Project Management Of Advantage Energy Technology Data Center Migration

Types of costs in the project

Discuss about the Advantage Energy Technology Data Centre Migration.

The accurate estimates help in project management of Advantage Energy Technology Data Center Migration would help in calculating and developing the project plan comprising of activities of the network development project. The accurate estimation would help in,

1. Development of accurate project budget and schedule for the project
2. Implementation of the changes in accordance of the project activities
3. Estimating the working duration for each of the activities

The comparison for the bottom up and top down estimation for the project of Advantage Energy Technology Data Center Migration is based on their major functions. The bottom up approach relies on the identification of the project team members involved in the project for calculating the expense. On the other hand the top down approach works by defining the tasks of the project and forming clear insights of the operations. For example, for project of upgradation of hardware is a project that would be completed using top down approach and the new projects involve the use of top down approach for settling the project activities.

The major types of costs expended on the project of Advantage Energy Technology Data Center Migration are labour costs, tools costs, construction costs, and material costs. The labour costs is the major costs of the project as it involves the calculation of the overall work duration of the resource and multiply it with the standard rate of the resource.

Labour cost: The labour include all the costs and expenses of the project activities paid in terms of the salaries and wages of the people working on the project.

Non-labour costs: The non labour costs comprise of tools costs, construction costs, and material costs that are not entitled for any human resources utilization for the deployment of the project activities.

The project manager is in charge of managing the costs of labour with the help of contracts and agreements, procurement, and limitation of the resource utilization.

White elephant is a term that is used for representing a business that is more likely for generation of loss and unable to achieve the profits on its completion. The white elephant can be assigned to social projects lie clearing of the locality, provision of the street lights, and park mowing are all a part of white elephant project.

The work breakdown structure or WBS is a major representation of the project plan in a sequential diagram that can be helpful for the deployment of the project networks. The WBS represents the work packages of the project and the project networks are built for representation of the activities grouped into specific phases. The project networks are deployed by considering a block diagram that would be helpful for listing the activities of the project in a more specific line. The deployment of the WBS diagram would ease in listing the final project network diagram development.

Task Name	Project Manager	Facility	Operator	Telecommunicator	System Developer	Contractor	Vendor	City Inspector	Client
Recruitment of Brian	I			A		C			R
Hiring of Contractor	R	C				I			A
Ordering New Racks				C	I		R		A
Ordering New Cables	I			A		C			R
Delivery of the racks		R		A	C			I
Project Board Meeting	R	C				I		A
Project Scope Presentation	I			A		C			R
Project team Recruitment	A			C		R
Project Team Meeting		R		A	C			I
Network Designing			I		R	A		C
Development of Ventilation System		R		A	C			I
Replacing all old power supplies and data center			I		R	A		C
Installing the ventilation system	I			A		C			R
Installing the racks		R		A	C			I
Renovation of data center	I			A		C			R
Approval of construction of raised floor		R		A	C			I
Installing power supplies		R		A	C			I
Installing running cables	R	C				I
Switchover Approval	I			A		C			R
Power check of racks for sufficient voltage			I		R	A		C
Installing test servers		R		A	C			I
Testing all primary network functions in the server		R		A	C			I
Network is taken off			I		R	A		C
Charging of batteries		R		A	C			I
Installing ventilation	R	C				I
Test servers are up and running		R		A	C			I
Signing off the Primary System Checks		R		A	C			I
Date is set for network transfer	I			A		C			R
Network Moveover
Project is Closed	I	R			A	C

WBS and project networks

WBS is developed for representation of the project work packages and it involves the formation of the work packages that represent the project networks. The WBS represents the work packages of the project and the project networks are built for representation of the activities grouped into specific phases. The project networks are deployed by considering a block diagram that would be helpful for listing the activities of the project in a more specific line.

Slack is helpful for calculating the delay in the activities of the project and the project management list would show the project operations and alignment of the project networks are deployed by considering a block diagram that would be helpful for listing the activities of the project in a more specific line. The deployment of the WBS diagram would ease in listing the final project network diagram development.

Free clack doesn’t form any influence in the previous project activities and it also shows any work for the activities that is not directly completed with the project. The total slack forms the impact on the preceding activities of the project.

The lags are helpful for showing the change in duration of the project activities in reference to the previous tasks in timeline. The posistive lags shows the project is behind the schedule and the negative lags shows how behind the project is in presence of people.

The hammock activity represents the grouping of two tasks of project and the project sub activities are grouped between two dates and it does not represent any hierarchical senses. It helps in running two or moe activities for the project.

The WBS structure for the project of Advantage Energy Technology Data Center Migration is shown below,

Figure 1: WBS for the project

(Source: Created by the author in Ms-Project)

The budget estimation for the project of Advantage Energy Technology Data Center Migration is shown below,

Cost Budget Analysis
Advantage Energy Technology Data Center Migration
Resource Name	Type of expense	Work/Units	Standard Rate	Total
Project Manager	Labour	120.00	$100.00	$12,000.00
Facility	Labour	16.00	$60.00	$960.00
Operator	Labour	64.00	$80.00	$5,120.00
Tele-communicator	Labour	136.00	$85.00	$11,560.00
System Developer	Labour	344.00	$95.00	$32,680.00
Contractor	Labour	160.00	$90.00	$14,400.00
Vendor	Labour	40.00	$75.00	$3,000.00
City Inspector	Labour	56.00	$50.00	$2,800.00
Racks	Non-labour	1.00	$1,750.00	$1,750.00
Cables	Non-labour	1.00	$2,500.00	$2,500.00
Building Materials	Non-labour	1.00	$3,200.00	$3,200.00
Total budget	$89,970.00

Table 1: Cost Estimation of the project

(Source: Created by the author in Ms-Excel)

The network diagram for the project of Advantage Energy Technology Data Center Migration is shown below,

Figure 2: Network Diagram for the project

(Source: Created by the author in Ms-Project)

The project cost estimation had been done using bottom up approach for the project of Advantage Energy Technology Data Center Migration. The bottom up estimation approach involves the project manager estimating the costs of each of the activities and it is the most accurate method of calculating the project cost. Although it is time consuming because it involves the speculation of the factors of labour, direct expenses, indirect expenses, and equipments, the method is widely used for its accuracy. The method had been helpful for critically evaluating the project works.

The timeline for the project of Advantage Energy Technology Data Center Migration is shown below,

Figure 3: Timeline Schedule for the project

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