Implementation of Network System within a Company - Project Management

Running head: PROJECT MANGEMENT
Topic- Implementation of network system within a company
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Table of Contents
1. Project outline........................................................................................................................3
2. Project requirements...............................................................................................................3
3. Project plan.............................................................................................................................4
3.1 Project scope....................................................................................................................4
3.2 WBS.................................................................................................................................5
3.3 Estimated timeline............................................................................................................6
3.4 Resource needs.................................................................................................................8
3.5 Gantt chart......................................................................................................................10
3.6 Network diagram............................................................................................................11
3.7 Estimated cost................................................................................................................11
3.8 Quality plan....................................................................................................................14
3.9 Stakeholder analysis.......................................................................................................16
3.10 Communication plan....................................................................................................17
3.11 Risk management plan.................................................................................................18
3.12 Ethical issue analysis....................................................................................................19
3.13 Project deployment plan...............................................................................................19
4. Crashing project by 2 weeks................................................................................................20
5. Project signoff......................................................................................................................21
6. Post project review and recommendations...........................................................................21
References................................................................................................................................22

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1. Project outline
The paper mainly reflects on the implementation of a network system within a retail
organization. It is identified that the organization have expanded its branches in different
cities of the country and as a result, the organization faces lot of difficulty in accessing data
and information at the same time. In order to resolve this issue, the organization wants to
develop proper network system that will be connected with all the branches of the
organization so that head office can keep proper track on all the branches effectively by
accessing data whenever needed. It is identified that the implementation of the network
system will start on 29-05-18 and will get successfully finished by 30-05-18. The objectives
of the project are listed below:
 To Implement network system within the retail organization
 To access data of all the branches at a time
 To manage the expanded business operation of the organization effectively.
2. Project requirements
The project requirements are mainly divided into functional and non-functional
requirements.
Functional requirements
The functional requirements of the network system for the retail organization are
listed below:
Authentication: It is identified the network system implementation generally
requires proper authentication so that unauthorized users are not allowed within the network
system for accessing information as well as data [1].

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Security: The external interface must assists in protecting the entire network system
from hackers as well as third party for providing higher level of security to the data as well as
information that are present within the entire network system.
Data access: The network system must provide proper facility of data access to the
authorized users from any branch of the organization they can be able to access data as well
as information [3].
Non-functional requirements
The non-functional requirements of the network system for the retail organization are
listed below:
Reliability: The network system implementation must be reliable and can be able to
manage all the data as well as information of the retail organization [5].
Speed: The network system that is implemented must have proper speed so that it can
able to manage the data as well as information quite effectively quite faster.
Maintainability: Proper maintenance facility is needed for the network system, so
that the system can be maintained quite effectively [3].
3. Project plan
3.1 Project scope
The scope of the project is categorized into in-scope and out-scope
In-scope: In-scope of the project are listed below:
 Implementation of the network system within the organization
 Designing logical network as well as physical network
 Making connection with the devices

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 Server deployment
Out scope: Out-scope of the project are listed below:
 Training facility is generally excluded from the project
 Details about the project suppliers are also not included within the project.
3.2 WBS
Figure 1: Work breakdown Structure
(Source: Created by Author)

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3.3 Estimated timeline
It is identified that the implementation of network system can be completed within 77
days. The time that is needed for executing each of the activities of the project are listed in
the table below:
Task Name Duration Start Finish
Implementation of network system for
a company
77 days Tue 29-05-18 Wed 12-09-18
Project initiation phase 9 days Tue 29-05-18 Fri 08-06-18
Business case development 2 days Tue 29-05-18 Wed 30-05-18
Feasibility study 3 days Thu 31-05-18 Mon 04-06-18
Charter development 2 days Tue 05-06-18 Wed 06-06-18
Team members appointment 2 days Thu 07-06-18 Fri 08-06-18
Milestone 1: Completion of initiation
phase
0 days Fri 08-06-18 Fri 08-06-18
Project planning phase' 19 days Mon 11-06-18 Thu 05-07-18
Project plan development 3 days Mon 11-06-18 Wed 13-06-18
Resource plan development' 4 days Thu 14-06-18 Tue 19-06-18
Financial plan development 3 days Wed 20-06-18 Fri 22-06-18
Risk management plan development 2 days Mon 25-06-18 Tue 26-06-18
Quality plan development 3 days Wed 27-06-18 Fri 29-06-18
Procurement plan 2 days Mon 02-07-18 Tue 03-07-18
Development of communication plan 2 days Wed 04-07-18 Thu 05-07-18