Amazon Project Management Case Study

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Project Management (Brooklyn Sigman) While society continues to move at a faster pace, Amazon makes it a priority of theirs to make the fleet lifestyle as easy as possible. While Amazon is known for orchestrating a wide-range of products and services, the firm’s project management teams are more of a cross-functional position than anything else. From project to project, teams, roles, designs, requirements, and processes are ever-changing. Amazon continuously thinks outside of the box which has led to its success as a multidimensional empire. By encouraging long-term progress, focusing on consumers, and strengthening the company’s IT infrastructure Amazon manifests life-changing technology. In order to reach the final destination, each project …show more content…

The key to Amazon’s strategy is the IT infrastructure’s ability to deal with more than a million requests at a consistent, error-free rate (Demir, 2017, p.12). Not to mention, Amazon’s Web Services makes up for about 10 percent of their total revenue. The first big play for Amazon’s Web Services was the launch of DynamoDB which sent customer data to multiple databases creating a strong collaboration system. By testing this system for long periods of time, Amazon analyzed the faults within it. However, with this jewel, engineers expanded new features and algorithms within the system. In order to get the design up to expectations, engineers improved the mastery of independent codes. Throughout the complexity of Amazon’s expansions, AWS has played a pivotal role in the Systems Developmental Life Cycle. “As an example of this growth, in 2006, AWS launched S3, its Simple Storage Service…Less than a year later it had grown to two trillion objects and was regularly handling 1.1 million requests per second” (Newcombe, 2015, p. 66). Developing such systems has given Amazon the ability to establish unforeseeable innovation which continues to astonish the entire world. As everything has become newer and improved through technology, Amazon implements this into each and every

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