Research On IT Project Management Of EMC IT Hardware Outsourcing Project Management

Design or production outsourcing is a very common thing for many IT multinationals. This is the company strategy that integrating the best use of external professional resources to seek the greatest living space for the enterprise. Outsourcing is recognized as an effective means to reduce costs, to focus on core business, to devote their efforts to adapt to change and development. Yet during the project outsourcing process, there are a lot of factors needed to be controlled, such as how to handle the quality of outsourced products, how to control the cost within the expected range, how to manage the project scope change and how to ensure that products schedule and product yield meted what the company market department required. Therefore, the effective project management is one of the very important factors to ensure success for IT outsourcing projects.EMC Corporation is the leading developer and provider of global information infrastructure technology and solutions. EMC Corporation often does the design outsourcing of the hardware products. During hardware product design outsourcing process, EMC Corporation adequately uses the internationally accepted project management theoretical knowledge and practices it. To solve the common issues of IT outsourcing project management, EMC Corporation considers the characteristics of the hardware design projects. And it achieved excellent results throughout the project management process, which provided a strong guarantee for the success of the projects and makes the EMC Corporation is firmly secured to the first chair of the storage industry.This thesis will exposit on the implementation effect of the EMC Corporation’s project management processes base on existing EMC’s IT hardware design outsourcing detail project. It will describe the detail effect from seven aspects which are project scope management, time management, cost management, quality management, communications management, project team management and risk management. And it analysis the existing project management issues, and makes recommendations for process improvement.This thesis analyzed and summarized a multinational company effective project management strategies and means. It could provide the strategy reference and program recommendations for the domestic IT outsourcing industry in the project management process, when they encountered similar project management issues.