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Question
Choose a real or fictitious agency which needs to integrate new technology to either accommodate anticipated expansion, speed up their communications etc. This will be the entity for which you will be proposing a project management plan to improve their IT infra structure. During the course you will also discuss strategies to effectively implement a technology based solution including obtaining the buy in of your colleagues, management through presentations, writing an RFP for the new technology needs, selecting vendors and obtain the equipment, software etc. and finally implementing the solution you proposed.
You will provide 2 sections for the project.
Project Concept Design Plan
We will adopt the 7-Step Design Thinking model for this project. In this weeks module you will address three of the 7 steps (Define, Research and Ideate)
In your concept design plan, you will address the first two steps in the model. There are some specific things you will address in detail for this assignment.
1. Define - Take the information from our challenge and use it to clearly define the problems this project is intended to address -
What does the organization deem strategically imperative that it is not doing now? This is harder to answer than it appears. Take some time with this and think deeply.
2. Research - In your Research section,
Identify the stakeholders in the project. Create profiles for each stakeholder and tell their story. Recall our definition of a stakeholder and answer in detail each of the definition criteria for each stakeholder category. as a reminder, the definition is included here:
A stakeholder is a person or group that
will be engaged in the project
will be directly affected by the implementation of the project
may be indirectly affected by the project
are in a position to influence the outcome of the project, either positively or negatively.
Identify the Scale, Volume, and Resolution of each of the problems
Project Concept Design
In this section, you will address Step 3 in the Design Thinking Process
3. Ideate - Within the confines of this class, we will not convene an actual ideation experience. We will instead rely upon you to propose your ideas for addressing the strategic imperatives and defined performance problems you developed in you concept design plan.
In detail, articulate a system design that will address each of our problems. Do not go as far as to identify the technical specifications of your design (this will occur later), but identify what technologies, what modifications to existing infrastructure, what services and/or tools will be needed to make the environment capable of meeting the strategic imperatives. The work you have done in steps 1 and 2 in the Design Plan you execute above should inform your design. Be sure to reference this information in your design.
A Word of Warning - Be very careful not to confuse the two sections. They sound very similar, but they are performing two very different functions.
The Design Plan section is a fact gathering and organizing activity.
The Concept Design section is your first pass at an idea to solve the problems you have defined in the first document.
Explanation / Answer
Here we are taking a example for answering this question
Let us assume “I-Solution” is a fictitious software agency and it is working on a project named as “Management :Stakeholders”
Defination: A stakeholder is an individual or group who may affected by decision, activity or project outcome.
Here “I-solutions “ is the entity. Stakeholders, project, management..,etc are other entities. Every entity has a relationship with other entities.
Design and Plan, Research: For this phase we need to need to identify the requirements . After that Design the plan and action step by step procedure.
Requirements may be number of stakeholders, engagement levels for them, identify the relationship among them, communication devices, distribution of the information strategies. Constraints are time, frequency for the message passing.
Examples for the stakeholders are employees, government, union.., etc. Stockholders stake in business. We need to manage them for effective business running.
Ideate:
First we need to identify the number of Stockholders in I-Solutions. Identify the problem among them if any. We need to conduct some business activities among them. And also we need to do management and control of them.