Signature Homework: Conduct & Present Project-Supporting Research- Rationale
Conducting research and creating a supporting research report serves two important purposes with respect to your project:
I. It explains your technological choices in terms of business benefits and risks. This explanation is crucial for executive approval.
II. It either reinforces or improves your plan--but only if you apply the results of your research to a new draft of your plan. In the industry, project managers develop their plans iteratively and change 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 forced to retire at a very quick pace.
III. For this homework, you will conduct research and create a supporting research report. Then, based on your research, you will identify and explain the rationale for three improvements to the project plan you submitted last week.
Download the Supporting Research Report template.
Conduct and Compile additional research on your project's industry, recommended technology vendors, and the categories presented in the Supporting Research Report. You may want to include the Gartner Group and Forrester Research in your list of organizations to research.
Complete the Supporting Research Report template in full (all sections complete).
Create a second draft of your project plan. Highlight in yellow the three important changes you made to the second draft based on the in-depth research you conducted this week, and explain why you made the changes. I do not want simple cosmetic changes, look at where an impact can be made to your project plan from the previous week.
Combine the Supporting Research Report, along with the updated Second Draft of your Project Plan, into one Microsoft Word document.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.