Question

You are an IT consultant, and you have been approached by an entrepreneur in need of a business plan to obtain funding. Part of this business plan centers on an IT presence. Create a 2-page executive summary that explains how the SDLC applies to your customer’s organization. Be creative. You can select any business you like, but remember the conversation must focus on IT operations, particularly a system design or software or application presence. Introduce the organization, providing its background and a breakdown of the task at hand.

Answer 1

Let me give guidance to you to create a 2 Page executive summary of a business plan . Based on my guidance , you can develop the document

Objective of your company’s business

Explain your company's business objective as a goal of developing software web applications and apps for your customer's organizations. For example your customer organization is a store selling home appliances to their end customers  

Executive Summary

• identify the problem of your customer's organization

• Analyse the existing system and describe it and its drawbacks due to its manual operations.

• Propose a new system which can be a online web application with mobile app

• Describe the features of the proposed system and explain
  

  • how it will remove the drawbacks of manual existing system

  • salient features of the proposed system

  • Project scope

  • Cost and Time estimation

Your Mission

• Explain about your company , its background

• Explain your mission of explaining how you bring your software applications web or app as a best rated one in the customer industry you serve

• Explain your applications user friendly , robustness scalable and high performance nature

Your Vision

• Explain your company’s vision that how your will promote your business by marketing your software products or services

• Explain your strategy to increase the number of downloads of your apps

• Explain your strategy to create interest of end users or client to share your apps or share about your services or product as promotions

• Explain your quality of software services or products or apps

Your Market study and analysis of trends

• Analyse the markets related to your customer

• Study the trends and how online markets behave to attract their customers

• Brief about Business Intelligence tools you will apply to do the market analysis

• Explain how your services or products or apps will be competitive among your competitors

• Explain how your proposed system will be innovative and robust and scalable among the competitors

• Explain how the customer's interests are are and how your system will deal with it

Scope of the Project

• Explain the proposed system features within the boundaries

• Explain the task breakdown using Work Break Structure (WBS) to break down tasks with estimated effort, resource and cost

• Specify what are the out of scope

• Assumptions

• Constraints

Your high level database design

• Design your Database as a Enhanced ER diagrams

• Specify the entities, keys , their relationships based on the business rules for the proposed system you have planned for your customer

• Provide Normalized Conceptual schema

• Provide normalized logical schema with entities , attributes, keys , data types and their relationships

Your High level system design

• Explain your high level design using

  • Use cases

  • UML class diagram

  • UML sequence diagram

  • UML activity diagram

  • UML deployment diagram

Your Technologies

• Briefly explain the technology you have chosen for your proposed web application and app

• Technology means whether it is going to be .ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC or Java or J2EE or PHP etc  

Project Management Methodology

Explain briefly your methodology whether it will be SDLC based waterfall model or Agile based iterative model

If it is SDLC based waterfall model how your application involves in below phases or if agile how it involves in each iteration

• Requirement Analysis

• Planning

• Design

• Code Development

• Testing

• Deployment

• Maintenance

Hardware and software requirements

Hardware

• For development and testing team identify the system processor ,RAM

• Specify the broadband internet connect with high speed

• Specify the Application server and its configurations

• Specify the database server and its configurations.

• Specify the communication tools needed for web conferencing with customers, teams

Software

• Specify the OS needed for development and testing teams

• Specify the IDE tools needed for software development

• Specify the testing tools for performance, load testing etc

• Software communication tools which can be used for text chat, audio call or video call

• If the software application is needed to deployed in cloud servers like AWS or Windows AZURE,please specify

• Specify the RDBMS tools needed for database management and interaction with front end UI

• Specify the project management tool to create project task, assign to team , track the progress of each task by each team member to ensure the completion of the project deliverables within the estimated budgeted cost and estimated timeline

Your Budget Plan

Based on Resource, cost and time estimation after WBS , prepare a budget plan a licensed tool or an open source online tool using which should include

• Budgeted cost for the project

• Contingency cost for the project for risks which may due to resource, budget, time schedule constraints

Resource may refer to number of employees who work on the project ,their cost for their efforts, hardware software requirements costs which include servers, systems, internet, software ,communication tools etc

Conclusion

Summarise your findings the problems in existing system and the solution explained in the proposed system briefly to support your proposal for funding so the entrepreneur take wise decision providing a favourable outcome.