IBM SYSTEM 370

Abdulmumin IbrahimIbrahim Musa Adam

Saeed Malhooz

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Outline

• Introduction• Evolution of the Project• Project life cycle• Project drivers• Objectives of System 370• Project Selection Model• Risk and Uncertainty • The Project Manager• Project Organization• Integration

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Introduction

• Project Management– Project management is the methodological approach.

• Project Management and technology– Project Management implementation.

• Benefits of Project Management– Efficiency– Customer satisfaction – Improved growth– Competitive edge

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Evolution of System 370

• Reusability of software– Mainframe hardware

• Virtual Memory

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Project life cycle

• Conception– Idea: system with extendable memory

• Selection– Backward compatibility– Software reusability – Memory address storage

• Planning– Peter Druke (plans)– Time factor– Project outcome meets parent organization outcome

• Termination– Will be discussed latter

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Project drivers• Speed to market– Fore front in technology market

• Cost effective– Features

• Complexity an uniqueness of innovation– Reusability of software

• Distribution of enterprise– Geographic location

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Objectives of System 370

• Price• Compatibility• Performance

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Project Selection Model

• Sacred cow• Competitive necessity– Market domination in US and Europe– Fore front of technology

• Product line extension– Chain of family line architecture

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Risk and Uncertainty

• The most highly risk decision in computer industry.

• “Classic case of all eggs in one basket”• Uncertainty

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The Project Manager

• Mythical on-Month– “Adding man power to a late project make it later”

• Brooks invented computer architecture– Aid in reusing software packages in new hardware

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Project Organization

• Organizational structure– Manner in which an organization arrange itself

• Functional– System 370

• Matrix– System 360

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Integration

• Program Managers• Hierarchy

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Project Control

• Result regulation• Administration• Asset conservation– Physical asset– Financial asset– Human resource

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Termination

• Termination by extinction– Name Replacement

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