Network Installation Proposal
The purpose of this document is to specify the project plan to setup Network Infrastructure for Heath Robinson Web Hosting Company. This document outlines a brief plan about, on how the project is to be shaped and also includes the milestones and deliverables.
Heath Robinson Web Hosting Company has acquired second floor in a building, in East Anglia Industrial Estate. The project deliverable is to design and implement the overall setup, which includes refurbishing/construction, Software design and development, Network design and implementation, Hardware and Software testing.
The Project plan for time management, cost estimation, resource planning and roles and responsibilities needs to be provided as part of the deliverables.
Project – goal & Objectives
The high level goals and objective of the project is to efficient evaluation of the required planning, methodology and approach to achieve the following scope of work
Investigating requirements of new installations of required equipment, network cables and software needed for running the network system
Constructing/refurbishing the acquired buildings where new equipment will be installed; This part of the project is contracted to a building company and managed by the construction manager who is a part the project team
Designing the network for the new building based on the business requirements of the company
Investigating and purchasing appropriate hardware and other equipment required for the new installation
Developing the software required for the network system
Installing the network and computers in the new building
Testing Hardware and Software
Assumptions and Constraints
As the Project Manager for the Project, I have the defined target time for the project completion.
The Project needs to start from 1st of April 2010
The Project execution should be in 30 day
The approved project budget from the Management is £200, 000
The Financial Advisor, who is part of the project, has advised a budgetary costing of £500, 000 to be fixed for project. Any deviation from the approved budget needs approval from the Management committee.
Project Deliverables
The list of project deliverables is as follows
Project Management Plan
Cost Estimation – Project Feasibility
Construction /Refurbishing
Software Design and Specification
Network Design and Implementation
Hardware & Software Testing
The Team – Roles & Responsibility
The Project Team consists of the 10 members, each from a specific domain and with precise skill set. Each resource will be responsible for completing their task and reporting back to project manager. As the Project Manager the task here is to submit a project proposal for approval by the Company Managerial Committee, with a detailed feasibility analysis report, in particular the economic feasibility of the project, supported with financial calculations of the net profit, payback / bread-even period, return on investment, net present value and internal rate of return for the project.
The Roles and Responsibility of the 10 individuals is as follow
1 computer hardware specialist responsible for hardware-related task
1 financial advisor responsible for control financial resources available to the project
1 network designer responsible for designing the network for the company
2 software developers for developing software required by the new installation
2 office assistants, one in charge of purchasing computers and other hardware equipment and the other dealing with paperwork in the office and produce project-related documents
1 construction manager responsible for building and refurbishment work
1 software testing engineer
1 hardware testing engineer
Tasks – Activity and Miles stones
Cost Estimation / Time Management
The Project Manager along with the Financial Advisor has come up with the following Cost estimation.
The Following are the cost allotted for various activities, which would be one time setup cost, Capital expenditure.
Material Cost
Cost Allotted
Construction ( Material)
£ 30,000.00
Network (Servers, Desktop, Cabling)
£ 20,000.00
Software Development ( Licenses)
£ 20,000.00
Testing( Software & hardware)
£ 15,000.00
Office Maintenance
£ 5,000.00
Other Services
£ 5,000.00
Total Cost
£ 92,000.00
The following are the cost allotted for resources, Operational Cost (Direct cost)
Resource
Resource Cost /Per Month
Construction manager
£ 5,000.00
Software Engineer (2)
£ 15,000.00
Hardware Engineer
£ 4,000.00
Network Engineer
£ 6,000.00
Testing Engineers (2)
£ 7,000.00
Office Assistant (2)
£ 2,500.00
Financial Advisor
£ 8,000.00
Total Cost
£ 47,500.00
The following are the cost allotted for office maintenance, Operational Cost (Indirect cost)
Utility
Cost /Per Month
Electricity
£ 750.00
Sanitary
£ 400.00
Stationary
£ 300.00
Maintenance
£ 500.00
Petty Cash
£ 500.00
Total Cost
£ 2,450.00
The Total Project Costing
Costing
Total
Material Cost
£ 92,000.00
Resource
£ 47,500.00
Administration Cost
£ 2,450.00
Total Cost
£ 142,500.00
Project Execution – Activity List
The whole project execution will be divided into sub- category of activities
The Project Execution is sub-divided into following sub -tasks
Construction
Hardware & structure Cabling
Network Design & Implementation
Software Design & Coding
Testing
Construction
The Construction is the first task of the project. The activity will begin from the 1st of April and estimated time from is one week. The Construction Manager is designated to take the complete responsibility of planning the construction activity and over look all the activities.
The following list of activities will be done during the constriction phase
Floor plan
Roof and ceiling construction
Painting and carpentry
Provide Water, Electrical, Pressure air and gas services
Install Cabinets
Install Wall Cabinets
Paint Cabinet
Paint Walls & Ceilings
Hardware & structure Cabling
As per the project plan, Five Servers will be installed in the server room and the required cabling and racks need to be installed in the switch room.
The Hardware engineer along with Network Engineer will be planning the activity and the requirements are as follows
No of Data Ports – 30+ 5
No of Voice Ports – 30 ports
No of Redundant ports – 30ports
The structured cabling activity is planned to start from the 2nd week , 7th of April 2010 and estimated to complete by 10th of April 2010.
Network Design & Implementation
The Network design activity starts parallel to the structured cabling activity and the implementation would kick off as soon the server room wiring is complete.
The Implementation activity would start from the 3rd week of April 2010 and estimated to complete in 5 days. The Network is designed using industry standard Star topology. The New floor requires Voice, Data and Video wiring and electronic facilities to support newest form of telecommunications. The Switch room, which houses the Servers, Networking equipments (Switches, Routers, and Firewalls) connects to the each terminal (Desktop) via Horizontal Cabling. The option for Vertical Cabling can be enabled in future for connecting multiple switch rooms
The list of activities is as follows
Network design
Server Installation and mounting
Server application configuration
Domain and Active directory setup
User profiles setup
Access privilege creation
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Software Design & Coding
The software developers will be assigned the task of designing the software customized to the requirement. The Design and coding activity is intended to start from mid 3rd week after the servers are configured and installed. The activity is estimated to take 5 days. Two Software developers were appointed for creating bespoke software that is tailored specifically to company’s need as it is a web hosting company the software were used are .net, Java, PHP and C++.The software developers are skilled on various programming languages and are proficient in design and development of the bug free software.
The list of activities for the software developers’ team is as follows
Software design
Software coding
Software compiling
Software Release
Testing
One hardware testing engineer and software testing engineer were appointed their responsibilities is to setup of test processes including hardware and software deployment, provide technical support and training when required advanced testing, performing complex diagnostic tests on faulty computer. Software testing technician execute test plans to evaluate the performance of software applications and information and telecommunication systems.
The Testing will be done by 2 Engineers, one will be conducting Software Testing and the other will be conducting Hardware Testing. The activity will be handled by each individual post Hardware and Software implementations.
The Software Testing activity will include
Code review
Design Review
Test Plan
Manual & Automation Testing
Code tweaking and Regression
Hardware Testing Activity will include
System Definition
System Testing
Fault Testing
Load Testing
Office Assistant: The 2 Office assistant were appointed for essentially do whatever office tasks are needed so that the professional doesn’t have to. One office assistant will purchase hardware needed to the office and other will do paper works.
The Project plan – Time Management
Project – Futuristic Aspect
The success of any project is based on few parameters which portrays the efficiency of the project in terms of the objective achieved and sets bench marks for the future project undertaking
The followings are very important from the project efficiency point of view
Return of Investment
Net Present Value
Break Even Point
The calculations of the above are as follows with respect to the project
Return of Investment (ROI) & Net Present Value
Return of Investment is a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or to compare the efficiency of a number of different investments with respect to a project.
To calculate ROI, the benefit (return) of an investment is divided by the cost of the investment; the result is expressed as a percentage or a ratio
ROI = Gain from Investment – Cost of Investment
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Cost of Investment
Net Present Value or NPV is used to decide financial viability of an investment.
The difference between the present value of cash inflows and the present value of cash outflows. NPV is used in capital budgeting to analyse the profitability of an investment or project. Here the NPV and ROI are calculated. The following tables show you the NPV and ROI value.
The Project cost and the profit for next five years is as follow.
A 30% growth is assumed for our calculation
Taking the above The return on investment formula:
ROI = Gain from Investment – Cost of Investment
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Cost of Investment
ROI = 10,82,725 – 554,000
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554,000
= 1.21
Return on investment is a very popular metric because of its versatility and simplicity. That is, if an investment does not have a positive ROI, or if there are other opportunities with a higher ROI, then the investment should be not be undertaken
Break Even Point for the First year
First year Sales – £1, 75,000
First year Cost (Direct + indirect) – £50,000
Yearly Net Cash Flow – Cumulative Net Cash Flow
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Yearly Net Cash Flow
£1,75,000 – £50,000
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1,75,000
= 0.79 BEP (1 year)
Payback Period: The cumulative cash flow curves above show roughly the point in time when the cumulative cash flow “breaks even,” that is, when cumulative incoming returns exactly balance cumulative outflows. This point in time (point on the horizontal axis) is Payback period .The payback period is 1 years
RISK ASSESSMENT
The Risk assessment and the mitigation measure are very important for smooth completion of the project. The Risk assessment phase is carried out at the initial planning phase of the project .The risk assessment need to be continuously monitored and updated throughout the life of the project
INITIAL PROJECT RISK ASSESSMENT & CONTROL PLAN
Requirements Control Plan
When changes are to be made in the requirements after the project plan has been released, the changes shall be brought to the attention of the committee and discussed. Any changes that are to be made will be with the prior approval of the committee and only if feasible and permissible within the constraints of the project mentioned
Schedule Control Plan
If the work scheduled gets behind, the stake holder is ready to spend extra time on the project in between and after the schedules and also to make up for the lost time and deliver the final project on time.
Budget Control Plan
Any changes to the budget need to be updated to the management committee
Quality Control Plan
The Project Manager will be assessing the quality of work for each of teh stake holder and will ensure that the required level of quality is achieved in the given time frame
Closeout Plan
All the details about the post-mortem debriefings, report on the lessons learnt, project objectives and the milestones achieved would be mentioned as part of the Project documentation at the end of the project. The analysis and the lessons learnt will be used for future project success.
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