Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services has been struggling to accomplish a well organized computer system that was supposed to minimize the work of the employees, minimize the consumption of paper, decrease the number of errors and make the service for the customer faster. The bid for a newer, innovative and technological system began at $1 million dollars in 1995 (www.articles.com) . Many contractors sought the opportunity to make the County's dream come true. In this paper, I will attempt to describe a proposed project that will enable the County to fulfill the need for a faster service, more accurate, cutting unnecessary paper work for the employees and the lowest possible cost. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services has attempted to develop a computer system that will connect to Federal Systems, State and local integrated systems to cross reference individuals across the nation. Bidding for the project began in 1990 where 10 contractors were chosen to debate a better cost efficient computer system for the County. Some of the competitors involved Unisys, Maximus and other private entities. Unisys was chosen to pick up the challenge. The proposal promised to have the system up and running within 1 year, minimizing error, expediting document turn around and cutting paper work for the employees. Three years later it was discovered by an undeclared source that what had been promised was far a way from reality and remained just that a "dream". What began at $1 million dollars, had escalated to 7 million dollars in the period span of 3 years. What makes this more incredible is that Unisys was nowhere near finishing the compounding task after the promised year. Two years la... ... middle of paper ... ...on and eigenvector analysis enables us to account for all the interactions between managerial and success variables and to address a handful of perspectives, often left unanalyzed by previous research" (Shenhar, Tishler etal,. 2002). Having said this, the proposal has been addressed to your department for further legal issues and payment. References: Leo, Douglas W, CCC (2002). Using Project History to Assure Project Success. Transactions of AAEE International, p01 Retrieved: February 25, 2006 from www.apollolibrary.com Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services Home Page 2006. Retrieved: February 26,2007 from www.laco.gov Shehar, A; Tishler, Asher; Divir, Dov; Lipovestky, Stanislav; Lechler, Thomas 2002. R&D Management; 2002. Vol. 32 Issue 2, p111, 16p Retrieved: February 26, 2007 from http://web.ebscohost.com
The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized basin situated in the County of Los Angeles, California, bordered by mountains its home to about 1.69 million people. Yet, amidst its cool mountain breeze residents of the Valley have learned to recognize its environmental hazards. Experiencing great impacts from its larger more celebrated neighboring cities undergoing urban gentrification. As a consequence, it has led a number of people to make their way to the San Fernando Valley. Unfortunately, many of them are homeless fleeing the unsafe streets of skid row and making their home in different areas of the valley. Camping out in semi-rural washes many park their RVs behind major commercial buildings while the more unfortunate construct tents under the protection of freeway bridges. In the San Fernando Valley, the homeless blend into the
3. What were the unintended consequences of using the project management tools? What lessons should Teradyne take away from the Jaguar project?
The final activity undertaken on any project is a review of its overall success by an independent resource. Success is determined by how well it performed against the defined objectives and conformed to the management processes outlined in the planning phase. To determine performance, a number of questions are posed.
The project that I was involved in was the Risk Analysis of the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster. I began this in February 2014 and my project supervisor was Dr. Seth, professor of project management, data and decision making, operations Research, operations management and supply chain management, total quality management and Six Sigma.
This project belongs in the engineering-efficiency category; therefore, it has to fit at least 3 of 4 performance hurdles, which are 1. Impact on EPS; 2.Payback; 3.Discounted cash flow and 4. Internal rate of return.
Morgan is looking for and how it will have a profound effect on his daily business routine. This type of HRIS payroll system that I am going to discuss is the Kronos system and how it can enhance Castle’s Family restaurant by allowing the business to gain a comprehensive advantage by automating the necessary and often demanding business process with precise, real-time employee data. With Kronos intact Mr. Morgan will be able to have accurate timecard management, manage quick changes when an employee cannot come in to work their scheduled shift, build and manage schedules while staying within budget, all while having enough coverage for the rush hours. In which he currently has to rely on phone calls and text messages to stay up to date while traveling to the eight locations to get time off request, vacations and shift
The Englewood community is one of Chicago’s 77 official communities. The community is an urban setting comprised of 30,654 residents. Ninety-eight percent (98.8%) are African American. Of the population, 5,740 are youth 10 to 19 years of age, 18.7% of the population and approximately 60% of the households are headed by single women (U.S. Census, 2010). In 2011, median household income was $24,049 compared to the City of Chicago median household of $43,628. The 2010 U.S. Census did not report household income. Englewood ranks as one of the highest poverty communities in Chicago with a poverty rate exceeding 39% (Atlas of Illinois Poverty, 2003).
The various reasons of the failure of this payroll system include complex award structures, vague governance structure for system implementation, inadequate documentation of business requirements at the commencement of the project, increased time taken to reach Go-Live status, absence of periodic review of the business needs, system and process testing prior to Go-Live had not identified a number of significant implementation risks, critical business readiness activities and practices were not fully developed, business continuity plans were not available for implementation to address any payroll issues as they emerged, key system performance reports for use by CorpTech were not available during the completion of the initial payroll processing, several changes to the payroll administration practices were introduced at the same time as the release of the SAP and WorkBrain systems. The audit declared that the failure of the project was due to the project governance, besides managing relationships with key stakeholders was not effective in ensuring roles and responsibilities were clearly articulated and in ensuring there was clear acco...
Most projects fail due to inattentive management, poor communication and also shifting requirements. Information Technology projects are mostly affected by such factors and it will ensure the projects failure. Minnesota’s Department of Human Services closed out its project due to organizational issues named above. The project is called HealthMatch. The organization wasted millions of dollars in the project.
In every project there are always some universal characteristics that will be shared. They all have a comprehensible and established purpose and very distinct life durations. Overall, all projects are doing something that may possibly be new or yet a one time endeavor but have explicit requirements which include; time, price, and performan...
This section provides an overview and a brief description of the system design. The system structure, the database design, and the user interface
Our client is the Arizona Wildcat Academic Center (abbreviate that by calling it C.A.T.S. Academics in the rest of report). The normal goal of C.A.T.S Academics is help student-athletes graduate and there are more than 500 student-athletes belong C.A.T.S Academics. Therefore, the department provides these students a good place to study and offer all possible academic supports and resources, such as tutoring services, to student athletes. This October, the department moved to a bigger building with more various purpose rooms and then want to hire more amounts of high-quality workers. They intend to specify the correct purpose of each room in this new building. In addition, they want to track Tutors, for examples, keeping records whether the tutor attends the tutoring appointments or not and the total number of working hours. Considered these new demands, they want to setup a new online booking & scheduling system. The mission of our team is to help C.A.T.S. Academics create a database system and front-end booking & scheduling procedure.
- Reel, J.S, “Critical Success Factors in Software Projects”, IEEE Software, May 1999, pp. 18-23.
Authors:Deal III, Walter F.1 wdeal@odu.edu Source:Technology & Engineering Teacher. Nov2010, Vol. 70 Issue 3, p5-11. 7p.
Since a great number of Americans use applications such as email, instead of hand written letters, and Microsoft Word, in place of pen and paper, the need for manual effort has lessened. In the medical field, the Government now requires doctors to use electronic medical records, replacing hand-written charts to document information on patients. Recently, my parents’ Ophthalmology clinic ceased using paper charts. They transferred each old and new patient’s medical record to a computer, allowing the partnered doctors to easily access one another’s charts. After making the change, the doctors no longer need to spend time writing information down on paper, but instead enter it into a computer. With functioning computers, this new and improved method works well. However, if the computer’s system fails the stored information may become temporarily inaccessible or completely lost. One morning my father arrived at work to find the computer system “down”. He had no list of patients, past history or any information on the patient’s reason for scheduling the appointment. Not only did this frustrate him, but also inconvenienced the clients. Had he retained paper charts rather than computer records, all required information would still remain accessible. Although this mishap rarely occurs, dependence on technology to replace hand-written documents halted my father’s