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Term Paper: Website Migration Project
Due
Week 10 and worth 200 points Tony’s Chips has recently been sold to a
new independent company. The new company has hired you to manage a
project that will move the old Website from an externally hosted
solution to an internal one. The company’s leadership is very concerned
about redundancy for their site, insisting that a back-up site be
available as a failover in case the main site goes down. In addition,
they want the site redesigned to allow customers to order products
online.
As part of your job, you must complete a 10-to-15 page
paper that follows this project through the system development life
cycle (SDLC). This assignment will require you to do the following:
- Discuss
what it will take to build a Web architecture, move an existing Website
with minimal downtime, and provide a disaster recovery solution to
ensure the site is always available.
- The Web
architecture should describe and justify operating system choices (i.e.,
Linux, Apache, MYSQL, PHP, Windows, IIS, SQL, etc.).
- Evaluate alternatives to the company self-hosting the site.
- Build a Gantt chart using Microsoft Project or equivalent software, showing all tasks associated with implementing the Website.
- The chart should include a minimum of five (5) tasks, each with three (3) sub-tasks.
- Explain and justify the system architecture you have selected.
- Illustrate the system architecture using Visio or equivalent software.
- Create a use case that documents the event of a customer ordering a bag of chips from the new Website.
- The use case should include a graphical representation using Visio or equivalent software and a text description of the events.
- Discuss the support operations that the internally hosted Website will require after implementation.
- Explain how you will evaluate the performance of the new site and the success of your project.
The specific Course Learning Outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Design high-level logical system characteristics (user interface design, design of data, and information requirements).
- Use contemporary CASE tools in process and data modeling.
- Use technology and information resources to research issues in systems analysis and development.
- Write
clearly and concisely about Systems Analysis and Development topics
using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.
Grading
for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization
of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following
rubric. Click here to view the grading rubric.