PROPOSAL

The Purpose of Proposal

· Proposal simplifies the process of decision-making development based on the
feedback from customers, experience and developers’ discussion on method of the
multimedia project’s execution.

· The objective is to give an approach that will help customers to understand the
project’s flow in detail. Customers need a complete documentation that will help
them in decision making, whether to continue a certain development phase or not.

· Other than that, a proposal becomes a proposed paper, that is done by the
development team, in the effort to achieve a project contract and help the customers to make a comparison on the cost, quality and estimated time, that is offered by a few developer competing for a similar tender.

The Content of Proposal

· A proposal must be simple, contains simple words, and must contain these items:

1. Brief Information of the executive and general introduction.
2. Statement of the customer’s requirements from the application.
3. Description of the solution of the proposed project, along with reasons and
rationales for the solutions.
4. Choices available in a project’s development.
5. Diagram structure of the proposed project.
6. Description of human resource requirement’s description structure.
7. Task breakdown and scheduling process.
8. Cost/payment structure in the project development.
9. The project’s boundaries.

4.1.3 Description Of Proposal’s Content

a) Brief Information of the executive and general introduction

· This part explains the project type definition, its goal and brief description on
what is presented in that proposal.

b) Statement of the customer’s requirements from the application

· Proposal must contain client’s actual requirement, besides the description about the project development that can help clients to identify their needs.

c) Description of the solution of the proposed project, along with reasons and rationales for the solutions.

· Project building method ideas should consider the client’s requirement, their
necessity and the importance of project’s solution options itself.

d) Choices available in a project’s development

· The phase of defining the project from the online and offline. If there are budget
amendments, it has to be stated here.

e) Diagram structure of the proposed project

· Diagram such as the Gantt Chart, Data Flow and others helps the customers to
understand the project’s flow, compared with just reading about the project.

f) Description of human resource requirement’s description structure

· The proposal has to briefly list down the details of the members in the development team, based on their specialties. Avoid giving various works to a developer, because this will result in a task overlapping during the workflow, and
finally it will bring bad effects to the project’s development.

g) Task breakdown and scheduling process

· At this stage, the project manager has to sketch the diagram of job distribution
structure. For example, in every phase to be executed, the manager sets the estimated output. The proposal should also have the complete schedule for the
project.

h) Cost/payment structure in the project development

· Project development total cost stated here in detail by referring to the policy of
company payment policy.

i) The project’s boundaries

· The project development technology is expanding, so there will be boundaries during the project’s development. The boundary of the project is based on the
situation of the developer, customers and the technology itself.