Management Plan
Purpose
The purpose of this document is to provide the steps and resources needed to achieve the
project’s objectives. This plan identifies the Green Team’s management team, defines a
communication plan, and identifies related documents that are part of this overall plan.
Corporate Structure
The Rate-it management team is assumed to be under the Old Dominion University
corporate structure. For this reason, management needs to be informed of the project’s
progress on a regular basis. The team is expected to be able to receive resources from
within the corporation to staff the team. In this way team members can be used in a
matrix format by the Rate-it management team. The relation to the Rate-it project to the
corporation is as follows.
Corporation drawing to be provided later
Management Team
The core management team will consist of the team members assigned in the CS410
green group project. They will perform oversight and participate in their respective
responsibilities. The team members included are:
Project Manager
Name: Nathan DeWitt
Annual Salary: $74,008
Background: Nathan DeWitt is a software and data architect with over 10 years industry
experience. He is currently employed as a Solutions Architect with EMC Corporation on
an extended contract with Verizon. Recently he designed and implemented a custom
help desk web application for Verizon supporting over 5,000 field technicians
nationwide. He is proficient in both client server and web applications as well as
relational database design. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer concentrating in SQL
Server and solution architecture. Nathan likes to spend his free time getting the house
ready for his first son who is due in July and walking his two Mastiffs with his wife,
Raegan.
Responsibilities: The responsibilities include making sure that all tasks are assigned and
are performed with high quality. The project manager must also resolve difference
between team members and facilitate team member communications. The project
manager also must develop the WBS, assign resources, prioritize tasks, and define task
dependencies.
Sales and Marketing Director
Name: Mark Polansky
Annual Salary: $140,342
Background: Mark Polansky is a senior at Old Dominion University majoring in
Computer Science and expects to graduate sometime in the future. He currently works
for an aerospace company building and testing satellites. His black Labrador Kadi keeps
his wife and him on a strict schedule throughout the week.
Responsibilities: The responsibilities include determining the target market and
supporting the marketing aspects of the project. The sale and marketing director will
choose and manage the marketing vendor and determine the overall sales and marketing
plan.
Accounting (Financial) Director
Name: Mark Polansky
Annual Salary: $136,875
Background: Mark Polansky is a senior at Old Dominion University majoring in
Computer Science and expects to graduate sometime in the future. He currently works
for an aerospace company building and testing satellites. His black Labrador Kadi keeps
his wife and him on a strict schedule throughout the week.
Responsibilities: The responsibilities include receiving funding, creating the budget, and
determining the product cost. The accounting/ financial director is responsible for the
financial and funding plans.
Webmaster
Name: Mark Phelps
Annual Salary: $76,239
Background: Mark Phelps a 21 year old senior computer science major at Old
Dominion from Chesapeake, Virginia. He currently works for the Office of Computing
and Communications Services here at ODU, where he maintains and updates many of the
university’s websites including the OCCS site itself (www.occs.odu.edu). He has
experience with programming in C++ and Java as well as building dynamic websites with
Apache, PHP and MySQL. Outside of school, his interests include basketball,
skateboarding, body boarding, and hanging out with friends.
Responsibilities: The responsibilities include determining the functionality and look of
the website that will house the rate-it engine. As webmaster, the responsibilities include
creating the team and product websites, as well as managing the web developers in future
phases.
Engineering/Technical Director
Name: Mark Phelps
Annual Salary: $152,462
Background: Mark Phelps a 21 year old senior computer science major at Old
Dominion from Chesapeake, Virginia. He currently works for the Office of Computing
and Communications Services here at ODU, where he maintains and updates many of the
university’s websites including the OCCS site itself (www.occs.odu.edu). He has
experience with programming in C++ and Java as well as building dynamic websites with
Apache, PHP and MySQL. Outside of school, his interests include basketball,
skateboarding, body boarding, and hanging out with friends.
Responsibilities: The responsibilities include determining the technical requirements
and managing the technical staff. The engineering/technical director will determine and
solve the technical problems.
Risk Director
Name: Nathan DeWitt
Annual Salary: $117,326
Background: Nathan DeWitt is a software and data architect with over 10 years industry
experience. He is currently employed as a Solutions Architect with EMC Corporation on
an extended contract with Verizon. Recently he designed and implemented a custom
help desk web application for Verizon supporting over 5,000 field technicians
nationwide. He is proficient in both client server and web applications as well as
relational database design. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer concentrating in SQL
Server and solution architecture. Nathan likes to spend his free time getting the house
ready for his first son who is due in July and walking his two Mastiffs with his wife,
Raegan.
Responsibilities: The responsibilities include managing the project risks. The risk
director must determine the risks that exist in the project, evaluate the severity and
probability of the risk, and attempt to mitigate the risks.
Researcher #1
Name: Alan Grimes
Annual Salary: N/A
Background: A quote from researcher #1, “Well, last week I was given a
thermometer/power controller and told to program it... I had to braid my own serial cable,
write my own interface driver, and convert a GUI that was originally developed for a
wave (sound editor) into a temperature graph. I did it in three days.”
Responsibilities: Research stuff
Researcher #2
Name: Patrick Markham
Annual Salary: N/A
Background: Not available at this time
Responsibilities: Research stuff
Communication
Communication is vital in order for the Green Team Technologies to meet its goals.
With this in mind, the team has determined a number of different strategies to keep the
team informed. These include:
Meetings
The team meetings are scheduled on Wednesday and Sunday starting at 7:00pm until the
job is done. Everything that can be discussed is discussed in the team meetings. This is
the two times a week where the team members can get instant feed back from other team
members about their ideas and questions. The team meetings are held using Yahoo
messenger.
Email
Email is an excellent way to discuss topics between two team members, when an answer
is not needed at any special time.
Google Groups
The team’s collection of information is held in the green team Google group’s account.
This is where team members can post questions and comments, or answer another team
members questions, in a message board type of forum. This is also where group
members will post documents and presentations that they have been working on so
another group member can reference the latest revision of each document.
Website
The website is where the final version of the green team’s information resides. When the
final version of each document is done or an incremental version is ready it will be
uploaded to the team’s website.
Environment
The main project development will take place at Old Dominion University in Norfolk,
VA. All employees will work out of this location. Some employees that are not local to
the Norfolk area will work remotely from their home offices. Overhead per employee
has been calculated at 40% to compensate ODU for utilities, office space, and everything
else it takes to run a building.
Documents
The management plan contains the other project planning documents to provide the
detailed management plan. These documents include:
Staffing Plan – This document defines the organization of the project team by phase. It
also details the skills and responsibilities for each team member by phase.
Resource Plan – This document defines the hard resources that will be used in each phase
of the project. These resources will be identified and their use and needs will be defined.
Development Plan – This document details the requirements and functionality of the
project deliverables by phase. This plan documents what will be accomplished and how
it will be accomplished by phase.
Funding Plan – This plan describes the financial aspects of the project. This plan
contains the budget for the hard and human resources, the prototype and production
component costs, cash flow analysis, and break even analysis. This plan also identifies
the funding agencies.
Marketing Plan – This plan describes the marketing plan for reaching our target audience.
Each marketing sub phases is defined with its objectives.
Evaluation Plan – This plan determines how we will measure success in each phase of the
project.
Risk Management Plan – This document describes how we will manage our risks. It also
identifies the current risks that have been identified and shows their potential impact to
the project.
Management
Plan
Staffing
Plan
Development
Plan
Marketing
Plan
Risk Management
Plan
Resource
Plan
Evaluation
Plan
Funding
Plan