3. The Beginning…
• WhatsApp, was incorporated in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, both former employees
of Yahoo!
• After Koum and Acton left Yahoo! in September 2007, the duo traveled to South America as a
break from work.
• On February 24, 2009, he incorporated WhatsApp Inc. in California
• Brian Acton persuades five ex-Yahoo! friends to invest $250,000 in seed funding & became
Co-Founder of WhatsApp
5. Timeline of WhatsApp
• Aug 2009 - WhatsApp 2.0 is released on the App Store for the iPhone
• Dec 2009 - WhatsApp for the iPhone is updated to send photos
• Aug 2010 - WhatsApp support for Android OS & Blackberry is added
• Aug 2012 - The WhatsApp support staff announce that messages were encrypted in the "latest version" of the WhatsApp
software for iOS and Android (but not BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and Symbian)
• Feb 2013 - WhatsApp's user base swells to about 200 million active users
• Aug 2013 - WhatsApp introduces voice messaging
• Feb 2014 - Facebook announces its acquisition of WhatsApp for US$19 billion, its largest acquisition to date
• Jan 2015 - WhatsApp launches WhatsApp Web, a web client which can be used through a web browser by syncing with the
mobile device's connection
• March 2016 - WhatsApp introduces its document-sharing feature, initially allowing users to share PDF files with their contacts
8. Technical Feasibility
assessment is centered on the technical resources available to the organization. It helps
organizations asess if the technical resources meet capacity and whether the technical team
is capable of converting the ideas into working systems. Technical feasibility also
involves evaluation of the hardware and the software requirements of the proposed system.
9. Economic Feasibility
1. Analysis of a project's costs and revenues in an effort to determine whether or not it is logical
and possible to complete.
2. Economic feasibility test cost and benefits
3. Development and cooperating cost are compared to expected financial benefit.
4. Project that is currently feasible can become unfeasible further along in the process.
11. Risk Assessment
• Risk assessment can be a ‘very straightforward process based on judgement requiring no
specialist skills or complicated techniques.’
• Project risk assessment is the art and science of identifying, assigning, and responding to risk
throughout the life of a project and in the best interests of meeting project objectives
• Risk assessment is often overlooked on projects, but it can help improve project success by
helping select good projects, determining project scope, and developing realistic estimates
12. What is Project Risk assessment?
The goal of project risk assessment is to minimize potential risks while maximizing potential
opportunities. Major processes include
1. Risk assessment planning: deciding how to approach and plan the risk management
activities for the project
2. Risk identification: determining which risks are likely to affect a project and documenting their
characteristics
3. Risk monitoring and control: monitoring known risks, identifying new risks, reducing risks, and
evaluating the effectiveness of risk reduction
16. Closure
• How to close a project? Project Manager’s involvement at the closing stage
• Formal Sign-off from the customer
• Final analysis of the product scope
• Release the resources
• Procurement or other contract closure
• Indexing of the project files
• Lessons learned documentation
• Celebration of a party