The migration of any IT room is possibly one of the highest risk and most complex IT projects. The IT room migration series will bring a wealth of experience, underpinned by a proven IT room migration series and a portfolio of reusable assets, which would help to minimise risk, reduce …

Execute the project management plan and ensure that the projects are under the control of an experienced project manager. Follow leading established project management disciplines, such as e.g. PMI PMP or PRINCE2. Project management Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a …

Project governance is key to the overall success and communication of that success. Project governance Project governance is the management framework within project decisions reached. Project governance is a critical element of any IT room migration project since while the accountabilities and responsibilities associated with an organization’s business as usual …

Assign project resources for the project and hold a kick-off meeting. Resource management Resource management is a key element to activity resource estimating and project resource management. Both are essential components of a comprehensive project management plan to execute and monitor a project successfully. As is the case with the …

The commercial framework is extremely important to the success (or failure) of an IT room migration project.  Insufficient funding, loosely defined milestones, deliverables and payment schedules can all lead to poor commercial contract management. Two contract forms are common: Time and Material Fixed-price Time and Material contract An arrangement with …

It is extremely likely that this activity is pre-sales and executed prior to the engagement.  However, a business case to support the project should have been developed and signed-off.  The business case need to re-visit to make sure that the proposed work aligned to both the business case and its …

Estimates developed during the solution, bid and sales phase of any engagement must be reconfirmed when the engagement actually commences. Things change over time (scope, assumptions, dependencies, resource costs, etc.) and any changes must be identified in order to effectively and accurately manage the timescales and costs going forward. Accurate …

Initiate an IT room migration project based on the contracted scope. Run a project initiation workshop and publish a project initiation document and related materials. Project initiation workshop IT room migration projects are serious endeavor undertaken to support the development of a new environment. What makes them different from ‘business as …

For executing IT room migration projects successfully, the migration framework should be followed with all activities and providing the outputs. Ensure that the relevant activities are selected and used by the team and make sure that all key resources are familiar with it. The IT room migration workshop What’s a …

IT Room Migration Series: Planning and Control During the IT room migration planning and control phase, there are several activities performed by the project manager. Each activity will be highlighted in a paragraph. Hereby the activity list: Run IT room migration workshop Define project charter Manage estimates Confirm business case …