Youhave been asked to be the project manager for the development of an informationtechnology (IT) project. The system to be developed will allow a large companyto coordinate and maintain records of the professional development of itsemployees. The company has over 30,000 employees who are locatedin four sites: Florida, Colorado, Illinois, and Texas. The system needs toallow employees to locate and schedule professional development activities thatare relevant to their positions. Sophisticated search capabilities arerequired, and the ability to add scheduled events to the employees’ calendarsis desired. The system needs to support social networking to allow employees todetermine who is attending conferences and events. This will promote fosteringrelationships and ensure coverage of conferences that are considered of highimportance.

Once anactivity has been completed, employees will use the system to submit thedocumentation. The system should support notifications to management personnelwhenever their direct reports have submitted documentation. The system shouldalso notify employees if their deadline to complete professional developmentrequirements is approaching and is not yet satisfied. The goal is to get thissystem up and running at the start of the next fiscal year.

When aproject is ready to be deployed, a transition plan can help the transfer ofownership from the project team to the customer or organization that requestedthe project.

Complete thefollowing:

• For the givenscenario, create a project transition plan.

• There will beprojects that require a last-minute push to meet the scheduled deadline.In spite of all of the careful planning and project monitoring, you mayfind yourself in a situation where there is still a significant amount ofwork to complete in the final days or weeks. Describe at least 2strategies you can employ that will help keep a team motivated to getthrough the final push.