In 2011, Amazon deployed SharePoint 2010 to provide self-service portal features to its teams around the world. Now, since Microsoft has released a new version of SharePoint, Amazon has decided to upgrade and has contracted your company for help with managing the project.
Review how the deployment of SharePoint 2010 went in the case, Amazon’s Corporate IT Deploys SharePoint 2010 to the Amazon Web Services Cloud (Links to an external site.). Then, assuming the project stakeholders, goals, and scope from the deployment of SharePoint 2010 remain the same for this conversion, develop a preliminary project plan for the new SharePoint conversion that addresses all of the following topics:
Identify and describe the key stakeholders in this project.
Create a project charter addressing the following:
How is this project supposed to address the business needs?
Who is the project manager?
Who is the project sponsor?
What human resources will be needed on the project team?
What will the project cost?
How long will the project likely take?
What resources, technology, and equipment will be needed?