NOTE: There are 2 separate assignments due for the Summative Assessment.
Conducting research and preparing a report on the supporting information for your project serves two important purposes:
- The researched report helps explain your choice of technologies in terms of business benefits and risks. This supported rationale is critical for executive approval.
- A report reinforces or improves your plan—but only if you apply the results of your research to your plan. In the industry, project managers develop their plans iteratively, revising them as they conduct more research and identify better or cheaper alternatives. This iterative approach is especially relevant to IT projects because new technologies are developed and retired quickly.
– you are conducting research that provides additional information to support your project and writing a second draft of your project plan.
Conduct further research related to your project concerning:
- Industry trends and history
- Top technology vendors
- Project management approaches
- Development and deployment approaches
- Analyses of impact and risks.
You may want to include Forbes and Harvard Business Review in your list of organizations to research.
Assignment 1: your research findings in the Supporting Research Report template. Include a list of references (minimum of 3) at the end of the template. Ensure every reference is cited in the assignment. This is to be a Word document where you type the text into the assignment
Assignment 2: Write a second draft of your project plan. Include the following in your second draft:
- Identify 3 improvements you would recommend for the project based on your research in your updated draft.
- Highlight the recommended improvements in yellow and explain why you made the changes. You can include your explanation in parenthesis next to the change you made.