IT Training Program: SWOT Analysis and Gantt Chart for SCR Associates

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of SCR Associates' plan to launch an IT training program (TIMS) within six months. It includes a SWOT analysis, identifying the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats associated with the program. A balanced scorecard is presented, outlining objectives, measures, targets, and initiatives across financial, customer, internal business processes, and learning and growth perspectives. The project scope, constraints, and benefits of using a Gantt chart are discussed, with a detailed Gantt chart illustrating the project timeline, tasks, durations, and dependencies. The report also evaluates the pros and cons of using Gantt Project software for managing the IT training program. The analysis concludes with a bibliography of cited sources.

Running head: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
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SWOT Analysis for SCR:
Balanced Scorecard:
SCR
Associates Objectives Measures Targets Initiatives
Financial Expanding the
IT training
Creation of new
corporate group
Increasing the
corporate
revenue
Providing new
IT training
Customer Quality IT
training
New customer
opportunities
Creation of new
classes along
with new
customer base
IT training of
high quality,
which leads to
the broadening
of the future
potential
Strength
Trining would be provided to the
new employees so as to have
make them more efficeint
Weakness
Shortage of critical staffs
Unexperienced staffs
Proper IT support
Threats
Different kind of security threats
Internal threats
Opportunities
understanding and application of
the state-of-the-art information
technology
experiencing personal and career
growth

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customer base
Internal
business
processes
Building of the
training
curriculum
Train the IT
experts
Providing
experience to
the employees
with adequate
skills
Usage of
training
curriculum so as
to provide the
employees with
real life
examples and
help them
understand the
current IT
infrastructure.
Learning and
growth
Providing more
training
Training to the
IT experts along
with providing
them with
necessary tools
and
equipment’s so
as to achieve
success in their
works.
Creation of a
positive
performance
driven culture
Assigning the
people
according to the
skills of the
employees

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Project Scope:
SCR has been associated with planning for opening an IT training program which is
alos known as the TIMS in upcoming 6 months. This training program would be associated
with offering trainings in windows office application, SQL, Netware, Visual C++, ,
Microsoft, A+, JAVA, MCSD, MOUS, MCSE, Visual Basic, and GroupWise.
Constraints:
Future Internal and Mandatory constraints
 The IT training program TIMS needs to be ready and put forward within 6 months.
 The Training program that is the TIMS must have the capability of interfacing the
accounting system.
 Must be capable of tracking the credits which are earned in order to ward the IT industry
certification requirements
Present, internal, and mandatory constraints
 Must be capable of tracking the courses along with the instructors, students, as well as the
grades.
Benefits of Gantt chart:
SCR would surely be gaining a lot of benefits by making use of the Gantt Project
Software. Amongst which one of the major advantages of the Gantt Project Software is
organizing each and every task. Besides this the Gantt chart Software would be also
associated with helping in showing the actual progress that the project has made. Each and
every task is having its own starting time ad end time and by usage of this software the start
and ending time can be viewed very easily. However, the major disadvantage that is like to be

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faced by SCR is that the TIMS is a big project and the chart would become very complex
which would eb needing a constant update.

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ID WBS Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
1 1 1 Training Information Management System187 days Tue 20-11-18 Wed 07-08-19
2 1.1 1.1 Initiation & Planning 62 days Tue 20-11-18 Wed 13-02-19
3 1.1.1 1.1.1 TIMS: Start of Initiation & Planning1 day Tue 20-11-18 Tue 20-11-18
4 1.1.2 1.1.2 Initiation 24 days Wed 21-11-18Mon 24-12-18
5 1.1.2.1 1.1.2.1 TIMS: Start of Initiation 1 day Wed 21-11-18Wed 21-11-183
6 1.1.2.2 1.1.2.2 Develop the training schedule4 days Thu 22-11-18 Tue 27-11-185
7 1.1.2.3 1.1.2.3 Develop the Training documents7 days Wed 28-11-18Thu 06-12-186
8 1.1.2.4 1.1.2.4 Arranging the training list7 days Thu 13-12-18 Fri 21-12-18 9
9 1.1.2.5 1.1.2.5 Appoint the trainer 4 days Fri 07-12-18 Wed 12-12-187
10 1.1.2.6 1.1.2.6 TIMS: Finish of Initiation1 day Mon 24-12-18Mon 24-12-188
11 1.1.3 1.1.3 Planning 36 days Tue 25-12-18 Tue 12-02-19
12 1.1.3.1 1.1.3.1 MS: Start of Planning 1 day Tue 25-12-18 Tue 25-12-1810
13 1.1.3.2 1.1.3.2 Develop the training Plan10 days Wed 26-12-18Tue 08-01-1912
14 1.1.3.3 1.1.3.3 Develop the Scope Plan 6 days Wed 09-01-19Wed 16-01-1913
15 1.1.3.4 1.1.3.4 Develop the Risk Plan 6 days Thu 17-01-19 Thu 24-01-1914
16 1.1.3.5 1.1.3.5 Develop the Cost Plan / Budget12 days Thu 17-01-19 Fri 01-02-19 14
17 1.1.3.6 1.1.3.6 Develop the Time Plan / Schedule12 days Fri 25-01-19 Mon 11-02-1915,16FF
18 1.1.3.7 1.1.3.7 TIMS: Finish of Planning1 day Tue 12-02-19 Tue 12-02-1917
19 1.1.4 1.1.4 TIMS: Finish of Initiation & Planning1 day Wed 13-02-19Wed 13-02-1918
20 1.2 1.2 Designing & Implementation 95 days Thu 14-02-19 Wed 26-06-19
21 1.2.1 1.2.1 MS: Start of Designing & Implementation1 day Thu 14-02-19 Thu 14-02-1919
22 1.2.2 1.2.2 Designing 72 days Fri 15-02-19 Mon 27-05-19
23 1.2.2.1 1.2.2.1 TIMS: Start of Designing 1 day Fri 15-02-19 Fri 15-02-19 21
24 1.2.2.2 1.2.2.2 Design the Architecture
of traing centre
20 days Mon
18-02-19
Fri 15-03-19 23
25 1.2.2.3 1.2.2.3 Design the Software
that would be helping in
training
30 days Mon
18-02-19
Fri 29-03-19 24FF+10
days
26 1.2.2.4 1.2.2.4 Develop the test Process of training15 days Mon 11-03-19Fri 29-03-19 25FF
27 1.2.2.5 1.2.2.5 Develop the
Architecture for the training
centre
30 days Mon
18-03-19
Fri 26-04-19 24
28 1.2.2.6 1.2.2.6 Develop the Software
System so as to aid the
Trainees
40 days Mon
01-04-19
Fri 24-05-19 25
29 1.2.2.7 1.2.2.7 TIMS: END of Designing 1 day Mon 27-05-19Mon 27-05-1926,27,28
30 1.2.3 1.2.3 Implemention 21 days Tue 28-05-19 Tue 25-06-19
31 1.2.3.1 1.2.3.1 TIMS: Start of Implementation1 day Tue 28-05-19 Tue 28-05-1929
32 1.2.3.2 1.2.3.2 Implement the training schedule20 days Wed 29-05-19Tue 25-06-1931
33 1.2.4 1.2.4 MS: Finish of Designing & Implementation1 day Wed 26-06-19Wed 26-06-1932
34 1.3 1.3 Close-out & Evaluation 30 days Thu 27-06-19 Wed 07-08-19
35 1.3.1 1.3.1 TIMS: Start of Close-out & Evaluation1 day Thu 27-06-19 Thu 27-06-1933
36 1.3.2 1.3.2 Develop the final documentation5 days Fri 28-06-19 Thu 04-07-1935
37 1.3.3 1.3.3 Arrange the close-out & evaliuation meeting10 days Fri 05-07-19 Thu 18-07-1936
38 1.3.4 1.3.4 Revise the final documentation10 days Fri 19-07-19 Thu 01-08-1937
39 1.3.5 1.3.5 Handover the final documentation3 days Fri 02-08-19 Tue 06-08-1938
40 1.3.6 1.3.6 MS: Finish of the i-Crop project1 day Wed 07-08-19Wed 07-08-1939
A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D
Half 2, 2018 Half 1, 2019 Half 2, 2019

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The Gantt Project Software is a very good project management software tool which is
like be advantages as well as disadvantageous for SCR and some of the major Pros and Cons
of this software have been listed below:
Pros:
 It is possible to translate the language in multiple languages
 The MS Project Files can be imported by the Users
 It is possible for the users to manage the resources within the project for example the
personnel and many more.
 This software can be used on most of the computer OS
 There exists a website where it is possible to get support.
Cons:
 Some of the language translation are out dated
 Information related to the helping in usage of the software is very little.
 This software was created by a group of individuals and not by a business so in case if
something goes wrong that effects the organization then it is not possible to consider them
as responsible for all this.

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