Project Management_Scope and Schedule

Course : :Project Management Course Project Overview: This course project introduces an opportunity to explore all the project stages (from inception to closing) facilitated by the well-known Project Management Group Processes (initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, an d closure) as outlined in the PMBOK® Guide. Two Project Options: Data Center Transformation – to complete a migration strategy/plan to complete the following two tasks: On-Premise Transformation Infrastructure And Application Migration to The Cloud Pick your own project: Students will have the option to also choose their own project – project scope will need to be approved by the course instructor As you progress through the weekly materials in the course, you will apply the key principles and knowledge areas ( Scope, cost, schedule, quality, resources, risk management, procurement, communication, and stakeholder managem ent) to your project. You will use Microsoft Project software to track the entire project management plan (PMP), dev elop the schedule, and track the overall progress of the project. As the project manager (PM) for a medium-scale pro ject, you will apply fundamental principles and best practices to conduct your project from inception to closing. Eac h assignment provides further detail. Known Scope: The project will address client’s needs to upgrade their 3 existing legacy data centers and migrate eligible applicatio ns to the Cloud: Total of 3 primary data centers (2 for Production and 1 for Disaster Recovery) All 3 data centers share redundant WAN circuits (2 MPLS and 1 Point-2Point) for users and data traffic Client has a total of 145 enterprise applications and 1350 servers: 450 Windows Servers 550 Unix Servers 350 ESX, VMWare, and legacy AIX servers Allowed project budget is $1.5 Million with a $150K for contengecies The client is open to the top 3 Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) You have the ability to assemble your team Stakeholders are also open to your specific and project needs (define their roles and responsibilities as you see them fit) All 3 Data centers are in the United States – the DR DC must be on a different State for recovery purposes Requirements: Meet the weekly assignments’ requirements (total of 4 assignments to complete the entire project) within the 8 week s duration of the course. You will be assigned as the main PM for the project, where you will own the entire project Your course instructor will act at the project sponsor – can address all your questions and concerns and will provide you feedback during the weekly assignments submissions. The project will include internal and external stakeholders, vendors, team members, and contractors.

A well-defined project charter must be approved by course instructor by end of week one. Your final project management plan as well as the weekly submissions must adhere to the following formatting requ irements: APA version 7 is the required format for the entire paper. Turnitin tool Weekly Assignment - Structure: Week 2 - Project Charter: At the end of week 2, you are to create and submit the project charter. This is the first offi cial document to be reviewed and approved by the project sponsor. Project charter will include the following compo nents: High-level project scope High-level project requirements Business needs Early estimation and forecasted cost Stakeholder analysis (roles and responsibilities) High-level Communication plan High-Level Resource plan Early risk indications Week 4 – Scope and Schedule: At the end of week 4, you are to finalize the initial approved scope from week one an d start building the project schedule. In this week, you are also to work on building the project Work-Breakdown Str ucture (WBS). Project scope and schedule will include the following components: Finalized project scope Project requirements – in more details WBS structure Developed project schedule Identify key milestones and deliverables Outline project resources and assign them to tasks accordingly. Stakeholder engagement – communication plan Week 6 – Budget and Risk Management: At the end of week 6, you are to finalize the overall project cost and clearl y document project risks gathered throughout the project. As part of risk management plan, you are expected to shar e a risk response plan. Project cost and risk management plans will include the following components: Overall project budget (utilizing EVM – share current and forecasted project status) Project requirements – updated Cost management plan – outlining contingency plan for project changes Detailed risk management plan Risk response plan Risk mitigation plan Change management process How project RAID (Risk, Assumption, Issues, and Dependencies) will be managed Stakeholder engagement – communication plan Week 8 – Quality and Project Closure: At the end of week 8, you are to finalize the overall project management plan

(PMP). In this week, you are to integrate all previously submitted components incorporated with instructor (project sponsor) feedback into a single project management plan. Project management plan will include the following comp onents: Project quality management plan to include an updated scope, cost, schedule, communication, risk, resources, procur ement, and quality) Updated changes – Change Request (if any) Project requirements – updated Stakeholder register – updated How project RAID (Risk, Assumption, Issues, and Dependencies) Document project lessons-learned Project sponsor approval of the key project deliverables For the project submission: Students can use MS project (if they have access to it) or MS Excel, Word documents, and any other free related soft ware they are able to access as long as they meet the assignment’s scoring rubrics/guidelines.