Your Task Currently the Project Charter is signed and dated May 12, 2020 and you are asked to deliver a fully tested and working solution to your client ACME by June 1*, 2021. One of the challenges is that the Los Angeles office was recently acquired and is running on an even older version of the accounting software than the other offices (version 2). Also the upgrade project needs to ensure involvement from local offices while minimizing impact on their daily operations in particular the tax season from March 1" to April 1" 2021. The project has a fixed cost, schedule, and scope, and you are to deliver the solution for all sites by April 1* 2021 or earlier. This case will be used by all teams from Team Assignment 1 through final presentation of the project progress Team Assignment 4. Your job is to develop a Project Management Plan, include all the key components as per your previous assignment, scope, purpose, governance, team Rast, project approach (needs to be very specific and not general so don't copy and paste), detailed milestones (no need for a roadmap and WBS Gantt chart for this assignment so don't waste your time), opportunities for fast tracking, communications, change management (managing the human side of change) change control, risk management. MGMT 640: Project Management-Case ACME is a large US accounting firm based out of New York (NY) with offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, New York, and Los Angles. Your team has been hired as external consultants to help ACME upgrade their existing enterprise accounting system from a legacy version to the most updated version X available in the market and also implement a analytics reporting tool. Budget allocated to your team resources should cover the cost of 1 Senior Project Manager, 3 Senior Project Coordinators, 4 system specialists to work with the internal resources allocated to your project, and 4 IT Infrastructure specialists (expertise in setting up computing server environment for the accounting application to run on). Overall budget for the project is as follows: Budget Item Description One-time Capital Cost (Accounting Application version X + Reporting tool) One-time hardware infrastructure to support the above (servers, etc.) External Project team resources (your team as consultants) Training & Change Management Expense budget Annual application maintenance (Expense) Annual hardware infrastructure maintenance (expense) Cost of the optional Workforce Management Module Cost of the annual maintenance for the optional Workforce Management Module Amount $3,000,000 $700,000 $1,500,000 $300,000 $400,000 $150,000 $450,000 $85.000 Staff size Location Vancouver Calgary Toronto Los Angeles New York (Head Office) 200 80 400 400 600 Current Accounting Application Version Version 3 Version 3 Version 3 Version 2 Version 3 Requirement from the ACME include upgrade to the version X of the payroll and tax modules but also add the enterprise analytics reporting tool for their accounting system. Some of the key stakeholders from New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles offices are also pushing for the addition of the Work Force Management (managing personnel) module to the implementation. Each site has a site manager who can act as your key stakeholder but there are other Individuals at each site that you need to continuously collaborate with. Each of the sites have the following departments: Human Resources department, Accounting services internal and external consulting division (account receivable, payroll, audit, and tax), IT service desk and application support services. Toronto, Los Angeles, and New York also have a legal department Vancouver, Toronto, and New York offices have technical staff who were either involved in the previous upgrade project as subject matter experts or had a similar experience from before. Subject Matter Experts (Internal) Count office Database Administrator Vancouver (dedicated to your project team) Database Administrator Toronto (dedicated to your project team) Database Administrator New York (dedicated to your project team) Accounting Specialist 7 Each office has 1 accounting specialist but NY has 3 (dedicated to your project team) Tax Specialist Each office has 1 tax specialist but NY has 2. Allocated from Toronto & NY offices to your project team 1 2 4 6 Client side Governance Chief Operating Officer (NY), Executive Sponsor the external consulting division (account receivable, payroll, audit, and tax), IT service desk and application support services. Toronto, Los Angeles, and New York also have a legal department. Vancouver, Toronto, and New York offices have technical staff who were either involved in the previous upgrade project as subject matter experts or had a similar experience from before. Subject Matter Experts Internal) Count Office Database Administrator 1 Vancouver (dedicated to your project team) Database Administrator 2 Toronto (dedicated to your project team) Database Administrator New York (dedicated to your project team) Accounting Specialist Each office has 1 accounting specialist but NY has 3 (dedicated to your project team Tax Specialist 6 Each office has 1 tax specialist but NY has 2. Allocated from Toronto & NY offices to your project team 4 7 Client side Governance Chief Operating Officer (NY). Executive Sponsor St. Director of Operations Sponsor Toronto Project Manager Company: XYZ Page 2 of 3 Your Task Currently the Project Charter is signed and dated May 12, 2020 and you are asked to deliver a fully tested and working solution to your client ACME by June 15, 2021. One of the challenges is that the Los Angeles office was recently acquired and is running on an even older version of the accounting software than the other offices (version 2). Also the upgrade project needs to ensure involvement from local offices while minimizing impact on their daily operations in particular the tax season from March 1" to April 1 2021. The project has a fixed cost, schedule, and scope, and you are to deliver the solution for all sites by April 1* 2021 or earlier This case will be used by all teams from Team Assignment 1 through final presentation of the project progress in Team Assignment 4. Your job is to develop a Project Management Plan, include all the key components as per your previous assignment scope, purpose, governance, team RASI, project approach (needs to be very specific and not general so don't copy and paste), detailed milestones (no need for a roadmap and WBS Gantt chart for this assignment so don't waste your time), opportunities for fast tracking, communications, change management (managing the human side of change) change control, risk management Best of luck! O Your Task Currently the Project Charter is signed and dated May 12, 2020 and you are asked to deliver a fully tested and working solution to your client ACME by June 1*, 2021. One of the challenges is that the Los Angeles office was recently acquired and is running on an even older version of the accounting software than the other offices (version 2). Also the upgrade project needs to ensure involvement from local offices while minimizing impact on their daily operations in particular the tax season from March 1" to April 1" 2021. The project has a fixed cost, schedule, and scope, and you are to deliver the solution for all sites by April 1* 2021 or earlier. This case will be used by all teams from Team Assignment 1 through final presentation of the project progress Team Assignment 4. Your job is to develop a Project Management Plan, include all the key components as per your previous assignment, scope, purpose, governance, team Rast, project approach (needs to be very specific and not general so don't copy and paste), detailed milestones (no need for a roadmap and WBS Gantt chart for this assignment so don't waste your time), opportunities for fast tracking, communications, change management (managing the human side of change) change control, risk management. MGMT 640: Project Management-Case ACME is a large US accounting firm based out of New York (NY) with offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, New York, and Los Angles. Your team has been hired as external consultants to help ACME upgrade their existing enterprise accounting system from a legacy version to the most updated version X available in the market and also implement a analytics reporting tool. Budget allocated to your team resources should cover the cost of 1 Senior Project Manager, 3 Senior Project Coordinators, 4 system specialists to work with the internal resources allocated to your project, and 4 IT Infrastructure specialists (expertise in setting up computing server environment for the accounting application to run on). Overall budget for the project is as follows: Budget Item Description One-time Capital Cost (Accounting Application version X + Reporting tool) One-time hardware infrastructure to support the above (servers, etc.) External Project team resources (your team as consultants) Training & Change Management Expense budget Annual application maintenance (Expense) Annual hardware infrastructure maintenance (expense) Cost of the optional Workforce Management Module Cost of the annual maintenance for the optional Workforce Management Module Amount $3,000,000 $700,000 $1,500,000 $300,000 $400,000 $150,000 $450,000 $85.000 Staff size Location Vancouver Calgary Toronto Los Angeles New York (Head Office) 200 80 400 400 600 Current Accounting Application Version Version 3 Version 3 Version 3 Version 2 Version 3 Requirement from the ACME include upgrade to the version X of the payroll and tax modules but also add the enterprise analytics reporting tool for their accounting system. Some of the key stakeholders from New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles offices are also pushing for the addition of the Work Force Management (managing personnel) module to the implementation. Each site has a site manager who can act as your key stakeholder but there are other Individuals at each site that you need to continuously collaborate with. Each of the sites have the following departments: Human Resources department, Accounting services internal and external consulting division (account receivable, payroll, audit, and tax), IT service desk and application support services. Toronto, Los Angeles, and New York also have a legal department Vancouver, Toronto, and New York offices have technical staff who were either involved in the previous upgrade project as subject matter experts or had a similar experience from before. Subject Matter Experts (Internal) Count office Database Administrator Vancouver (dedicated to your project team) Database Administrator Toronto (dedicated to your project team) Database Administrator New York (dedicated to your project team) Accounting Specialist 7 Each office has 1 accounting specialist but NY has 3 (dedicated to your project team) Tax Specialist Each office has 1 tax specialist but NY has 2. Allocated from Toronto & NY offices to your project team 1 2 4 6 Client side Governance Chief Operating Officer (NY), Executive Sponsor the external consulting division (account receivable, payroll, audit, and tax), IT service desk and application support services. Toronto, Los Angeles, and New York also have a legal department. Vancouver, Toronto, and New York offices have technical staff who were either involved in the previous upgrade project as subject matter experts or had a similar experience from before. Subject Matter Experts Internal) Count Office Database Administrator 1 Vancouver (dedicated to your project team) Database Administrator 2 Toronto (dedicated to your project team) Database Administrator New York (dedicated to your project team) Accounting Specialist Each office has 1 accounting specialist but NY has 3 (dedicated to your project team Tax Specialist 6 Each office has 1 tax specialist but NY has 2. Allocated from Toronto & NY offices to your project team 4 7 Client side Governance Chief Operating Officer (NY). Executive Sponsor St. Director of Operations Sponsor Toronto Project Manager Company: XYZ Page 2 of 3 Your Task Currently the Project Charter is signed and dated May 12, 2020 and you are asked to deliver a fully tested and working solution to your client ACME by June 15, 2021. One of the challenges is that the Los Angeles office was recently acquired and is running on an even older version of the accounting software than the other offices (version 2). Also the upgrade project needs to ensure involvement from local offices while minimizing impact on their daily operations in particular the tax season from March 1" to April 1 2021. The project has a fixed cost, schedule, and scope, and you are to deliver the solution for all sites by April 1* 2021 or earlier This case will be used by all teams from Team Assignment 1 through final presentation of the project progress in Team Assignment 4. Your job is to develop a Project Management Plan, include all the key components as per your previous assignment scope, purpose, governance, team RASI, project approach (needs to be very specific and not general so don't copy and paste), detailed milestones (no need for a roadmap and WBS Gantt chart for this assignment so don't waste your time), opportunities for fast tracking, communications, change management (managing the human side of change) change control, risk management Best of luck! O