Assignment Schedule

MIS 584: MIS Capstone

Fall 2015
Date

Activity

Aug 24Aug 30
Aug 31Sept 06

Chapter#/
Case #

Discussion Leaders
Assignment
Due1

Where to
submit

Orientation

Orientation
Activities Aug 29

Warm up
Capstone Project Kickoff2

Sept 05

See instructions
Under
assignments
Discussion Board
(DB)

Business/Technology Analysis
Report Kickoff

Sept 07

File Exchange of
Private Board

Noon Sept 04

By e-mail

Noon Sept 09 &

Noon Sept 11

Discussion Board
(DB)

Sept 12

DB

Project Contract and Project

leader selection

Sept 12

File Exchange of
Project Board

Business Situation Draft

Sept 11

Discussion Leadership (DL)

For next week

Sept 07Sept 13

DQ Posting

DQ Summary

Addanki, Dacharla
Dhanakonda,Gudur,Jain, Kundur,
Manegalla, Mosio, Patil,Yarlagadda
Introduction
/Case I-1
IBMs Decade of
Transformation
DL

File Exchange of
Private Board

The assignments on this list are due on due date by midnight if date specified or by Saturday midnight, otherwise.
A capstone project is an effort that continues throughout the semester; therefore, it is understood that each group or individual will allocate time and resources
for the project every week in order to reach the milestones and submit the deliverables on time.
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Date

Activity

Chapter#/
Case #

Discussion Leadership (DL)

For next week
Sept 14Sept 20

Discussion Leaders
Assignment Due Where to
submit
Noon Sept 11

By e-mail

Noon Sept 16 &

Noon Sept 18

DB

Sept 19

DB

Five days after

feedback is posted

File exchange of
your Private
Board

Noon Sept 18

By e-mail

Noon Sept 23 &

Noon Sept 25

DB

Sept 26

DB

Business Situation Discussion

Continue till final

submission

Your group
Business situation
Board

Revised Capstone Contract if

needed

Sept 23

File exchange of
Group project or
Private Board

DQ Posting

Adolph, Aleti, Dharaneeswaran ,

Jadhav, Marri, Nimsgern,
Podduturu, Pradhan, Thomas
Ch 1/Case 1-1
Five Competitive
Forces that
Shape Strategy

DQ Summary

DL

Revision and Distribution of

Business Situations

Discussion Leadership (DL)

For next week
Sept 21Sept 27

DQ Posting

DQ Summary

Alla, Dhole, Feakes, Jallepalli,

Mekala, Narasimharaju, Narla,
Pace, Punreddy, Webster
Ch 2/ Case 1-2
Amazon.com:
The Brink of
Bankruptcy
DL

Date

Activity

Chapter#/
Case #

Discussion Leadership (DL)

For next week

Sept 28Oct 04

DQ Posting

Discussion Leaders
Assignment Due Where to
submit
Ameti, Boyd, Chapman
Eedara, Jangam, Modali ,
Pandity, Patel,
Ramanathan
Weiss

Ch 3/Case 1-4
Boeings eEnabled
Advantage

DQ Summary

DL

Noon Sept 25

By e-mail

Noon Sept 30 &

Noon Oct 02

DB

Oct 03

DB

Business Situation Discussion

Your group
Business situation
Board

Capstone project Progress

Report 1
Discussion Leadership (DL)
For next week

Oct 05Oct 11

DQ Posting

DQ Summary

Ammika , Coleman
Gampala , Kidambi
Mudgal , Perepu, Petersen ,
Vishwanathgowda Nagendra
West

Ch 4/Case 2-2
The iPremier
Company(A):
Denial of Service
Attack
DL

Sept 28

File exchange of
Group Project or
Private Board

Noon Oct 02

By e-mail

Noon Oct 07 &

Noon Oct 09

DB

Oct 10

DB

Date

Oct 12Oct 18

Activity

Chapter#/
Case #

Oct 26Nov 01

Assignment Due Where to

submit

Business Situation Discussion

Discuss with your team member

Business/Technolo- Your group

gy Analysis Report Business situation
Board

Capstone project
Progress Report 2

Oct 13

File exchange of
Group Project or
Private Board

Noon Oct 16

By e-mail

Noon Oct 21 &

Noon Oct 23

DB

Discussion Leadership (DL)

For next week

Oct 19Oct 25

Discussion Leaders

DQ Posting

Anisingaraju, Dorsey
Gill, Korangi
Muthineni, Pulakurthi
Puligandla, Ramisetty
Wheeler
Ch 5&6/Case 2-3
Ford Motor
Company:
Supply Chain
Strategy

DQ Summary

DL

Oct 24

DB

Discussion Leadership (DL)

For next week

Alsaeed, Arpula, Gardner,

Jaldy, Kothapalli, Nandarapu,
Rajasekar, Ross
Sadhwani

Noon Oct 23

By e-mail

Noon Oct 28 &

Noon Oct 30

DB

Oct 31

DB

DQ Posting

DQ Summary

Ch 7/Case 2-4
The Power of
Virtual
Integration
DL

Date

Activity

Chapter#/
Case #

Discussion Leaders
Assignment Due Where to
submit

Business/Technology Analysis
Report
Discussion Leadership (DL)
For next week

Nov 02Nov 08

DQ Posting

Asava, Bandela, Guido,

Kachroo, Kshatri, Palukuru
Rusan, Singh (Amitabh)
Thudia Murali Krishnan
Ch 7/Case 2-6
Cisco Systems
,Inc.:
Implementing
ERP

DQ Summary

DL

MIS Program
Reflection

Discussion Leadership (DL)

For next week

Nov 09Nov 15

DQ Posting

DQ Summary

Bansode, Basavarajeshwari
Hilburn, Konduru
Lohana, Parakala,
Saling, Subramanian,
Varadaraju
Ch 8/Case 3-1
(Information
technology and
the board of
directors)

DL

Oct 28

File Exchange of
Private Board

Noon Oct 30

By e-mail

Noon Nov 04 &

Noon Nov 06

DB

Nov 07

DB

Nov 07

File Exchange Of
Private Board

Noon Nov 06

By e-mail

Noon Nov 11 &

Noon Nov 13

DB

Nov 14

DB

Date

Activity

Chapter#/
Case #

Discussion Leadership (DL)

For next week
Nov 16Nov 22

DQ Posting

DQ Summary

Discussion Leaders
Assignment Due Where to
submit

Cheruku, Dereddy, Hixson,

Kottapu, Mahajan, Pathi,
Thota
Vyas
Ch 9/Case 3-3
(The AtekPC
Project
Management
Office)
DL

Capstone project
Report 3
Post project draft for peer
review

Discussion Leadership (DL)

For the week of Nov. 30-Dec.
6th

Nov 23Nov 27

Fall Recess

Devarakonda, Gangireddy
Kibler, Kotti,
Maheshwarapu, Patibanda
Storm, Tummala,
Yadav

Noon Nov 13

By e-mail

Noon Nov 18 &

Noon Nov 20

DB

Nov 21

DB

Nov 17

File exchange of
Group Project or
Private Board

Nov 21

File Exchange of
Group project or
Private Board

Noon Nov 20

By e-mail

Date

Activity

Nov 30Dec 06

DQ Posting

Chapter#/
Case #

Discussion Leaders
Assignment Due Where to
submit

Ch 10/Case C-1
(The ITC eChoupal
Initiative)

DQ Summary
Project presentation sign up

DL

Noon Dec 02 &

Noon Dec 04

DB

Dec 05

DB

Dec 02

DB

Dec 05

Peer Review
forum ( See
Discussion
Board)

To be scheduled

Individual or
Groups decide
how to proceed

Project Peer review

Dec 07Dec 13

Project Presentations

Course Evaluation
Dec 07- Dec 12
Dec 14Dec 19

Capstone Project Team

Evaluation

https://uisapps.uis.edu/evalu
ation

Noon Dec 18

File Exchange of
private Board

Dec 19

Assignment
section submit via
turnitin also post
a copy on the
File Exchange of
Group Project or
Private Board

Final Capstone Project Report