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Energy Technology Data Centre Migration Work Breakdown Case Study

¶ … Energy Technology Data Centre Migration Work Breakdown Structure

Network Diagram

Critical Tasks (Highlighted)

Milestones

Resources Assigned

Quality

Cost

Reporting

Brian Smith, who is a network administrator at Advanced Energy Technology (AET) has been tasked with moving a large data centre to a new office location in the newly developed industrial complex at the Corvallis International Airport in Corvallis, Oregon. The company provides application as a service product to two hundred thirty five oil jobbers and gasoline companies. As a result, the company can experience no downtime during the transition to the new facility. Any user interruptions from clients could result in lost revenues and damage to the company's reputation as a reliable IT company in the industry.

The scenario in this case dictates the entire focus of the project. Since the data center components must all be moved in a weekend after the new location is prepared then there is not any allowance for error. This coupled with the fact that the organization will not tolerate any inconvenience to the clients makes a successful transfer even more salient. Therefore the most important aspect to this project will undoubtedly be thorough risk management and risk planning. A careful evaluation will have to be conducted by each of the functional representatives as well as a risk contingency plan be prepared to avoid any potential delays.

Work Breakdown Structure

Task Name

Duration

Preliminary Discussions

1 day

Scope Meeting

1 day

Initial Project Planning

2 days

Hire Contractor

5 days

Network Design

10 days

Order Hardware (Ventilation)

15 days

Order Hardware (Racks, Servers, Switches, and Others)

10 days

Order Hardware (Power Supplies)

5 days

Install Ventilation

5 days

Install Racks

15 days

Construction

20 days

Inspection

2 days

Install Power Supplies and Run Cables

5 days

Functional Unit Approval

5 days

Check Voltage

1 day

Install Test Servers

5 days

Batteries, Vents, Test Servers

2 days

Primary Systems Check

1 day

Set Official Date

1 day

Move Network Components

2 days

Network Diagram

Critical Tasks (Highlighted)

Task Name

Duration

Start

Finish

Predecessors

Preliminary Discussions

1 day

Mon 5/28/12

Mon 5/28/12

Scope Meeting

1 day

Tue 5/29/12

Tue 5/29/12

1

Initial Project Planning

2 days

Wed 5/30/12

Thu 5/31/12

2

Hire Contractor

5 days

Fri 6/1/12

Thu 6/7/12

3

Network Design

10 days

Fri 6/1/12

Thu 6/14/12

3

Order Hardware (Ventilation)

15 days

Fri 6/15/12

Thu 7/5/12

5

Order Hardware (Racks, Servers, Switches, and Others)

10 days

Fri 6/15/12

Thu 6/28/12

5

Order Hardware (Power Supplies)

5 days

Fri 6/15/12

Thu 6/21/12

5

Install Ventilation

5 days

Fri 7/6/12

Thu 7/12/12

6,11

Install Racks

15 days

Fri 7/6/12

Thu 7/26/12

7,11

Construction

20 days

Fri 6/8/12

Thu 7/5/12

4

Inspection

2 days

Fri 7/6/12

Mon 7/9/12

11

Install Power Supplies and Run Cables

5 days

Tue 7/10/12

Mon 7/16/12

12

Functional Unit Approval

5 days

Tue 7/17/12

Mon 7/23/12

13

Check Voltage

1 day

Tue 7/17/12

Tue 7/17/12

13

Install Test Servers

5 days

Wed 7/18/12

Tue 7/24/12

15

One study found provided a framework for categorization of critical success factors that was based on an analysis of previous research. These categories were then applied to the case to see what insights might be obtained. These categories include (I) business plan and vision; (2) change management; (3) communication; (4) IT team composition, skills and compensation; (5) management support and championship; (6) project management; (7) system analysis, selection and technical implementation (Nah, 2006).
The vision in this case is fairly straight forward however the business plan is far less clear. Planning, especially risk planning, will likely be a critical success factor…

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Works Cited

Nah, F.D. (2006). Critical Success Factors for Enterprise Resource Planning Implementation and Upgrade. Journal of Computer Information Systems, 99-113.

Somers, T., & Nelson, K. (2001). The Impact of Critical Success Factors across the Stages of Enterprise Resource Planning Implementations. Proceedings of the 34th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, 1-8.

Verville, J., Bernadas, C., & Halingten, A. (2005). So you're thinking of buying an ERP? Ten critical factors forsuccessful acquisitions. . Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 665-677.
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