Create a Website

Boyle Practical Project Management uses the example of Creating a Website to demonstrate the practical methods of introducing project management planning tools and techniques to you, while also getting your website completed for its intended purpose. This document outlines the project planning elements necessary to produce a website that will launch a business to a global audience and ensure its services become accessible 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. For example the Charter gives authority to create the website and outlines the goal, the objectives, stakeholders, budget, timescale and resource requirements.

 

Build a Succesful Website

The basis for creating a successful website is through satisfying the success criteria. The critical success factors are represented in the middle of the Theoretical Success Framework Diagram, representing their relationship to achieving both project and product objectives and their influence on satisfying the success criteria. The objectives, the success factors and the success criteria are agreed by the primary stakeholders following a series of brainstorming sessions and a consultation process. The book details the the critical success factors for creating a website and the criteria for measuring success. The risks, their likely impact and the necessary response are also set out in the book.

         

Website Business Requirements

The business requirements are the specifications that describe the functions that the website is expected to provide. The book outlines the steps required for creating a website that best meet those requirements and includes a request for proposal (RFP) for a website and the criteria for contractor selection.

Website Work Breakdown Structure

The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) below is a picture of the project inputs subdivided into hierarchical units of work.

             

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