Brisbane Office Network: A Project for Western Mining Expansion

This project outlines the network design and configuration for Western Mining's new branch office in Brisbane. It includes a detailed background of the company's needs, such as connecting the Brisbane office with the Sydney headquarters and accommodating up to 510 staff per department. The project features a work breakdown structure, stakeholder analysis, and a project charter defining the scope, purpose, dependencies, assumptions, constraints, and milestones. Additionally, it covers SNMP functionality, a Gantt chart for scheduling tasks, a communication plan, and a risk management plan. The project also addresses copyright compliance, code of ethics, and privacy policies, with relevant questions and answers provided. The network implementation includes both physical and logical designs, along with budget planning and testing procedures, ensuring a robust and efficient network infrastructure for Western Mining's Brisbane operations. Desklib provides access to this and similar solved assignments for students.

Running head: Project Management
Project Management
Name of the Student
Name of the university
Author Note

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Table of Contents
Part 1: Project Requirements......................................................................................................2
TASK 1: Back Ground...........................................................................................................2
Task 2: Work Break Down Structure.....................................................................................4
Task 3.....................................................................................................................................4
Task 4: Project Charter...........................................................................................................5
Task 5: SNMP........................................................................................................................7
Part 2: Scheduling and Managing..............................................................................................8
Task 1: Gantt chart.................................................................................................................8
Task 2: Communication plan...............................................................................................14
Task 3: Risk Management Plan............................................................................................14
Task 4: Closure Report.........................................................................................................15
Part 3 - Question and Answer..................................................................................................17

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Part 1: Project Requirements
TASK 1: Back Ground
Western mining, a Sydney based company and currently want to extend their business
by opening a new branch office in Brisbane. They need an effective network solution in their
Brisbane office in order to enable data flow among the branch devices and with the Sydney
office. In the Brisbane office, there are mainly four department sales, operations, exploration
and management. The network design must be capable of allow up to 510 staff per
department in the Brisbane office. While in the main office they want 20 devices and one
server for every respective department. Their head office in the Sydney uses 172.20.0.0
network for their devices and want to 172.16.0.0 network for private addresses in their new
building. The head office is currently using an E1 service with Telstra but want to use an
inexpensive service with faster connection. In the Brisbane office, the data flow must also
needs to be configured as required. As Deana Troy states, the management department's
server must not be accessible from the other 3 departments but the management department's
staff must have full access to the other 3 department's networks. All hosts, including all
servers, require internet access.
Further, some additional information is needed to construct the copyright compliance, code of
ethics and conduct a privacy policy. Before finalizing such codes, companies’ approval and
previous policies needs to be evaluated. Some common questions associated with such
policies are presented in the appendix along with suitable answers.

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Task 2: Work Break Down Structure
Task 3: Stakeholder Analysis
In order to understand the individual involvements and their roles and responsibility
for this project, stakeholder analysis has been conducted through three data gathering
techniques. There are two company involves in this project where Western mining is
identified as a client and Pacific IT Solutions as a service provider. All stakeholders
associated with the project is identified in the below table and relative data was gathered form
the kick off meeting, Collaborative Workshop Mode and observation.
Company stakeholder Roles

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Western Mining
James T. kirk Manager
Jack Crusher Branch Office Manager
Deana Troy Senior Systems Architect
Pacific IT Solutions
Student Project Manager
Anonymous Senior Network Engineer
Anonymous Junior network Engineer
Task 4: Project Charter
It is notified that after analysing all the requirements we provided the charter plan
below. In order to proceed further, we would like to get Confirmation from your end as soon
as possible. If you need any changes or modification, please comment below.
1. General Project Information
Project Name: Network Design and Configuration
2. Project Team
Name
Project Manager: Student
Team Members:
Senior Network Engineer Anonymous

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Junior network Engineer Anonymous
3. Stakeholders
James T. kirk: Manager
Jack Crusher Branch Office Manager
Deana Troy Senior Systems Architect
4. Project Scope Statement
The project scope is to design a network solution which must be capable of allow up to 510 staff per
department in the Brisbane office.
Project Purpose
The purpose fo this project is to provide a detailed plan of the network design along with
implementation process. Additionally, the risks, WBS and query around the policies will be delivered.
Dependencies
The logical design cannot be constructed before the construction of physical design.
Assumptions
The internet connection and power supplies is already existed before start implementing the physical
design.
The Brisbane office must have the required infrastructure to install the network devices.
Constraints

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There are only two technical staffs assigned for carrying out the project.
Senior network designer works 5 hours per week
Junior network designer works 40 hours per week
Milestones
 Project plan with time line
 Stakeholder table
 WBS
 Risk table
 Different Policies and copyright compliance
Risk Risk Rating
Time overrun 5
Stakeholder managemnt 3
Incomplete project deliver 5

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Budget
Planning Phase $1,728.00
Develop initial design $2,112.00
Implement physical network $1,248.00
Implement logical Network $4,032.00
Main office network $1,440.00
Test and sign off $1,536.00
Total Cost $12,096.00
6. Sign-off
Name Signature Date
(MM/DD/YY
YY)
Senior Systems
Architect
Deana Troy
Manger James T. Kirk
Branch Office Manager Jack Crusher
Task 5: SNMP
SNMP Functionality Specification
OpenNMS It is an open source
platform, highly integrated,
carrier-grade designed for
building network monitoring
 Service Assurance
 Performance
Management
 Easy Integration

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solutions.
 Event-Driven
 Topology Discovery
 Provisioning
Cacti
Cacti is a complete network
graphing solution designed
to harness the power of
RRDTool's data storage and
graphing functionality.
 multiple data
acquisition methods
 advanced graph
tinplating
 user management
features
PRTG
Monitor all systems,
devices, traffic and
applications of your IT
infrastructure. Everything
you need is contained in
PRTG, no additional
downloads are required.
 Network auto
discovery
 Maps
 PRTG alerts
 Bandwidth
monitoring
 Quick customer
support
Part 2: Scheduling and Managing
Task 1: Gantt chart
Task
Mode Task Name Duratio
n Start Finish Predecessor
s Resource Names Cost
Auto
Schedule
d
Network Design 64 days
Thu
15-
11-18
Tue
12-
02-19
$12,096.00
Auto
Schedule
d
Plannig Phase 9 days
Thu
15-
11-18
Tue
27-
11-18
Junior network
engineer[80%],project
manager,jack
$1,728.00
Auto
Scheduled
Identify the
key requirements 2 days
Thu
15-
11-18
Fri
16-
11-18
$0.00
Auto
Scheduled
Document
technical
requirements
2 days
Thu
15-
11-18
Fri
16-
11-18
$0.00
Auto
Scheduled
Stakeholder
analysis 3 days
Mon
19-
11-18
Wed
21-
11-18
3 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
select essantial
devices 3 days
Mon
19-
11-18
Wed
21-
11-18
4 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled select IP range 3 days
Mon
19-
11-18
Wed
21-
11-18
4 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
Select cables 1 day Mon
19-
Mon
19-
4 $0.00

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11-18 11-18
Auto
Scheduled
Create
communication
plan
2 days
Thu
22-
11-18
Fri
23-
11-18
3,5 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
Create
business charter 2 days
Mon
26-
11-18
Tue
27-
11-18
3,4,5,9 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
Approval and
sign off plan 0 days
Tue
27-
11-18
Tue
27-
11-18
9,10 jack $0.00
Auto
Schedule
d
develop initial
design 11 days
Wed
28-
11-18
Wed
12-
12-18
Junior network
engineer[80%] $2,112.00
Auto
Scheduled
Identify the
network devices 3 days
Wed
28-
11-18
Fri
30-
11-18
11 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
Identification
of communication
meduim
2 days
Wed
28-
11-18
Thu
29-
11-18
11 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled Select ISP 3 days
Wed
28-
11-18
Fri
30-
11-18
11 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
Finalize all
selection 2 days
Mon
03-
12-18
Tue
04-
12-18
13,14,15 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
construct draft
of network design 2 days
Wed
05-
12-18
Thu
06-
12-18
16 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
finalize the
draft 4 days
Fri
07-
12-18
Wed
12-
12-18
17 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
validation of
propsed network
design
0 days
Wed
12-
12-18
Wed
12-
12-18
16,18 project manager $0.00
Auto
Schedule
d
Implement
physical network 13 days
Thu
13-
12-18
Mon
31-
12-18
project
manager,Senior
network
engineer[10%]
$1,248.00
Auto
Scheduled
set end-
network
devices(pc)
3 days
Thu
13-
12-18
Mon
17-
12-18
19 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
Select required
switches 3 days
Tue
18-
12-18
Thu
20-
12-18
21 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled set routers 2 days
Fri
21-
12-18
Mon
24-
12-18
21,22 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled set server 3 days Tue
25-
Thu
27- 23 $0.00

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12-18 12-18
Auto
Scheduled
connect
through
communication
meduim
2 days
Fri
28-
12-18
Mon
31-
12-18
21,22,23,24 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled Get approval 0 days
Mon
31-
12-18
Mon
31-
12-18
25 project manager $0.00
Auto
Schedule
d
Implement
logical Network 14 days
Tue
01-
01-19
Fri
18-
01-19
Junior network
engineer[80%],project
manager,Senior
network
engineer[10%]
$4,032.00
Auto
Scheduled
configure
routers 4 days
Tue
01-
01-19
Fri
04-
01-19
26 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
configure
server 4 days
Tue
01-
01-19
Fri
04-
01-19
26 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled configure pc 4 days
Tue
01-
01-19
Fri
04-
01-19
26 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
allocate IP
address 2 days
Mon
07-
01-19
Tue
08-
01-19
28,29,30 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
allocate
subnet mask 5 days
Wed
09-
01-19
Tue
15-
01-19
31 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
configure
packet flow 3 days
Wed
16-
01-19
Fri
18-
01-19
31,32 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled get approval 0 days
Fri
18-
01-19
Fri
18-
01-19
33 project manager $0.00
Auto
Schedule
d
Main office
network 5 days
Mon
21-
01-19
Fri
25-
01-19
Junior network
engineer[80%],project
manager,Senior
network
engineer[10%]
$1,440.00
Auto
Scheduled
configure 20
pc 2 days
Mon
21-
01-19
Tue
22-
01-19
34 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
configure
server 2 days
Wed
23-
01-19
Thu
24-
01-19
36 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
configure
routers and
switches
1 day
Mon
21-
01-19
Mon
21-
01-19
34 $0.00
Auto configure 1 day Fri Fri 37,38 $0.00

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Scheduled remote login 25-
01-19
25-
01-19
Auto
Scheduled get approval 0 days
Fri
25-
01-19
Fri
25-
01-19
39 project manager $0.00
Auto
Schedule
d
Test and sign off 8 days
Mon
28-
01-19
Wed
06-
02-19
Junior network
engineer[80%],project
manager,Diana
$1,536.00
Auto
Scheduled
ping network
devices 2 days
Mon
28-
01-19
Tue
29-
01-19
40 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled test ping result 2 days
Wed
30-
01-19
Thu
31-
01-19
42 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
Finalize
network design 3 days
Fri
01-
02-19
Tue
05-
02-19
42,43 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
send the
design 1 day
Wed
06-
02-19
Wed
06-
02-19
44 $0.00
Auto
Scheduled sign off 0 days
Wed
06-
02-19
Wed
06-
02-19
45 Diana $0.00
Auto
Schedule
d
project team
meeting 46 days
Tue
04-
12-18
Tue
05-
02-19
Diana,jack,project
manager $0.00
Auto
Scheduled
project team
meeting 1 1 day
Tue
04-
12-18
Tue
04-
12-18
$0.00
Auto
Scheduled
project team
meeting 2 1 day
Tue
11-
12-18
Tue
11-
12-18
$0.00
Auto
Scheduled
project team
meeting 3 1 day
Tue
18-
12-18
Tue
18-
12-18
$0.00
Auto
Scheduled
project team
meeting 4 1 day
Tue
25-
12-18
Tue
25-
12-18
$0.00
Auto
Scheduled
project team
meeting 5 1 day
Tue
01-
01-19
Tue
01-
01-19
$0.00
Auto
Scheduled
project team
meeting 6 1 day
Tue
08-
01-19
Tue
08-
01-19
$0.00
Auto
Scheduled
project team
meeting 7 1 day
Tue
15-
01-19
Tue
15-
01-19
$0.00
Auto
Scheduled
project team
meeting 8
1 day Tue
22-
Tue
22-
$0.00