
IPMS Case Study ABC company is a small software company. Due to a good delivery track record, the company started to get more projects. The CEO felt the need for an in house project management tool. This would enable the organization comply SDLC process and scale up. Most of the clients of ABC company are based out of US. The company operates on onsite, near shore and offshore model with the near shore location being London and onsite location being US. The Manager should be able to enter the 20 digit project name along with a short description. The Application should generate an automated project id. The Project Manager can set up employees in the application with attributes such as employee number, name, role and location. The Project Manager assigns tasks based on the employee role. Project Manager Developer Tech Lead Business Analyst Create Project Charter Create Domain Model Create Technical Architecture Gather Requirements Do Project Estimation Create SRS Review Design Documentation Requirements clarifications/walkthrough Client Calls Create Class Diagrams Obtain clarifications from Solutions Architect Prepare Requirements Walkthrough Prepare Project Plan Create Sequence Diagrams Participate in Design Review calls Analyze Change Requests Prepare Implementation Plan Coding Code validation Prepare Requirements Walkthrough The application should allow the manager to search for an employee and assign the task to him. He should also be able to assign specific hours for the task. A resource can be assigned multiple tasks in multiple projects at the same time. Each resource must perform 8 hours of work in a day. The billing rate of various resources at locations is given below. Role Offshore ( India) Onsite (US) Nearshore( UK) Developer 56 60 35 Senior Developer 62 80 40 Tech Lead 76 110 55 Business Analyst 88 130 70 Project Manager 100 160 90 Note: Rates are per hour India is billed ins Indian Rupees US is billed in US Dollars UK is billed in Pounds If more than 8 hours are logged in by an employee, each additional hour is charged at 20% premium. Resources are not fixed and can move from one location to another based on project requirements. For resources based in UK, 2 % of the total value of the work done in UK is collected as service tax by UK Government. For each project, there is an tax on 13.85 percentage on the total project amount collected by the Govt of India (include of taxes collected by other Government) The Project Manager should be able to pull reports on 1) Revenue generated resource wise/role wise 2) Total revenue/ of the project 3) Total revenue generated region wise 4) Add/Delete employees