PROJECT:
Imagine you work for a start-up company that is launching an internet bank. The internet bank will provide the following financial products and services to its customers:
• Accounts and deposits
• Credit, debit, and travel cards
• Loans
• Insurance
• Investments
• Tax services
Senior management and investors have identified the following key technical factors for the success of the internet bank:
• Scalability: The technology and software application infrastructure must accommodate high growth and new users without impacting the service levels delivered to existing users.
• Availability: Users must be supported with robust, consistent, and reliable access; excellent performance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Security: Industry-accepted security practices and a multi-level authentication system have to be put in place to authenticate and identify each user before they access their accounts and initiate transactions.
• Manageability: The technology and software applications infrastructure must be easy to manage, support, and update.
You have been assigned to analyze your organization and develop a technical architecture to support the business processes of this internet bank.
Assignment Content
Conducting research and preparing a report on the supporting information for your project serves two important purposes:
The researched report helps explain your choice of technologies in terms of business benefits and risks. This supported rationale is critical for executive approval.
A report reinforces or improves your plan—but only if you apply the results of your research to your plan. In the industry, project managers develop their plans iteratively, revising them as they conduct more research and identify better or cheaper alternatives. This iterative approach is especially relevant to IT projects because new technologies are developed and retired quickly.
You are conducting research that provides additional information to support your project in order to write a draft of your project plan.
Conduct further research related to your project concerning:
Industry trends and history
Top technology vendors
Project management approaches
Development and deployment approaches
Analyses of impact and risks.
Download the attached file to fill it out accordingly.
You may want to include Forbes and Harvard Business Review in your list of organizations to research.
Record your research findings in the Supporting Research Report template.
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