JURY

from 10 am

on Tuesday, 12th June 2012

Room and order of presentation will be posted later.

NOTE: Not all students have an agreed project title.

In the comments below, write your student number, name, and project title

A PERT chart,

Multiple choice questions

The topics will be from Mid Term onwards,

• Team Management
• Contracts
• Tenders
• Change control management

You will calculate the content of the nodes on the PERT chart.

Some changes will be made to the length of tasks, and you will recalculate.

It is important to understand where is the critical path, and how it is affected by the changes.

Project Management sample questions

Grades were awarded for using a suitable method, having enough detail on the design so that a programmer could follow it and create the map, for layout, use of colour and the features you selected to be available.

Here are the grades: MIS306 sp12 map design ass 3 grades for posting

If you have no grade, and you think you should, SEE ME!

Here are the grades: MIS306 sp12 museum project ass 2 grades for posting

If you have no grade, and you think you should, please SEE ME!

COMP442 Project Management/ SENG306 Software Project Management

You have an extension of Assignment #3, until 23 May 2012

For a document: Final Project COMP402 Strategic Information Systems short

Final Project          COMP402 Strategic Information Systems

Group Assignment – Final Project              Due: 8 June 2012

GROUP WEBSITE PRODUCTION

WEB SITE ON STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS

[40%]

What is strategic information systems?

This question is the main point of our course, and it is what you will need to address in this project.

Your goal is to work in groups to produce a rich-media site that deals with the issue of using information systems for strategic purposes, in an engaging and insightful way.

You will work together to populate your web site with interesting multimedia content, and link your web site to relevant online resources such as YouTube, Flickr, etc., market your web site through social media, and search optimization, and curate comments and discussions on your web site.

By using web site analyticals (Google analyticals), you will track the popularity and reach of your web site over time.

Divide into groups. Divided into groups of four.

Choose a “strategic information systems ” angle. The first thing your group must decide on is a topic area (and catchy name) for your web site.  Your web site must have something to do with the broad issue of ”strategic information systems.” Your goal is to create a resource that can be effectively used by undergraduate students just like yourselves. Remember, you need to create a site that not only informs, but entertains — it has to appeal to students, not just present dry information. You may take your site in any direction you like, as long as you respect the diversity of backgrounds and viewpoints of your group members and your potential audience and communicate in a constructive, civil manner.
Create your site skeleton. Using your chosen service, create a new web page and choose a template and design for your site. Post an introductory statement about what your site is trying to accomplish, how long it will be active, and what audience you are trying to reach. Consider introducing yourselves on your site if you will be posting authentically or pseudonymously.

Optimize your site for search engines. You should fill in all of the descriptive metadata for your site that you can, and see if you can get your site to rise in the search rankings. (First, decide what search terms you would hope people will use for your site!) Once you decide on relevant search terms, you should track your position in the search rankings over time (eg. every Sunday).

Begin to populate your site based on our course materials. Use your existing assignment answers to being entering content on the site.
Extend your site based on your own research and imagination.  Don’t simply stick to the course readings for your site content.  Follow the theme you came up with at the beginning, and produce original content that your competitor sites will not think of.  Each week, each member of your group must supplement the web site with at least one substantive content addition. This may be based on your article summary/critique assignment, or on something new.

Get graphic. Add some illustrations, graphics, patterns, charts, cartoons — any kind of visual interest to your site, either as background resources or new posts.

Set up your analytics. Sign up for Google analytics on your web site (simple if you are using Blogger, more complicated if you are using a different service) and explore what kinds of data you want to keep track of over the course of the semester. Are you only interested in the raw number of site hits that you get? Are you going to track unique visitors? Would you like to try to have the broadest global reach of any of the student sites?

Engage in social marketing for your site. Using at least one social network that you belong to — Facebook, Myspace, Google+, LinkedIn, etc. — try to market your web site to your target audience and see what kind of changes your analytics show after your marketing push. Do you identify yourself as a site author in your marketing, or simply claim to be “passing along an interesting link”? Is it effective to market your site to your personal social network of friends and family? Are their ”groups” you can market your site to? What about setting up a ”group” page of your own to connect back to your site? What are the privacy implications of doing this?

GROUP PRESENTATION
You will deliver a five-minute presentation on your experience with this assignment in the course, including your site’s purpose, audience, design, execution, and results. This presentation will be performed (or screened, if it is a self-playing digital presentation like a narrated slideshow or digital film) during our final exam session. Your group will then be invited on-stage to answer questions about the presentation for about five minutes afterward.

You will be graded on the total impact, depth, and quality of your presentation.

Some extra notes on today’s lecture of change control within Configuration Management:

Configuration Management