Students will leverage their data analysis knowledge while conducting a real-world analysis project focused on your organization's data issues. The analysis can contain technical areas, but it should be focused on matching technical capabilities with your business needs. Examples of analyses that would be a good fit include Software selection, system configuration decisions, and use recommendations.

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Professor Christopher Policastro

Expected Deliverables

It is essential to understand that a capstone project course is not typical. The entire course is structured around small-group project work. This impacts expectations as follows:

• Expected deliverables are group-specific. Expectations may be different for each group, depending on the type and nature of their assigned project. Students should think of their team’s statement of work as their syllabus for the course.
• Each group is expected to actively shape their project within a broad scope of work defined with corporate partners. This includes an active role in designing a methodology, making recommendations, suggesting how to organize their work, and structuring their presentations and deliverables. Expecting the instructors to provide a template or blueprint for each project would be contrary to the spirit of a graduate-level capstone project.
• Class time will not focus on class-wide lectures or class-wide discussions. The entire process is designed around small-group working sessions.

That being said, there are certain common denominators for most projects. The common denominators are the demonstration of skills acquired in the program.

• All projects are an opportunity to mobilize different combinations of knowledge and skills learned during the program, and to apply best practices in technology management.
• By the end of the course, you are all expected to deliver a capstone project that demonstrates solid skills acquired during your program.

Student teams will deliver the client a report and video presentation, which can be evaluated on the following grounds:

• The cohesive, logical flow of ideas (including a strong intro and conclusion)
• Use of graphics, tables, diagrams to effectively summarize ideas
• Use of process analysis to frame problem and or solution
• Full analysis of People, Process and IT (the full “Information System”) as appropriate
• Use of benchmarking and other business examples to frame problems and describe solutions
• Use of valuable external information sources
• Recommendation aligned with project/business goals
• Risk Analysis of proposed solution
• High-level Cost/Benefit analysis
• Overall Quality of Report
• Overall Quality of Video Presentation
• Professionalism