assignment 4

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Project Scope Statement

Capella University

Project and product objectives.

The objective of the project is to describe the project of Planet Inc. desires to relocate its data center from California to Austin, Texas and this process is required to occur seamless in order to ensure minimum impact on clients.

Product or service requirements.

· Startup income by the owners to cover the operational costs in the initiation process from feasibility study

· Technical and financial ability of the potential to carry out as well manage the works from preliminary stage to construction till the operation and maintenances of the project.

· Building, structures, functional facilities and transport should be completely considered

· Vehicles are needed for transporting

· Hired designated agent by the owners:

· Project manager

· drivers

· Technical consultant

· Project coordinator

Product acceptance criteria.

Acceptance method will maintain thorough cross checking as well as effective completion of the project that tends to be qualitative as well as quantitative. Maximum acceptance criteria should be met so as to attain the effectiveness of the project: meet all the deliverables as well as milestones in scheduled time as well as per project requirements; and 100% return of investment after 2 years of business operation (Chen, et al., 2013).

Project boundaries.

The project process will involve five phases which will include stage 1 involves launching the project; stage 2 will involve developing a team; stage 3 will developing an execution plan; stage 4 will work on transporting the material and the last stage will involve transportation.

Project assumptions.

Functionality: the scope of the project is limited to the explained in the project charter. Formal charter and scope change procedure will be implemented.

Budgetary: The moving funds of the owners will be accessible on approval of the project charter

Resources: Required employees will be accessible when and as requires; equipment will be accessible on when as well as they need

Project constraints.

Some constrains have been identified for this project. It is imperative that considerations be made for the constraints throughout the project lifecycle. All stakeholder should remain mindful of these constraints since they should be effectively planned for to prevent any adverse effects of the project’s schedule, expense as well as scope.

Initial project organization.

Chief Executive

Functional Manager

Manager of Project Manager

Functional Manager

Functional Manager

Project manager

Staff

Staff

Staff

Project manager

Staff

Staff

Staff

Initial risk assessment.

We visited Austin being where the firm was relocating to. We identified the potential hazards, ie anything that could cause harm to our firm; identified that parties that would be harmed; we assessed the risks and identified the potential solutions to these issues (WORKSMART, 2021).

Scheduled milestones.

Milestone	Date
Approved Preliminary Project Plan	10/10/2021
Feasibility Report Approval	15/10/2021
Approved project charter	20/10/2021
Approved Business Case	30/10/2021
Engagement of consultants	04/11/2021
Conceptual architecture approval	10/11/2021
Preliminary project approval	20/11/2021

High-level work breakdown structure (WBS)

Relocating Project

Develop an execution phase

Transportation

Settling

Developing a team

Launch the project

Develop a high level overview

Corporate shareholder Research

Employees

Project manager

Systems

Team leader

Stakeholder interviews

Machines

Staff

Project Charter

Project scope definition

Order of magnitude cost estimate.

Aspects	Costs ($)
Purchase new machine and servers	500, 000
Physical transport of servers, other machines, workers and company vehicles	100, 000
Technical designs implementation of hardware	100, 000
Technical labor	100, 000
Monitoring intrusion and maintenance	50, 000

Project configuration management requirements.

Description	Main Participants	Effective Date
Create an effective team	James, J.	11/10/2021
Developing a plan on the processes of the activates	John, K.	20/10/2021
Ensuring that all the activities have been implemented as planned.	Lowland, I.	05/10/2021

Approval requirements.

Prepared by:

Approved by:

References

Chen, M., Jin, H., Wen, Y., & Leung, V. C. (2013). Enabling technologies for future data center networking: a primer. Ieee Network, 27(4), 8-15

WORKSMART. (2021). What are the five steps to risk assessment? Retrieved from https://worksmart.org.uk/health-advice/health-and-safety/hazards-and-risks/what-are-five-steps-risk-assessment