IS-207: System Analysis and Design Assignments for 2007
Home Schedule Assignments Resources	Date	Assignment Due
	Tue., Jan. 30	Project Description & Organizational Analysis: This assignment consists of three parts. (There are four "deliverables" as the second part requires two separate statements.) One-page description of your proposed project.  For group projects, turn in one description for the entire group, a list of group members, and include a brief description of how the work-load will be allocated. [Group work] Two short (approx. 2 pages each) statements of mission, goals, and objectives, one for your system and one for the parent organization. [Group work] Gantt Chart: Show the major tasks necessary to complete your project and your projected schedule.  For a group project submit one Gantt chart for the project and show your initial labor loadings.  Be certain to include the key dates of April 25^th (progress reports) and May 11^th (final report). Save the baseline with your schedule.  IMPORTANT:  The two major problems with Gantt charts in the past have been (a) too few or too many tasks and (b) missing links.  Aim for approximately 10 to 15 tasks.  In most cases, all tasks except the first one should have at least one predecessor and all but the last one should have at least one successor.
	Thur., Feb. 22	Statistics Assignment using SPSS: [Individual work] See Resources page for assignment, data sets, etc.
	Tue., Mar. 13	Written Progress Report The progress report consists of four parts, at least one of which is individual work. The written report should include at least the following: statement of the problem to be solved mission, goals, and objectives of the system and of the parent organization background information about the organization description of the existing system (as much as you understand) status of the project Plans for completing the project on-time. (These last two should be consistent with the revised Gantt chart.) Revised Gantt chart: We are now approaching the half-way point.  Update your Gantt chart to reflect both the past as it actually occurred and the future that will be necessary to complete your project. Compare the actual progress so far to the baseline. For a group project show your revised labor loadings.  Hand in both the original and the revised charts with your progress report. Economic Feasibility Assignment (EFA): Prepare a summary budget showing the likely direct and indirect costs of the project over its expected lifetime.  Also prepare more detailed annual budgets for the first two years.  In both identify start-up and ongoing costs.  Accompany the budgets with a two-page economic feasibility analysis including major risk factors and likely costs savings or revenue-generation potentials (if applicable.)  (See note below.) Flow chart or DFD: Detailed, annotated flow chart of one operation of your system OR data flow diagram for one aspect of your system, preferably at two levels. (Individual work; if part of a group, each group member should choose different operations or aspects. Note: One member of the group may take primary responsibility for the EFA; if so, that person is excused from this assignment.)
	Thur., May 10	Final Reports Due The final report for your project is to written as a report (not a PPT presentation) in standard business English, portrait mode.  A brief document with a default table of contents as well as notes on the report is available on the course web site.

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B. Academic Violations

1. Cheating. Cheating is defined as fraud, deceit, or dishonesty in an academic assignment, or using or attempting to use materials, or assisting others in using materials which are prohibited or inappropriate in the context of the academic assignment in question. This includes, but is not limited to:

1. Providing answers to or receiving answers from others for any academic assignment. In "group assignments" and "cooperative learning" situations, it is the responsibility of the student to ascertain from the instructor to what degree the work must be done exclusively by the student or may be done in collaboration with others;
2. Using notes, information, calculators, or other electronic devices or programs during exams or for assignments from which they have been expressly or implicitly prohibited;
3. Improperly obtaining or using improperly obtained information about an exam or assignment in advance of its availability to other students, or assisting others in doing so;
4. Putting one's name on another student’s exam or assignment; or
5. Altering previously graded work for purpose of seeking a grade appeal.

2. Plagiarism. Plagiarism is defined as the use of intellectual material produced by another person without acknowledging its source. This includes, but is not limited to:

1. Copying from the writings or works of others into one's academic assignment without attribution, or submitting such work as if it were one's own;
2. Using the views, opinions, or insights of another without acknowledgment; or
3. Paraphrasing the characteristic or original phraseology, metaphor, or other literary device of another without proper attribution.

3. Furnishing false information in the context of an academic assignment. This includes, but is not limited to:

1. Writing an exam or term paper for another student;
2. Soliciting another person to take an exam or write a paper for one's own class;
3. Submitting the same piece of work as partial fulfillment of the requirements in more than one course without permission of the instructor;
4. Representing oneself as another person, or failing to identify oneself forthrightly and honestly in the context of an academic obligation; or
5. Representing, explicitly or implicitly, that work obtained from another source was produced by oneself.