Weekly Assignment – Structure: Document 1 <\/p>\n
Week 2 – Project Charter:\u00a0At the end of week two, you are to create and submit the project charter. This is the first official document to be reviewed and approved by the project sponsor.
The project charter will include the following components:<\/p>\n
Project title<\/p>\n
Purpose<\/p>\n
Description<\/p>\n
Objective<\/p>\n
Success criteria or expected benefits<\/p>\n
Funding<\/p>\n
Major deliverables<\/p>\n
Acceptance criteria<\/p>\n
Milestone schedule<\/p>\n
Key assumptions<\/p>\n
Constraints<\/p>\n
Major risks<\/p>\n
Approval requirements<\/p>\n
Project manager<\/p>\n
Reporting requirements<\/p>\n
Sponsor designee<\/p>\n
Approval signatures required<\/p>\n
Document 2<\/p>\n
Summary:<\/p>\n
Scope and Schedule:\u00a0At the end of week 4, you are to finalize the initially approved scope from week two and start building the project schedule. In this week, you are also to work on building the project Work-Breakdown Structure (WBS). Project scope and schedule will include the following components:<\/p>\n
– Finalized project scope
– Project requirements \u2013 in more details
– WBS structure
– Developed project schedule
– Identify key milestones and deliverables
– Outline project resources and assign them to tasks accordingly.
– Stakeholder engagement \u2013 communication plan<\/p>\n
Document 3<\/p>\n
Summary:<\/p>\n
Budget and Risk Management:\u00a0At the end of this week, you are to finalize the overall project cost and clearly document project risks gathered throughout the project. As part of the risk management plan, you are expected to share a risk response plan. Project cost and risk management plans will include the following components:<\/p>\n
–\u00a0Overall project budget (utilizing EVM \u2013 share current and forecasted project status)
–\u00a0Project requirements \u2013 updated
–\u00a0Cost management plan \u2013 outlining contingency plan for project changes
–\u00a0Detailed risk management plan
–\u00a0Risk response plan
–\u00a0Risk mitigation plan
–\u00a0Change management process
–\u00a0How project RAID (Risk, The assumption, Issues, and Dependencies) will be managed
–\u00a0Stakeholder engagement \u2013 communication plan<\/p>\n
Document 4<\/p>\n
Summary:<\/p>\n
Final week, you are to finalize the overall project management plan (PMP) and to ntegrate all previously submitted components incorporated with instructor (project sponsor) feedback into a single project management plan. The project management plan will include the following components:<\/p>\n
–\u00a0Project quality management plan to include an updated scope, cost, schedule, communication, risk, resources, procurement, and quality)
–\u00a0Updated changes \u2013 Change Request (if any)
–\u00a0Project requirements \u2013 updated
–\u00a0Stakeholder register \u2013 updated
–\u00a0How project RAID (Risk, Assumption, Issues, and Dependencies)
–\u00a0Document project lessons-learned
–\u00a0Project sponsor approval of the key project deliverables<\/p>\n
Overview:<\/p>\n
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, and closure) as outlined in the\u00a0PMBOK\u00ae Guide.
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Two Project Options:<\/p>\n
1. Data Center Transformation \u2013 to complete a migration strategy\/plan to complete the following two tasks:
a. On-Premise Transformation
b.\u00a0Infrastructure And Application Migration to The Cloud<\/p>\n
OR<\/p>\n
2. Pick your own project:
a.\u00a0Students will have the option to also choose their own project \u2013 project scope will need to be approved by the course instructor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Background:\u00a0
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 management) to your project. You will use Microsoft Project software, or other appropriate software including Microsoft Excel to track the entire project management plan (PMP), develop the schedule, and track the overall progress of the project. As the project manager (PM) for a medium-scale project, you will apply fundamental principles and best practices to conduct your project from inception to closing. Each assignment provides further detail
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Known Scope:
The project will address client\u2019s needs to upgrade their 3 existing legacy data centers and migrate eligible applications to the Cloud:
–\u00a0Total of 3 primary data centers (2 for Production and 1 for Disaster Recovery)
–\u00a0All 3 data centers share redundant WAN circuits (2 MPLS and 1 Point-2Point) for users and data traffic
–\u00a0Client has a total of 145 enterprise applications and 1350 servers:
o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0450 Windows Servers
o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0550 Unix Servers
o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0350 ESX, VMWare, and legacy AIX servers
–\u00a0Allowed project budget is $1.5 Million with a $150K for contingencies
–\u00a0The client is open to the top 3 Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud)
–\u00a0You have the ability to assemble your team
–\u00a0Stakeholders are also open to your specific and project needs (define their roles and responsibilities as you see them fit)
–\u00a0All 3 Data centers are in the United States \u2013 the DR DC must be on a different State for recovery purposes
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Requirements:
–\u00a0Meet the weekly assignments\u2019 requirements (total of 4 assignments to complete the entire project) within the 8 weeks duration of the course.
–\u00a0You will be assigned as the main PM for the project, where you will own the entire project
–\u00a0Your course instructor will act at the project sponsor \u2013 can address all your questions and concerns and will provide you feedback during the weekly assignments submissions.
–\u00a0The project will include internal and external stakeholders, vendors, team members, and contractors.
–\u00a0A well-defined project charter must be approved by course instructor by end of week two.
–\u00a0Your final project management plan, as well as the weekly submissions, must adhere to the following formatting requirements:
a.\u00a0APA version 7 is the required format for the entire paper.
b.\u00a0Turnitin tool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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