Tasks/Deliverables
GCOM MIS Project: Tasks & Deliverables
Each team will be responsible for developing a "new venture" (e.g., Internet start-up company, intranet application, or business-to-business application) from an idea to the prototype/business plan stage. Each project is required to make extensive use of the suite of technologies taught in the MS/MIS curriculum (e.g., Oracle 8, Oracle Application Server, PL/SQL, Visual Age for Java, COMNET, FrontPage 98, ERwin, BPwin, Rational Rose, and Microsoft Project).
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Remember: The primary goal of this project is to provide an "experiential laboratory" for students to acquire the set of knowledge and skills set forth by the course instructors. A secondary, albeit important, goal of the project is to produce a high-quality, operational application system for use by the stakeholders.
Description of Tasks & Deliverables
A plan for constructing a prototype application system and business plan throughout the 1998-99 MS/MIS program. The plan itself should consist of the bulleted list of deliverables above and be accessible via an on-line project web site.
A brief narrative description of the lifecycle model to be used on the project.
Top-10 risks list.
A narrative description of project-related risk identification, analysis and mitigation.
A narrative description of team structure, including individual team member roles and responsibilities.
A narrative description of how project size & effort was estimated; e.g., function point counting.
Comprehensive and continuous use of project scheduling tool (Gantt chart developed in Microsoft Project).
A "minimal specification" of project requirements including:
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
An object model(s) depicting application objects, attributes and relationships.
We will be reviewing the use of Web-based technologies in banking, retailing,
manufacturing and publishing this semester. Using this background, your team needs to
select an industry or service area in which to start a new company or major new business
project for an established firm. The new venture should use Web-based technologies that
add enough value to achieve significant competitive advantage over the current players in
the selected industry or service area. You should undertake significant research into the
current business and technical environment of the competitors or possible competitors in
your selected market space.
Feasibility Study
Based upon the competitive analysis, your team needs to undertake a feasibility study for the proposed new company or major new business project. The study should describe the new product or service in enough detail that market research could be undertaken to explore demand. The study should also explore the technology platform that would be necessary to support the new business or project based upon various demand assumptions. The technology scenario should delineate networks, servers and software necessary to support the various demand assumptions. Scalability is an important consideration for your technical scenario. Simulation may be used to demonstrate proof of concept and scalabilty.
Documented source code and necessary hardcopy documentation of prototype application system. In addition, each team should supply documentation of task/deliverable completion to instructors as appropriate (please include a one-page "learning statement" from each team member).
E-Mail course instructors: Ryan Nelson, Randy
Smith, or Dave Smith.
Date last modified: Wednesday, October 21, 1998