Strayer CIS517 Week 10 Term Paper- Final Project

CIS 517 Week 10 Term Paper Final
Project
Term Paper: Final Project
Due Week 10 and worth 100 points
This assignment consists of two (2) sections: a written paper and
a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). You must submit the two (2) sections as
separate files for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name
according to the section of the assignment it is written for.
The final term project for this course is based off the background
that follows below. Your submission will demonstrate your mastery of project
management techniques and tools such as Microsoft Project management in
accordance with the PMBOK® knowledge and process areas. You will be graded on
the quality, supported assumptions, and the level of detail.
Background
You are a small project management consulting company called
Big-Proj that is looking for that big break. You are one of ten (1 of 10)
project managers in your organization. Recently, you made a persuasive and
high-level presentation of your company’s approach to managing projects on time
and on schedule in accordance with the PMBOK®. Leads are pouring in. It looks
like business is about to pick up.
Your small but experienced team of ten (10) PMP-certified project
managers have managed a wide range of small capital projects, namely wiring
closets, wireless, data center moves, network upgrades, and ERP deployments.
You have been selected to initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and control and
close a data center move in a 30-day period.
Overview
Fiction Corporation is a large national retail chain of 10,000
employees and 500 retail outlets. Fiction is moving its primary data center operation
to a new headquarters building several miles away. The company wishes to
upgrade its network and correct any security flaws in its infrastructure as
part of this move. The Fiction CEO has informed you that the capital budget
cannot exceed $500,000 and must not interrupt business operations. What follows
is a brief overview that will serve as your foundation in developing the
network design.
The data in the center supports remote retail locations, an
off-site 100-seat call center and 3 remote warehousing operations 24 hours a
day. Any significant downtime to its production systems would impact Fiction
Corporation’? s operations and profitability. From the data processing
viewpoint, the move includes 2 large UPS, 4 RS/6000 AIX application servers, 10
virtualized servers, and 20 PC servers.
The network consists of approximately 500 remote location retail
stores connected via frame relay (with ISDN backup) to 10 routers at the data
center running a common LAN shared by the entire organization. The retail
operations also run WLANs that are on their own subnet. You will have a T1 link
and ISDN as its backup. Network managers also need to monitor the status of
remote systems. The SNMP management system must be able to detect and report
failure of the remote system or its communications link and the status of
individual applications.
The company wishes a seamless migration that minimizes impact to
its customers and employees. Any gaps in this background will require you to
make sound technical and persuasive assumptions that satisfy the customer’s
goals that are within the budget guidelines.
You were selected in part due to your detailed analysis and
agreement to an implementation cost that will not exceed $500,000. Your network
migration plan will be in accordance to the PMBOK® process areas and will use
standard project management software to manage the budget and associated tasks.
Key to the success of this plan is adherence to the scope, time, and cost
baseline.
Technically, the client must ensure the availability of a T1 link
between the remote sites to support remote bridging and development of
configurations for all the remote routers.
Students may have to create fictitious assumptions and details in
support of this assignment.
Section 1: Written paper
Required Format (MS Project File)
Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page paper in which you: Describe
how you would initiate the project. Create a project plan for moving the data
center, considering the budget and time constraints. Develop an inclusive plan
that incorporates the five (5) process areas and nine (9) knowledge areas of
the PMBOK®. Describe how you will monitor and control the plan. Explain the
methods you would use to close the project. Use at least three (3) quality
resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not
qualify as quality resources.
Section 1 of your assignment must follow these formatting
requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12),
with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or
school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional
instructions. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the
student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover
page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page
length.