Lead Global Digital Projects

Department of Management Information Systems, Temple University

LEAD GLOBAL DIGITAL PROJECTS

MIS 3535.001 ■ SPRING 2019 ■ MARIE-CHRISTINE MARTIN

Team Project

For the studio portion of this class, you and a classmate(s) will be assigned to a team from the BA class and you will play the role of project managers for their project. As a team, you will assemble and manage a project plan and you will be responsible for the execution of the team project.

Project Description

The Center for Public Health Law Research, located in Temple University’s Beasley School of Law manages and maintains the website lawatlas.org. Lawatlas.org act as a clearinghouse for policy surveillance data on a variety of subjects, but is not the only repository of this type of information. There are several other policy surveillance sites that provide access to data. The lawatlas.org site is utilized by stakeholders across the country to access data on various policy topics and the data is organized, visualized and disseminated via the site. Currently, the lawatlas.org functionality is built on an outside platform – monqcle.com and the team is investigating the best possible way to provide and present this data to stakeholders – which may mean moving away from the current status quo.   

This project encompasses several opportunities, one of which will be assigned to your team. Your assigned opportunity is the area on which your team should focus. In each case, your team should also think of costs associated with the solution and incorporate feedback from the survey results. 

Opportunities:

  1. Create a new Universal Web-Based clearinghouse that will collect, organize and showcase policy surveillance data.

Utilizing the findings of your interviews with the clients, create a new universal web-based clearinghouse that could potentially showcase all types of policy surveillance data.  This clearinghouse should incorporate the ability to share data produced by a variety of sources (not just Temple’s Policy Surveillance Program at the Center for Public Health Law Research), as well as the Program’s training resources.  Include additional items that would be useful to stakeholders based on what you learn in your research.  The clearinghouse should encompass best practices for sharing data across constituents, including but not limited to the ability to upload and download. 

  1. Create a web-based community engagement environment.

Create a web-based community-focused environment where stakeholders are encouraged to share data, feedback and engage in discussion.  This solution should include the ability to create and store user profiles, track data accessed and downloaded and perhaps showcase how the data is used or connections to other datasets.  This web-based community should encompass opportunities for training on other policy surveillance methods based on the current lawatlas.org structure. 

Interview Schedule:

1/31/19 from 2-3:20 pm

seminar room 2B in Klein Hall

 Center Administrators

Bethany Saxon, Scott Burris,

Click here for the recording of this interview.

2/13/19 from 10-11:20 am

Alter Hall, Room 607

 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Matthew Pierce, JD https://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/leadership-staff/P/matt-w-pierce.html 

Giridhar Mallya https://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/leadership-staff/M/giridhar-g-mallya.html

Kerry Anne McGeary https://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/leadership-staff/M/kerry-anne-mcgeary.html 

Link to the MP4 file to review the recording is  here

2/26/19

2-3:20 pm

Speakman Hall, Room 114

 Current Users

Aaron Gilson https://apps.pharmacy.wisc.edu/sopdir/aaron_gilson/index.php

Elizabeth Geltman http://sph.cuny.edu/people/elizabethgeltman/

Project Resources

LawAtlas Analytics
Listed below are three snapshots of metrics that LawAtlas generally looks at over the last year. They included information about the audience for the site, their behavior and acquisition.

Google Analytics – Web Site Data Pages
Google Analytics – Web Site All Traffic
Google Analytics – Audience Overview

Weekly Progress Reports

Starting in week six of the semester, each team will create a weekly progress report (template below) which documents the progress your team has made in the past week. Your instructor will create an area to post these progress reports out on the class blog. Team will be penalized on their final project grade if any reports are missing and/or late.

Weekly Progress report format : Progress-Report-format

Team Project Grading

The final deliverable will be a binder that presents your project plan in a well-organized manner. You and your partner(s) will need to determine the documents which are included in this binder as well as the final format for all of these documents.

Grades will be assigned as follows:

100% – The assignment consistently exceeds expectations. It demonstrates originality of thought and creativity throughout. Beyond completing all of the required elements, new concepts and ideas are detailed that transcend general discussions along similar topic areas. There are few mechanical, grammatical or organizational issues that detract from the presented ideas.

85% – The assignment consistently meets and in some cases, exceeds expectations. It demonstrates mastery of the subject matter and some level of originality of thought and creativity. There are few mechanical, grammatical or organizational issues that detract from the presented ideas.

75% – The assignment consistently meets expectations. It contains all the information prescribed for the assignment and demonstrates a command of the subject matter. There is sufficient detail to cover the subject completely but not too much as to be distracting. There may be some procedural issues, such as grammar or organizational challenges, but these do not significantly detract from the intended assignment goals.

65% – The assignment fails to consistently meet expectations. That is, the assignment is complete but contains problems that detract from the intended goals. These issues may be relating to content detail, be grammatical, or be a general lack of clarity. Other problems might include not fully following assignment directions.

55% – The assignment constantly fails to meet expectations. It is incomplete or in some other way consistently fails to demonstrate a firm grasp of the assigned material.