Jason M Mays

I like the comment about formality saving time period often we think of formality we assume the process will take longer then if it was wax and more casual. But into matter of doing it right the 1st time means you’re not back to do it again.

Setting the metrics are a great idea. I didn’t notice that many people saying it ever skim through including myself. But metrics create real world goals that are obtainable and allows people to set up rally points around. Great call.

I like the idea of having a team understand have a personal goals aligned with the team/project goals. While it is great and talk about the perfect world where everyone looks out for everyone else and does the right thing for the sake of the right thing it is necessary to understand the more primitive motivator of human beings. We do things that…[Read more]

The 1st up to dealing with this issue of realignment is to do and analysis’s on the IT infrastructure and the business processes and goals of business units. The sooming all that is done then I would skip ahead and say that is cost effective, IT should Savage would could be solid from the RP and look for a less complicated program to fulfill the…[Read more]

I of course would recommend that any organization that is not using former diagram rules implement them immediately. I would imagine with most that not deviating from what is believed to have used to work will be an issue to come up against. To that I would simply try to educate the senior management on the amount of money that can be saved if…[Read more]

Formal frameworks and diagram techniques are needed for the same reason that understanding one language amongst a team is h helpful. It creates an common understanding that can be used around the organization, not just one team. As with language, it is not necessary that 1 specific language be used. The lack of a unifying language creates one…[Read more]

There is a saying that doing the same thing twice and expecting a different result is the mark of madness. I think the business equivalent is assuming that 1 solution can solve every problem that comes after it Is analytical madness. Anytime you are going to the trouble of or crusting a change to AIS system for the purposes of a business process…[Read more]

Do to the variations in use cases and the opinions on how to classify entity’s, attributes and relationships it should be expected to have variations in diagrams. I think in order to realize if the diagram is fundamentally right or wrong comes and the question of does it objectively meet its goal of showing how a process can be completed with the…[Read more]

The business needs to have multiple stakeholders is reflected in the use of different models. In both cases there are different perspectives that are considered to understand how to get from point A to point B. Use cases help visualize who uses the process. Some one from marketing or a BU manager may be the one to explain who would be a use case.…[Read more]

I would select a column based encryption method for the database. It can protect key information without effecting the entire record. It would also allow for non confidential information to be accessed with out the slowdown of dealing with encryption. Loss of data due to loss of key is mitigated since different keys are required for different columns.

Depending on cost I would use AWS or Google cloud services for the security aspect of this question. As a large multi billion dollar cloud service provider either of these companies would have invested a great deal of money into security. More importantly I believe these 2 companies would be only some of the handful that are actually engaging and…[Read more]

I believe one of the most cost effective and application acceptance effective is the pilot implementation system. The pilot system is great for implementation acceptance because it requires an isolated location to fully accept the new system out of necessity. This necessity wall help when bugs need to be identified. Without a backup system to go…[Read more]

I think one of the biggest issues to deal with is getting employees to accept the new system. If you have a organizational culture that is not used to change, they are likely to resist. For instance if you incorporate a parallel deployment and you have this difficult type of environment then it is likely employees will only use the system when…[Read more]

Thank you for your story. I think government projects are much more sensitive to the mood of stakeholders. As such, they are far more interesting to analyze how to go about winning over stakeholders. Identifying the often conflicting interest of the stakeholders and find possible solutions can make it much easier to do so in a business setting.

This sounds like a textbook case of IT projects in the healthcare industry. I hope you share your experience in class in the future and how you plan to incorporate lessons we learn to real-world problem-solving.

This is a great example. It sounds like if there was an expanded analysis of stakeholders then the project sponsor would have seen that stakeholder engagement was key to implementation. Even if the same software was picked having the support of the different business units by giving them respect and a chance to have their voice heard could have…[Read more]

This is a problem that I saw often when I was active duty (full time) army. There was either low/no engagement or too many parties trying to have their say so. It’s interesting that the 3rd largest army in the world would not embrace project management best practices. It’s not even stressed at the middle management level.

I’m glad to hear you have support from the stakeholders of your project. My friend who just graduated from the Computer Information Systems program. He had a similar capstone project for his last 2 semesters. Their primary stakeholder was the Temple Student Government and the Student Programming Office. They lost the interest of the SPO and the…[Read more]

I didn’t catch the difference in plan names. Great job! I have a feeling later on in this project we will see scope creep due to a lack of defined goals. It seems that John Smith and Ella Whinston have some ideas of what they want out of this project. This mindset could lead to them suggesting or recommending changes to the project based on their…[Read more]

I honestly think that the biggest risk presented in the reading is the involvement of Juanita Lopez. As you said she manages one of the largest and most successful stores. Management may momentarily see the positives of having Juanita involved. If the store’s revenue suffers then she may get pulled off the team. It seems like a risky move to…[Read more]