Project Scope
This project scope is to install Access Control System (ACS) in the college dormitory. To identify the project’s goals, objectives, deliverables, tasks, costs, deadlines, expected leading staffing and none-staffing resources needed (Bidgoli, 2014). For a project this size, the company is limited to using current staff to complete the project. The size of the dormitory is five doors entering and exiting the building. The building has five moving cameras installed located at each doorway. The project is set for thirty days completion timetable. The current system analyst will be the project manager, and his responsibilities are as follows:
• Project planning – identifying the project task estimating the completion time and cost of the project.
• Project Scheduling – Creating a timetable for specific tasks.
• Project monitoring – Guiding, supervising, and coordination the team's workload, and making decisions based on the team's workload and taking action to make corrections to keep the project on track.
• Project reporting – This includes updates from his management, about current users and project team members on attitude and the overall effort of the team.
(Rosenblatt J.H., 2014)
A successful project will be completed on time, within budget and deliver a quality product that meets all requirements that were requested. A listing of the primary task and subtask are as follows:
• Obtain equipment
1. Request bids from different vendors.
2. Evaluate bids and cost.
• Hardware\Software assessment
1. Ingress and egress the number of access points
2. Walk through hardware assessment, network cable and existing software.
• Labor and personal need assessment
1. Determine staff/skill set and evaluate completion on time.
2. Estimate man hours for completion.
• Training staff
1. Training current staff on the new access control system
2.