Course: Information Technology Importance for Strategic Planning

LATE SUBMISSION WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED BY PROF.

Due Date – 1 day

Discussuion Question: IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Answer the following questions about IT Project Management. In  addition to your course textbook (chapter 11), utilize the UC library  for information and examples.

What is a project, and what are its main attributes? How is a  project different from what most people do in their day-to-day jobs?  Discuss the importance of top management commitment and the development  of standards for successful project management. Provide examples to  illustrate the importance of these items based on your experience on any  type of project. Discuss the unique challenges that an IT project  presents.

1. All of your discussion post for this course must  use the 3 paragraph structure described below in the Prof. guidelines points
2. Use your own words,  I prefer you use quotations VERY sparingly or   not at all.   There should be no cutting and pasting from outside   sources.
3. Deviations from the 3 paragraph format will result in a automatic 10  (ten) point deduction and additional scrutiny for plagiarism.

Prof. guidelines:

1. Discussion response will take the form of a 3 paragraph, (no more than 1 page) response that can stand on its own right.
2. You will need to write in academic style, aiming at an anonymous   reader who may exist in a different time or space.  EG, you need to   write for someone who will read your post 50 years from now, or 5000   miles from here, or both.
3. Be formal and precise because your goal is to educate that reader.
4. While you are writing, try to avoid obvious   phrases such as “This article is about…”.  It’s an annotated   bibliography.  The entire purpose is to describe what the article is   about so don’t waste space stating the obvious.  Just jump right in to   the good stuff: the stuff that the reader needs to know. For example,  if  you are given the task to research CLOUD COMPUTING, then a summary  of  an article on cloud computing might start with something along the  lines  of:                                                                                        Summary:   CIOs under the mandate of the US Government’s “Cloud First” policy   report that there are critically important challenges to moving to the   cloud in a way that minimizes security concerns and maintains  usefulness  of the information resource.  Two main concerns are the  contract  structure and the information architecture, both of which must  be well  thought through prior to migration to the cloud.  Recommended  actions to  assist in this engineering effort are to have a cloud  advisory board  and participating in the FedRMP program.
5. You should write only as many words as are needed to capture the   summary of the article.  You’re not replicating the content but simply   pointing out the important bits.  In fact, your goal should be to   capture the spirit of the article in as few words as possible.  You   don’t need to quote or paraphrase: simple summarize the point of the   article.  This is easier by the way, with articles that are actually   dense with facts and research.  News reports are notoriously difficult   to summarize, simply because they tend to be summaries themselves.   They  are also not particularly useful as sources for a research  report.
6. The second paragraph, the Assessment, is where   you tear apart the article and point out any flaws in logic or   applicability.  Tell your reader what the article is good for AND   what it is not good for. Your reader needs to know strengths and   limitations, so tell them.  Be precise! For more information on how to   be a critical evaluator of an article, see   https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/553/03/.
7. The third paragraph, the reflection paragraph is   where you discuss how the topic contributed to your learning.  I mean  on  a personal level, what did you learn and what could your classmates   learn.

Books and Resources

Required Text(s): You need to have (Managing and Using Information Systems: A strategic Approach, 6th Edition by Peralson, Saundersn and Galletta.)

“APA Format”

“NO PLAGIARISM”

Plagiarism includes copying and pasting material from    the internet into assignments without properly citing the source of    the material.