Purpose
The installation of security equipment is meant to support the company staff and administrative departments as they move towards the use of information technology in the security domain. To accomplish the successful application of the technology, there is a need for the application of technical expertise, consultations, and training programs (Ali & Murthy, 2010). The staff team has a responsibility of providing information that will support the strategic planning of the client firm. There is thus a need to consider a plan that will provide data and analysis to be used for planning and assist in decision-making, coordination of the design elements, implementation of the project, and providing reports to stakeholders. The staffing plan seeks to deliver an approximation of the staffing pattern from unit to unit and operates as a teaching, administration, and consultancy design team (Connor, McFadden, & McLean, 2012). The staffing plan will help to achieve a balance across the domains to ensure that costs of the project are dedicated to keeping the security cameras running and operational, technology investments incorporate both what exists and innovative practices, to create effectiveness in the business unit, and to planning.
The project planning process is at the core of the staffing planning and involves the identification of interrelated activities that must be followed in an orderly manner to implement the user requirements in the system (Clarke & O’Connor, 2012). It also includes the identification of activities and individuals responsible for performing the activities. This requires the input of the assembly technicians, the contract administrator, the quality control engineer, and the office support paraprofessional so that the user needs are considered as a matter of priority.
Roles and Responsibilities
In regard to the project, there are four domains, and they include the operations, maintenance, project start and end, and planning. The operational domain deals with the work demands that are as a result of trouble requests in which there is a need to have persons that can be able to respond to trouble requests and make documentations (Gates, 2010). In the maintenance domain, works such as reviews of the system to identify anomalies and hardware or software upgrades need to be accomplished. In the project start and end, there may be operational troubles that may require sometimes more than 24 hours of effort by a single individual or department and thus are accompanied by a business or project plan. In the planning domain, aspects such as resource and innovation planning as well as professional development require the attention of the company.
Project Staffing Plan
1 Contract Administrator: The contract administrator deals mainly with the procurement plan and will develop a summary of the standard procurement processes and lead times. The administrator will cross-reference the technical requirements of the project to the project work breakdown and evaluate work risks. The Contract Administrator is responsible for communicating to the user group about the overall project plan and collecting their specification and requirement information so that they can be integrated into the design. The administrator is the only person who has the authority to enter into or change the contract and deals with the project start and end domain, to analyze problems that may affect a business or project plan due to large-scale intervention programs.
1 Certified Quality Control Engineer: The engineer concentrates on the detection and elimination of errors as early as possible during the systems development. The engineer will conduct reviews and testing of the system to verify that all planned reviews and reported problems are followed. The testing measure is meant to check errors in the system and verify the source of the errors whether they are as a result of non-conformance to user requirements.
1 Office Support Paraprofessional: The Office Support Paraprofessional is responsible for managing office activities and information systems. The paraprofessional personnel provides support and services for special needs of the client which relate to normal operations. Trouble requests will be coordinated from the office to ensure that the team is aware of the problem and the assembly technicians and the quality control engineer are informed as soon as the need for a response to a problem arises.
10 Assembly Technicians: The integration of IT and security requires direct contact with the system users in the initial set-up stage of the project at the design phase (Gates, 2010). The Assembly Technicians will take the requirements of the user group and integrate into the design process. The final delivery and installation of the systems, including the security cameras installation and the overall security systems, is the responsibility of the Assembly Technicians and the Contract Administrator. The process will be under close supervision of the Certified Quality Control Engineer.
Training Needs
References
Ali, A., & Murthy, R. (2010). The Coordination between Faculty and Technical Support Staff in Updating Computer Technology Courses–A Case Example. Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, 7, 459-469.
Clarke, P., & O’Connor, R. V. (2012). The situational factors that affect the software development process: Towards a comprehensive reference framework. Information and Software Technology, 54(5), 433-447.
Connor, G., McFadden, M., & McLean, I. (2012). Organisational Design. In J. Stewart & P. Rogers (Eds.), Developing People and Organizations (pp. 1-35). London: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Gates, L. P. (2010). Strategic Planning with Critical Success Factors and Future Scenarios: An Integrated Strategic Planning Framework (No. CMU/SEI-2010-TR-037). Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh Pa: Software Engineering Institute.
