Merrilton Robotics Project Charter
Project No.: 8675309 Date Charted: 8/10/2024
Merrilton Robotics Data Migration
Problem Statement Goal Statement
As it stands today, Merrilton’s Data Center is housed at the
company’s facility in Houston, TX. The current capacity of the
infrastructure cannot be increased. The IT department does not Our goal for this project is to increase infrastructure capacity to
have the required expertise, resources or capacities to properly allow the company to continue to grow.
address the regulatory mandates or respond to cyber security
threats or internal auditing requirements.
Project Leader Project Approach
Traditional (predictive) methodology
Project Team Risks, Constraints & Assumptions
Name Role
1 John Smith Project Manager Risks
Very tight 6 month timeline to complete migration and ensure proper
Sarah Jones IT Manager testing and decommision of existing data center infrastructure.
2 Potential for not making deadline.
3 David Tooey Quality Assurance Constraints
All migrations must be done during maintenance windows and done
department by department. Each migration must adhere to all
security and government regulations throughout the entirty of the
Kent Scandrett Risk Management
project with no loss of data, corruption or security breaches.
Maintenance windows only occur once to two times a week for a 4
4 hour timeframe.
5 Gina Rogers Security Consultant Assumptions
Merrilton is assuming that the MSP vendor selected is able to stay
within budget and complete the migration with the given risks and
constraints. In addition, there is the assumption that the MSP has the
Michelle Espadas Chief Engineer
necessary knowledge that the Merrilton IT team doesn't currently
have for the process and maintenance of the new cloud
6 infrastructure.
Scope Deliverables
As Merrilton Robotics continues to grow, so will the need for data
Increase in storage capacity
1 storage, maintenance and retrieval.
2 The use of a third-party Managed Service Provider (MSP) will allow Ease of information access
3 Merrilton to abide by government regulations, allow for future growth Governement regulations followed
4 and have the technical knowledge the team currently doesn’t have Security standards met
5 access to today.
6
Start Date Estimate Completion Date
10/1/2024 4/1/2025
Milestones 1 2 3 4 5
Determine all
Breakdown Migrate each
infrastructure
Description: components per department to the Testing Complete Migration
components to be
department cloud
moved
Date: 10/1/2024 11/1/2024 1/1/2025 3/1/2025 4/1/2025
Signatures - The signatures of the people below document approval of the formal Project Charter
Signature Date
Project leader:
Sponsor: Charlie Reifsteck
The Project Leader is empowered by this charter to proceed with the project as outlined above
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Project No.: 8675309 Date Charted: 8/10/2024
Merrilton Robotics Data Migration
Problem Statement Goal Statement
As it stands today, Merrilton’s Data Center is housed at the
company’s facility in Houston, TX. The current capacity of the
infrastructure cannot be increased. The IT department does not Our goal for this project is to increase infrastructure capacity to
have the required expertise, resources or capacities to properly allow the company to continue to grow.
address the regulatory mandates or respond to cyber security
threats or internal auditing requirements.
Project Leader Project Approach
Traditional (predictive) methodology
Project Team Risks, Constraints & Assumptions
Name Role
1 John Smith Project Manager Risks
Very tight 6 month timeline to complete migration and ensure proper
Sarah Jones IT Manager testing and decommision of existing data center infrastructure.
2 Potential for not making deadline.
3 David Tooey Quality Assurance Constraints
All migrations must be done during maintenance windows and done
department by department. Each migration must adhere to all
security and government regulations throughout the entirty of the
Kent Scandrett Risk Management
project with no loss of data, corruption or security breaches.
Maintenance windows only occur once to two times a week for a 4
4 hour timeframe.
5 Gina Rogers Security Consultant Assumptions
Merrilton is assuming that the MSP vendor selected is able to stay
within budget and complete the migration with the given risks and
constraints. In addition, there is the assumption that the MSP has the
Michelle Espadas Chief Engineer
necessary knowledge that the Merrilton IT team doesn't currently
have for the process and maintenance of the new cloud
6 infrastructure.
Scope Deliverables
As Merrilton Robotics continues to grow, so will the need for data
Increase in storage capacity
1 storage, maintenance and retrieval.
2 The use of a third-party Managed Service Provider (MSP) will allow Ease of information access
3 Merrilton to abide by government regulations, allow for future growth Governement regulations followed
4 and have the technical knowledge the team currently doesn’t have Security standards met
5 access to today.
6
Start Date Estimate Completion Date
10/1/2024 4/1/2025
Milestones 1 2 3 4 5
Determine all
Breakdown Migrate each
infrastructure
Description: components per department to the Testing Complete Migration
components to be
department cloud
moved
Date: 10/1/2024 11/1/2024 1/1/2025 3/1/2025 4/1/2025
Signatures - The signatures of the people below document approval of the formal Project Charter
Signature Date
Project leader:
Sponsor: Charlie Reifsteck
The Project Leader is empowered by this charter to proceed with the project as outlined above
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