...Garima Shah Strayer University 6.17.2014 Fiction Corp Network Upgrade Wide-IP Corp June 2014 Table of contents Executive summary Project goal Project scope Design requirements: a. Business goals b. Technical goals c. User communities and data stores d. Network applications 7. Current state of the network Logical design Physical design Results of network design testing Implementation plan with a project schedule Project budget with a return on investment calculation Design document appendix Executive summary * Move Fiction Corporation’s data center to a new, state-of-the-art data center with improved networking capabilities to provide support and service to the existing organization, retail centers and any future expansion * Ensure Network security is reviewed and improved upon * Ensure minimal or zero network downtime for existing business operations during the move Project goal * Seamless migration of the data center to the new location with minimal or zero disruption to the current business operations * Assess current security flaws and provide solutions to eliminate flaws * Quality assurance-monitor the status of remote systems and determine feasible success /failure toward seamless migration and updated network system Project scope * The scope of the project is to migrate the existing data center to a new location; to assess and eliminate current security flaws in the network * Upgrade and improve...
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...Retail Project Manager Main Scope of Duties and Responsibilities: Manage & Maintain the Retail Project Plan to ensure key deliverables are delivered on time, within budget and meet GIB quality standards * Manage and maintain Retail Microsoft Project Plans ensuring weekly updates are applied in a timely manner * Attend weekly planning meetings & provide status reports & minutes, provide early warnings of potential delays & mitigation plans, escalate issues requiring management direction * Assist resource planning, estimation of effort & assigment of tasks * Track Key dependencies with other GIB departments & vendors ensuring timely delivery * Manage & maintain Retail Issues Log and escalate to management, as required * Manage & maintain Retail Risk Log & Mitigation Plans, update management, as required * Coordinate with ITPMO to ensure accurate reporting of deliverables between Retail & IT * Attend weekly meeting with EPMO, document actions & follow up to resolve issues * Attend vendor & GIB project planning & strategies workshops, as required * Collate project deliverables, perform quality checks & file in appropriate project directories, ensure hard copies filed in project library, as required * Assist the Change Management process for MSP changes, System & Process changes * Assist planning, monitoring & reporting of User Acceptance Testing * Support planning...
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...PROJECT MANAGEMENT Launching the First Hamleys Toy Shop In Vietnam Table of Content 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 2. PROJECT PURPOSE/JUSTIFICATION 1 2.1. Business need/Case 1 2.2. Business objectives 1 3. PROJECT DESCRIPTION 1 3.1. Project objectives and success criteria 1 3.2. Constraint 2 3.3. Assumptions 2 3.4. Preliminary Scope Statement 2 4. RISK 3 4.1. Risk Assessment Form 3 4.2. Risk Assessment Matrix 4 5. PROJECT DELIVERABLES 4 6. PROJECT APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS 4 7. SUMMARY MILESTONE SCHEDULE 5 8. WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE 7 9. COST BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE 8 10. PROJECT MANAGER 9 11. AUTHORIZATION 9 12. REFERENCES 10 13. APPENDIX 10 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Hamleys is the finest toy shop known and trusted all over the world. Since its establishment in 1970, it has developed the wide chain of shops in many countries. To access more customers and to expand to new potential market in Asia, Hamleys Toy has planned to launch this brand in Vietnam market in 2015. This project is to handle preparation process to set up new store and organize the launching event of this brand in Vietnam 2. PROJECT PURPOSE/JUSTIFICATION 3.1. Business need/Case The major purpose of this project management is to prepare to set up the first Hamleys Toy shop and to organize the launching event in Vietnam. Even one of the most rapid developing countries in Asia with high GDP and the increase of income in middle-income population, Vietnam have still underdeveloped...
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...translate corporate strategy into operational initiatives. This is being done at Kings, mostly driven my internal mechanisms in a non traditional manner of directing from inside as opposed from the owners. Direct IT governance at Kings does not follow any traditional business model we could find. For example, not only is there no board representation from IT, there isn't even a CIO for either Kings Supermarkets or Balduccis. In summary, the Board of Directors delegates the running of IT to an eight member senior management committee. One member of that committee, currently the CFO is responsible for IT matters, and thus sits as the chair of a steering committee that governs major IT projects. Solving for the Agency problem The Agency problem for IT is managed at arm’s length by the Board of Directors, which does contain Angelo, Gordon members; however, corporate IT does not have a seat at this table. The board, in turn governs an eight person senior management committee, all of which are Kings employees, but again, sans an IT heavyweight. There is third party, independent IT oversight further down the chain of command at the steering committee level, however, it is limited to the committee’s engagement of PwC as a qualified independent external consultants to help them formulate strategy. It is unclear whether their findings are independently reported to the board, thus providing an additional level of independence. IT steering committee IT strategy is formed and...
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...Problem Statement The Foundation Schools will keep the costs down with the school by collaborating with the community that has played a key factor by keeping the school successful. AT&T’s individual and corporate strategy as well as identify education and training needs to meet career goals of the associates and the needs of the business. AT&T uses the following methods to determine the education and training needs relative to their growth and the company to include customer feedback, observation of behaviors, professional goals, strategic direction, and competitive analysis (Best Practices, 1999, p. 29). AT&T CCS has integrated employee development and career planning into its human resource strategy. By making employee development a cornerstone of its human performance system model, AT&T CCS signals its importance to managers and employee alike (Best Practices, 1999, p. 29). It is similar to Foundation Schools, Nancy’s leadership has been a key reason the school has achieved its current reputation. She focuses her time on developing her staff, investigation and implementing new approaches to learning, and ensuring the school maintains its position as a leader in special education (UOP, 2011,p.2) To foster commitment, involvement and innovation, AT&T CCS employs a variety of team and individual involvement approaches. To measure and manage performance, AT&T uses three key measures to determine performance to include (1) people value added (PVA)...
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...our current team project proposal into a laid out planned structure. The activities will be arranged in a chart form to help collect the necessary details to establish an increase in business for The Brand X stores. During the planning stages of the planned structure, all of the deliverables were collected. In the beginning, we starting by applying the principles of S.M.A.R.T. (specific, measurable attainable realistic and tangible) to our information thereby making it into more manageable steps. In doing this, we created a visual definition of our project scope. Ever increasingly, the visible action helped our team and stakeholders understand how each step would lead to the successful completion of our project. "Plan Human Resource Management is the process of identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, required skills, reporting relationships, and creating a staffing management plan" (Project Management Institute, 2013, "Chapter 9: Project Human Resource Management"). What is Work Breakdown Structure? The structure is an effective project deliverable that helps to organize a team's work into manageable sections. The defining of work in this structure breaks down all the specific information about a project so the work will be executed correctly. The process also provides a more measured explanation of the work steps to make them more attainable. By creating a visual concept, this allows the project becomes more realistic...
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...to best suite AcuScan. Summary of the Situation The initiation of Project “Operation Optimize” has not started off on a good note with many, and has not progressed far as there is a disconnect in communication between department management. The competition is quickly approaching the launch of their product to the market as a breakthrough product for the retail market. With the declining economy and still the company still growing, AcuScan must enter the retail market in order to survive. The launch of a new product since the inception of the company could be essential to the survival of and further success of AcuScan, Inc. The departmental issues are in no way helping the company beat the competition to the August deadline, in fact the company will not meet the deadline with agreements are not made soon. With the required budget cuts looming over the departments with the promise not to cut jobs, along with the time constraints the department managers are not assisting one another in the progression of this project. To remedy the situation and get “Operation Optimize” back on track a solution must be reached by all parties involved and the project must be started as soon as possible under the circumstances. Key Points Aforementioned, the disagreements between several senior staff members are not allowing the project to move forth. Pat Lambert and Kelly Thomas cannot agree on the project to be developed including the time table and workload of the...
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...JCPC-DCTH-RGCT-CPWA-57Resume » Management Resume A resume is as good as an advertisement for oneself. Therefore ensure that you market yourself well. It is your resume, so make it as professional as you can. A management resume must present your information quickly, clearly, and in a way that makes your experience relevant to the position in consideration. That means condensing your information to its most powerful form. Contact Information : 1. Full name 2. Campus and permanent addresses 3. Telephone numbers 4. Email address Objective : In your management resume, create a brief headline that encapsulates your career goal and one or two of your top qualifications. For example: 'A leadership sales position with a world class and high-integrity food products company'. Advertisement | | Include a Career Summary section in your management resume and highlight your most important strengths. To create your summary, review job postings to get a good feel for what hiring managers find desirable. Specify a list of your matching credentials and incorporate these into the summary. For example: 'A versatile and skilled sales/marketing professional with leadership qualities and excellent hands-on experience in developing and improving sales for wholesale and retail operations. An assertive manager with outstanding interpersonal communications, negotiation and people management skills'. Education : List your highest degree first. 1. Name of institution, city and...
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...Clothes 'R' Us Point-of-Sale Initiative: Managing IT Programs by Mark Jeffery, Joseph F. Norton, Derek Yung, Alex Gershbeyn Source: Kellogg School of Management 22 pages. Publication Date: Jan 01, 2006. Prod. #: KEL304-PDF-ENG The case concerns a real $25 million program consisting of nine concurrent projects to deliver and implement a custom-built in-store customer relationship management (CRM) system and a new point-of-sale system in 400 stores of a national retail chain. The name of the company has been disguised for confidentiality reasons. Once deployed, the new system should give Clothes R' Us a significant strategic advantage over competitors in the marketplace; it will increase in-store manager productivity, cut costs, and ultimately drive increased sales for the retail chain. The program is in crisis, however, because the product managers have just left to join a competitor. The explicit details of the program are given, including examples of best practice program governance and the real activity network diagram for the program. Detailed Excel spreadsheets are also provided with the actual earned value data for the program. Students analyze the spreadsheets and the data given in the case to diagnose the impact of the most recent risk event and past risk events that occurred in the program. Ultimately students must answer the essential executive questions: What is wrong with the program? How should it be fixed, and what is the impact in time and money to the program...
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...facets of the business that goes into play in developing the business idea. I own a clothing retail store Closet Connection, in developing this idea I needed to make sure that the elements of the business were structured properly so that the company could sustain in an uncontrollable fluctuating market. Running a clothing retail store has the ability to (1) allow me the owner to express my fashion forte, and (2) make decisions as to expansion, relocation and fashion trends as I see fit. The flexibility of ownership forces me to use creativity outside of the norm. Legal, Social and Economic Environments Casual Closet was established in 2009 by a couple who lives in the Suburb areas of Detroit Michigan. The couple opened this retail market in what is called a “Flea Market setting.” Because of the high rents associated with strip malls and shopping malls this was the most economical environment to start a new business. Casual Closet provides upscale urban wear for men and women at affordable prices. The store also carries handbags, scarves belts and a variety of fragrances. Casual Closet provides stylish attire for the consumer and the owners receive profitable income in exchange for a service that is being provided. The owners of Casual Closet would like to have the opportunity to expand in multiple locations and eventually in different cities. The basic legal environment of this retail store is to make sure that employees are treated fairly and the company follows the guidelines...
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...Program Management Plan Project Management Plan apple inc 1 infinite loop Cupertino, Ca. 95014 September 20, 2015 Table of Contents Introduction 2 Project Management Approach 2 Project Scope 3 Milestone List 3 Schedule Baseline and Work Breakdown Structure 4 Change Management Plan 4 Communications Management Plan 5 Cost Management Plan 7 Procurement Management Plan 9 Project Scope Management Plan 9 Schedule Management Plan 10 Quality Management Plan 11 Risk Management Plan 13 Risk Register 13 Staffing Management Plan 13 Resource Calendar 15 Cost Baseline 15 Quality Baseline 16 Sponsor Acceptance 17 Introduction Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and portable digital music players, and sells a variety or related software, services, accessories, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. The Company’s products and services include iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod, Apple TV, a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications, the iOS and OSX operating systems, iCloud, and a variety of accessory, service and support offerings. In September 2014, the Company announced Apple Watch and Apple Pay, which is now available. The Company also sells and delivers digital content and applications through the iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store and Mac App Store. The Company sells its products worldwide through...
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...question will carry equal (20 marks) and your answer for each question should be around 1000 words: 1. Identify five common project risk strategies employed to address threats that your project may face. Give an example of each. 2. Projects are often completed late. Describe the techniques you would use as a project manager to improve the accuracy and reliability of your project schedule. In responding to the above points, be sure to: * Critique project theory based on your experience and understanding. This is important –don't just "regurgitate" the theory * Provide examples, data or other relevant information to support your discussion. Examples can be from work experience, research, study group experience, for example. They should demonstrate the theoretical points you are asserting in the questions. Part 2 (60 marks) Background As a consultant you have been asked by the Global Retail Solutions Group (GRS) to develop an implementable project plan for a point of sale and stock control system for a proposed chain (DSE) of retail outlets across Australia. You have been supplied the following information, information not available maybe assumed, this will be a competitive bid targeting the dual goals of quick implementation and low cost. DSE is an aggressive player in the growing DIY electronics market with a plan to open a chain of retail outlets to further their growth in the market. Outlets will be located in major cities in seven states. The larger cities...
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...DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING AN IT –BASED PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 1. PROJECT TITLE Developing and Implementing an IT-Based Project Management System 2. BACKGROUND Skills development is one of the major challenges facing the new South Africa on its way to improved living standards for the majority of the population, increased productivity levels and a higher competitiveness on the world market. The Skills Development Act promulgated in 1998 lays the foundation to redress the past by introducing new training systems which place special emphasis on enabling the formerly disadvantaged to actively participate in the country’s economic activities. Since the launch of the Skills Development Strategy in February 2001, a lot of Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs) have made significant contribution in taking forward the broad objectives of the Skills Development Act. Some SETAs have succeeded to effectively co-ordinate education and training programmes at the workplaces by using practical project management approach to manage the learnership implementation. Whilst project management was once the exclusive job of project managers who most often coordinated the activities of specialized, complex, large scale projects, in the more recent years, however, the role of project managers and project management has been changing. The applicability of the project management has widened to include projects of a broad range, from a simple to a complex...
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...Course Project Part 1 Executive Summary – This report provides an analysis and evaluation of the costs and profitability of building a new AT&T retail location to support its growing consumer market. A budget and schedule will be formulated in order to gage the profitability of opening a new location. A WBS (work breakdown schedule) will also be formulated that will give us a breakdown of all work that is to be done. The WBS will give the different workgroups a schedule of responsibilities to adhere to. The cost analysis shows that it will be beneficial for AT&T to build a new location to service its growing customer base in this specific area. There are a couple of areas of concern that require further investigation and action by management. The recommendations discussed include: * Improving the accuracy of customer penetration as compared to location population * Improving/decreasing IT time to deploy all technologies needed in a retail location * Reducing waiting times for contractors to do work The report also investigates the fact that the analysis conducted has limitations. Some of the limitations include: the most resent population numbers in this area are not very current. The cost of a build out in this area is not known since there are no other locations in a 20 mile radius. The average cost of the build out is based on locations being built in neighboring cities. Project Scope Statement – Project Objective This project is being...
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...OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) (Revised) 1. The Program: The importance of „management‟ as a professional study can today be compared with that of obtaining a normal graduate degree in order to be called educated. It is just short of becoming a compulsion. Businesses and institutions are growing in complexity and size. They are cutting across space and time by embracing technology, globalization and information. Mere operational efficiency is no more sufficient. Managerial capabilities have become necessary for firms to act on a global platform. Although there are a large number of institutions offering MBA programs, many of them just churn out non employable MBAs. A good institute must incorporate what the industry requires with changing times. The SMU way to Management degree or diploma is to mould the learning towards this objective. With this perspective it has introduced several programs which are geared to meet the industry requirement. These areas are Banking, Information System, Retail Operations and Healthcare. It is planning to offer more programs in the field of environment, disaster management, and media. The master of business administration (MBA) is an integrated program designed to provide an advanced program in management for those seeking managerial positions in industry, commerce and services. The core subjects are aimed at developing knowledge and skills in fundamental management disciplines. The program also involves participation in group work with students...
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