long with any other initiation processes that pertain to the project (Nathan & Jones, 2003, p. 63). In this project, the goal will be to develop a user-friendly system that permits users to buy a house online and qualify for the mortgage online as well. The deliverables will be the system design in the form of PMBOK diagrams and project reports. The scope of the project will include only the design, development, testing, and implementation of the system; no add-ons or modifications will be included, as they will be addressed in a future projects. The boundaries of the project identify the departments of McBride that will be using or contributing data to the system. The project will be opened when all internal stakeholders have agreed that they are ready to commit the requisite resources to the project.
The project's stakeholders include both internal and external stakeholders. Internal stakeholders are the IT department, and specifically, the project team for this project, as well as the other departments that will use this system or its data, the company executives, and the company owners. External stakeholders include mortgage companies and home sellers and buyers. Indirectly, the owners of homes surrounding those that home buyers want to buy are also stakeholders, since who buys a home in a neighborhood can affect the value of their homes. In a quiet neighborhood where all of the other residents are retired, for example, the advent of small children that will play noisily can alter the preferred state of the neighborhood, while home buyers that have criminal backgrounds can lower the value of the neighborhood. McBride wants the system to be completely secure, to prevent customers' identity from being stolen, and it must be able to be accessed within the building by departments on different floors for exchanging information. In addition, McBride wants Smith's System Consulting to be able to fix the system remotel...