Development of a New Information Technology Centre

This paper reflects the role and application of project management knowledge and practices and its positive impact in organizational success and competitive advantages.

Running head: DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTRE
Development of a New Information Technology Centre
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Section 1
Executive Summary
This paper reflects the role and application of project management knowledge and
practices and its positive impact in organizational success and competitive advantages. The
project that has been nominated in the paper is development of a new information technology
centre in New South Wales, Australia. In order to develop the new Information technology
centre the different project knowledge areas n which the assigned project manager needs to focus
on are scope management plan, communication management plan, schedule, cost resource and
quality management plan. Before initiation of the project associates are required to identify
proper resources (both physical and human) in terms of hardware, software and technical experts
as well.
It is determined that is proper resources and budget is estimated by the project manager
before the initiation of the project then it would be able to meet the expected outcomes and
primary project objectives as well. In order to resolve these risks the project manager must
prepare a risk register considering the impact and possibilities of occurrences of the risks. For
this project triple project constraints have been selected in terms of cope, time and budget. The
project is assumed to be accomplished within the budget and time of respectively $65 Million
and 12 months. If any one of these assumption factor or KM area is missed or evaluated in a
wrong manner then the project would fail to meet the primary objectives.

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Section 2
Project vision
The vision of the project is to develop an Information Technology Data Centre in New
South Wales, Australia to increase the overall organization’s operational and functional
efficiency by reducing risks like lack of security, over running time, over allocation of resources
and budget. In addition to that, the other vision of the project is to give application flexibility and
scalability for the data those have been stored in the server.
Project objectives
 To identify proper IT supporting infrastructure for the development of the data
center in terms of network, hardware and software elements
 To accomplish the project within estimated budget of $65 Million and time of 1
months
 To hire IT expects and make sure that the IT data centre is giving high level
security and confidentiality to the data those have stored in the server
Project scope
The scope of the project is to set up an IT infrastructure in the identified location to build
the centre. For this particular project the risks that may create negative impact are- identification
of inadequate resources, lack of availability of skilled IT experts, improper cost and time
management etc. The project should be developed followed by proper project development
phases. The clients require having an information technology centre to provide flexibility,
reliability, security, confidentiality and scalability to both the working project employees and
consumers as well. The net budget estimated for the project is $40 Million and the project client

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has also invested a new budget of $25 million to incorporate latest IT infrastructure while
developing the centre.
Project deliverables
The deliverable of the project is to design and develop the Information Technology data
center in New South Wales, Australia within the budget of $65 Million and 12 months
considering all security measures.
Project phasing, staging and gateway reviews
In order to execute this project the project associates should adopt Iterative project
development life cycle phases followed by project initiation, planning, design, monitoring and
control and project closure. Each of the project development phases are interconnected to each
other and the output of one phase act input to the very next phase. The details of the project
development phases are elaborated in the below section:
Project initiation: In this phase the project scope statement will be prepared and shared
among the project team members. As soon as the project scope is developed it become the
responsibility of the project assigned project team members to understand the scope and
objectives of the project.
Project planning phase: The different planning actions associated to the project
development are conducted in this phase. As the project is large in size it is subdivided into
smaller segment. For each phase different resources, time and budget are needed to be assigned
and it becomes their responsibilities to accomplish the identified activities in that time phase
only.

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Project design phase: In this phase the entire set of the Information technology data
centre is designed and developed.
Monitoring and control: Whether the project is progressing towards correct direction or
not is checked in this phase and based on the requested changes the change management
activities are needed to be implemented in this phase. The other actions that are adopted in this
phase include implementation of security with encryption, firewall etc.
Closure: The project closed with stakeholder’s signoff and post project maintainance
program.

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