3.6 vFire System Upgrade The biggest project that I worked on, both time wise and criticality, was the upgrade of the Enterprise Service Management ticketing system, vFire. The last time vFire was upgraded was over a year ago and the fact that the entire IT department here and at site are stakeholders for the change made me extra cautious when going through the planning and testing stages. The upgrade brought various improvements and features that were welcomed by most. The implementation occurred between the 25th and 28th of October which coincided with my Cadia trip, thus creating the need for the plan to be thorough enough so that anyone could pick up the plan and do the upgrade. This gave me some experience managing different workloads …show more content…
This will pave the way to several new things in the future such as sending alerts to targeted AD groups or laptop users. This project had been sitting on the shelf since 2008 and for a good reason, there were a couple blockers, although they were initially unidentified, that made the integration element of getting the data into vFire very time consuming. I was required to take advantage of all available resources, documentation, internet research, the Application Team who are the product owners of vFire, and lastly the vFire support team. The creation of the CMDB database was uncomplicated with some help from the team but the integration, which I tackled solo, was challenging. Compatibility issues, discrepancies between the development and production environments, different versions of vFire, incorrect configurations, stopped services are some of the things that I overcame to complete this project. However, having spent 2-3 months of my placement with vFire and CMDB I gained a deeper understanding of the functions, improved my independent learning skills and also gained the satisfaction of having a working system that you were responsible for. The CMDB implementation and the vFire upgrade where also a great introduction to the change process and something I will take into the future and benchmark with other organisations. 4. Career Direction Overall, my placement at Newcrest was fulfilling
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Arpatech: What is the best project you are engaged with or have done in your entire career? What are the challenges you faced and how did you tackle them?
These four management tools will be used to collaborate and organize key information from PMBOK, the information will then be directly compared to facts collected in the Federation Square project case study to decipher where the project went wrong and learn from management’s mistakes.
Overall, the project was excellent to do it because of two reasons, one I was able to do my own 5s project that helped to have a better understanding of the entire process and two that now I have an organized storage where I will be able to have more space. Now that I performed this project I feel that I'm taking the right direction on being lean, even though my storage is not a business firm or a company where lean can be applied I now know that this is the first step of my experience in lean and maintaining control of 5s process so later in the near future I can apply this project anywhere I get the opportunity to
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In this week’s discussion board, we learned about several project management tools and how they are used to facilitate the successful implementation of IT related projects. Additionally, we learned what happens when IT projects fall behind schedule, the reasons for the delays and if these reasons will hinder complex software implementations in the future.
In the current business environment, the demand for project managers is ever growing. In short, project management is a provisional project constrained by time, cost and scope (A guide to the project management body of knowledge, 2013). Between the immense organization, optimization, and communication assets skilled project management brings to a project, it is easy to see why project management is a booming field of study. Furthermore, project management can be both financially and personally rewarding when long term milestones and goals come to fruition.
Riordan Manufacturing is in need of a new network, this plan will develop a network that will benefit the business, the employees and the customers in a manner that will provide all of them with a smooth operating experience as well as to future proof the entire network. The Network will handle all incoming and outgoing traffic for both the employees on the intranet, as well as the customers on the external internet web site. Quality of Service (QoS) will be implemented to assist in data tracking for use of the bandwidth to determine and plan how much bandwidth is needed and to determine where congestion
We were all tasked with building an acute care system that worked in the old run-down portion the clinic. Needless to say we were like minded and did an amazing job. The old unit used to see 7-10 patients a day. We were able to provide care for an average of 40 patients in a four hour time period, daily. I felt it was a success and it was due to the commanding
Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet project requirements (PMBOK Guide, 2008). Using this definition, it is made evident that the parties involved in the Denver International Airport (DIA) Baggage System project in the 1990’s failed at applying basic organizational practices towards managing the triple constraint of scope, time, and cost goals. The combination of inherent risks, uncertainties, and dysfunctional decision making geared the project towards disappointment while simultaneously designating it as a text book example of what not do when taking on a complex project. By looking at the key strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats we can
The PDQ project will take a detail process that will help launch the appropriate software technology along with existing processes in order to implement new cutting edge innovations. Although technology is not the only leverage for improving project management, modern technology is an important element (Kendall & Austin, 2013). Today, businesses depend on technology to produce more in less time and with minimal resources making modern technology a critical component to a successful business. In today’s high tech world, it is important to develop and execute effective project management strategies that will place the company at a competitive level. Companies must continue to work on projects that will drive their business to innovate and change for the better (Shenhar & Dvir, 2997).
• Past evidence to manage big projects:- In year 2000, conversion of order management AtekPC used project management approach. They got everyone together and got it done smoothly. Everyone appreciated it and said it was done well.
Mr. Lassiter, being the manager of sales and marketing, should have addressed the entire organization of the new system changes. He did not even address the full system conversion to several of his own staff members. Also, Mr. Lassiter anticipated Kovecki had studied the documentation, which he had not. Mr. Lassiter needs to prepare a special meeting with key members of staff
Jim Gunn was appointed as project manager as he was the most experienced PM available and had a track record of managing successful projects previously. This project had an overall goal of creating a computerised Corporate Database system to speed up the processing of corporate customer transactions. This project was ranked as priority number one after passing through the priorities committee.
While there have been several studies on how people perceive media bias, few have been conducted to determine how to combat incorrect identification of media bias. To combat this lack of knowledge, we created an experiment to determine if gaining knowledge about media bias through two different treatments enables people to identify, rather than perceive, media bias.