Research And Application Of Project Management On Software Development For E-business Platform Integration

With development of e-business platform construction, some managers of the enterprise have found themselves fall into a hug trap. They are losing the control power to manage those platforms while they have to depend on external software vendors more and more. System platforms developed by different vendors and during different periods may have difficulty in information sharing which requires a lot of time&effort to maintain and manage. What’s more, so many system platforms are hard to master and require user’s high technical skills. It also leads to manual operation error or even chaos in process. It has become urgent on how to integrate these e-business platforms, reduce customers’ waiting time in maximum to raise their satisfaction, lower development&training cost, reduce complex operation and increase productivity. This article will use D company’s Solution Center as a main case and leverage project management methods to analysis and find the root cause, accomplish platform integration, reduce possible manual error during daily operation, improve working process and enhance combination of theory&practice on project management.This article starts with why software development needs to involve with project management. It takes D company’s project management as reference and raises main skills, methods&tools for different phases. It also calls out some specificity on project management theory and model mapping with software deployment. Later it analyses a case from D company and introduces goal, benefits, working process and frequently used software system platforms of D company’s Solution Center. It raises improvement opportunity by data&theoretical analysis on possible mistake for D company. In order to fix the root cause, it works out a system platforms integration solution which is deployed under project management method. At the same time, it improves both working flow and internal website. With this project deployment, it enhances research and practice on project management. It shares the experiences about the problems which are encountered and how to fix them. Last but not least, it summarizes on the research outcome and points out the direction for further research.