Abstract:
Nowadays Intranet and Extranet play a paramount role in internal and external work culture transformation and upgradations of organizations' service delivery systems in IT Project Management practices. These network systems can serve as a digital workplace where employees(internal/external) can communicate directly with colleagues, access information, compute and collaborate on project-related activities. The Intranet and Extranet in current state of art have several challenges in terms of time & cost consuming, service delivery, unavailability of services (24/7/365), energy efficiency, low performance, low service collaboration & responsiveness, low real-time upgradability & scalability of infrastructure, and poor security of sensitive information/documents while running or collaborating over various IT projects. Hence, the objective of this study is to assess the issues and challenges in the current state of art ITPM practices and design a conceptual framework for migration of Intranet and Extranet over the cloud for green ITPM practices. This can significantly help to advance and modernize the current intranet and extranet systems to safely and selectively communicate, store, access, and share confidential information towards green communication, computations, and collaborations. Based on the rigorous analysis of primary and secondary data, and the suitability assessment, this research study concludes that cloud computing can be an alternative solution for significant transformation of Intranet and Extranet for green ITPM practices. It used exploratory and constructive research design and methodology with a mixed (both qualitative& quantitative) approach. Based on the suitability assessment, it proposed a green ITPM framework over Community Cloud having seven layers. Finally, the framework and prototype, functionally demonstrated using cloud-based protopie and tested for user acceptance. It is adjudged that the cloud technologies if explored to improve, transform and upgrade the existing service delivery systems in ITPM, and help, support in revolutionizing the Project Management practices in IT; especially in the developing Countries like Ethiopia with better sustainability and energy efficiency. Therefore, the Framework significantly demonstrated the improvement on the selected parameters of the existing ITPM.
