Information Systems Project

Project Guidelines

Think of a business problem that can be solved with technology. The solution to the problem should contain software, database, and hardware components. Your customer is the business with the business problem. Think of your team as either a set of people within a company that are doing the work or an outside consulting company that has been hired to implement a solution for the customer. If you choose the outside consulting path, make sure that you keep the focus of the project on the customer and the solution and not on your company. For example, in the Executive Summary and Project Value sections, keep the focus on the problem to be solved and the value to the customer. Don’t talk about the team/consulting group. Although the team may ultimately choose to use a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software package or software as a service (SaaS) from the cloud, the use of a specific product cannot be the assumption from the beginning.