The first step will be to select an enterprise as the target for your systems integration capstone project, along with a list of the major systems to be integrated within the target organization. This project will be used as the basis for each of the assignments throughout the course and should conform to the following guidelines:
Nontrivial: The selected enterprise should be large enough to reflect the need to integrate systems.
Domain knowledge: You should be familiar enough with the organization to allow you to focus on its system's integration needs.
Select an enterprise that fits these requirements, and submit your proposal to your instructor before proceeding further with the assignments in the course. Approval should be sought within the first few days of the course. Your instructor will tell you how to submit this proposal and what notification will be given for project approval.
Assignment Guidelines:
For the assignments in this course, you will be developing a comprehensive Systems Integration Design Proposal as your capstone project. Your first task in this process will be to select an enterprise to use as the basis of your project. You will also create the shell document for the final capstone project deliverable, which you will be working on during each unit. As you proceed through each project phase, you will add content to each section of the final document to gradually complete the final project delivery. Appropriate research should be conducted to support the analysis in your report, and assumptions may be made when necessary.
Submit the project proposal to your instructor for approval.
Create the Systems Integration Project Proposal document shell.
Use Word
Title Page
Course number and name
Project name
Student name
Date
Table of Contents (TOC)
Use autogenerated TOC
Separate page
Update the fields of the TOC so that it is up-to-date before submitting your project.
Section Headings (create each heading on a new page with TBD as content, except for sections listed under New Content below)
Project Information (Week 1)
Capstone Project Plan (Week 1)
System Integration Best Practices (Week 1)
Requirements Specifications (Week 2)
Enterprise System Integration Analysis (Week 3)
Systems Integration Approach Evaluation and Selection (Week 3)
Proposed System Integration Components Architecture (Week 4)
Implementation Framework (Week 4)
System Integration Implementation Plan (Week 5)
New Content
Project Information
Provide a brief description of the enterprise (can be hypothetical) where the system integration design proposal has the potential of being adopted.
Describe the overall project objectives.
List the business or technical needs that will be met by the project.
List the major components of the project (major systems that will be integrated).
This list may change after further analysis is completed.
List the boundaries of the project (what the project will not address).
Material can be taken from the approved proposal that you submitted.
Be sure that this project is approved by the instructor.
Capstone Project Plan
This contains the work breakdown structure (WBS) for all of the tasks that will be required to complete the capstone project.
Determine the start and completion dates (within the course's start and end dates).
List other resources that are required to complete the project.
System Integration Best Practices
Based on what you learned during completion of the Discussion Board activity, identify best practice areas you will cover in your project.
Provide a diagram that shows the process flow that you intend to use for designing the systems integration architecture.
IP 2
New Content
Requirements Specification
Describe the process you used to elicit the requirements.
List of all of the stakeholders and their roles.
Describe of all components and interfaces, including a schematic that depicts them (such as the various layers of integration).
Provide detailed and measurable functional requirements.
Provide detailed and measurable non-functional requirements.
List assumptions for the scope of the project.
Discuss the pros and cons of proceeding with the project while giving consideration to the requirements you have defined.
IP 3
New Content
Enterprise System Integration Analysis
Refine and describe in detail the list of quality assurance considerations that you determined in the Discussion Board to be ranked highest.
Thoroughly describe 3 potential options that you are considering for moving forward with the Systems Integration Project.
Systems Integration Approach Evaluation and Selection
Select and describe in detail the evaluation method that you plan to use to compare and contrast the 3 options.
Design a table or matrix to perform your evaluation comparison. The evaluation criteria should include quality objectives and organizational capabilities and considerations, and should use some type of weighted priority scheme for ranking.
Fill in the table, and use ranking criteria to determine which is the best option for you to proceed with for the system integration project.
Summarize by discussing which is the best option based on the results from the previous step.
IP 4
New Content
Proposed System Integration Components Architecture
Thoroughly describe the architecture of the proposed integrated system, including all interfaces and components for the system integration and deployment.
Represent this architecture diagrammatically.
Discuss which components and interfaces could be acquired and those that need to be developed from scratch.
Implementation Framework
Select and describe in detail the framework that you used to define and implement the system integration project.
Define the project in terms of the selected framework.
Discuss advantages for using the selected framework.
Discuss integration challenges that were highlighted by defining the framework.
IP 5
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System Integration Implementation Plan
Develop a detailed implementation plan that captures the following:
Testing activities
Final migration activities
Training activities
Project closeout activities
Transition to operational support team
Start and completion dates
Required resources to support these activities
Lessons that you have learned from doing this capstone project