Develop a performance management plan to identify how each activity in your WBS will be measured for correctness, completeness, and quality.

Create your performance management plan by completing the following steps:

Review the feedback provided by your professor in the previous assignment and revise your WBS accordingly.
Define the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) you will need to measure the performance of network devices and appliances, telecommunications bandwidth, transmission speed, node capacity, etc. Consider both local, cloud, and remote locations, especially when there are international headquarters or offices located in several countries and regions.
Create a table (such as the one below) with at least 10 KPIs (metrics for performance measurement) to determine the project status or progress. You can add more columns or descriptions if needed.
Table 1.

Sample Reporting and Processing Speed Metric

Metric, Parameter or KPI

Description and Purpose

Device, Data Repository, Application

Data to be Measured

Reporting Format

Describe the tools you are going to use for progress reporting, such as tables, statistical analysis, charts, graphs, or dashboards. Make sure you cover considerations for remote connections and communications such as time zones, tools for virtual communications, currency exchange for purchasing purposes, international legal requirements and standards, like GDPR, etc.
Develop a strategy for performance and progress reporting to automate the data collection process to enable the project manager to focus on the analysis and progress report. This strategy can include recommendations of software tools to use for business intelligence reporting, like Power BI, Trello, or Jira. Answer these questions to help you develop your strategy:
What are the required parameter configurations for telecommunications transmission, processing speed, or telecommunications capability that must be measured and expected for crucial optimal network processing? Sample considerations could be regional addressing schemes such as:
NRO Number Resource Organization (NRO) Organizations that mainly manage IPv4 and IPv6 addressing schemes and the WhoIs database.
AFRINIC African Network Information Numbers covers the African region.
ARIN America Registry for Internet Numbers covers the United States, Canada, and portions of the Caribbean.
LACNIC Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Center Covers Latin America and portions of the Caribbean not served by ARIN.
RIPE Resource IP European Network Coordination Center Covers Europe, Russia, and Central-West Asia region.
What are the best performance monitoring and reporting tools identified as part of your benchmark exercise to recommend as part of the strategic implementation plan?
What system architecture and user interface (UI) design criteria would you consider when creating a KPI reporting system and why?
Which specific network, hardware nodes, or application requirements must be considered, and why?
What is the recommended frequency of the performance evaluation process, and why?
Who are the responsible team members or officers in your project who must be in charge of these quality and performance evaluations?

Sample solution

Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.

God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

    • 1.8 Performance Management Plan Development (This Document)
  1. Procurement and Logistics
    • 2.1 Vendor Selection and Contract Award
    • 2.2 Hardware and Software Procurement
    • 2.3 International Shipping and Customs Clearance
    • 2.4 Local Transportation and Storage
  2. Implementation and Configuration
    • 3.1 Local Network Device Installation and Configuration (Kenya HQ)
    • 3.2 Remote Network Device Installation and Configuration (International Offices)
    • 3.3 Cloud Infrastructure Setup and Configuration
    • 3.4 Telecommunications Circuit Provisioning and Testing
    • 3.5 Data Migration and Integration
    • 3.6 Security Infrastructure Implementation
  3. Testing and Quality Assurance
    • 4.1 Local Network Performance Testing
    • 4.2 Remote Network Performance Testing
    • 4.3 Application Performance Testing
    • 4.4 Security Vulnerability Testing
    • 4.5 User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  4. Deployment and Go-Live
    • 5.1 Phased Rollout (Local & International)
    • 5.2 Cutover and System Activation
    • 5.3 Post-Implementation Monitoring and Support
  5. Project Closure
    • 6.1 Final Documentation and Knowledge Transfer
    • 6.2 Stakeholder Sign-off
    • 6.3 Project Lessons Learned

2. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

The following KPIs will be used to measure the performance of network devices, telecommunications bandwidth, transmission speed, node capacity, and overall project status across local, cloud, and remote locations.

    • 1.8 Performance Management Plan Development (This Document)
  1. Procurement and Logistics
    • 2.1 Vendor Selection and Contract Award
    • 2.2 Hardware and Software Procurement
    • 2.3 International Shipping and Customs Clearance
    • 2.4 Local Transportation and Storage
  2. Implementation and Configuration
    • 3.1 Local Network Device Installation and Configuration (Kenya HQ)
    • 3.2 Remote Network Device Installation and Configuration (International Offices)
    • 3.3 Cloud Infrastructure Setup and Configuration
    • 3.4 Telecommunications Circuit Provisioning and Testing
    • 3.5 Data Migration and Integration
    • 3.6 Security Infrastructure Implementation
  3. Testing and Quality Assurance
    • 4.1 Local Network Performance Testing
    • 4.2 Remote Network Performance Testing
    • 4.3 Application Performance Testing
    • 4.4 Security Vulnerability Testing
    • 4.5 User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  4. Deployment and Go-Live
    • 5.1 Phased Rollout (Local & International)
    • 5.2 Cutover and System Activation
    • 5.3 Post-Implementation Monitoring and Support
  5. Project Closure
    • 6.1 Final Documentation and Knowledge Transfer
    • 6.2 Stakeholder Sign-off
    • 6.3 Project Lessons Learned

2. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

The following KPIs will be used to measure the performance of network devices, telecommunications bandwidth, transmission speed, node capacity, and overall project status across local, cloud, and remote locations.

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