IT-205 Week 8 Assignment
Hardware Replacement Project The five major variables involved in this project are scope, time, cost, quality, and risk. These variables must be considered in any project actually, as they are the determining factors of success of the project or the failure of any project. One of the very first concerns regarding the project that must be scrutinized is the projects scope, meaning, everything that the project entails. Exactly what is to be included into the project and what is to be excluded. At the onset, this can be a general idea, but before long, it must become a specific quantity. The scope will be determined by studying what is happening now, and what needs to happen and what changes need to be made. A considerable amount of this information can be garnered from the employees who will be using the finished project, and from the upper echelon that need the ability to output the information that they require. The time that this project will take must also be taken into consideration, based on the customers’ needs. Some customers may have a very large time frame, whereas others may only have a limited time, such as in-between seasons, to implement a new system. We must also consider the changeover, or conversion time required, and the all-important task of the time involved in training the employees on the new system to avoid introducing new errors. Attempting to make the project overly complex is also a time related subject. It is easy to add items to the project that makes it drag on forever. There are many variables to the time consequence that it must be monitored closely, if it is not closely scheduled it can run over budget. Budget, cost is something that the customer is going to want watched closely. The cost of the project involves not only the cost of the equipment, but also the man-hours it requires to develop, modify, or