IT4990 Information Technology Capstone Project
Unit 7 Assignment
Initial Draft of Project Report
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies:
Competency 3: Communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts.
Competency 4: Apply professional responsibilities and informed judgments across diverse computing environments that reflect legal and ethical principles.
Competency 6: Identify, analyze, and incorporate user needs in the selection, creation, integration, evaluation, and administration of computing solutions.
Instructions
It’s time to tie your team’s efforts and recommendations together into an initial draft of a project report. For this assignment, focus on the construction of a project report that will eventually be provided to your client as their final deliverable.
Your draft should include the following:
Executive Summary.
The executive summary should be a clear and concise summary of your project outcome, framed in terms of your client’s objectives for the project. You should provide a recap of the client objectives, a summary of your proposed solution or recommendation, and a brief description of work accomplished by the team to develop the proposal and meet the client needs.
Project Scope.
Revisit the project scope document created as a part of your project plan, and review and revise it for this draft. There may have been changes or modifications made as you progressed through the project and these should be reflected. Make sure you are accurately and completely defining your client’s objectives in the scope.
Proposed Solution(s)/Recommendation(s).
Revisit and revise your preliminary IT solutions and recommendations report. The focus of this section should be on describing for your client what alternatives you considered, why you considered them, and their strengths and weaknesses. Cite your information sources and include them in a Reference section at the end of the document.
Describe the team’s final proposed solutions or recommendations clearly and succinctly, and provide justification for selecting this path over the alternatives. All of your justifications should be backed up with evidence – either a review of features/functionality, customer testimonials or reviews, alternative design approaches that have failed, and so on. A sound logical argument may also provide justification, as is appropriate to the proposal.
Initial drafts of other deliverables requested by your client.
If you client has requested other deliverables, such as a comparison table or a prototype, please include these items in this initial project report draft. Your instructor will review them and provide feedback for your team to consider prior to submission of the final draft to the client.
Legal, policy, ethical, societal or global issues.
Your report should include a section that evaluates legal, ethical, policy, social and global issues potentially involved with the proposed solution – consider implementation impacts, on-going use and maintenance of the solution in your deliberations. Don’t forget to consult the discussion results in Unit 6.
Strategic and global implications.
Your report should also identify potential strategic and global implications of the proposed solution within the context of the client organization’s intended strategy and global reach. The team should consider how the solution might be deployed in the client organization, whether it aligns with the client’s short or long term strategy, and whether it might be deployed outside the United States. Consider the solution or recommendation you have proposed carefully, and identify any factors that relate to strategy or global business dealings.
Refer to the scoring guide to ensure that your work meets the grading criteria for this assignment.
When your report draft is completed, submit it for review. Submit both the initial draft of the project report, as well as the final results to the courseroom.
Refer to the scoring guide to ensure that your work meets the grading criteria for this assignment.
Submission Requirements
References: A minimum of five resources.
Citations and references: All resources should use current APA style and formatting.
Length: Up to 10 typed, double-spaced pages, excluding the title page, template pages, and references pages.
Written communication: Write in a professional tone, with no spelling or grammatical errors.
Font: Times New Roman or Arial, 12 point.
