Syllabus

GBIS 747 – ENTERPRISE SYSEMS & PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Online January 12 – March 8, 2011

Spring 2011

Instructor:      James Miller

Email:             jmiller@dom.edu

Cell phone:    847-530-0550

Class Location: Online only

Prerequisites: GBIS 710 & 722

Texts (optional - NOT REQUIRED):  It is suggested that you not buy any of the books until you determine that you have a special interest in the area covered by the book. I will make comments about various books during the course.

Text Books
All books below are recommended (not required). The order is random:

1. Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms (2nd Edition)
   Author(s): Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Maarten van Steen
   ISBN: 0132392275
   Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 edition (October 2, 2006)
    
2. Code Complete, Second Edition
   Author(s): Steve McConnell
   ISBN: 0735619670
   Publisher: Microsoft Press; 2 edition (June 2004)
    
3. Rapid Development
   Author(s): Steve McConnell
   ISBN: 1556159005
   Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1st edition (July 2, 1996)
    
4. Software Requirements, Second Edition
   Author(s): Karl E. Wiegers
   ISBN: 0735618798
   Publisher: Microsoft Press; 2 Sub edition (February 26, 2003)
    
5. Mastering the Requirements Process (2nd Edition)
   Author(s): Suzanne Robertson, James Robertson
   ISBN: 0321419499
   Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 2 edition (March 17, 2006)
    
6. Professional Software Development: Shorter Schedules, Higher Quality Products, More Successful Projects, Enhanced Careers
   Author(s): Steve McConnell
   ISBN: 0321193679
   Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (June 30, 2003)
    
7. Enterprise Content Management Technology: What You Need to Know
   Author(s): Tom Jenkins , David Glazer, Hartmut Schaper
   ISBN: 0973066253
   Publisher: Open Text Corporation (October 2004)
    

Course Objective
This course introduces the student to enterprise systems, and the life-cycle of IT project management. The work in this course will be done incrementally by first introducing available technologies and methodologies to choose from. The course will progress to discuss different development patterns, integration methods, system componentization strategies, and ERP and CRM. Students will develop effective IT project management skills, and the ability to recommend among the various development methodologies and approaches. Topics discussed throughout the semester include enterprise information requirements, information infrastructure, managing client/server and distributed environments, systems integration methods, relationships among component systems, process flow and workflow modeling methods, business process integration, performance and scalability issues, types of middleware, project management skills, project management methods and practices, risk analysis and software tools. Students will analyze cases involving enterprise systems and will work on a midrange or mainframe component of an enterprise system implementation. Students will also engage in project management exercises using a software tool such as MS Project.

Prerequisites:  GBIS 710 and GBIS 722

Class times – READ CAREFULLY

Online participation is required from January 12 through March 8, 2011.  Please be aware that you must be available to participate in weekly online discussions.  This discussion must be conducted on at least three different days each week; any time of day is acceptable. Each course week begins on Wednesday at 12:01 am and runs through to the following Tuesday at midnight (CST).

Course Format

This online course is organized into eight weeks and all course materials will be available each week on the Dominican University Blackboard site (blackboard.dom.edu). Each week begins on Wednesday at 12:01 am and runs until the following Tuesday at midnight (CST). Each week there is a posted online lecture, a required assignment, an online quiz, and an online discussion. In the final week, there is an online final exam and a short paper due. The paper should be completed over the span of several weeks, however. All assignments are submitted electronically via Blackboard (instructions will be provided) and are due by no later than midnight on the appropriate Tuesday. Each week, students will be required to complete an online quiz that will be available from Wednesday until Tuesday at midnight of the appropriate week. In addition, students will be required to participate each week in an online discussion on a minimum of three different days in the week for full credit points. The details for each course component requirement are provided below. Please be aware that due to the nature of the course missing or late discussion postings are graded zero. Sorry, NO EXCEPTIONS. If you contact me ahead of time, we can arrange slightly later due dates for specific homework assignments and quizzes in some cases. Again, No Late Discussion Postings.

Evaluation:

Summary of Evaluation Information

Logistics:

You will need a Dominican email address. Please see the Computer Lab aides if you do not already have the required accounts. Use of Blackboard is required. Once you are registered, I will forward you the password and the information that you need to enroll in the course in Blackboard.