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Project Management

Assignment 3

DUE DATE: July 13, 2010

(15%)

Peer Evaluation: Each group member will be grad the contributions of other team members at a score up to 100. A student’s score will be an average of the group member ratings times the overall assignment score.

For example, if you get an average of 80/100 in peer evaluation from your group and 90 in the assignment, your INDIVIDUAL score would be 90*.8 = 72/100.

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PEER EVALUATIONFORM

Once the project is submitted, fill it out and post it in webtycho under peereval1 (ctrl + click above underlined link to see the peer evaluation form)

If your team has three/four members, you will be submitting two/three evaluations in ONE file.

Green_Delivery_rus.com

E-commerce, especially B2C, requires innovative ideas and little capital investment. Amazon.com, eBay are examples of successful e-commerce e-businesses. Their CEO’sstarted with little money, but had brilliant ideas and eventually created a successful empire.

Sam, Lisa and Lee do not want to be left behind. They are full of innovative ideas and are thinking about starting an on line delivery service, called Green_Delivery_rus.com. They are not sure if they can get that domain name at this point. If this name is taken, they would be willing to look at other attractive names. The purpose of this e-business will be to provide services to people who are either too busy or are not capable of performing tasks on their own.

Initially they want to restrict it to THREE services.

• Take food orders for delivery(not necessarily deliver them)
• Make emergency doctor’s appointments
• Provide and make appointments forRides to locations such as the airport, friend’s home, regular appointment etc..to needy

Service 1: Take Food Orders
Green_Delivery_rus.com will provide links to menusof severallocal restaurants on their web site. A customer will select items from the menu. Green_deliver_rus.com will charge a referral service fee but will notprovideany actual deliveries at this time

Service 2: Make Emergency Appointments:
A person may need to make emergency appointments.Green_Delivery will facilitate this service by providing links to local hospitals on their web site and will charge an appointmentreference fee for the service.

Service 3: Provide rides
A person may want to go to different locations, like the airport, visit friendsetc… green_delivery_rus.com will provide links to taxis/other transportations that can provide ride and charge a reference fee for this service

Green_Delivery_rus.com, plans to cater to mostly local market in Baltimore and surrounding area butalso have plans to start delivery in Virginia and the Delaware areastarting 2012. Theyare “environment” and “Green” conscious and want to build a system with “green” technology.

Sam is an engineer but knows the importance of project and systems. He convinced his partners to hire your team to help them in the planning and designing of this system. As a systems consultant, you areasked to plan and design a “green” system for Green_deliver_rus.com.

A transcript of your meeting with Sam, Lisa and Lee is attached

Date 5/5/2010

Present: Sam, Lisa, Lee, the “A” team,

Sam began discussing the dream project which he described as on line delivery system that will cater to busy individuals and retiree. Initially, the business will NOT deliver or provide services but will only facilitate web access of relevant businesses. For this convenience they will charge a yet to be determined “fee”.They want to keep track of number of hits on their site and resulting sales, and would like to collect information on customer for data mining purposes.
Green_deliver_rus.com isenvironmentally conscious and want to provide “Green” system (hardware and software). They firmly believe in “sustainability”, which is defined as “.. meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs..” see They are very proud of the word “green” in their name.

They want all document delivered by July 13, 2010.

During question and answer session, they revealed they have a budget of $500,000, and would be willing to consider putting in more cash, if needed and can be justified. Sam understands that many of the items (hardware & software) and personnel costs are not known and may have to be collected from the Internet. Sam would like you to provide him with the list of references you used in getting those numbers. He also recommended that team members read the definition of project planning available at wikipedia and study related links in the definition.

A follow up live session was planned for the chat room on July 7th at 7pm. Date for this session may be changed if needed.

Green_deliery_rus.com would like following deliverables:

1. Define the scope of the project
2. Base line Plan
3. List of critical success factors
4. Resource requirement, allocation and analysis (cost/benefit)

(note: these include material and personnel costs like hardware, software, web designer, programmer, network engineer etc.)

1. Work breakdown structure (WBS) (see lecture readings)
2. Critical Path method, project schedule and the Gantt chart (see page 540); generated through Microsoft PROJECT
3. Risk associated with the project andhow to control/mitigate these risks.(page 535)
4. What would be an appropriate system development methodology and why?
5. One of the process identified is food order processing system. Draw the context diagram (data flow diagram) for this process (page 496)

TO BE SUBMITTED:

(Submit all files as ONE zip file. this will include WORD file and the PROJECT file)

• Part 1

Executive report

(Use proper format: You may want to visit the Internet to look for sample executive reports. Also discuss part 1--here)

• 1-9 parts
• Specific recommendations, if any
• Appendix A

Appendix A: Grading Criteria