Case Study: Harbor Printing Database Project

Harbor Printing, impressed with your DBMS knowledge and skills, has decided to hire you as aproject manager to direct this project.They want you to design and build a database system to keep track of the information about their printing products.

You met with their CEO and here are your interview notes:

Harbor Printing is a specialty printing company. We print the foil lids for yogurt, jams, and other food products. Our industry has many regulations and standards that require diligence and care in the type of ink, handling, and packaging of the food products. Harbor Printing prints the food package and then ships the product to the food manufacturer. We do not package the food.

We want to create a project to establish a database of customer's electronic artwork, previous print jobs, and statistics on each print job they ran. The goal of the database project is to allow the company to electronically retrieve a customer's artwork to make revisions, offer new prices, and to electronically archive the artwork for future business. The project deliverable should allow Harbor Printing to offer faster turnaround times on orders.

Jan Elbert, a program manager, worked with the project stakeholders to determine the project objectives and then prioritize the project requirements. You later met her -- She told you that the project was scheduled to finish in 3 months and had a budget of $100,000. You also learned from the sales manager, Tom Whitson that he wanted the database to provide more sales automation for repeat customers while Gary Yung, the manager of prepress wanted his designers to be able to retrieve artwork for fast development.

Harbor Printing management would not allow the project to launch until the project integration management plan developed. This requires you to present this plan extensively to the project stakeholders.

As the project manager to direct this project, you need prepare a detail report, as outlined below:

Outline

1. Cover page

2. Table of Contents

3. Executive Summary

4. Introduction

5. Project Charter

6. Project Scope

7. Choose one knowledge area (1. Project Cost Management, 2. Project Time Management, or 3. Project Human Resource Management)

7.1 Describe the knowledge area that you choose above in general.

7.2 Analyze the project to identify sources of project risks related to the knowledge area you choose.

8. Main Topic Project Risk Management

8.1 Risk Assessment- Assess risks in terms of:

8.1.1 Severity of impact

8.1.2 Likelihood of occurring

8.1.3 Controllability

8.2 Risk Response Development

8.2.1 Develop a strategy to reduce possible damage

8.2.2 Develop contingency plans

8.3 Risk Response Control

8.3.1 Implement risk strategy

8.3.2 Monitor and adjust plan for new risks

9. Conclusion