Term Paper: Website Migration Project

Website Migration Project

Term Paper: Website Migration Project

Due Week 10 and worth 200 points Tony’s Chips has recently been sold to a new independent

company. The new company has hired you to manage a project that will move the old Website

from an externally hosted solution to an internal one. The company’s leadership is very

concerned about redundancy for their site, insisting that a back-up site be available as a failover

in case the main site goes down. In addition, they want the site redesigned to allow customers to

order products online.

As part of your job, you must complete a 10-to- 15 page paper that follows this project through

the system development life cycle (SDLC). This assignment will require you to do the following:

 Discuss what it will take to build a Web architecture, move an existing Website with

minimal downtime, and provide a disaster recovery solution to ensure the site is always

available.

o The Web architecture should describe and justify operating system choices (i.e.,

Linux, Apache, MYSQL, PHP, Windows, IIS, SQL, etc.).

 Evaluate alternatives to the company self-hosting the site.

 Build a Gantt chart using Microsoft Project or equivalent software, showing all tasks

associated with implementing the Website.

 The chart should include a minimum of five (5) tasks, each with three (3) sub-tasks.

 Explain and justify the system architecture you have selected.

 Illustrate the system architecture using Visio or equivalent software.

 Create a use case that documents the event of a customer ordering a bag of chips from the

new Website.

 The use case should include a graphical representation using Visio or equivalent software

and a text description of the events.

 Discuss the support operations that the internally hosted Website will require after

implementation.

 Explain how you will evaluate the performance of the new site and the success of your

project.

The specific Course Learning Outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 Design high-level logical system characteristics (user interface design, design of data,

and information requirements).

 Use contemporary CASE tools in process and data modeling.

 Use technology and information resources to research issues in systems analysis and

development.

 Write clearly and concisely about Systems Analysis and Development topics using

proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.