BSA 425 All Discussions

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BSA 425 All Discussions
BSA 425 All Discussions
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BSA 425 Wk 1 Discussion – Project Methodologies

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.

Read What’s the Difference? Agile vs Scrum vs Waterfall vs Kanban on project methodologies from Smartsheet.

Due Day 3

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

  • The project methodology you choose for a given project—and how well your project team applies it—can make the difference between project success and failure. Knowing that, executives considering your project proposal will want to know the project methodology you’ve chosen and why you think it is the best option for your particular project.
  • Discuss the project methodology you are considering, or have already chosen, for your project proposal.
  • What specific characteristics of your project’s context and/or objectives led you to choose this particular methodology?
  • What aspects of the methodology do you consider the most relevant for your particular project, and why?

 

Due Day 7

Post 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.

 

BSA 425 Wk 2 Discussion – Recommending Software Applications

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.

Due Day 3

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

  • What are some ways to determine which database management system will work best for a given project?
  • What are some best practices or industry-accepted criteria for matching a given database management system’s characteristics with your project requirements?

Due Day 7

Post 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.

 

BSA 425 Wk 3 Discussion – Business and IT Trends

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member

Due Day 3

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

  • Discuss how you can differentiate between a fly-by-night product or approach and one with real business value and staying power. What sources of information do you trust? What criteria do you apply to make your decisions?

Due Day 7

Post 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.

 

 

 

 

 

BSA 425 Wk 4 Discussion – Software Test Plan

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.

Software test plans identify specific features that need to be tested, how they need to be tested, and to what extent they need to pass the identified tests.

Due Day 3

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

  • What are the ramifications of stringent testing criteria vs. lax testing criteria?
  • What might happen if insufficient time were left near the end of a project to conduct testing?
  • What are some situations or features for which testing might not be required at all?

Due Day 7

Post 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.

 

BSA 425 Wk 5 Discussion – Rollout Schedule Resilience

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.

A project implementation plan, or rollout schedule, must identify the tasks to be done, the order they need to be done, and who is responsible for doing each of them. However, in real life, schedules often fall behind what is planned.

Due Day 3

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

  • Discuss some ways for building contingency and resilience into a rollout schedule.

 

Due Day 7

Post 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.