Austin Community College BCIS2390 - Systems Analysis and Design: Project Management Final Project (Team Project Assignment) You are working for Big Data, Inc a firm with approximately 100,000 employees distributed in different countries that is looking into consolidating its data centers to improve accessibility for employees around the world while increasing revenues and reducing costs. One of the projects underneath this program is Cloud Computing Project. The company's CIO and project sponsor, Ana Cohen, has selected you as the project manager for this project. You need to put together your project team and come up with a project management plan for this high-visibility project. The project management plan for this Cloud Computing Project should address the following tasks1: Define a strategic vision of the organizational benefits when implementing cloud computing (cost savings) Identify what will be moved into the cloud. Not every application or database can be easily moved to a cloud-computing format. Provide an implementation plan for transitioning data centers into cloud computing solution Create a communication campaign to educate employees about why the organization is moving into the cloud, the impact and benefit it will bring to them and to the business. Identify privacy and regulatory concerns and issues relating to data storage protection and replication. Select vendor providers based on cost, performance and support and security and compliance. Identify metrics of ROI to the business 1. Your team needs to research cloud computing and projects that have been done or are being done by large organizations to understand how they have implemented them. Investigate cost and return on investments for those implementations so you can use it as a reference for solution you are providing. 2. Prepare business case for the Cloud Computing Project. Assume this project will take six months to complete and you have a starting budget of $500,000 and a 7% discount rate. 3. Document requirements for your project, including a requirements traceability matrix. 4. Develop a scope statement for the project. You need to document and provide details in any assumptions made. 5. Develop a WBS for the project. Break down the work to level 3 or level 4, as appropriate. Be sure to base your WBS on the project scope statement, stakeholder requirements, and other relevant information. 6. Create a Gantt chart using the WBS you developed. Identify at least four milestones for the project. Include task durations and enter dependencies as appropriate. 1 Project Management Institute (PMI). \"Cloud Computing: The New Strategic Weapon\" 7. Provide a cost estimate for the project. Document assumptions you make in preparing the cost estimate. 8. Prepare a responsibility assignment matrix in RACI chart format based on WBS you created. 9. Create a risk register for the project. Identify at least three potential risks. Use the examples and templates provided in Chapters 3 through 13 as a model for how to build the business case and project documents. Final Project - Deliverables 1) Soft copies of all Project documents Business case Requirements traceability matrix Scope statement Cost estimate model Responsibility assignment matrix Risk register Any other project document used as part of your project planning/research. 2) Final Project Position Paper describing the recommended project management plan actions to be taken and any alternative actions that were not included and why. This position paper should be a direct result of all the work that has been done in developing this final project solution