Topic

Strategic planning is the process of identifying long-term organizational goals, strategies, and resources. A strategic plan looks beyond day-to-day activities. An organization's strategic goals are supported by Information Technology (IT). Business Departments will create a Business Case tojustify their projects. The IT Department will use the Business Case to start the System Development Life Cycle by creating a Project Charter.

There are many development methods for developing information systems. The range is from Structured Analysis (Waterfall) to Agile methods (SCRUM). IT experts agree that no single development method is best in all cases. Structured Analysis is based on an overall plan, so it is called a predictive approach (example: a construction company uses a blueprint for constructing a building). Agile methods develop a system incrementally by building a series of prototypes and constantly adjusting them to user requirements.

Regardless of the development method, people, tasks, timetables, and costs must be managed effectively. Complex projects can involve dozens of people, hundreds of tasks, and many thousands of dollars. Project management is the process of planning, scheduling, monitoring, controlling, and reporting upon the development of an information system.

Developing a project charter involves assessing the project feasibility basis of the given constraints and planning the project at a high level.An official sign-off/approval allows allocation of money and resources and thus supplements the development of a detailed project plan. The project charter is a project initiation tool that defines high-level objectives, scope, risks, assumptions, constraints, and requirements with a view of checking the feasibility of the project by meeting the important stakeholders.

Company Business Case

IniTech Solutions is growing at a rapid rate and realized that they need to automate their Asset Management Process.

Business Case has the executive summary and audit results: IniTech Solutions Business Case 2022 .docx

Action

Here are the interviews for the Information Technology AssetManagement System (ITAM)

ITAM Introduction Powerpoint.pdf

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Introduction Transcript.docx

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Project Charter Items

1. Company History: Describe the company history and the audit issues.
2. Problem Statementis a concise description of "what is" the business problem in one sentence. Do not add any explanation.
3. Technology Solution Statementis a concise description of "what is" the technology solution in one sentence. Do not add any explanation.
4. Project Benefits: Focus on the value proposition of the technology solution. List 3 benefits of the technology solution (bullet format). The benefits are required to be quantifiable. Example: Reducing turnaround of fulfilling customer requests from 48 hours to 24 hours.
5. Stakeholders: Executives track trends and events which influence their decision on the benefits of a technology solution. Identify three stakeholders and explainwhichfactor (political, economic, social, technological, environmental, legal)is influencing their decision in supporting your technology solution andwhy. Factors that Influence Stakeholders. In the business case is the list of project stakeholders. You are encouraged to research the roles and titles to help you explain the influence factors.
6. High Level Project Plan: List the major phases and dates for each of the SDLC Phases for the whole project. The project starts the 1st Monday in August of this year and will be implemented in May 2023.
7. Technology Tools: Explain the technology tools that will be used to develop and implement the technology solution? Explain the reason for your choices.
8. Current Solutions:What is currently in the market to solve the business problem? Research anycommercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)products that could solve the business problem and provide a brief description of each. Can you think of any pros and cons of using acommercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)technology solution over an in-house or on-prem solution?

Assignment

You are the IT Project Manager forIniTech Solutionsin the IT Department. Create a Project Charter with all the items stated above, using the provided business case.

1. Create a Word document that has all the Project Charter items.
2. Word countminimalis 1500 words (excluding title page, references, diagrams).
3. Required to use the System Planning- Project Charter template: Systems Planning Charter Template-1-1.docx Make sure you update the Table of Contents to ensure that your subheadings are updated into the Table of Contents (Table of Contents is a feature in Word, make sure you learn how it works).
4. APA Mechanics are required: