You are required to prepare for this Assessment Item by:
READING the Subject outline,
COMPLETING Topic 2 Project Planning
BUILDING your PLAN up from the ProjectTitle and Abstract in Assessment Task 1
WHAT TO DO:
Follow the Study Schedule and work with the Topics in Interact as they provide a “scaffold” for your learning in this subject.
Develop a detailed Capstone Project Proposal and Plan using project management software (as listed in the Study Schedule) and the skills you have acquired from IT Project Management to develop a project plan with a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), milestones and Gantt chart. These tools may help.
Begin using the ‘project blog‘ as a tool beyond the weekly progress reportsfor your chosen emerging technology topic:
The blog helps you to “think by writing” and also store your notes, project files and links in a cloud-based service.
Consider sharing the site with your peers as a way to tell a story and harness each other’s knowledge.
The blog is ideally updated each week with 3 or 4 entries for documenting your project notes and as the foundation for editing and writing the Capstone Project Report. An ideal blog entry will have around 50-150 words (150-600 words a week).
Presentation
Project Plan Sample Format (subject to change or modified to include systems development projects)
Title: Emerging Technology and Innovation Topic
Project Blog ( Web address provided)
Weekly Progress Reports Plan (In class, Discussion Board or Project Blog entries)
Rationale
Problem domain
Purpose and justification
Supervisor Approval
Research Questions
Conceptual or Theoretical Framework
Methodology
Analysis of sources of information (EndNote, APA Referencing Style)
Research method(s)
Data collection or systems design methods
Ethical Issues
Compliance Requirements (Workplace, Industry or Government regulations)