The Project – The data center in Tampa, Florida, was
a center for disaster recovery purposes. It had more
than 600 customers for disaster recovery testing and disaster
recoveries and a significant portion of the business centered
on preparedness for hurricanes. The project was to move
the data center from Tampa to Boulder, Colorado, with no
disruption in services. The scheduled date for
completion of the move was fixed because hundreds of
customers’ test and recovery plans were dependent on the
date.
Our Role – Rhodes Consulting provided project
planning and project management consulting. The following is a
brief description of how we assisted our customer:
- Defined scope of work and task dependencies which
included definition of a many business processes that would
be moved to Boulder or to another facility.
- Developed the detailed project plan which represented
the full scope of work including milestones with committed
dates.
- Regularly updated the project plan and communicated the
project status across multiple sites (Tampa; Sterling
Forest, NY; Gaithersburg, VA; Olympia, WA).
- Provided project management consultation to the
executive in charge of the move.
Project Planning Services for the Cook County JD
Edwards Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Project
The Project – Cook County implemented a
JD Edwards ERP software solution to manage the payroll, human resource
and other finance systems. The project team consisted of
approximately fifty resources and involved Cook County
personnel, contractor personnel and sub-contractors.
Our Role – Rhodes Consulting provided project
planning and project management services. The following
is a brief description of how we assisted our customer:
- Developed a detailed project plan through interviews
with team leads to determine of tasks, task dependencies and
resources required to complete the identified tasks.
- Managed weekly process to update the plan, track
progress, and forecast task completion.
- Prepared and presented to executive management and
project teams a weekly progress report on the status of the
project.- Fixed assets
Project Planning Services for
"Major Telecommunications Company" Infrastructure
Support
The Project – A "Major Consulting Company" assumed
contractual responsibility for supporting the "Major
Telecommunications Company's"
computing infrastructure. Rhodes Consulting assisted
in a project to
roll out a distributed computing hardware and software
infrastructure and document approximately 200 procedures
governing the support of the infrastructure.
Our Role – Rhodes Consulting provided project
planning services for this project. The following is a
brief description of how we assisted our customer:
- Developed a detailed project plan using our customized
MS Project tool
- The project file was separated into small spreadsheet
files which were electronically distributed to task owners
in multiple locations, including Summers, NY. Task
owners updated the status of their tasks in the spreadsheet
files and returned the files electronically to the project
planner. These files were used to update the master
project plan using a Visual Basic application.
- Provided a project status report weekly which included a
one-page summary of the past week’s accomplishments, a count
of the number of documents per development stage, and any
issues that needed to be addressed. Describe the
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