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Information technology has become an integral part of the global community as well as every business practices around the world because of rapid industrialization as well as globalization. The aim of effective project management is to make sure that all the project profile, selection criteria and business value works towards the common goal of success in the organization in the market among its competitors(de Oliveira Moraes & Barbin Laurindo, 2013). A project is a set of tasks or a massive endeavor that consists of people, resources and technology to implement an IT project solution in any organization. It should consider having start and end dates with all the phases tightly integrated with each other.

The Information technology project which I am currently a part of is re-designing a legacy insurance system into a web-based portal. In any insurance industry, there are a lot of perks to be considered while designing the user interface for the consumers and the insurance agents. There are various modules in the legacy system among which this project is focused on re-designing the APH which is known as the actual production history module. There are a set of smaller chunks of enhancement project portfolios that consists of close to 1000 rules for the development of the APH web-based portal.

The scope of the project is confined to the APH module to be incorporated in a newer version of the web-based portal for the insurance agents which consists of the deliverable of creating 800-1000 business insurance rules which includes API design, forms layout, automated calculation, data integration and population etc. The result would be that all the insurance business rules have been identified, reviewed, updated and stored in the repository along with the newly designed a web-based portal for the APH module. The major constraints that I faced was understanding the insurance policy logic, complex calculations and lengthy business rules with multiple scenarios and the troubleshooting steps that I took was to divide the longer rules into sub-rules, gather any previous systems design or artifacts to get clarity of my thoughts, reached out to legacy users and systems owners to understand the complexity level of those business rules.

If I had to do the same project again, I would create a centralized repository for business rules thus implementing transparency, visibility, accountability as well as responsibility among all the project members to have some level of maturity and understanding of the complexities of the rules, system design as well as the user interface of the whole APH module web-based portal.

References

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