Project Management Plan
Commercial Aviation Systems: Improve electrical harness product line quality and cost competitiveness.
1. Project Requirements
a. Project Description
i. Upgrade hardware for CAD/CADCAM v7.1 system, to provide improved
response time, leading to lower costs.
Functional Requirements
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Time management
Cost management
Scope management
Non Functional Requirements
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Usability
Security
Availability
Performance
Maintainability
b. Project Sponsorship and Stakeholders
Sponsor: Acting General Aviation President Pete Morisson
Stakeholders:
 General Sales Manager Barrac Obama
 Sr. Project Manager – Mellisa Stars
 Sr. V.P. Business Development and Strategy Jon Goldblum
 Sr. V.P IT, CTO Alan Messerchmitt
 Plant Manager John McCain
 Kitty Hawk Shared Lead Technicians
 Kitty Hawk Shared Lead Developers
 General Aviation Finance Manager
2. Strategic Alignment
a. Alignment to Strategic Goals
This project helps meet the KHA 2007-2010 Strategic Plan goals:
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Quicker response time will lead to lower labor costs, thus contributing to the KHA
increase profit goal by at least 7% per year,
Agility to respond to new customer requests, meeting the strategic goal to establish a
customer base in Asia/Europe for the Commercial Aviation line of business
Produce new design drawings for the new General Aviation Systems line of business
Improves the value of investments in information technology.
b. Value to and Impact on Strategic Initiatives
i. Directly addresses the strategic initiative to improve electrical harness product
line quality and cost competitiveness
3. Architectural Alignment
a. Alignment with the Enterprise Architecture
i. Will be follow SOA Architecture Framework
b. Integration with existing resources
i. Share existing KHA IT labor resources and technology standards
c. Standards and Product Selection Strategy
i. Following existing IT software and hardware standards of Commercial Aviation.
d. System Development Lifecycle Methodology
i. AGILE
e. System Performance Metrics
i. Screen response less than 10 seconds after user submittal.
ii. File Save occurs in under 6 seconds after user submittal.
iii. Code executes on Windows XP and Vista computers.
iv. Maintenance is under 5 hours per user.
f. System Standard Operating Procedures
4. Business Case
a. Alternative Analysis
i. Vendor Web Service
b. Cost-Benefit Analysis
i. SOA allows for utilizing existing IT Labor force with minimal hiring costs.
ii. Accommodate growth of General Aviation and European markets
c. Return on Investment Analysis
i. ROI is 1.6 years
5. Project Controls
a. Cost Controls and Project Budget
i. Follow IT Opportunity and Risk Financial Process/SIPOC
b. Schedule and Work Breakdown Structure
i. Per Project Plan
c. Project Performance Goals and Metrics
i. Meet Project Plan Milestone on Schedule.
ii. Meet Project budget constraints at each milestone.
d. Risk Management
i. Governance of Outsource and Insource labor
ii. Security Audits
iii. Reserve Budget for Hardware Vendor overtime.
6. Project Enterprise
a. Project Sponsor, Manager, and Team Structure
i. Project Sponsor
1. IT CAD/CAM Sr. Manager Jack Nicolson
2. IT CAD/CAM General Manager Reggie Jackson
3. IT CAD/CAM Department
4. IT Architecture Department
5. IT Security Department
6. IT Network Department
b. Roles and Responsibilities
i. TBD
c. Testing and Quality Assurance
i. Commercial Aviation Software Testing Service (SOA)
d. Workforce Training
i. Commercial Aviation Workforce Training Service (SOA)
7. Security and Privacy
a. Security Plan
Hardened infrastructure, shared virtualization model
Firewall
Separate security audit enclave
Separate outsource development version control, storage and audit procedures.
Restricted physical and network access procedures.
b. Data Privacy Procedures
i. Policy and Procedure compliance
ii. Authentication, Authorization, Access Controls
iii. Governance and Audits
c. Records and Management Procedures
i. Data Access restricted to Application Access
Appendix A Business Case Worksheets
Appendix B Reference Documents
Appendix C Glossary of Terms