Business Project and Programme Management

Part A

In the part A of the assignment, all the answers to the questions have been delivered in the discussion area.

Discussion

The answer to the questions has been discussed as under.

Business case/ programme management

In order to understand the common goals based on an implementation of an overall business strategy, transformational management system is a must. Much like other organizations, one of the biggest software and information technology supplier organization SB has also been undergoing certain strategic changes that call for transformation in the business in recent years. It is typically seen that the leadership team had effectively scheduled for an implementation of strategic planning that comes with a latest winning technology over its competitors. Hence it is important to set up a strategic goal to set aside clear visions and ensure organizational viability (Vial 2019). Hence this strategic plan is being pulled together based on certain documentation and the same should be implemented in all the staff meetings as a whole. Hence the strategic transformational challenge that this company most likely faces are as follows-

Poor goal setting

The strategic goals of the company are often large and come up with complex obstacles that almost require different other sources that are likely to be scattered across different departments and different locations. Hence it is important to establish certain clear and specific goals that can effectively result in clarity in personalities as well as responsibilities. Hence in the same way for SB Company as well the methods are to make a standard objective as well as deliver a key result that comes with new and improved standards altogether. Therefore for the manufacturing houses of SB it is also important to set a clear and specific objective regarding the techniques to be followed for production and maintaining best practices (Kong et al.2019).

Lack of alignment

Based on the knowledge of proper goal setting, the teams and objectives can be challenged regarding particular lacking in alignment process. This process can typically cause prioritization issues and collaborative conflict, which can make ensure specific detailed day to day work objectives regarding its strategic goals. Hence all these objectives will be useful for the company to set aside and align the procedures as a whole.  For SB Software Company thus it is recommended that based on all these strategic objectives, the company management can try to empower over the people to drive for making some effective change. Hence the process can surely look to drive by some active changes in the manufacturing department (Trad 2019).

Tracking process

In most of the organizations, the tracking process is maintained in a spreadsheet. The working gap between managers and employees can quickly identify the aggrieved outcomes in order to create absolute transparency. These limits however can try to set real-time management of its tracking devices to attain the strategic goals. Therefore in the future timings SB Software Company can alleviate the process to some extent (Grillitsch et al.2019)

The overall execution of the platforms will be useful also for SB in trying to improve the concept of alignment, transparency and realize higher efficiency to interpret the results. The strategic goals of the organization can adjust its operation in maximization of outcomes (Kalpazidou Schmidt and Cacace 2020)

Programme scope and deliverables

In software-based project development, a specific output can b created to define exact results based on its work performance criteria based on the carrier performance based on its overall operation process. Hence all these processes can result in the making of the below rules in this regard-

• It must be within the scope of the project.
• Stakeholder’s external and internal process in agreeing to it.
• The process can try to develop specific deliverable framework.
• All this process can try to be effective in accomplishing project objectives in this regard.

For project development, the project designers can play a crucial role. This however is not a deliverable work. On the other hand, the overall project developers cannot proceed without deliverable workfare. Then process of project can be tiny and intangible. Hence all these processes can be useful for marketing the same.

The project deliverables of SB are created for both the internal and external stakeholders as well as making the deliverable process getting highly stacked and useful at the same time. Thus there are specific objectives in this regard. Therefore to understand the main deliverables of a project, especially for software development, the process can be divided into two areas. The primary deliverable is mockup while secondary deliverable is wireframe.

Moreover, all these deliverables can be highly dependent upon one another. a mockup website can be created by SB software company unless there is a wireframe. Thus this website can be created only after the mockup is finalized in this regard. Deliverables can be considered as different sorts of project objectives. This software can try to reach different path walks. Operational excellence can try to deliver specific deliverables can be compete on the better chances of implementing the process. Hence al the processes can be effective implemented based on creating the chances regarding the goals schedules in this regard. Hence all these aspect can try to deliver the aspects on why the project managers can try to focus on the deliverables in defining, managing and tracking them in this regard.

Hence one of the key drivers of the strategic change is to develop expertise in its software management procedure of SB. moreover the interface with mobile technology and specialists bespoke software for other organizations. Hence all these keeping deliverables can try to produce certain strategic development process. Moreover the extensive portfolio of the projects can try to cover the software and programme techniques in this regard. All these effective challenges can be related to an extensive portfolio of its tablet computers. These effective features ca try to roll out as well as implement certain development process to meet its hardware capability in this regard. Moreover for SB software the techniques can be implemented based on the techniques in this case.

Estimating and scheduling

The overall projects work implemented from the customer needs and wants that can be done from the project estimation process. However all these estimation techniques have been implied in this regard. Hence If the project manager is looking to meet certain time and energy. All these process can be effective in order to identify the timeframe and efforts. Moreover the overall accuracy process can try to hope by estimating a key structure based on the schedule, on screen budget and it’s based on the black and profit making process. Moreover it can be said that the company can be implied based on the estimated work and checking the team process. Moreover all these techniques can be held effective towards meeting the project work to work on the change order process in this regard.

Work on poor and incomplete requirements

The overall business requirements will be implemented based on the complete requirements. Moreover there are ample times in this regard. The constructive detailed requirements can try to deliver based on the team process based on the customer. Hence based on the meaningful and accurate estimate will start meeting the processes in this case.

Padding the estimates

The overall development techniques can be effective in the case of the estimations. Hence one company can try to incline the IT director who had implemented based on its overall performance. All these procedures can be implied based on the reasons. hence the company if could not replace the lead tech, towards its outgoing IT director which did not implied based on its overall experience to provide the padded estimates. All these processes can try to through off the schedules and these are likely to execute the customer details. Hence the overall techniques can try to implement the overall padding work estimates. Hence for SB Company, the software project can be helpful to its clients in order to make the changes effective (Mankad et al.2019).

Relying over optimism

The overall mistakes can be implied based on its overall implementation of planning techniques. it is important tom understand certain realistic techniques that can be effective towards the overall work conditions as well as these outcomes cannot be implemented in no good purpose. However these interest techniques can likely to be happening in that way. On the other hand the process can try to wake up on understanding cost, its resource availability and its probability can try to negatively affect the projected process in order to rely over the techniques that can go right in this regard (Bodnar et al.2019).

Rushing under pressure

In SB Company one of the biggest problems can try to estimate the in order to meet others rushed deadline. Hence from the pressured customers or pressure from its senior management can try to meet different ways towards getting a bad situation in this case. In case of team work, the customers, if appropriate changes can try to implement the overall work procedures. Certain realistic numbers and prices that everyone really calls based on the work process and needs. Thus from the customers or clients point of view it can be said that the process will be effective towards making certain changes in its realistic experiences.

Risk and issues management strategies

The software development strategies are considered to be an activity that uses different sort of technical advancement and its requires certain high level of knowledge expertise. On the other hand based on other different factors there are different software development project contains different uncertainty aspects. All these processes are known as project risks. Hence the success factor of all the project development aspects of SB software companies is highly dependent upon such different correspondents towards meeting its overall projected activities. Hence as a project manager, the process can be effectively implied based on different risk taking aspects. Moreover min order to mitigate the risk factors being a project manager it is also important to take care of the implemented outcomes and try to also apply all the project leadership process that can try to identify, assess, and put emphasis on the major risk related aspects in this regard (Masso et al.2020).

Therefore in most of the case the major aspect of implementing a software development process is likely important to understand the overall prevailing techniques. All these projects definitely had its time as well as cost reduction process. Moreover all the experiences can definitely try to showcase all the major development efforts regarding with the software development challenges and all the risks associated to the process can likely try to personify the implementations therefore it can be said that risk related approach can be effective towards ensuring risk management process. All these factors can also develop certain management activities in this regard.

Hence in order to understand the overall risk management process, there are different types of situations that are likely to be assessed in this regard (Nissanke 2019). These are as follows-

New and unproven technologies

In the majority of software projects implied by the company can try to ensure an overall improvement in technologies as a whole. the ever changing tools, techniques, protocols or choices can try to develop the systems and it can also increase the overall business probability that are fully technology enabled and all these factors can try to rise the virtual as well as training and development process. All these technologies can try to build up a critical importance that can lead to project failure in this regard.

Functional requirement

The course of software development can try to capture all the basic user needs and keeps respecting the aspect of software development systems, functions and its service qualities. More often, the development qualities can require a change in discovering techniques as well as the overall integration processes in this regard. Hence all the aspects might not be held effective to lead one or more project failures to the company in coming times (Fernández et al.2019).

The overall mitigating techniques in this aspect can include aspects like-

 Avoid

The adjustment in project scope, schedule or its constraints to minimize the overall risk mitigation process in this regard to mitigate the risk effects in the process.

Control

It is important to take some effective actions to meet the impact and reduce the intensification of the risk process as a whole.

Programme management organization, government and stakeholders

SB Software Company is one of the major software development and mobile network company; hence the company can try to deliver different projects. Moreover in the beginning the overall project catches the process highly unprepared. Hence there needs to be a tight scheduled and try to meet enough time for doing preparation. However all the process can try to overlook certain steps on which the process can try to haunt later on.

On the other hand if the project kicks on, then the project can implement a dark spot for anonymous aspect changes for which the techniques can try to overlook certain change in the assignments.

Clear communication paths

It is important to make sure that all the roles and responsibilities have been well defined and everyone knows who understands the changed scenario. Moreover the people can try to implement certain external analysis as well as ask for certain clarification techniques or other signaling emergencies (Mankad et al.2019). On the other hand from the SB software company is recommended to understand the overall business scenario. Hence all these factors are recommended to be clearly identified in this regard. Hence all these well known information can make the process effective to everyone (Tavares et al.2019).

Conventional practices

When any sort of project kicks off by the company, it can be said that all these coded database all the tangled mess cannot try to maintain or touch at the same time. On the other hand there is some time to access all the past experiences and try to identify what to do and what not to. Hence it can be said that all the changed aspects can try to define any new initiative that can try to exercise and make sure what the changes are to be implemented. Hence the overall end results can be tried to implement certain convention lists over its best practices that can be validated by the entire team. Hence all the convention can try to develop a more organized in this coherent situation (Hubbard 2020).

 Choosing an integration system

The continuous integration will be effective for every project. All these effective difference can try to create a wide range of operation available in the business. However from various factors the process can try to implement certain change to look towards its choice.

Stakeholder management

The overall stakeholder management technique can be understood in defining an intellectual property rights. Hence the process can be considered as an offshore risk. Hence the total cost procedure will be looking to deliver a high risk stature. Hence for the software company can try to create a buying and supplying certain major business interests. Therefore for this stakeholder differentiation in buying and supplying the service interests. These offshore outsourcing processes can try to deliver certain technical support as well as looking to meet the customer views in this regard. The process of reputation can be damaged based on the offshore supplier process in the face of the company (Chernobai et al.2019).

Programming control methods

SB Software Company can also try to build up the process in order to build certain transformation system. However all the transformation process executives can also try to develop with consultants based on the daunting techniques in this regard. Therefore to derive the estimates, certain consultants will likely to use certain properties algorithms or models. Hence all these estimated changes can try to estimate certain estimated changes. On the other hand these algorithms are to be constructed through certain heuristic methods based on meeting previous projects (Warner and Wäger 2019). However this reality process can try to cover certain collective experiences of the IT suppliers. These estimating numbers can try to build up a collective experience. However in this way the company can try to develop certain input variables that are used under the estimates in this regard. Here the supplier of SB Software Company can try to claim certain future needs in this regard (DuHadway et al.2019).

Furthermore the IT client base can try to recover vendors to share their overall estimate needs based on the operation procedures. Hence the vendors can try to frequently resist the changes. All these process can pull it out of the hands of the vendors. These reluctant vendors can be effective as well to meet the value for sharing techniques in this regard (Rampini et al.2019).

Moreover the IT project leaders can try to showcase direct collaborations to its vendors. Hence IT project leaders can try to validate certain assumptions. On the other hand these basic parameters can most likely to change the course of the overall project defining techniques. The overall project teams can try to analyze whether adding these new interface (Radanliev et al.2020).

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The overall process of development can try to estimate a projected change as well as all these changed scenarios can be effectively defined based on its precisions activities. Here the hypothetical techniques can be used to execute certain sensitive analysis in order to set up meeting expectations as well as delivering the projected costs in this regard. However these approaches can be delivered based on certain internal and external approaches (Masso et al.2019). All these process can try to generate certain major business estimates towards the internal assessments. These process estimates can be also effective towards delivering certain business models in this regard (Suri 2020).

For the company as well, taking control of every estimated process is looked to be important as well since there are certain business decisions that can feature different adjustment procedures. The formulized transformation process to meet the scope adjustments that can be also inefficient and conscious. On the other hand these can be implemented in a way to trust the project management process as well as trying to cope with the vendor changes as a whole. Hence this staffing model can be effective in this regard (Sivasubramanian et al.2019).

Contracting and supplier management

The procuring departments are usually responsible for goods or services acquiring for any particular business. This usually involves the marketing of goods at a competitive price, managing all the contacts in association with legal procedures, budgeting the cost of the goods and so on.

Here an organization further takes up organizational project in order to build new software known as the Software for the centre of excellence. The new location would be better than the present one as it would be more cost effective and has a pleasant environment to work into. It is also considered to bring about the acquisition for the development function of WN. The base of the appointment of consultancy is to discuss before seeking for interest. Though the SB was particularly worried about the appointment because of its contractual basis of consultancy on product development.

However which supplier the business will choose is not easy always. As there are times when good quality product or good pricing does not mean that it is a green signal to get associated with the supplier (Turner, 2017).So there are certain methods which can be followed while procuring materials. Generally there are six methods for procuring and supplier selection which must be considered by the procure team of an organization. Open tendering is the shorter term for open tendering. It helps the companies for biding to goods in an open challenging competition or solicitation. Open tendering is comprises of-

• It comprises of advertising locally
• Having unbiased and technical specification
• Open to qualified bidders
• Having measurements of evaluation

Least cost providers contract negotiations.

• Restricted tendering- it is opposite to open tendering, as it only places limited amount of request to the service provider or supplier. Hence because of its selective process it is also known as selective tendering. Though the competition is less to service providers, suppliers or the agencies called by the procuring team (Torvatn, 2019).
• Request for proposal- it is a common term in the business world. The managers of the social media’s always receive RFPs from the clients who seek for managers for their ventures.
• Two stage tendering method- uses the two stage tendering where each of the procedures has mainly two stages. This can be disadvantageous if it limits in securing contract.
• Request for quotation- this method of option is commonly used for small valued goods or services. It is the most least complex method of procurement so it is usually recommended as fast procurement process (Vashistha, 2018).
• Single source- it is a non-competitive method which is used under specific circumstances. In here the procurement is done from a sole service provider or supplier.

Part B

The advantage and disadvantage of two project management technique in terms of how SB can achieve improved management performance are as follows-

Adaptative Project Framework-

The APF method is based on the analysis of the past experience of the project. It is generally build on requirement structures which states the objective of the project selected according to the requirements or functions of the product (Habidin and Fuzi, 2016).

Advantage

If the company is aware of its objectives but not sure how to achieve them as in case of SB they can surely opt for this project method as it is consistent in its approach.

Disadvantage

As far the flexibility of the project is considered APF can make the project delay in completion or sometimes even over runs the budget.

 Critical Chain Project Management–

Many projects are seen to delay as the resources that  are required for the project work are unavailable. So to avoid all these issued Critical Chain Project Management helps in developing a project calendar where in it straight away indicates the critical tasks of the projects (Preeker and De Giovanni, 2018), the reserves of the resources that would be required in completion of the project.

Advantage-

The key resources are available as long as they are in need in a scheduled planned manner for the project

Disadvantage

It is not effective usually for short term projects as there is no requirement of scheduling critical task or maintaining the reserve resources.

choice of frameworks

The framework that has been selected for SB is Adaptive project framework. As SB has always preferred low cost criteria that has driven their business to further east coast because of the ample availability of labour at low cost. They have also faced quality issues in some parts of their manufacturing centres which they have been improving from the last two years. Some of the limited manufacturers are also seen to retain in certain parts of USA. Though the company currently has structured their functional basis but there are doubts of whether it would be appropriate for them in diverse business alongside (Talaset al. 2017).

All of the highlighted above problems significant proves that Adaptive performance framework would be the suitable project management program for the company. As they have faced quality issues, they want to run on low production budget and as they are not sure about their functional department hence the Adaptive project framework would help them in understanding the requirements, functions, and functionality and sub functions of the product. Simultaneously helping in improving the quality of the product. As the project also relies on the previous results hence the mistakes that were made by SB in their previous projects would not be repeated as in the case of quality issues problem. The clients or the Stakeholders can alter the framework of the page whenever they feels the requirement of doing so. Thus it would enable the team in creating the finest commercial product with a great value. Hence the project would help the company to diversify new products in minimal cost and increase sell of the product at a large in the market share (Siddique and Hussein, 2016).

Recommendation to the choices

The project management program that is selected for SB is Adaptative Project Framework.

The improving project management performance recommendation within SB is as follows-

If at first chance one does not succeed then plan, plan and again plan

Planning is the most significant thing when it comes to improving the existing project management or incorporates a new one. Any business big or small when plan out project it would not only enable planned work according to the schedule, make proper utilization of resources within budget. Planning also keeps the work organized (Peenstra and Silvius, 2018).

Focusing on communication

The strategic changes that were made in SB required proper communication from the leaders to the sub ordinates. So it can be said that most of the organization fail in achieving their organizational goals because the communication gaps that exists in the hierarchy. As mentioned planning after failure or issues is required and it should be done as strategically as possible, but the planning is useless if it is not communicated to the people who will work according to the strategies properly (Grzeszczyk and Czajkowski, 2017).

Finding the right project management tool

It is another important aspect of a project. Every team has different outlook on their project management. As at recent times more and more projects are going digital and technologically advance hence it is always recommended to use advance technology tools for competitive advantage (de Araújoet al.2017).

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