Project Design

It is critical to differentiate between needs and wants.  With any technology project, it is critical to focus the resources on what is needed (thus keeping the costs down and the focus on the key needs).

A need is a must have.

A want is something that would be nice but is not required.

The following section describes what is required for the needs.

For this project, the total number of NEEDS must be at least 6 items.

Rank each of the needs with 1 being the lowest ranking, 2 being the 2^nd lowest ranking and so on.

For example: 

If you have 10 needs, the highest-ranking item would be weighted a 10 and the lowest ranking item would be weighted a 1.

Let’s say you rated a vendor a 5 in the highest-ranking item – its total score would be 5 * 10 = 50.

Let’s say you rated a vendor a 3 in the lowest ranking item – its total score would be 3 * 1 = 3.

Be sure to include the technology or research.  Research needs to include the APA cited source.

For example:

Singh, S. (2010). DHCP address assignment. Retrieved September 17, 2010 from Knowurtech.com: http://knowurtech.com/networking/how_dhcp_works.html   

Make sure you explain how the need is important to the success of your project.

For example:

The current network has all of its computers statically assigned IP addresses.  The new solution needs to dynamically allocate IPs to each computer without keeping track of the current IPs.  For example, the current environment has problems with duplicate computer IPs – thus resulting in computer network problems.