Course Project | Week 5 – Deliverable #2

In Week 5, you are to further mature your technology solution proposal reviewed in your first deliverable during week 3.

• Project #2 – Project Proposal Draft (this assignment)

Please ensure you have integrated previous instructor comments as appropriate as well. The following deliverables are due as part of the Week 5 submittal, and you have latitude to use a format that conveys professionalism and comprehensiveness. There are no page requirements for this assignment, but student work should include the items discussed below.

Note: To earn an “Excellent” as defined in the rubric  – Please complete independent research and expand the topic to clearly demonstrate Mastery of the Subject – Through the Lens of Management.

• Executive Summary
• Scope Management (Ch. 3)
  • Discuss the Project Scope
  • High Level Functional Decomposition of Solution
• Project Schedule with Milestones (Ch. 3)
  • Utilize Excel or MS Project to Build a Gantt Schedule
  • Include Critical Path Calculation
  • Create a Work Breakdown Structure that Mirrors Project Schedule Tasks
• Outsourcing (Ch. 4)
  • Identify any WBS tasks to be outsourced and identify potential vendors
    • Include a discussion on an appropriate SLA
  • Identify any WBS tasks to be on premises versus cloud based and identify potential hosting vendors
    • Include a discussion on an appropriate SLA
    • Discuss whether this will be private, hybrid, or public cloud hosted and why
  • Governance (Ch. 5)
    • Identify any WBS tasks that have Business Continuity Requirements
      • Include a discussion on an appropriate SLA
      • Discuss whether this will be hot, hybrid, or cold site and why
• Appendix
  • Add SWOT Analysis from Week 3

You should utilize a Table of Contents, headings, citations, etc. as appropriate. You are purposefully being given some latitude here to solve this problem just as you would in a real world setting.

View RubricProject #2Project #2CriteriaRatingsPtsExecutive Summaryview longer description15 ptsExcellent9 ptsGood6 ptsFair0 ptsUnsatisfactory/ 15 ptsScope Managementview longer description10 ptsExcellent6 ptsGood4 ptsFair0 ptsUnsatisfactory/ 10 ptsProject Schedule with Milestonesview longer description30 ptsExcellent18 ptsGood12 ptsFair0 ptsUnsatisfactory/ 30 ptsOutsourcingview longer description20 ptsExcellent12 ptsGood8 ptsFair0 ptsUnsatisfactory/ 20 ptsGovernanceview longer description20 ptsExcellent12 ptsGood8 ptsFair0 ptsUnsatisfactory/ 20 ptsAppendixview longer description5 ptsExcellent3 ptsGood2 ptsFair0 ptsUnsatisfactory/ 5 ptsTotal Points: 0

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