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1. WORKSIGHT
Maria, Zoe, Hung, Chi

2. Agenda
1. Project Overview
2. The Finance Section
3. The Project Definition
4. The Project Organisation

3. Overview
▪ Our goal is create a job portal for union workers to
solve the staffing issue.

4. ▪ Software development : $70,000
▪ Cloud storage costs for storing data : $780
▪ Hardware: $2,000
▪ Project Manager : $32,000
Total Budget :
$144,780
Finance - Appraisal

5. Finance - Revenue Projection
Revenue Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
Subscription $120,000 $120,000 $120,000 $120,000
Total Revenue $120,000 $120,000 $120,000 $120,000
Cost
Software Developer $70,000 $30,000 $30,000 $30,000
Project Manager $32,000
Operations x 2 $40,000 $40,000 $40,000 $40,000
Cloud storage costs for storing data $780 $780 $780 $780
Hardware $2,000 $500 $500 $500
Total Cost $144,780 $71,280 $71,280 $71,280
Net Revenue -$24,780 $48,720 $48,720 $48,720

6. Finance - Revenue Projection
3 Year Net Benefit: $121,380

7. Project Definition

8. CURRENTLY…
▪ No real-time access to available jobs and workers
▪ Time consuming trips to find open positions
▪ Ineffective communications through multiple lines
▪ No standardized staffing
▪ Unethical recruitment

9. TOO MUCH SPENDING!

10. LOSING TOO MANY
MEMBERS!

11. Solution
▪WorkSight
▪A real-time communication dashboard to
automate staffing worksites
▪HotSchedules for the Union

12. Benefits
▪ Reduce Employment lag times
▪ Lower costs in representational activities
▪ Increase membership
▪ Increase efficiency and transparency in staffing
▪ Standardize staffing practices
Limitations
▪ Schedule conflicts

13. THE WAY IT
WORKS

14. Scope
● Create a prototype of a job platform for stakeholders, who are union workers,
business agents and foremen within 6 months
● Implement real time communication on the platform
● Match 100 jobs through WorkSight

15. Outline Plan
Develop • January
Integrate • March
Test • April
Go Live • June
● Prototype: Planning, Analysis, Design, Implementation, Construction, Implementation,
Testing, Installation
● Business Documentations: Charter, Process model, data model, system architecture
diagram, competitive analysis, financial analysis

16. Competitive Analysis
Niche
General
Long Term Frequently
changing

17. Competitive Analysis
Comments
● WorkSight is designed for union workers
● HotSchedules is for hospitality industries
● Indeed is a general job portal
● WorkSight works closely with foremen,
members, and HR of the Union
● Companies on Indeed controls their
postings
● WorkSight and HotSchedules is intuitive for
workers with different technology
background
● Indeed is not user friendly
1
2
3
Specifically For
Union Workers
System Control
User Experience
WorkSight
Centralized
Indeed
Decentralized
HotSchedules
Centralized

18. Project Risk
ID # Risk Probability Impact Score Strategy: Response:
6 Lack of funding Medium High 6 Risk Acceptance
Analyze problem, adjust scope/contact
sponsor for additional resources, etc. Depends
on problem and cause.
3 Scope Change Medium Medium 4 Risk Avoidance
Meet with team members and mentor to go
over scope
4 Backlog Tasks Medium Medium 4 Risk Avoidance
Meet with team members to go over schedule
and reallocate resource to complete tasks
5
Prototype doesn't fulfill
objectives Low High 3 Risk Mitigation Meet with team members to go over scope
2
Sponsor cancels
project Low High 3 Risk Acceptance Set up meeting to close out loose ends

19. Project Organization
The project status reports will be conducted and provided weekly to the project sponsor.

20. CONCLUSIONNowisn'tworking
Spending too much
money
Taking up too much
time
Losing members
Unethical staffing
WithWorkSight
More jobs filled
Transparency in staffing
Decrease in spending
Increase in membership

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