Strategic planning and project management are crucial to successful businesses. The ability to prioritize information technology projects and initiatives is imperative to successful outcomes. Business units and the business objectives should drive the project plan. Any project should align with the strategic plan of the business or organization. Additionally, the project should align with the overall strategic plan, mission statement, and core values.
Pick a school you have attended. This can be primary, secondary, or higher education. Imagine you have been named the Information Technology Director for this institution. Your first objective and project are to install security cameras between campus buildings. These cameras will be the latest in video technology, night vision, zoom, and capable of streaming video in 4K. This school will be the first to deploy such a technology. You have to have buy-in from school administration, local law enforcement, and school staff.
As the IT Director for the school, perform a risk assessment of the project. and document it using the Microsoft Project Planning platform:
Microsoft Project free trial (a credit card is required to sign up for the 1-month free trial). Watch the tutorial video(s) under Learning Materials for Microsoft Project to help you use the project planning platform.
The Microsoft Project should include the following for full points:
Identify the various risks (if any) to implementing this solution.
Assign a High, Medium, or Low Risk to each of the findings.
What impact (high, medium, low) does this have on the implementation of the project?
Include the funding sources for the project.
Identify and assign team members with duties to the project.
Develop an implementation plan.
