Ebenezer Foch and his wife, Esmerelda, immigrated to the United States from Lower Slovenia in 1921, settling in Muncie Indiana. Foch had been a talented plumber in the old country; he quickly found work at the AAA Plumbing Supply Company. Nine years later, with his life savings and a small loan from the Second National Bank of Muncie, Foch was able to purchase the AAA Plumbing Supply Company from its owner, who had decided to retire. The Fochs had five children. One by one each child left home, starting his or her own franchise of the AAA Plumbing Supply Company in a different city.Over the years the AAA Plumbing Supply Company and its franchises proved quite successful. There are now a total of twenty-three offices across the United States. Each has its own IT department, servers, and network attached storage (NAS). All use the same business applications: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Inventory Management, as well as their own customer-facing website.Ralph Foch, Ebenezer Fochs grandson, is currently CEO of AAA Plumbing Supply Company, Inc. Mary Wilcox, AAAs Chief Technical Officer (CTO), has proposed to Foch that they centralize IT by developing a private cloud. Her proposal is to buy commercial blade servers, racks, and NAS from the Acme Computer Company. Zenith Software will be responsible for porting the current business applications to the private cloud. Argos Data Centers, Inc. will upgrade the physical facility to ensure adequate cooling, power, and physical security. The private cloud will be operated and maintained by the AAA Plumbing Supply Company IT department. Foch agrees to the plan, proving that (1) operations will not be disrupted, and (2) work will be completed in 18 months. Mary Wilcox will be the Project Manager.Assignment 2: What are the Project Drivers? (20 points) (4-6 sentences).Assignment 4: Risks (10 points) indicate whether you will avoid, accept, mitigate, or transfer the risk, and how you will do so (2-3 sentences).Fill in the following:Internal Negative Risk 1: __________________________________________Internal Negative Risk 2: __________________________________________Internal Negative Risk 3: __________________________________________External Negative Risk 1: __________________________________________External Negative Risk 2: __________________________________________External Negative Risk 3: __________________________________________External Negative Risk 4: __________________________________________External Negative Risk 5: __________________________________________Internal Positive Risk 1: __________________________________________External Positive Risk 2: __________________________________________Ebenezer Foch and his wife, Esmerelda, immigrated to the United States from Lower Slovenia in 1921, settling in Muncie Indiana. Foch had been a talented plumber in the old country; he quickly found work at the AAA Plumbing Supply Company. Nine years later, with his life savings and a small loan from the Second National Bank of Muncie, Foch was able to purchase the AAA Plumbing Supply Company from its owner, who had decided to retire. The Fochs had five children. One by one each child left home, starting his or her own franchise of the AAA Plumbing Supply Company in a different city.Over the years the AAA Plumbing Supply Company and its franchises proved quite successful. There are now a total of twenty-three offices across the United States. Each has its own IT department, servers, and network attached storage (NAS). All use the same business applications: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Inventory Management, as well as their own customer-facing website.Ralph Foch, Ebenezer Fochs grandson, is currently CEO of AAA Plumbing Supply Company, Inc. Mary Wilcox, AAAs Chief Technical Officer (CTO), has proposed to Foch that they centralize IT by developing a private cloud. Her proposal is to buy commercial blade servers, racks, and NAS from the Acme Computer Company. Zenith Software will be responsible for porting the current business applications to the private cloud. Argos Data Centers, Inc. will upgrade the physical facility to ensure adequate cooling, power, and physical security. The private cloud will be operated and maintained by the AAA Plumbing Supply Company IT department. Foch agrees to the plan, proving that (1) operations will not be disrupted, and (2) work will be completed in 18 months. Mary Wilcox will be the Project Manager.Assignment 2: What are the Project Drivers? (20 points) (4-6 sentences).Assignment 4: Risks (10 points) indicate whether you will avoid, accept, mitigate, or transfer the risk, and how you will do so (2-3 sentences).Fill in the following:Internal Negative Risk 1: __________________________________________Internal Negative Risk 2: __________________________________________Internal Negative Risk 3: __________________________________________External Negative Risk 1: __________________________________________External Negative Risk 2: __________________________________________External Negative Risk 3: __________________________________________External Negative Risk 4: __________________________________________External Negative Risk 5: __________________________________________Internal Positive Risk 1: __________________________________________External Positive Risk 2: __________________________________________
