Ron Wilkey II, PMP

Infrastructure Migration

Large Enterprise in Retail Industry Infrastructure Project

The physical machines were failing and causing an abnormal increase in production issues.  By moving the Matrix42 Empirum software to virtual machines, we should have some reduction in costs.

• We were assuming this solution is more stable and run more efficiently.

• We had the proper personnel available to do the prep work, construction, pre conversions, night conversion, and disaster recovery implementation.

Because we have the necessary hardware and software in house, we were dependent upon distributors for shipping.  We were dependent upon internal resources being available to perform functions to complete the project.  

The identified risk includes having available resources.  Because there were unpredictable production issues, some of the resources used to repair those issues were also assigned to work on this migration.

Solution Provided

The solution I implemented was successful because the methodology took the form of a standard RUP iteration plan.

Before rolling out in iterations, there were major items to be completed.

1. Prep Work
2. Construction
3. QA

Afterward the testing of the first batch (NOC) we were able to move forward rather quickly recreating the successful plan. As the project manager my responsibility in Planning was to

In execution my responsibility was to

• Manage the resouce allocation
• Execute the task defined in project plan
• Improve team performance
• Implement a QM plan