Project Schedule and Plan

Project: Data Analytics Project for Peregrine Engineering

Throughout this semester, you will be applying your learning each week in order to plan, execute and manage a data analytics project for your organization, Peregrine Engineering.

About Peregrine:

Peregrine is an IT Services company

It does business in all 50 states and around the globe. There are three main lines of business:

● Field/tech support ● Cloud computing services ● IT solution consulting services

There is a recent desire to become involved in the emerging Vietnamese market because a relationship one of the board members has with a significant industry player in Vietnam has opened up some opportunities to bring expertise into that emerging market.

In addition, Peregrine leadership feels that they can grab significant domestic market share away from other competitors with a graphical analytical tool that shows dynamically the value of their capabilities when applied to different markets. This is where you come in.

They are going to invest in a program to do that over the next two years. You are a newly hired project manager for Peregrine and you have been asked to run that internal research and development effort.

Yearly investment decisions are made by board composed of directors of Marketing, Operations, HR, and R&D.

Project specifics

Cost: $2.7M budget

Schedule: 2 years in the hands of the sales force

Scope:

● Multiple analytical views to take into account customer market, customer market penetration, main competitor data, value of improved information cycle time, value that rapid implementation through Peregrine would bring over multiple time horizons, in each of the different product offering areas

● Needs to be done internally to ensure the safety of the Intellectual Property ● Needs to be able to be run by sales force in different countries, reaching back

to Peregrine data centers ● Needs to be able to be supported remotely

Estimates to build to:

● Model development $500K ● Data collection and verification $200k ● Results validation $200k ● Analytical View Development $400k ● $200k hardware, ● $300k data center buildout ● Training $200k ● Rollout $100k ● Management $300k ● Management Reserve 10%

Staffing specifics

Company Analyst rate: $100/hr. 6 months to effectiveness

Company Manager rate: $150/hr: 2 months to effectiveness

External Contractors (average) rate: $200/hr; 1 month to effectiveness

Supplier specifics

New data center build-out to support will estimate is $250k

Assignment:

This week, generate both a Microsoft Word project plan and a Microsoft Project schedule that will be the basis for the execution of the project.

In the project plan document, you will lay out in words the specific approach for the project, pulling much of the verbiage from the prior week’s proposal. The plan will have the following sections:

● Introduction that describes the project end state and the time and general resources it will take

● It will include an allocated monthly budget spread. This is to give the finance team an idea of how much cash they need to have available to spend for this project monthly.

● Scope of the project (what will be involved) ● You will also include a brief one or two line section for each of the following:

○ a communication plan ○ a risk plan ○ a supplier management plan ○ quality plan.

● Those four plans will be brief for now with some initial thoughts. The reason is that we will refine them further as the weeks and modules progress through those subjects.

In the schedule, you must break down the major project into multiple phases including requirements definition, design, test, implementation. You must include all of the labor involved and their cost using the resourcing tools within Microsoft Project. You must be able to show at a task rollup level the following costs by section:

● Model development $500K ● Data collection and verification $200k ● Results validation $200k ● Analytical View Development $400k ● $200k hardware, ● $300k data center buildout ● Training $200k ● Rollout $100k ● Management $300k ● Management Reserve 10%

Other attributes of the Schedule:

● All sections of the schedule will be broken down into smaller sub-tasks no smaller than 2 weeks and no larger than 1 month.

● All of the staffing will be leveled to no more than 40 hours per work week. ● All hardware costs will be accounted for in the cost of the task in the schedule

at the time that they are purchase or installed depending on how you build those elements into the schedule.

When the schedule is complete add a single task at the top titled "Project Summary" and indent out all of the tasks by one indention level. This will ensure that the Project Summary Supertask has the summary of all of your project costs, SPI/CPI and all that stuff at a glance.