Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Computing COMP3770/6770: Management of IT Systems and Projects Assignment 1 – 10% of semester Project Management in the Cloud Due : 11.55pm – Tuesday – 16th. March Lecturer: Dr. Peter Busch Email:
[email protected] COMP3770/6770 Semester 1, 2021 Page 2 Write a 700 word report on the following topic: Consider cloud computing, which is typically stated as the outsourcing of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platforms as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). Other variations exist and are numerous. One example is project management as a service (PMaaS). The general idea of cloud computing or hosting in the cloud, is to have other companies undertake what is not mission critical to what we do. Arguably project management, like business process management (cloud - BPMaaS - covered in COMP3760/6760 in semester 2) can be outsourced too. Assume you are the IT project manager (PM). You are trying to convince the CIO (chief IT officer) of the possibility of outsourcing at least some of the PM functions. Using available literature, briefly explain the advantages of PMaaS. You might like to mention services available, who provides them and potentially some disadvantages to this approach. Assignment algorithm 1. Find relevant articles (e.g. conference and journal papers, newspapers, magazines). 2. Use academic writing approaches (see appendix 1). 3. Ideally there will be >= 3-4 references in your reference list which you have drawn upon to write the report. Deliverables – soft copy only 1. One pdf file. Submission 2. Place your soft copy in the appropriate place on iLearn by 16/3/21. Note this is a Turnitin assignment, meaning the software will detect if you have copied and pasted inappropriately (i.e. not used “…” quote marks where you have simply copied and pasted). Late submission of individual work will incur a 10% penalty for every 24 hours, or part thereof, it is late. So within 24 hours, the maximum mark that can be obtained is 90% of the full grade for that assessment task; between 24 and 48 hours, the maximum mark that can be obtained is 80% of the full grade; and so on. If you require an extension, please do so via ask.mq. COMP3770/6770 Semester 1, 2021 Page 3 Marking Criteria You will be marked according to the following criteria, these criteria will be applied to each of the four sections: COMP3770/6770 Semester 1, 2021 Page 4 Appendix 1 Writing at university level means academic writing. Academic writing is not like writing a novel. Informal writing styles are not encouraged. You are required to substantiate what you write/say in your academic and professional lives. It is only in rare instances where you will be permitted to write works of fiction at university, it is also for similar reasons that the first person singular (I feel, I think, I did, My feeling is …), is generally to be avoided in writing university assignments (there are some exceptions to this rule, for example law faculties often adopt the first-person-singular in their writing style). As insulting as this may seem, as a student you are not considered to be an expert at anything (that usually comes with the title Dr. and then later Professor). The point is you need to state the source of your information in assignments. Furthermore it is generally considered politically-correct to avoid gender- specific writing styles; in other words don’t refer to authors/people/whoever as he, unless they actually are male - examine the following link. 1 For the purposes of this assignment, we will use the Harvard referencing style, although if you are comfortable with footnoting, please do so. Citing vs. quoting 1. Where an idea is ‘adopted/adapted’ from an author but restated in your words one uses citing as a means of establishing where the information was derived from. For example …… Smith (1990) was inclined to believe that … blah blah blah, … (where blah blah blah are your words, but the author’s ideas). No page number needs to be included for citing authors (but you must include the author’s surname, and date of publication of the reference where you have derived the information from). No, you cannot cite your friends (or lecture/tutorial/practical material). 2. Where the words have simply been lifted/copied directly by you, is referred to as quoting someone. For example ….. it was felt that “of all the database schemas, the object relational approach is …..” (Zhang, 1990 p. 53). In this case quotation marks are used as well as a page number stating where the information directly came from. Where you have quote that is longer than say 20 words, you indent these as a separate paragraph from the main body of your text and you single space the block quote, like so When faced with a small problem domain, system development can be all about modeling of user functional requirements. However, when faced with a large problem domain, such as with an enterprise information system, system development must recognize the demands placed on it by the non-functional system qualities. The quality of interest in this paper is supportability (Maciaszek and Liong, 2003; Maciaszek et al., 2004). Supportability is really the combination of three qualities – understandability, maintainability and scalability. An unsupportable system is a legacy system (Maciaszek, 2005 p. 17). …. Note, no quote marks are necessary, but you still include author surname, year of publication and page number. You do not need to italicise block quotes (or normal quotes for that matter). 1 https://documents.uow.edu.au/about/policy/uow140611.html https://staff.flinders.edu.au/employee-resources/working-at-flinders/equal-opportunity/discrimination-and- harassment#inclusive COMP3770/6770 Semester 1, 2021 Page 5 Lecture notes/course notes DO NOT count as references!! These are not to be referred to in written assignments/reports (this is considered amateur-ish). Report structure The word processed report should include - table of contents - sub-titles - list of references OR bibliography2 The assignment should be space and a half or double-spaced. The reference list or bibliography should be single-spaced. Your paragraphs may either be left-aligned or justified. Bibliography/Reference list The minimum level of detail for each book/journal reference used in either a list of references or bibliography is as follows. For a book: Busch, P., (2008) Tacit Knowledge in Organizational Learning IGI-Global Hershey Pennsylvania U.S.A. For a journal article/conference paper: Venkitachalam, K., Busch, P., (2012) "Tacit Knowledge: Review and Possible Research Directions" Journal of Knowledge Management 16(2) pp: 357-372. For electronic publications (e.g. ones you’ve pulled off the internet): Busch, P., (2006) "Organisation Design and Tacit Knowledge Transferal: An Examination of Three IT Firms" Journal of Knowledge Management Practice 7(2) URL: http://www.tlainc.com/ articl111.htm (accessed 16/2/21). At the end of your assignment, you simply place all types of references together in alphabetical order of author surname. You do not list them separately by book, conference paper and electronic publication. 2 Again a list of references includes just those specific references you cited and/or quoted from, whereas a bibliography includes the references as well as any other texts (electronic or paper) you may have used in producing the assignment (e.g. you may have looked up a word in a dictionary).
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