Session 4: Implementation and Project Management

Learning Objectives

• Describe key elements of managing IT application development
• Explain inherent risks of managing large IT projects
• Define key concepts in IT application development, including software, cloud, and open source

Meeting Agenda

• IAA-B
• Team Project Forum 3
• Case Discussion 3

EIA Activities (3 hours per week)

• Introduction to Agile Management (4.5 minutes)
• Understanding Agile Development (26 minutes)
• How IT can drive Agile Development (McKinsey Podcast)

• "The IT/Business Partnership: The Cloud, Technology and Transformation" (1 hour HBR, executive summary available here)
• The Expert (a short comedy sketch)
• Putting digital process innovation at the center of organizational change by McKinsey
• Two ways to modernize IT systems for the digital era by Mckinsey
• Intel’s Reinvention of the Hard Drive Could Make All Kinds of Computers Faster
• The Economist explains: What is code?
• What is algorithm? (TED-ED)
• Inside your computer (TED-ED)
• How do hard drives work? by (Kanawat Senanan, TEDEd) 

Assignments Due Before Next Session Begins (12 hours of studies outside classroom)

• Readings
• Quiz 4
• Individual Assignment on Case Analysis 4 (IAC4)
• Team Assignment 4 (TA4)

To be completed BEFORE Quiz 4

• Gallaugher Chapter 4: E-Commerce (Netflix)
• Gallaugher Chapter 9: Social Media
• Gallaugher Chapter 17: Information Security
• What Exactly Is Encryption? (Wall Street Journal)

To be completed BEFORE next Case Discussion and Individual Assignment 4

• Austin Chapter 10: Crisis
• Austin Chapter 11: Damage
• Austin Chapter 12: Communication
• IAC4 in Moodle
• Individual Quiz 4 in Moodle

TA4 Additional Resources: Feel free to use these resources to enhance your case analyses, discussion, discussions, or team assignments.

• Project Management Institute (PMI) is the world's leading professional association for project managers.
• Free Open Source Software for Small Businesses is an excellent list compiled by CIO Insider.
• Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding (New York Times)
• Let's teach kids how to code (TED Talk)
• Codegirl (Trailer)
• The 5 most infamous software bugs in history (MIT Technology Review)
• Ten places where anyone can learn to code (TED Blog)
• Digitizing the delivery of government services (McKinsey)
• Two recent examples of spectacular project failures

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