week 8 discuss/assignmt

 

A small but fast-growing company has called you in as a consultant to  help with their IT infrastructure. When they first started they put  their business data in the cloud and changed their business processes to  fit their SaaS. Now, they want to know if they should customize their SaaS to fit their business processes, or keep changing their business  processes to fit their SaaS.

• Propose a set of 3-5 initial questions you would ask them to  help you prepare your recommendation. Be sure to explain why you are  asking each question.

  

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Week 8 Status Report Due Week 8 and worth 50 points

In Week 10, you will provide a detailed project presentation for your new information system project. Because of its importance to the organization, your presentation must be thoughtful and visually appealing.

To help you stay on track for this three-week effort, the executives have assigned you a project manager.

For each week leading up to the presentation, you are expected to turn in a short (less than one page) status report. It must address just 4 things:

1. What did you expect to accomplish on the project this week?

2. What did you actually accomplish on the project this week?

3 .What issues have arisen, and what help do you need?

4. What do you expect to accomplish on the project next week?

Please write up your responses as a series of bullet points in memo form. There is no need for a cover

To: ADD name, title

From: ADD your name

Date: ADD date

Subject: Status Report Week 8

Enter a short paragraph stating objective of the status.
Project Task for this week:
· Write task 1
· Write task 2
· What did you expect to accomplish on the project this week?
· List To earn an ‘A’ in this section you must (From Grading Rubric):
· List expectations toward project completion for the week.
· Explain the plans to meet these expectation
· Provide insight as to how expectations were set week-to-week.
· Include when expectations listed would be met.
· If applicable add more or less
Project Task accomplished this week:
· Write task 1
· Write task 2
· What did you actually accomplish on the project this week?
· List To earn an ‘A’ in this section you must (From Grading Rubric):
· List accomplishments for the week
· Describe what was not accomplished for the week
· List accomplishments for the week
· Explain why things were not accomplished
· ..If applicable add more or less
Project Issues:
· Write issue 1
· Write issue 2
· What issues have arisen, and what help would you like with them?
· List To earn an ‘A’ in this section you must (From Grading Rubric):
· Describe issues that arose during the week
· Determine what kind of help is needed to resolve outstanding issues
· Describe issues that arose and include how they were resolved.
· Present issues in order of priority, with ideas about how to solve each.
Project tasks planned for next week:
· Write task 1
· Write task 2
· What do you expect to accomplish on the project next week?
· List To earn an ‘A’ in this section you must (From Grading Rubric):
· List expectations toward project completion for next week
· Described how outstanding issues would be resolved by the following week
· Prioritize list of expectations for next week
· Propose strategy for prioritizing and resolving outstanding issues