AKAM Digital Society ASSIGNMENTS: October 2018

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

HL Content; Project Management Issues

Objectives;

By end of the topic, we should be able;

Explain the need for project management
Evaluate the different project Developmental methodologies
Evaluate the different project Management methodologies
Describe the different tools and activities undertaken when managing projects

Project Management

Part A

-What is a Project?

-What is Project Management?

https://www.slideshare.net/satishyadavalli/project-management-24470138 : Slide 1-9

-What is a Methodology?

-Why is project management important?

https://www.slideshare.net/ashwinprince/different-project-management-methodologies?next_slideshow=2 Slide 1-9

Project Developmental Methodologies
PowerPoint Development Methodologies Summary Notes

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8VAiXCgqIIbUWI3d3E1S3paQk0/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8VAiXCgqIIbSnZGU3FMX1AtN0E/view?usp=sharing

https://www.workamajig.com/blog/project-management-methodologies

CMM Model notes
https://www.guru99.com/capability-maturity-model-cmm-cmm-levels-a-fool-s-guide.html

Incremental Model Notes
https://www.guru99.com/what-is-incremental-model-in-sdlc-advantages-disadvantages.html

Waterfall model Notes
https://www.guru99.com/what-is-sdlc-or-waterfall-model.html

Activity;
Group of 3 students will be assigned a methodology to;
- Describe the developmental methodology
- Explain the benefits of the developmental methodology
- Explain challenges r limitations of the developmental methodology

Revision Questions;

https://www.wisdomjobs.com/e-university/software-development-lifecycle-sdlc-interview-questions.html

Youtube Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz4o-kR87ls

Friday, October 26, 2018

Case Study Sample Questions for Driverless cars

Category 1

Distinguish between Smart Roads and Ubiquitous Computing.
Define Consequentialism as used in driver-less cars technologies.

Category 2

Explain the benefits of using driver-less vehicle ecosystem.
Explained the risks of having level 5 (Full self driving) driver-less cars in our roads.

Category 3

To what extent will the use of cloud based system impact on Tesla driver-less car company?

Category 4

Your response to the question below must include evidence of independent research linked to the On the road to driverless cars case study.

line 38-42; "The precision of the interaction of the driverless vehicle with the elements in the ecosystem will be dependent on the quality of the hardware and, critically, on the processing power available in the driverless vehicle’s “brain”.

Discuss with examples of how different hardware have been improved to improve the processing power of driverless cars.

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Understanding SDLC for IT systems in Organizations

SDLC Life Cycle

Use the following resource for the topic;

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OMCVjH_2goHkFXaUpBZHqZ8pIWTnGbx_yNHgA62m_MA/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1

https://www.innovativearchitects.com/KnowledgeCenter/basic-IT-systems/system-development-life-cycle.aspx

https://www.tes.com/lessons/tivF-fxJMF9SnQ/week-1-system-development-life-cycle-sdlc

The following are the key stages in the SDLC;

1. Defining the Problem (Assessing the Needs)

- What are the key activities that take place at this stage? and what is the main aim of this stage?
- Who is involved in the process?
- What are the different tools used to ensure successful work of this stage? (data collection)

2. System's Analysis and Requirements Specification
a)
- Define a feasibility study;
- What are the different types of feasibility study?
- What are the benefits of conducting a feasibility study? https://www.simplilearn.com/feasibility-study-article

b) Identification of possible solutions; Why is this important to a systems analyst?

c) Requirements specification; What are the functional and non- functional requirements specifications? http://rationalizedthoughts.blogspot.co.ke/2005/11/what-are-requirements-sdlc.html

d) Justification of preferred solution; How do you arrive that what solution is to be developed?
- Who is involved and what tools are used to make such decisions?

e) Project Plan
- Why a project plans essential in SDLC?
- What is a project goal?
- What are scope and constraints? Give examples http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/constraint-project-constraint

f) Project Initiation Document
- What is the purpose of the document?
- What is contained in the document?

Revision activities

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/56b99df16a9b86912e44d310/system-development-life-cycle-12compsci

http://www.siteforinfotech.com/2016/01/multiple-choice-questions-on-sdlc-set-4.html

https://quizlet.com/11312924/match

https://coursedev.umuc.edu/IFSM405/2152/Week_3/MatchingSDLCPhases.html

ITGS Paper 2 News Articles

Read the news articles and suggested the following;
a) Main issue
b) Main stakeholder
c) Name and describe how the main technology works
d) List two advantages and disadvantages to any of stakeholders of the technology
e) Suggest any solution to one of the main problem of the technology