Sturdy IT Platform (SITPR) Project Case Study

Oil and Gas IT Fabricators Company Limited (OGITFCL) is a leading oil and gas contracting company which specializes in fabricating, testing, integrating and deploying high-end IT infrastructure projects.

OGITFCL manages several projects simultaneously and is currently responsible for an IT fabricating project, Sturdy IT Platform Rig (SITPR). The project is scheduled to be completed in 12 months with a budget of USD 3 million. During the last few months, it has been increasingly difficult to work with the planned schedule and budget as several major unplanned and ad-hoc requests are being received from their client, which it claims to be crucial to meet its current business and environment needs.

The project manager for SITPR project is concerned that every extra day spent in processing change orders adds further delays to the targeted completion date because IT design engineers must approve the changes and the IT infrastructure deployment and implementation teams must alter an already tight schedule. The project manager of SITPR is under increasing pressure from upper management of OGITFCL to complete the job with the expected profit margin. Currently, the project has USD 300,000 to work with to meet the planned goals and deliverables. The management of OGITFCL has been pressuring SITPR projects team to keep the client happy so as to be in a prime position to win the contract for another fabricating project in the next few months if everything goes smoothly.

When the SITPR project manager arrived at work this morning a fax for a major change from the client was on his desk. The major change was to accommodate a more rigid IT infrastructure to cater for a robust connectivity in extreme stormy sea conditions. As, the project represents a large investment for the client, they firmly believe that they are entitled to make major changes which are necessary to maximize the performance of the completed oil rig. The changes were logical but were quite expensive.

However, the client have been encountering increasing resistance from the SITPR project manager on the major change request. The client feels that the SITPR project manager is trying to avoid making the major changes and is now becoming disappointed. As a result, the clients attitude towards the project manager has begun to turn sour. The CEO of OGITFCL has now been officially informed and a resolution to this crisis is required to be addressed soon.

QUESTIONS

1) Based on the case study, you are required to produce a complete Project Charter as an agreement between the client, OGITFCL, and SITPR project manager.

(15 marks)

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