"It's not just about a lot of very high-tech, very innovative products. It's also about planning for the right services upfront and having the solution delivered on time, meeting customers' requirements, and meeting the ultimate business needs."
Karl Meulema, Cisco Systems VP Customer Advocacy, Services Marketing & Channels.
Your project manager will work with you to define the project plan and align the resouces to accomplish the project goals and deliverables in a professional and timely manner. Project management is used at all stages of the system life cycle providing accountablity and charged with producing the results of the project that have been agreed with the stakeholders.
- Prepare: Align IT with business goals. Make sound financal decisions by developing a business case that establishes the financial justification for making a technology change.
- Plan: Assess the existing environment to determine whether it can support the proposed system sufficiently and securely.
- Design: Design a solution that meets business and technical requirements
- Implement: Integrate the new solution without distrupting the network or creating points of vulnerability
- Optimize: Achieve operational excellence by adapting the architecture, operation and performance of the network to ever-changing business requirements and positioning it to re enter the prepare phase of its lifecycle.
