Scope Management Plan (SMP)

Industry: Manufacturing, Transportation Equipment & Supplies

Services Provided: Program Management, Project Costing & Scheduling, External Vendor Management, and Mentoring/Coaching

Company: A global company providing land, sea, and air power solutions worldwide. The Company has established leading positions in civil aerospace, defense, marine, and energy markets.

Challenge: With an aging data center and a long-term lease expiring, this company desired to implement a new state-of-the-art data center for its entire North American operations capable

of supporting strategic growth and expansion. After securing $6 million in funding approval and

identifying a new 8,000-square-foot facility location, they were still lacking a proven resource with

prior data center move experience to lead this 10-month, time-sensitive initiative. The Company

did not have an in-house resource with these capabilities and knew they needed the right person

to manage this high-visibility data center move that would serve as the cornerstone of their future

efforts to consolidate other data centers worldwide and modernize their infrastructure.

Solution: With an established vendor relationship already in place, the company turned to PM Solutions who provided an expert program manager with extensive data center move experience. PM Solutions’ program manager led a team of technical IT and engineering

resources, working with additional external resources involved in the program. The first course of action taken by the PM Solutions’ program

manager was to divide the 10-month program into four distinct components with clear objectives as follows:

:: Build out a new state-of-the-art 8,000-square-foot facility

:: Relocate 225 physical and virtual servers along with the supporting network infrastructure to the new data center

:: Perform leasehold improvements on the existing office space and relocate 70 employees from the old data center to their new office

space in the Company’s main office campus

:: De-commission the old data center and return it to the landlord

PM Solutions’ program manager reported directly to the head of the Company’s Global Program Management Office (PMO) and worked

closely with the Company’s Chief Technology Officer for North America as the project sponsor of the initiative. A key attribute of PM

Solutions’ program manager was the ability to work with all groups – from construction trades, to union staff, to senior executives –

possessing a genuine understanding of what each group was doing to accomplish the objectives of the program.

VA L U E D E L I V E R E D

The program management

approach used to deliver

this initiative led by PM

Solutions has now become

the worldwide standard for

large-scale programs and

projects across the client’s

organization.

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The new 8,000-square-foot data center was delivered

on time and within its $6 million budget. All objectives

were met and there was zero business disruption during

the entire 10 months of the project. The Company now

has a modern data center with the capacity to grow by

an additional 33%, allowing for further consolidation

of operations in the future. The program management

approach used to deliver this initiative led by PM Solutions

has been recognized for its professionalism and now

becomes the worldwide standard for large-scale programs

and projects across the client’s organization.

PM Solutions continues to be an invaluable project

management partner to this company and is currently

engaged in other highvisibility projects within its North

American division.

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client successes

results

Consolidating Data Center Operations with Zero Business Disruption

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