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Spring 2017
IT Project Management
Team Project
Project Management involves understanding the cost of IT, its value to the organization
and the project. Certain projects take a life of their own and go beyond the organizational
policies and constraints. In developing a project the team members should realize the IT
priorities for the organization and how they fit with the project goals. Organizational priorities
take precedence. Moreover, during the duration of the project the project leader should be
making periodic reports to the Board of Directors of the organization (or other designated entity).
All these aspects are discussed in the lectures and the textbook. Consider a hypothetical Health
Care organization that consists of a hospital, affiliated doctors, laboratory and a pharmacy. This
organization also works closely with the insurance companies. With the Electronic Health
Record mandate of the Affordable Care Act, assume that this Health Care Organization keeps
only electronic records of all activities related to patients. Make your presentation based on this
hypothetical organization using only electronic records of all activities. You should address all
Project Management related concepts discussed in the course.
All four teams will be working on the same project. Each team should make their
presentation independent of the other teams. Each presentation should reflect the work of your
team. You cannot share information across teams.
The presentations will be in the regular classroom. I will have the projector set up and
your team should bring a laptop with the presentation. Each team will have 30 minutes to make
the presentation. At the end of your presentation you should submit the final report on your
project. This is one report per team. Identify all team members in the report. If a member did not
contribute to the report then you should not include that team member’s name in the report. This
is not a collection of your presentation slides. This report will follow the guidelines of other
reports, except that no references will be needed. You may include references as it is relevant for
the report. I expect this report to be approximately 10 pages single spaced. Think of it as the final
report that the Project Manager would submit to the company.
Professional attire is important for the presenters. Do not read from notes. Address the
audience, not the instructor. Do not clutter the slides with too much text or graphics. Your
presentation should be ready when your turn comes. Slides should be free from errors.
An Interim Report will be needed on this project and it is worth 5 points. You should
submit the Interim Report on April 5, 2017 as a Word document. This report should identify the
progress made by your team and how you have divided the work on this project among your
team members. The length of this report will be a maximum of 4 pages. There will be a link on
Blackboard for this submission.
Evaluation Rubric:
Interim Report
Appearance of presenters
Quality of Presentation
Presentation Delivery
Ask questions of presenters
Attend presentations by other teams
Present at class start time
5 pts. (all team members will get the same score)
3 pts. (each student will be assessed individually)
30 pts. (same score for each team member)
5 pts. (each student will be assessed individually)
3 pts. (each student will be assessed individually)
2 pts. (each student will be assessed individually)
2 pts. (each student will be assessed individually)
Note: Even if you do not have questions for one presentation then you should have questions for
the other presentations. If you do not ask any questions related to the presentations, then you will
lose the 3 points assigned for this purpose.
Report Template
(Use the guidelines in this report to prepare your report. I have indicated the points for various
segments of the report based on a maximum of 50 points)
Title of the Report (centered and boldfaced)
1 point
Your name
1 point
Abstract (between 200 and 250 words)
5 points
Abstract should be descriptive of the report content. It should highlight the main features of the
report. It is intended to help the reader continue reading the report beyond the Abstract. Do not
include any references in the Abstract. It should not be an introduction to the topic describing
other related items.
Introduction
3 points
(describe here the relationship of the topic to other items that you consider important).
This should not be more than one page in length.
Main report
35 points
This should contain subheadings so that the various parts of the report are highlighted. This is
intended to help the reader focus on the area of interest for them. Address all the items specified
in the write-up. Every acronym used must be expanded the first time it is used. First give the
expansion and put the acronym in parentheses. For each additional use you can use the acronym
only.
Any item you use in the References section must be referenced in the body of the text. The APA
format convention is (last name of the first author, year). The parentheses are part of the citation
in the text. For example, if you have the reference
Wilson, J. 2012. Significance of Project Management, Journal of Project Management, vol. 20,
#3, 45-52.
included in the References section, then you will cite this reference in the body of the text as
(Wilson, 2012).
References
5 points
Follow the APA format. The listing above follows the APA format. If you need further help you
can Google “APA format” and find several samples. Follow the instructions in the write-up.
Generally avoid news source references such as New York Times. If you use them do not list
them in the references. Instead, find additional corroborating evidence from other sources and
use that in your reference. The instructions given in the write-up require both print sources and
web sources for the references. The web sources should be from reliable sources such as
government sites such as www.nist.gov or from major companies such as www.ibm.com . The
idea of the references is for the reader to go and read the full content in the reference, if
necessary. For this reason the reference citation should be complete. Do not quickly conclude
that a web document date is unknown and use “n.d.” for “no date.” Try to check further to see if
you can locate this document with a date mentioned. If you have time contact the author to find
out the date of publication. The general rule is “n.d.” should be used sparingly.
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