CMGT 410 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Project Charter

CMGT 410 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Project Charter

Write 3 to 4 pages on your findings and submit for grading.

Choose a project involving an IT requirement with multiple tasks and human resources. This project must come from a business situation—for example, hardware procurement and installation, network acquisition, implementation, or expansion—in which each Learning Team member contributes background details.

This is a consolidated source of information which lays the foundation for successful completion of any project by identifying your project vision and communicating the overall approach for a project to all key stakeholder audiences.

At a minimum the charter will contain the following:

Background of the organization and any information or statement of needs that helps explain how the project came to be

Goals and objectives of the project in language that is both concise and explanatory

Project scope delineated so that all parties involved are aware of what the project includes as well as what it does not

Budgetary limitations

Explanation of sponsors, stakeholders, and as well as how the project team is structured so that there will be no confusion concerning roles and responsibilities

Project approach your team intends to take to fulfill meeting deliverables of the project.

Sample Answer 

The purpose of this project will be to appropriate a new Human Resources Client-Server Database system. This new system will be capable of centralizing Riordan Manufacturing’s data and increasing the overall security of the data within. This was conveyed to the attention of the IT department because of the increasingly overwhelming amount of personal data currently transmitted across unsecure data-lines, within Riordan. Employee information is taken with the highest regard and securing that information is priority one. Because Riordan has several locations around the country, a centralized database system is needed to secure employee’s information, but remain accessible to the need to know employees that need access to it. The project will include the building of an inter-company network, capable of communicating between each of the offices. A network upgrade of each location, capable of handling the incoming and outgoing traffic of each location, and the hardware upgrades to the servers need to upgraded as well, able to handle the increased workload…………………………………………..