Case Study: Providence Mortgage Company

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Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Project Scope Statement 3
Work Breakdown Structure 5
Risk Response Planning 5
Qualitative Risk Analysis 5-15

Introduction:

This project is for the conversion of Providence Mortgage Company from its current Business communications provider over to Horizon Telecom. We Horizon Telecom will be working to convert the four main sites A,B,C,D over to our systems with a full support of data backbone, and VoIP phones systems. In this report I will be covering the Scope Statement, Work Breakdown Structure, Risk Identification, and how we plan to accommodate the possible risk so as to make this project a success.

Project Scope Statement:

Project Name Providence Mortgage Company Project Number 2
Project
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Voice Provisioned Negative 3 8 24 11 Voice provisioned will be working with vendors to keep the inventory at minimal levels. Upon one vendor not being able to deliver products we will have other vendors ready to deliver. Weekly Vendor Calls Project manager and Voice Provisioned
Increase in number of circuits installed at locations. Sales Positive 3 7 21 12 There will be a process in place for when the customer adds circuits after the beginning of the project that an additional 48 hours will be added to properly provision the new equipment. Sales will submit a Purchase request to the Project manager who will then process the request according to Policies in place. Sales and Project manager
Customer sets up call flow for all 4 sites the same, To which they want to set up all sites during the first project site. Voice Provisioned Positive 3 7 21 13 With the customer demanding call flow to be set up all at once it will be more labor in the beginning of the project. However the project manager will take the resources allocated to the different sites and move them so the projects can be completed
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The Fault tree analysis would help the project manager to find out the likely cause of the defects in the project so that he or she can address the exact cause of the risk or project issue and thus optimize the funds allocated to the project.

Discussion of Fault Tree
From the above Fault tree analysis, it is clear that the following causes are leading to many defects in the project.
- Lack of standards and documentations in the project
- Poor Onsite testing or Inappropriate Case Tools used in the project and Testing methodology not clearly followed
- Inappropriate Case Tools used in the project and Test cases not created in the project
- Lack of testing interface
- Lack of User training and Testing personnel and testing environment not being ready
- Requirements may not have been tied to test cases or improper test cases created in the project or Projects defects are not being fixed on time

The above fault tree analysis would help the project manager to arrive at the above causes and take appropriate action to mitigate the project risk.

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