Running head: ACME DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (ADC) 1

ACME Development Corporation: Statement of Work

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Introduction

ACME Development Corporation often abbreviated as ADC develops or produces

apartment and homes complexes. ACME Development Corporation (ADC) is an international

level corporation with their offices across the country. Presently, ACME Development

Corporation (ADC) has about 40 project managers at every branch across the entire country. In

every branch the project manager operates as a spate individual in his or her work, setting the

goals or objectives of their projects independently, purchasing equipment and managing

contractors based on how they would see them fit into achieving the organizational goals and

objectives. ACME Development Corporation seeks to create a Project Management Office

(PMO) to monitor and manage all its projects. Thus, the Project Management Office (PMO) will

use the scheduling tool developed earlier to program and as well manage the projects that need to

be accomplished. Therefore, all the project managers are required to utilize the tool to track and

schedule their project frequently and note the projects growth and development as well.

Objectives

The projects goal is to choose, implement and test a scheduling tool within the enterprise

or corporation to enhance the performance of the firm within the market and industry as well. In

the implementation as well as testing the scheduling tool, it will also be necessary and significant

to train the end users and the principal administrator at different levels within the corporation on

how to use the scheduling tool (Kerzner, 2002). The entire process would also include

implementing, testing and even training the end users, and the administrators will take 90 days.

The corporation wants to use its resources to find out the appropriate level of growth,

development, and nature of business as well. The scheduling tool, in this case, would help the
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corporation or the enterprise to reduce aspects such as expenses and gather the best suppliers and

quantity discounts as well.

Scope of Work

ACME Development Corporation (ADC) in this case establishes a Project Management

Office (PMO) and consider a scheduling tool in the 4th quarter of the Fiscal Year 2017. The

supplier taken to implements and test the scheduling tool will undertake the installation process

of the software, hardware, train the administrators and the end users and lastly implement aspects

of maintenance and upgrading as well (Kerzner, 2002). By doing so, will help the organization or

the corporation to keep the projects budget under control and monitor every step taken in the

implementation of the budget. With the scheduling tool through a suitable work plan can help in

the elimination of the unwanted efforts resulting to the streamlining of the workforce within the

corporation. Also, it will assist in sharing responsibilities among the individual employees within

the firm. It will also enable the aspect of the central purchasing system within the organization,

which in turn helps in the reduction of data cost.

Location of Work

Most of the activities towards the completion of the project will be undertaken at ADCs

information technology center based in Chicago Illinois (Kerzner, 2002). At this, point the aspect

of training both the end users and the administrators will be performed, it will be undertaken

remotely for all the project managers out of Chicago, which shall be achieved through a software

termed as the Web Ex. The administrators will perform their training on site in Chicago Illinois

which is the corporations headquarters. By doing so, will help the ACME corporation to

undertake decisions at a conventional platform implementing all the decisions to all the company

locations efficiently (Martin, 2010).

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Performance Period

As indicated previously, the Project scheduling tool will take about 90 days within the 4th

quarter of the fiscal year 2011. In this case, the project commences on March 19th and should be

completed by June 20th this year, which would include a break for the reason of Thanksgiving

holidays within the process. The 90-day period will include aspects such as both testing and

implementing the software and the hardware, and training of the end users and administrators as

well (Kerzner, 2002).

By going with the scheduled period or time, the billing hours is 3000 hours, which

includes four full-time employees from the supplier or vendor performing their tasks or duties for

four hours per week for about 12 weeks (Kerzner, 2002). As noted from the billing hours

additional hours have also been allocated taking control of the unforeseen overtime experienced

within the process. In that, over time needs to be approved before the consideration of the

additional work.

Deliverable Schedule

The deliverable schedules in the project, in this case, brings forth the due dates for the

projects deliverables, the deliverable schedules would, in turn, incorporates the dates of

completion for the projects development within the expected period which is 90 days.

Task Rank Deliverable Completion date The last Due Date

expected
1 Reviewing both the present March 19th , 2017 March 24th , 2017
Operating Systems and
hardware
1.1 Updating the necessary April 4th , 2017 April 9th , 2017
Software and hardware to
comply with the expected
requirements.
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2 Installing the project April 11th , 2017 April 15th , 2017

scheduling tool
2.2 The Software functional April 18th , 2017 April 22nd , 2017
testing within the corporation
2.3 Testing of the load April 26th, 2017 April 30th , 2017
3 User Acceptance May 10th , 2017 June 14th , 2017
4 Both Administrator and end June 16th , 2017 June 20th , 2017
User training

Applicable Standards

Applicable standards refer to the corporation or industry standards that need to be met for

the project to fulfill the contract order based on both the client and the company specifications

(Kerzner, 2002). In the case of ADC, the project scheduling tool hardware and software should

meet what is termed as the Service Level Agreement (SLA) incorporated in the contract or

project not less than 99.95 percent uptime valued or measured within a period of one year

(Martin, 2010). By doing so, will ensure work efficiency and appropriateness of work standards

and ethics of the corporation. Thus, the applicable standards need to be considered for the

success of the project.

Acceptance Criteria or Standards

At this step of the Statement of Work (SOW), it specifies of gives the criteria of how the

client or the buyer determines whether the service or product is satisfactory based on the

requirements (Kerzner, 2002). It also includes the objective criteria to be used by the client or the

buyer to approve the deliverables as well. Therefore, for AMCE to ensure that the project is

within the budget, completed on time and with minimal issues, the following need to be

considered:

The system need to meet the acceptance standards of the user as noted in the satisfactory

survey
The system should meet all load balancing and functional testing concepts
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And all the users should be trained appropriately before June 20th, 2017.

Therefore, through all these steps of the Statement of Work (SOW) ADC will be in a

better position of achieving their goals and objectives based on the installation and

implementation of the project schedule tool.

Reference

Kerzner, H. (2002). Strategic planning for project management using a project management

maturity model. John Wiley & Sons.

Martin, M. G. (2010). Delivering project excellence with the statement of work. Management

Concepts Inc.