieve any information and financial consumer details the issues of time consumptions will be diminished. Through the help of the final project document the goal and objectives of any specific project will become more prominent to the project manager and other members associated to the team.
Project assumptions It has been assumed that the project will be completed within 6 months and according to the detail design of the Information System (IS), the project needs $54,000 budget for its successful completion. The consumers will be able to book for their desired food products online and also can also pay online with secured payment options.
Project Milestone The project is expected to be completed through following five different phases such as project initiation, project planning, execution, control and monitoring and closure. The details of the project team members are as follows:       Milestone 1: project initiation phase completed   0 days Thu 7/19/18 Thu 7/19/18 6 Project manager $0.00       Milestone 2: project planning phase completed   0 days Tue 8/28/18 Tue 8/28/18 12 operation manager $0.00       Milestone 3: Completion of project execution phase 0 days Fri 11/23/18 Fri 11/23/18 18 Project manager $0.00       Milestone 4: project control and monitoring phase completed   0 days Tue 12/25/18 Tue 12/25/18 22,23 Project manager $0.00       Milestone 5: project closure phase completed   0 days Fri 1/11/19 Fri 1/11/19 28 Project manager $0.00

Several systematic featuring benefits are associated to Information System. According to Binder, (2016) from the context of emerging technology and emerging innovation the strategic enablers will be able to gain competitive advantages and commercial revenue at the same time.  Permana, (2015) stated that, emerging technology has many strategic business level benefits that diminishes the operational and functional project risks. The organizational decision makers can also take quick strategic decisions for their companies to demonstrate the profits of executive skills and commitments as well. The benefit matrix can also be used for demonstrating the profit of IS strategic planning. This specific matrix indicates the necessity of formalized planning process. After the implementation of the IS system four to five months are required to gain formalized benefits from it.

 Real world business benefits help the employees to understand the effective functional approaches available through the information system and the way through which it increases the business efficiency and effectiveness (Schwalbe, 2015). The Information System has the ability to make business integration to support the coordination of work that are associated to different parts of the business organization to measure the way through which the system integration helps the business organization. In order to examine the business issues different models are applied by the business owners. It has been found that there are many business level benefits associated to the implementation of the Information system (Tomanek & Juricek, 2015). The benefits can be generated from the information System (IS) are as follows:

Give maximum amount of commercial benefits: In order to gain maximum commercial profit from the company they need to manage their consumers from different geographical boundaries first with an on-time, quality delivery of food products. As much quality food they will be able to deliver to their consumers that much numbers of new consumers they will be able to grab (Machado, Pinheiro & Tamanini, 2015). The capacities of the company will be exploited drastically with the implementation of a strategic and advanced Information System (IS) in the organization. The effectiveness of the overall business will increase a lot with the change of a manual data management system with an automated Information system.

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Secure online transaction: The Information System (IS) delivers security also and the consumers can easily transit money for their products with cash on delivery or online debit card and credit card payment also.

Improved communication approach: The approach of communication will increase a lot with the implementation of the information system in the business organizations. Gathering and distribution of information is a very important part of any organization to make all the employees familiar about the system process details (Hornstein, 2015). The combination if information system and information technologies will effectively help to track the information distribution and information projections as well. IS can deliver quick information to the employees and to the consumers whenever, required. Globalization is possible by mitigating the cultural gap within the organization.

Availability: The consumers can avail their desired food products at their doorstep regardless of their location and time. They can even book for their products anytime.  The business and service delivery approach becomes more convenient.

Cost effectiveness and higher productivity: The rate of business effectiveness increases a lot along with a higher level productivity (Joslin & Müller, 2015). It means the consumers can easily ask for their food products and the total price of the product they can also give through online transaction.  

Figure 1: WBS of implementation of Information System in Woolworths Limited

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For developing any project it is crucial for any business organizations to consider a specific project development life cycle methodology. Based on the project details the most suitable project development life cycle should be adopted by the project managers. Among the most widely used project development lifecycles agile, spiral, waterfall are mostly used.

The iterative waterfall model cannot proceed further if the previous stage is successfully completed rather all testing and modification should be done at the same design phase. The chances of defect multiplication can be completely reduced with this model. As compared to other models this is much effective from the business perspectives. Thus, among these models the company should adopt the iterative waterfall model.

The project head and the other stakeholders associated to the project are needed to follow the project schedule to complete the IS implementation project within estimated cost and time. Besides this the resources are also allowed to perform their allotted job roles within budget and time phase also. The details of the time and budget are shown in the below table:

WBS	Task Name	Duration	Start	Finish	Predecessors	Resource Names	Cost
0	Information System implementation in Woolworths Limited	180 days	Mon 5/7/18	Fri 1/11/19			$51,840.00
1	Project initiation	54 days	Mon 5/7/18	Thu 7/19/18			$15,792.00
1.1	Developing project objectives	12 days	Mon 5/7/18	Tue 5/22/18		Project manager	$3,264.00
1.2	Project scope statement preparation	10 days	Wed 5/23/18	Tue 6/5/18	2	operation manager	$2,800.00
1.3	Requirements gathering	12 days	Wed 6/6/18	Thu 6/21/18			$4,608.00
1.3.1	Project functional requirements gathering	12 days	Wed 6/6/18	Thu 6/21/18	3	development team members	$1,728.00
1.3.2	Non functional requirements gathering	12 days	Wed 6/6/18	Thu 6/21/18	3	system developer	$2,880.00
1.4	Consumers business need analysis	20 days	Fri 6/22/18	Thu 7/19/18	5,6	system analyst	$5,120.00
1.5	Milestone 1: Completion of project initiation phase	0 days	Thu 7/19/18	Thu 7/19/18	7	Project manager	$0.00
2	Project planning	30 days	Fri 7/20/18	Thu 8/30/18			$10,256.00
2.1	Budget planning	10 days	Fri 7/20/18	Thu 8/2/18	8	Finance manager	$2,000.00
2.2	Project time scheduling	10 days	Fri 8/3/18	Thu 8/16/18	10	Project manager	$2,720.00
2.3	Risk management planning	12 days	Fri 8/3/18	Mon 8/20/18	10	operation manager	$3,360.00
2.4	Communication management planning	8 days	Tue 8/21/18	Thu 8/30/18	12,11	Project manager	$2,176.00
2.5	Milestone 2: Completion of project planning phase	0 days	Thu 8/30/18	Thu 8/30/18	13	operation manager	$0.00
3	Project execution	61 days	Fri 8/31/18	Fri 11/23/18			$15,520.00
3.1	Prototype design of the Information system	46 days	Fri 8/31/18	Fri 11/2/18			$9,760.00
3.1.1	Features incorporation to the Information System	26 days	Fri 8/31/18	Fri 10/5/18			$6,880.00
3.1.1.1	coding	10 days	Fri 8/31/18	Thu 9/13/18	14	system developer	$2,400.00
3.1.1.2	Modeling	16 days	Fri 9/14/18	Fri 10/5/18	18	operation manager	$4,480.00
3.1.2	Connection to database management system for storing data	20 days	Mon 10/8/18	Fri 11/2/18	19	development team members	$2,880.00
3.2	Incorporating Graphical User Interface	15 days	Mon 11/5/18	Fri 11/23/18	17,20	development team members ,system developer	$5,760.00
3.3	Milestone 3: Completion of project execution phase	0 days	Fri 11/23/18	Fri 11/23/18	21	Project manager	$0.00
4	Project control and monitoring phase	22 days	Mon 11/26/18	Tue 12/25/18			$7,328.00
4.1	Unit testing of the Information System	10 days	Mon 11/26/18	Fri 12/7/18	22	system tester	$2,240.00
4.2	Integrated testing of the Information System	10 days	Mon 12/10/18	Fri 12/21/18	24	system developer	$2,400.00
4.3	Acceptance testing of the Information System	12 days	Mon 12/10/18	Tue 12/25/18	24	system tester	$2,688.00
4.4	Milestone 4: Completion of project control and monitoring phase	0 days	Tue 12/25/18	Tue 12/25/18	25,26	Project manager	$0.00
5	Project closure	13 days	Wed 12/26/18	Fri 1/11/19			$2,944.00
5.1	Project stakeholder’s signoff	2 days	Wed 12/26/18	Thu 12/27/18	27	Project manager	$544.00
5.2	Final project document submission	6 days	Fri 12/28/18	Fri 1/4/19	29	operation manager	$1,680.00
5.3	Post project maintenance planning	5 days	Mon 1/7/19	Fri 1/11/19	30	development team members	$720.00
5.4	Milestone 5: Completion of project closure phase	0 days	Fri 1/11/19	Fri 1/11/19	31	Project manager	$0.00

Figure 2: Gantt chart of implementation of Information System in Woolworths Limited

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Figure 3: Network Diagram of implementation of Information System in Woolworths Limited

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