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Congratulations! Your consulting firm has been awarded acontract by The University of Arizona Athletics Department fortheir Point of Sale ticket sales migration project. As the leadconsultant on the project, you have been tasked with determiningwhether the migration can be handled in-house or whether it willneed to be subcontracted to an outside team.
You have reviewed all of the documentation and technicalspecifications on both the current system used by UA and the systemthat they will be migrating to you have made the followingdeterminations:
Systems Requirements | 9 Easy, 5 Nominal, and 10 Difficult |
Systems Interfaces | 3 Nominal and 1 Difficult |
Operational Scenarios | 6 Nominal |
You have met and interviewed the team available from the UA aswell as reviewed the credentials for an available subcontract team,Beta Team. You have put together the following assessments:
UA Team | Beta Team | |
Requirements Understanding | Low | High |
Migration Complexity | High | High |
# and Diversity of Installations/Platforms | Very High | Very High |
Stakeholder Team Cohesion | Low | Low |
Personnel/Team Capability | High | High |
Personnel Experience/Continuity | High | Very High |
Tool Support | Low | Low |
Cost per Person Month | $12,000 | $21,000 |
In addition, you know that the UA is looking complete theproject before the start of the 18-19 football season (August 2018)and they have a budget of $1M for the migration.
A) Assuming allother variables are Nominal, what is the Effort, Schedule and Costif you use the UA Team? If you use the Beta Team?
B) Based on theresults of your modeling and a start date of September 2017, doesyour estimate meet the clientâs timeline and budget requirements ifyou use UA Team? If you use the Beta Team?
C) Based on theschedule and cost, in order to meet the UAâs requirements, whichteam should be used? Which cost drivers had the biggest impact forthe chosen team?