What the risks that you anticipate based on your analysis of the proposed solutions (i.e. project)? These are not the specific risks associated with your project's performance, such as the project being delivered late, but are risks associated with whether or not the proposed solution will actually address the business problem you have identified above.
Industry: Manufacturing, Transportation Equipment & Supplies Services PFOVlCleCi: Program Management, Project Costing & Scheduling, External Vendor Management, and Mentoring/Coaching Company: A global company providing land, sea. and air power solutions worldwide. The Company has established leading positions in civil aerospace, defense. marine, and energy markets. Challenge: With an aging data center and a longterm lease expiring, this company desired to implement a new stateoftheart data center for its entire North American operations capable of supporting strategic growth and expansion. After securing $6 million in funding approval and identifying a new 8,000squarefoot facility location, they were still lacking a proven resource with prior data center move experience to lead this 10month. timesensitive initiative. The Company did not have an inhouse resource with these capabilities and knew they needed the right person to manage this highvisibility data center move that would serve as the cornerstone of their future efforts to consolidate other data centers worldwide and modernize their infrastructure. Solution: With an established vendor relationship already in place, the company turned to PM Solutions who provided an expert program manager with extensive data center move experience. PM Solutions' program manager led a team of technical IT and engineering resources, working with additional external resources involved in the program. The rst course of action taken by the PM Solutions' program manager was to divide the 10-month program into four distinct components with clear objectives as follows: 22 Build out a new stateoftheart 8,000squaretoct facility 1: Relocate 225 physical and virtual servers along with the supporting network infrastructure to the new data center :: Perform leasehold improvements on the existing ofce space and relocate 70 employees from the old data center to their new ofce space in the Company's main ofce campus :: Decommission the old data center and return it to the landlord PM Solutions' program manager reported directly to the head of the Company's Global Program Management Ofce (PMC) and worked closely with the Company's Chief Technology Ofcer for North America as the project sponsor of the initiative. A key attribute of PM Solutions' program manager was the ability to work with all groups from construction trades, to union staff, to senior executives possessing a genuine understanding of what each group was doing to accomplish the objectives of the program. results Solution: With an established vendor relationship already in place, the company turned to PM Solutions who provided an expert program manager with extensive data center move experience. PM Solutions' program manager led a team of technical IT and engineering resources, working with additional external resources involved in the program. The rst course of action taken by the PM Solutions' program manager was to divide the 10month program into four distinct components with clear objectives as follows: 11 Build out a new stateoftheart 8,000square-foot facility :1 Relocate 225 physical and virtual servers along with the supporting network infrastructure to the new data center :: Perform leasehold improvements on the existing ofce space and relocate 70 employees from the old data center to their new ofce space in the Company's main ofce campus :: Deecommission the old data center and return it to the landlord PM Solutions' program manager reported directly to the head of the Company's Global Program Management Ofce {PMO} and worked closely with the Company's Chief Technology Ofcer for North America as the project sponsor of the initiative. A key attribute of PM Solutions' program manager was the ability to work with all groups from construction trades, to union staff. to senior executives possessing a genuine understanding of what each group was doing to accomplish the objectives of the program. results The new 8.000squarefoot data center was delivered has been recognized for its professionalism and now on time and within its $6 million budget. All objectives becomes the worldwide standard for largescale programs were met and there was zero business disruption during and projects across the client's organization. the entire 10 months of the project. The Company now has a modern C\" ta center with the capacity to grow by PM Solutions continues to be an invaluable project an additional allowing for further consolidation management partner to this company and is currently of operations in the future. The program rnanagen'rent u in other highvisibilily projects within its North approach used to deliver this initiative led by PM Solutions an division
