In this scenario, assume that you are working at Clean Insure Solutions, a software company providing software solutions for insurance brokers inEurope. You are the project manager for the launch of a new product, an enhanced version of the company’s Broker EN-Sure product. Your company is banking on the success of this new product release to increase its market share inEurope. New product features will give distinct edge over its competitors and help drive the sales aggressively. Time to market is also a critical factor in meeting the business expectations. As a result, this project has a very high visibility with senior management.
Broker EN-Sure requires many new features to be acceptable to its potential consumers. The list of high-level project activities is as follows:
1. Creating requirement understanding document based on customer inputs
2. Creating a product feature list with short descriptions for approval by senior management
3. Conducting detailed analysis of the proposed product features with guidelines for software coding and development
4. Creating a business architecture for Broker EN-Sure
5. Creating a technical architecture for Broker EN-Sure
6. Securing approval for architectures from the design review board in the organisation
7. Creating a schedule of features to be developed during each phase of the project. The schedule will have a list of features to be completed and details of the project team.
8. Creating a quality management plan for the software development effort
9. Securing approval on the schedule and the quality management plan
List of activities durations and there dependencies: