The reason of selecting the notorious FBI’s Trilogy Information Technology Modernization Program as the theme of the case-study is that the case is the most heavily cited and its magnitude is so large. The case study aims to perform a post-mortem analysis on what went wrong, and make recommendations that might help future project managers avoid ending up with a similar position. Base on the analysis the reference, the general consensus in the research is that this enterprise project fell into the most basic traps of software development, from poor planning to bad communications throughout the lifecycle of the project. Our team will focus on the following aspects including scope, human resource, procurement, unrealistic scheduling, contracting and contract management, program management and enterprise architecture, the report will analyze each topic and make corresponding recommendation to improve the practice. The primary lessons learned from the extravagant failure of FBI Virtual Case File include : • Avoid evolving design requirements and scope creep • Avoid management inconsistency and inadequate oversight • Preserve the right of overall management and the making of the key decisions • Develop a well-educated team with necessary skill set • Choose, monitor and manage contracts • Establish realistic resource-driven work schedule • Tackle contract and program management issue • Establish an effective and efficient enterprise architecture. 1. INTRODUCTION The FBI’s
In the 21st century, the world as we know it suffers from psychotic, demented, treacherous and, sophisticated crimes. This world would be corrupt without a tunnel of light if it was not for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, also known as the FBI, is a corporation that seeks fidelity, bravery and, integrity for the United States of America. The FBI researches shocking and concerning crimes the news reports about politics, war and, safety that we hear on the television about issues that are being reported to the people. These cases of transgression are missions the FBI analyzes, such as hacking information from double spies, locating terrorists, seeking pedophiles, cracking down unknown mobsters,
were made to the FBI to improve its function as a law enforcement agency. Of all the decades
In its early days, the FBI’s responsibilities differed greatly from the role it plays today. Because there were “few federal crimes,” agents “investigated violations of law involving national banking, bankruptcy, naturalization,
Communication is an important part of our everyday lives. Without communications skills, it is extremely difficult to preform many simple tasks. With one person describing to another the function to perform, there needs to be clear description of the task at hand. When dealing with software projects, it is imperative that the end user convey their requirements of the software to the developer. Effective communication skills need to be used in order for a software project to be successful. A lack of communication to define a software project will not only doom the project but quickly increase the project budget due to misunderstandings and rework.
* After reviewing the case study and historical data that was present in the form of interview, email and newsletter; the project took another whole new life. The decision making was based largely upon the available information and initial outcomes were largely contributed to the resources mentioned earlier. The path document was found from the data and resources available in the case study. The WBS was indeed a challenge given the schedules and estimates for this project. The management of human resources especially because our project needed scheduling depending upon the developers’ availability was also another challenge. To best manage the list of individuals it was a given that the software provided was
The mission of the FBI is to protect and defend the United States against foreign intelligence and terrorist threats. Their job is to uphold and enforce the law of the United States. The FBI provides leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state and international agencies and partners. Their responsibilities are performed in a manner that is responsive to the needs of the people of America, which includes being faithful and honest to the United States Constitution. The mission of the Drug Enforcement Administration is to enforce the controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States. The DEA is responsible for investigation and preparation of major violators of controlled substance.
What were the challenges of this dig and investigation? How did the FBI agents handle these challenges?
Loyalty, courage and probity constitute the core objectives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which commenced operations, way back in 1908, as an internal law enforcement and domestic intelligence-gathering agency for protection of American people, US properties and American interests, besides endeavoring to uphold US Constitution whenever crimes and wrong-doings threatened to jeopardize law enforcement, within and outside the United States.
This paper endeavors to discuss the source of funding for the FBI and shall go further to assess the activities to which the said funds have been applied. There are many activities that form part of the work of the FBI. However, this analysis shall consider at least three major activities to which these funds are applied. It shall also be the aim of this paper to analyze the possible impact of the withdrawal of such funds. Ultimately, there shall be a discussion of the influence of politics and policy considerations on the funding of the FBI.
Agile Project management is one of the industries dominating methodology for project management in IT. It is an incremental and iterative way to manage the build and design activities for constructing an IT product, services, and project development in manner which is highly interactive and flexible. In this methodology, scope is defined in granularity that is appropriate with time horizon and checked with the agreement on each feature with the customer. In this methodology work steps are divided with feature breakdown structures. In order to track the progress of the project progress charts are used instead of Gantt charts. Cross-functional and test-driven development teams starts working from the very beginning of the project to provide
State and local law enforcement agencies face several challenges including the lack of resources, expertise, training, and funding to solve cyber crime. Of these problems, are the growing concerns of the local and state officials about the threats made relating to the protection of computer infrastructures at the federal level. Local officers are not having the capacity or understanding of computer crimes necessary to properly investigate offenses such as computer and electric crimes and fraud and theft crimes by digital technology. (Taylor, 2011) Having education and appropriate training is crucial in the investigation process to gain an upper hand in fighting digital crime. In addition, state and local law enforcement expressed concerns about resource constraints and apprehension regarding expertise and jurisdictional
The VCF project lacked of proper planning. Firstly, the FBI had no Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the start of the project. Without a CIO, the FBI had no standard software infrastructure. The FBI had 23 divisions, each with their own IT budget, investigations database and applications (Goldstein, 2005).
Firstly, R.Ryan Nelson (2007) referred to 10 of the most infamous IT projects to assert the importance of making a careful analysis of projects that have occurred to help future projects. In order to attest this opinion, he illustrated the case of United Kingdom’s
In this paper, the author will introduce a failure case of K-Mart 's IT modernization system project. In 2001, K-mart took $1.4 billion dollars into this project with the purpose of competing with its rival Walmart. The dream is beautiful, but the real work is cruel. After 18 months, the project was failed because of lacking of cash. What happened in the detailed for this project? $1.4 billion dollar is huge numbers, why it was still not enough to pay and distribute for this project? How did its project manager do in this project? What are the project problems? How can we learn from the failure of this case? The paper includes the case background introduction, the project development process, the problems in the project, analysis and
This report is produced for the purpose of critically analysing the project life cycle of the ERP implementation at ABC Technologies. To begin with the ERP implementation at ABC could be called as a project when analysed against different definitions in theory. Due to the characteristics such as availability of a time, cost and resource plans. On the other hand the project is following a specific life cycle which could be defined with major