Assignment 3

CLO-3 10 Marks

MSCS 20 is helping Mountain Communications (MC), a well-established telecommunications company, create risk management processes. One of your first assignments is to create risk planning for a project that is replacing two old systems with newer systems to reflect modern technological advances. The old systems will need to continue functioning while data is converted. The new systems are provided by a vendor who is asking MC to be one of the first companies to implement them. The MC company has decided to use a gateway program, which will convert the old data into the formats of the new systems. The company (MC) has decided to create this program itself, although several are available on the market. The program is critical to both conversion efforts, and a plan has been created for a phased conversion the data will not be converted all at once MC has been able to segment the data to be converted over the next couple of years.

The project has around 100 people working on the conversion and implementation of the new systems. Some of the team members are:

• The program manager,
• Tasleem (whom you are advising to establish the risk management processes);
• The production manager who is responsible for the current systems and will take over the new systems;
• A development manager responsible for the gateway program;
• Another development manager responsible for implementing the new systems and managing the conversion plan;
• The client who will need to maintain current service while the new systems are converted; and
• the vendor who is helping to implement both systems.

Exercise Questions

• Why should Tasleem create a risk management plan?
• Describe the risk management processes you would recommend that Tasleem implement and describe how often they should be performed.
• Describe the roles and responsibilities of the stakeholders participating in the risk management process
• What is the difference between a risk management plan and a risk response plan? Will Tasleem need to make sure both are created?

Assignment 4. 10 Marks

Make a risk management plan as per the template given for Tasleem.