Preliminary study: Professional Collaboration Application with Project Management Tools

This paper studies the understanding and daily need of project management team in the software industry. With the rise in online working environment, the organizations emphasize on daily productivity in the hybrid working mode. To fulfill and solve the market need, Straper is proposed as a project management and collaboration tool to increase daily productivity and reduce the project development cost in the long run. This paper will focus on studying the background of online collaboration that is specific in project management topics. The problem that exists in online collaboration nowadays will be further explored and documented in detail. A total number of 10 literature reviews were conducted by the research in order to explore the domain knowledge and understand the related technology or standard process in-depth. Primary investigations were conducted through questionnaires and interviews to determine and validate the system requirement. Results and analysis show there is still a high value for Straper in the market and able to improve the quality of organization's working mode in the daily basis.