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Analyzing the Relationship between Project Success and Critical Success Factors An Empirical Investigation for USAID Funded International Development Projects in Pakistan
(University of Management & Technology, 2018) Ishaq Bin Zaighum
This study follows the updated framework of project success considering project sustainability, long term impact and stakeholders satisfaction in addition to traditional parameters of time, cost and scope. Instead of following a life-cycle based approach, the critical success factors pertaining to implementing organizations have been taken to study their relationship with the project success. These factors include availability of project funding, trainings of staff, clearly defined objectives, involvement of beneficiaries in decision making, communications with staff and provision of security to staff. A questionnaire adapted from the available literature on international development projects is administered to collect responses from development professionals who have worked in USAID funded international development projects in Pakistan. The respondents include managers, specialists, component leads, officers and associates. The analysis of the relationship reveals that availability of project funding, trainings of staff, clearly defined objectives, involvement of beneficiaries in decision making and provision of security to staff positively influence the success of USAID funded international development projects in Pakistan.
Analyzing the Relationship between Project Success and Critical Success Factors – An Empirical Investigation for USAID Funded International Development Projects in Pakistan
(University of Management and Technology, 2018) Ishaq Bin Zaighum
This study follows the updated framework of project success considering project sustainability, long term impact and stakeholders satisfaction in addition to traditional parameters of time, cost and scope. Instead of following a life-cycle based approach, the critical success factors pertaining to implementing organizations have been taken to study their relationship with the project success. These factors include availability of project funding, trainings of staff, clearly defined objectives, involvement of beneficiaries in decision making, communications with staff and provision of security to staff. A questionnaire adapted from the available literature on international development projects is administered to collect responses from development professionals who have worked in USAID funded international development projects in Pakistan. The respondents include managers, specialists, component leads, officers and associates. The analysis of the relationship reveals that availability of project funding, trainings of staff, clearly defined objectives, involvement of beneficiaries in decision making and provision of security to staff positively influence the success of USAID funded international development projects in Pakistan.
Appraisal for HR Department of Taiga Apparel
(University of Management and Technolog, 2018) Haroon Ahmad; Rimsha Maqsood; Momna Saleem; Amna Basharat
This project is conducted on Taiga Apparel, in which job description (JD) of employeeshave been aligned with performance appraisal (PA) of employees in a company.The company took this initiativebecauseintent to change its organizational structure by centralizing and formalizing. The goals and objectivesof the company and its department as revised under the light of these changes. This project assisted company on the 1st phase of the project in designing performance appraisal. Performance Appraisalprocess needs more emphasis and a proactive approach while managing the performance. Clear job descriptions of employees would make employees accountable performance and responsibilities, the JDs of employees would help managers to evaluate the performance in a better way. Documents were studied in details and a few un-structured interviews were conducted from employees of HR department to update JDs according to the updated task and create performance appraisal accordingly. The secondary research found number of gaps in JDs which required concentration in order to ensure that the employer needs valuable resources and retains employees make significant differences in the success of company. Therefore, new JDs and PA were proposed. The support of top management will be required for proper implementation of initiative for proper system of evaluation of performance and accountability.
Appraisal for HR Department of Taiga Apparel
(University of Management and Technolog, 2018) Haroon Ahmad; Rimsha Maqsood; Momna Saleem; Amna Basharat
This project is conducted on Taiga Apparel, in which job description (JD) of employeeshave been aligned with performance appraisal (PA) of employees in a company.The company took this initiativebecauseintent to change its organizational structure by centralizing and formalizing. The goals and objectivesof the company and its department as revised under the light of these changes. This project assisted company on the 1st phase of the project in designing performance appraisal. Performance Appraisalprocess needs more emphasis and a proactive approach while managing the performance. Clear job descriptions of employees would make employees accountable performance and responsibilities, the JDs of employees would help managers to evaluate the performance in a better way. Documents were studied in details and a few un-structured interviews were conducted from employees of HR department to update JDs according to the updated task and create performance appraisal accordingly. The secondary research found number of gaps in JDs which required concentration in order to ensure that the employer needs valuable resources and retains employees make significant differences in the success of company. Therefore, new JDs and PA were proposed. The support of top management will be required for proper implementation of initiative for proper system of evaluation of performance and accountability.
Assessing the scientific validity of job mapping process used as a harmonizing tool for job profiling, grading and competency technique
(University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2017) Zahra Iqbal
The purpose of the study is to assess the validity of the job mapping activity that was done in the integration phase, after the acquisition of SNL by S&P Global. Qualitative research is conducted by using sample of three respondents by having semi-structured interviews. Qualitative software NVIVO 9 is used for data analysis, by analyzing the models and reports understanding of the job mapping process is made clearer. The discussion shows the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the project, where there is more influence of qualitative research. Case study approach is used to investigate the phenomena of job mapping activity (Yin). Propositions and limitations of the project are also discussed.
Auto Shop Management System
(University of Management and Technology, 2017) Khawar, Jamal; Arbab Shafique, Mirza; Amer, Hunain; Irbaz, Muhammad; Akram, Sohail
We have developed Auto Shop Management System. The organization’s name is Ittefaq auto parts which are dealing in auto spare parts of imported and local vehicles. The existing system is manual system through which organization is currently dealing with clients manually. Which brings a huge workload on the organization. Now we reduce the work load and explanation of the business system will be helpful. It is very difficult to capture market gap because customer have no time to go market and buy auto parts. In existing system difficult to maintain parts and accuracy. In existing system all records maintain manually and this process taking huge time that is why we develop this system and cover the market gap. In this system we provide both customer and vendors platform. Customers can order any auto parts and accessories at any time any place our system save customer time and provide many other facilities. Customer is a non-technical person they have no idea which auto part is original made by company or not but our system provide guarantee to the customer. Vendor using our system as a retailer person and generate a revenue. While using our system customer can order before check parts detail and fair price as compare to market and take this opportunity to deliver auto parts at your place and payment only on delivery time.
Bridging the gap between academia and industry through a training and market research center
(University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2016) Arooj Talat Khan; Ishrat Noor; Sidra Hassan; Sheharbano Hussain; Shazia Iqbal
From the past understandings and experiences, many corporations found it difficult to retain people with the accurate skill set, this encouraged them to look for joint ventures with the universities. To Bridge this Gap, we made it feasible the correlation between industry and academia through the implementation of Centre of Industry and Market Studies (CIMS). It is one of our efforts to assemble the industry's changing demands. It will get both students and faculty members involved. In this project CIMS, we will focus on creating industry based training materials and create a center of attention for both students and professionals to take part in the training on their timetable and schedule. For conducting the initial research, we have adopted both the qualitative (in the form of unstructured interviews). This center will be inaugurated at University of Management and Technology. The training can be updated and further added as the most up-to-date technologies trends. (CIMS) aims at constructing universities and industry work collectively and build simple trust through long-term bond such as task- based collaboration. This center provides trainings, certifications, diplomas and sectoral reports for the industries. As the center will grow it will also hold brand awards on the basis of company performances assessed through CIMS framework.
Bundlebox android application
(University of Management and Technology, 2015) Arslan Tariq; Muhammad Ali; Tayyaba Nawaz; Usman Shafiq
BundleBoxhelps ineasily accessingnetwork package information, management of those packages and their subscription. It is an offline application that can be accessed anywhere at any time through an android phone. Mobile phone packages, their information and scheduling have always have been a matter of nuisance for customers as they are based on different USSD codes,memorizing and management of these codes seems to be a key issue for a majority of mobile phone users hence the motivefor this application. BundleBox will assist its users by allowing them to subscribe, unsubscribe, custom manage and be notification oftheir subscribed packages as desired. BundleBox will serve as a packageinformation and managementsolution for users of alllocal mobile networks; it willespecially be usefulfor users with multiple SIM cards assisting themwith all theirvoice, SMSanddata packages.
Business plan for new sub campus of school of professional advancement DHA/Gulberg
(University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2016) Qamar Khan, Usman; Ahmad Khan Khakwani, Fahad; Anwar, Ammad; Ali Khan, Hassan; Riaz, Tahir
Education is the basic right of every human being and it is the duty of governing management to provide this facility to every rich and poor. But this fact is merely a dream in developing countries like Pakistan. In Pakistan, our preferences are something far different than those of any developed and civilized country people have. We do have large gaps in communities, poor are so poorer and rich community is so rich and there are lesser mediocre. The reason behind the sustained poverty level is unaffordability of good education, elite class prefers to go abroad for studies, and the only left community that prefers to get education in the country is of mediocre, who any how manages to bear the cost of higher education in the country. In Pakistan, higher education is too expensive for everyone to bear. And the institutes that are already performing well in the education market, in both government and private sector, are tough to compete. In this situation, planning a new campus of SPA-UMT is not just a challenge but an excellent opportunity for us to show our professional managerial talent. This project was assigned to us from the department to propose to a business plan for new sub campus of SPA-UMT. We started this project with the industry analysis in which through different analysis we need to figure out the about the favorability of industry with investment point of view. From the industry analysis we have figured that industry is favorable. Then our second phase was gap analysis to identify that is there a gap which needs to be filled? And to tap the untapped market. We have done strategic group analysis; locational strategy and competitive analysis to check about the competitiveness and which strategy should be adopt to enter into the market if the gap exists. Then our phase was to identify the customer preferences for which we have collected the data through questioner survey of desired specific locations. Our target unit was professional which has fourteen or sixteen years of education and wants to get professional degree to excel in careers further. Residents of DHA/Gulberg/Cavalry were offered to fill the questioners and from those filled questioners we have concluded that it will be a healthy decision to develop a new SPA-UMT branch in DHA because the gap was available, target audience was available and acceptance of services is also available. A thorough literature survey has also been carried in this regard including, PEST analysis, SWOT analysis, Competitive analysis, critical success factor analysis, value chain analysis, IEE & IFE matrix analysis and porter’s five factor analysis. Results of questioner analysis are discussed in detail, which showed an overall positive response of vicinity residents for UMT sub-campus development in DHA. To check the validation of we have also developed the feasibility report to check that either it will be feasible or not in business point of view. Income statement, balance sheet and other reports are developed on real time information regarding all types of costs and human resources calculation to develop the best possible projections. IRR (Internal Rate of Return) and PBR (Pay Back Period) is also calculated to check the validation of this project. In proposed feasibility report both 8 Marla cut and 4 Marla cut calculations are available. Bring this project into reality we need approximately 20 million in hand. The complete market plan is developed which is covering and proposing the best possible strategies to capture the market and maintain the sustainability. All the seven P’s are covered according to our product service offerings, how we will put our services and which will be the facilities we will be providing to our potential prospect. This project covers all the angles of business plan from industrial analysis to marketing plan to show the best possible projection of outcomes.
Business plan for new sub campus of school of professional advancement DHA/Gulberg
(University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2016) Qamar Khan, Usman; Ahmad Khan Khakwani, Fahad; Anwar, Ammad; Ali Khan, Hassan; Riaz, Tahir
Education is the basic right of every human being and it is the duty of governing management to provide this facility to every rich and poor. But this fact is merely a dream in developing countries like Pakistan. In Pakistan, our preferences are something far different than those of any developed and civilized country people have. We do have large gaps in communities, poor are so poorer and rich community is so rich and there are lesser mediocre. The reason behind the sustained poverty level is unaffordability of good education, elite class prefers to go abroad for studies, and the only left community that prefers to get education in the country is of mediocre, who any how manages to bear the cost of higher education in the country. In Pakistan, higher education is too expensive for everyone to bear. And the institutes that are already performing well in the education market, in both government and private sector, are tough to compete. In this situation, planning a new campus of SPA-UMT is not just a challenge but an excellent opportunity for us to show our professional managerial talent. This project was assigned to us from the department to propose to a business plan for new sub campus of SPA-UMT. We started this project with the industry analysis in which through different analysis we need to figure out the about the favorability of industry with investment point of view. From the industry analysis we have figured that industry is favorable. Then our second phase was gap analysis to identify that is there a gap which needs to be filled? And to tap the untapped market. We have done strategic group analysis; locational strategy and competitive analysis to check about the competitiveness and which strategy should be adopt to enter into the market if the gap exists. Then our phase was to identify the customer preferences for which we have collected the data through questioner survey of desired specific locations. Our target unit was professional which has fourteen or sixteen years of education and wants to get professional degree to excel in careers further. Residents of DHA/Gulberg/Cavalry were offered to fill the questioners and from those filled questioners we have concluded that it will be a healthy decision to develop a new SPA-UMT branch in DHA because the gap was available, target audience was available and acceptance of services is also available. A thorough literature survey has also been carried in this regard including, PEST analysis, SWOT analysis, Competitive analysis, critical success factor analysis, value chain analysis, IEE & IFE matrix analysis and porter’s five factor analysis. Results of questioner analysis are discussed in detail, which showed an overall positive response of vicinity residents for UMT sub-campus development in DHA. To check the validation of we have also developed the feasibility report to check that either it will be feasible or not in business point of view. Income statement, balance sheet and other reports are developed on real time information regarding all types of costs and human resources calculation to develop the best possible projections. IRR (Internal Rate of Return) and PBR (Pay Back Period) is also calculated to check the validation of this project. In proposed feasibility report both 8 Marla cut and 4 Marla cut calculations are available. Bring this project into reality we need approximately 20 million in hand. The complete market plan is developed which is covering and proposing the best possible strategies to capture the market and maintain the sustainability. All the seven P’s are covered according to our product service offerings, how we will put our services and which will be the facilities we will be providing to our potential prospect. This project covers all the angles of business plan from industrial analysis to marketing plan to show the best possible projection of outcomes.
Campus management system
(University of Management and Technology, 2014) Rao Adnan Sarwar; Imran Saeed
This is a web application which can be utilized in any educational institution to perform the basic operations through software instead of manual work. So, the main purpose of the project is to produce a management system for educational institution and to enhance interconnectivity of sub-branches in a more effective way. This project is intended to create Campus Management System (CMS) that will help to interconnect all the branches, students and teachers’ data and financials records etc. CMS will provide the solution to a number of issues like • Student Record Management • Teacher Registration • Computerized Reports • Student Result • Date Sheet • Teacher & Parent meetings schedule The objective of this project is to manage the entire system of an educational system through a network comprised of Teachers, students and different records, like Fee records and, Session records, and attendance records. Furthermore this network will also manage the parents-teacher meeting Schedules.
Cancer awareness among the people of Pakistan
(University of Management and Technology, 2014) Akbear Ali
The cancer awareness among the people of Pakistan system is web-based application that gave the complete information about cancer and different doctor’s suggestions about it. Chapter 1 is business study. It describes the existing system and how it works and about the information gathering. Chapter 2 is feasibility study. Feasibility is a determination of whether or not a project is worth doing. Feasibility Study is performed for determining the feasibility of a project. Chapter 3 is software development life cycle. In Chapter 4 Gantt chart is available. In this chapter we draw a chart which shows the time spend on each step. Chapter 5 contain on introduction. In this chapter we discuss purpose of documentation, scope of project etc... . Chapter 6 is Functional Requirements. Functional requirements chapter tells us about the client /user/ customer activities and admin side activities. Chapter 7 is Non-functional requirements. In this chapter we discuss about GUI, security requirements and user documentations. Chapter 8 contains on Assumptions and dependencies. Chapter 9 is System Architecture. In this chapter we discuss whole architecture of the system through different diagrams. In chapter 10 we discuss use cases of the system. In chapter 11 whole systems GUI are available. Chapter 12 is about software development plan. In chapter 13 whole testing is described. Data dictionary available in chapter 14. In data dictionary me discuss db. Tables name etc. chapter 15 is about all references.
Car Showroom Management System
(University of Management & Technology, 2016) Iftikhar, Usman; Mahmood, Humza; Tahir, Shoaib; Qadri, Ayesha
With the rapid growth in population and technology, vehicles demand especially cars is also increasing. Consumers want to have the best vehicle in their budget and the sellers want to reach maximum audience with their available inventory of cars. That is where the idea of a Car Showroom Management comes in. We offered a solution that is not only cater the needs of buyers to find the perfect car but also the sellers by helping them to reach the relevant and potential audience. Unlike other similar platforms out there, our system provides car dealers a proper dashboard to display their cars. Buyers on the other hand are able to browse through the displayed cars easily and contact the respective seller based on choice. This system enables the direct contact between the sellers (showroom owners) and buyers (customers), buyers can now be able to find the specific car they are looking for without the hassle of actually visiting the market. Since the platform is free for every user, a healthy user-base (both sellers and buyers) are expected to use the service. This Platform primarily is based on ASP.Net that helps in providing user-friendly interface to the users and ease of management.
Central data repository
(University of Management and Technology, 2015) Munir, Arslan; Muhammad Abdullah; Rehman, Humna; Ali, Faizan; Rafique, Umair
Computing applications and the users of these applications are growing at very high rate. We have developed a new web application in order to facilitate local electronic appliances companies which normally use manual system or some desktop application. We have developed this web application to solve their business problems through automating the system, providing easily accessible data to all stakeholders of the system, ease of business process and minimizing the human involvement in order to create a healthy relationship between customers and companies.
Child tracker
(University of Management and Technology, 2014) Abdul Aziz Butt; Adnan Shafi; Zeeshan Rafique; Naeem Akbar, Muhammad
The project entitled “Child Tracker” is an application that allows parents to monitor their child's cell phone. All incoming calls, SMS text massage, location and speed. Messages can be seen and interrupted by the parents, who can also monitor where their children are (through GPS). Our aim is to develop an efficient and improved geographical asset tracking solution and conserve valuable mobile resources by dynamically adapting the tracking scheme by means of context aware personalized route learning techniques. This system uses Android based mobile phones for the software to be run.
Classified vehicle ads web portal
(University of Management and Technology, 2014) Mohsin Muhammad Awan
Project’s main idea is to solve the problem of people who have to buy or sale new/second hand vehicle. As they have to go to the dealers, showrooms, markets for this purpose and have to spend extra time, now they would not have to. With the help of this website people sitting anywhere would be able to save time and can easily sale or purchase their vehicle(s) by posting the ad on this website along with their contact info, so that buyer and seller can make the deal by contacting with each other.
Complaint management system
(University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2016) Imtiaz Awan, Malik; Mahmood, Azib; Ali, Basit; Zeeshan, Muhammad; Furqan Asad, Khawaja
The need for a complaint management system by “Cotton Web Limited” for its IT Department open up an opportunity. This opportunity presented itself as a system which takes in multiple complaints spread over two different areas and multiple departments which could access to the system and thus get these complaints solved and also for the evaluation of the IT Department itself to know of how many complaints were posted and how long was the response time for them.
Deals zone
(University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2016) KHALIQ, ABDUL; AKRAM, ANUM; JAVED, RIDA; SULTAN, SONIA; IKRAM, USAMA
This documentation is all about web Application “Deal Zone” which is an advertising platform for all the brands of Food, Garments, Mobile network and Travel. Many times companies offer amazing deals, which are most likely to satisfy the customer need economically. But the company lacks in advertising the specific deal, and a customer could not avail it within the valid time period. So our application will focus on providing the information of ravishing deals of multiple companies at the door step of user. Multiple companies can advertise their deals. There exists some website that perform same task but this is one kind of genre. This project deals with different offers of different kinds of categories. The end user can see multiple deals on the website, take benefit from it and can also rate the deal by signing up on the website. This feature can benefit other customers by viewing the rating of products.
Dental Clinic Management System
(University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2016) Hafiz Muhammad, Waqar
Software applications and the users of this application are growing day by day. There is almost every field of life where software applications are essential. One of these fields is dentistry where patient record management is very important. Keeping this space in mind, we decided to develop a system for dentists to keep their patients history record.
Departmental operational excellence through supply chain sops
(University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2015) Hafiz Saif Ur Rehman; Faheem Ahmad; Atif Zahoor; Hassan Ali
SOPs are the bible of any department to run the day to day operations. It improves the overall working efficiency of department and help the procedures to be standardized to get the same and desired results every time. It cut aside the additional activities and restrict the redo

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