Question

You have decided to enter a South African Innovative App Competition. The competition requires you (and your team) to think of an innovative idea that could lead to the development of an App aimed at assisting and benefiting South African citizens in government services

Some fundamental assumptions and project requirements:

• Preferably, the system approach/project information system approach is to be followed;

• Budget is limited to R500 000;

• A minimum of five team members must be involved in the running of the project from start

to finish. You are expected to conduct your own research regarding the product, project

team selection and developing a project schedule and management;

• Project duration must not exceed 10 months;

• Additional assumptions and requirements must be adequately added.

This question may be completed using any suitable application software, including Microsoft Word.

Create a Project Activity List for your chosen project using the following format. The Activity List should include but is not limited to the following information:

Task | Task Name | Duration | Start Time | Finish Time | Predecessors | Budget Number

The solution should include the following tasks:

 An activity list of no less than 40 activities for the chosen project;

 Identify all activities:

o Number each task;

o Name each task;

o Provide the duration of each task;

o Schedule, and sequence project accordingly;

 Use phases, summary tasks, deliverables, and work packages;

 Use at least (minimum) of four team members as resources;

 Use at least (minimum) of six milestones;

 Estimate the cost of each task;

 Project summary;

 Show the total cost (budget) of the project.

PROJECT ACTIVITY LIST

Activity list +/‐ 40 activities for the chosen project; Duration of each of the identified activities;

Scheduling (including resources) of each of the identified activities;

Sequencing (including numbering, predecessors, etc.) of each of the identified activities;

Use phases, summary tasks and deliverables;

Use at least (minimum) of four (4) team members;

Use at least (minimum) of six (6) milestones;

Budget of the project

Answer 1

Project Character : government services

Overview of Project

Project Name : Developement of app on improvement of government services

Project Author : Team Africa

Creation Date : 10/1/2020

Project Details

Project Description:

  Developement of app on improvement of government services is to develope the access of government services to all the african citizens efficiently and effectively.

Project Objective:

It will increase the efficiency of public institutions.

The effective communications in government services will be improved.

A common infrastructure and mechanism for rapid development of IT enabled administrative services will be enhanced much more effectively.

Project Purpose :

It aims to support improvement in government services processes to address excessive administrative requirements, inefficiency of public institutions and ineffective communication and other deficiency, creating barriers for citizen and businesses in accessing government administrative services.

Project Goals:

i) a user-friendly and usable site architecture and navigation system.

ii) smaller and optimized application that can run efficiently on very low specifications.  

iii) a more stream-lined infrastructure with a decentralized workflow for content maintenance.

Project Deliverable:

The main deliverable of this project will be an optimized application that is usable, user-friendly, more manageable and meeting accessibility requirements with rules and regulations.

Project Benefits:

i) user centered.

ii) more manageable as a result of a newly developed content.

iii) it will contain less dead content, less out of date content and less duplication.

iv) easier to update.

v) optimized(less traffic)

vi) smaller(easier to find the important content).

Project Limitations : The project must be completed in 10 months times period.

Project Team : Minimum of 4 team members must be there in the project from start to finish.

Assumptions : The assumption of the project is that application should be user centered not organisation centered.

Project Requirement

Budget Requirements : The main budget requirement to complete the project should be minimum to R500 000.

Key Conditions :

i) The staff timings are very important.

ii) The project must be completed in 10 months.