Two Project Options: 1. Data Center Transformation to complete a migration strategy/plan to complete the following two tasks: a. On-Premise Transformation b. Infrastructure And Application Migration to The CloudBackground: As you progress through the weekly materials in the course, you will apply the key principles and knowledge areas (Scope, cost, schedule, quality, resources, risk management, procurement, communication, and stakeholder management) to your project. You will use Microsoft Project software to track the entire project management plan (PMP), develop the schedule, and track the overall progress of the project. As the project manager (PM) for a medium-scale project, you will apply fundamental principles and best practices to conduct your project from inception to closing. Each assignment provides further detail. Known Scope: The project will address clients needs to upgrade their 3 existing legacy data centers and migrate eligible applications to the Cloud: - Total of 3 primary data centers (2 for Production and 1 for Disaster Recovery) - All 3 data centers share redundant WAN circuits (2 MPLS and 1 Point-2Point) for users and data traffic - Client has a total of 145 enterprise applications and 1350 servers: o 450 Windows Servers o 550 Unix Servers o 350 ESX, VMWare, and legacy AIX servers - Allowed project budget is $1.5 Million with a $150K for contingencies - The client is open to the top 3 cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) - You can assemble your team - Stakeholders are also open to your specific and project needs (define their roles and responsibilities as you see them fit) - All 3 Data centers are in the United States the DR DC must be in a different State for recovery purposes Requirements: - Meet the weekly assignments requirements (total of 4 assignments to complete the entire project) within the 8 weeks duration of the course. - You will be assigned as the main PM for the project, where you will own the entire project - Your course instructor will act as the project sponsor can address all your questions and concerns and will provide you feedback during the weekly assignments submissions. - The project will include internal and external stakeholders, vendors, team members, and contractors. - A well-defined project charter must be approved by the course instructor by end of week two. - Your final project management plan, as well as the weekly submissions, must adhere to the following formatting requirements: Weekly Assignment - Structure: Week 2 - Project Charter: At the end of week two, you are to create and submit the project charter. This is the first official document to be reviewed and approved by the project sponsor. The project charter will include the following components: - High-level project scope - High-level project requirements - Business needs - Early estimation and forecasted cost - Stakeholder analysis (roles and responsibilities) - High-level Communication plan - High-Level Resource plan - Early risk indications

Scope and Schedule: At the end of week 4, you are to finalize the initially approved scope from week two and start building the project schedule. In this week, you are also to work on building the project Work-Breakdown Structure (WBS). Project scope and schedule will include the following components:

- Finalized project scope - Project requirements in more details - WBS structure - Developed project schedule - Identify key milestones and deliverables - Outline project resources and assign them to tasks accordingly. - Stakeholder engagement communication plan

Budget and Risk Management: At the end of this week, you are to finalize the overall project cost and clearly document project risks gathered throughout the project. As part of the risk management plan, you are expected to share a risk response plan. Project cost and risk management plans will include the following components:

- Overall project budget (utilizing EVM share current and forecasted project status) - Project requirements updated - Cost management plan outlining contingency plan for project changes - Detailed risk management plan - Risk response plan - Risk mitigation plan - Change management process - How project RAID (Risk, The assumption, Issues, and Dependencies) will be managed - Stakeholder engagement communication plan

Final week, you are to finalize the overall project management plan (PMP) and to integrate all previously submitted components incorporated with instructor (project sponsor) feedback into a single project management plan. The project management plan will include the following components:

- Project quality management plan to include an updated scope, cost, schedule, communication, risk, resources, procurement, and quality) - Updated changes Change Request (if any) - Project requirements updated - Stakeholder register updated - How project RAID (Risk, Assumption, Issues, and Dependencies) - Document project lessons-learned - Project sponsor approval of the key project deliverables