Begin this portion of your Semester Project only after your Summary Paragraph, Thesis Statement and Research Question(s) from previous assignment submissions have been approved by your professor. 

Your first and second sources will be selected from the open web (located via search engines like Google).

Apply the CRAAP test to potential sources to determine validity. 

Using the “Write Submission” tab below to create a text box, please supply the following:

1. State your professor-approved Thesis Statement.
2. Title of First Source (title of webpage or web article).
3. URL (web address) of First Source.
4. Based upon CRAAP test criteria, explain why you believe this source to be reliable and trustworthy.
5. In your own words, briefly describe how this source serves to answer your Research Questions and supports your Summary Paragraph and Thesis Statement.
6. Find a direct quotation from this source and paste it in the text box below (this quotation should relate directly to your thesis statement and provide a good example of why you selected this source).
7. For the in-text and bibliography (Reference Page) citations needed later, provide the following information to credit this selected quotation:
8. Author(s) last name(s) (if available; if no author(s) listed, use up to the first three words of the article title).
9. Date of publication/last update.
10. Page numbers (if available; if not, note the number of the paragraph the quotation comes from).

REPEAT the above 10 steps for your SECOND open web source. REMEMBER: You are doing this twice, once for Source #1 and once for Source #2.

A Retail company X decided to develop a mobile application (EzPayX) that provides easy payment in their retail shops. You are selected as the project manager in this project. The EzPayX mobile application project is described as the following: Customers need to download application and register to the system. In the retail shop, customers will scan the products and put items into the basket. When they are ready to go they will pay for all items in the cart. After mobile payment, the customers do not have to stop at payment cashiers. Note that EzPayX needs to run on both IOS and Android operating systems. EzPayX is going to integrate to existing payment solution of the company for card payments. The Project will be executed in Scrum project management technique. In this assignment budget and project team resources are not a concern. You have enough budget and resources, but you have only 3-sprints (21-day period) to finish the project.

In this assignment, you are required to: 

● Decide time estimations of items and prepare your project plan 

● List the Product Backlog 

● Decide each Sprint Backlogs from product backlog items 

● What are the deliverable products and outcomes in sprint 

● What quality metrics can be useful in the project 

● Prepare a closing report including focus on knowledge areas with a project integration planning 

● Did you think choosing Waterfall or Spiral methodology might produce better results in this project, why?

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Topic 6 DQ 1

Using what you have learned in the Topic Materials, discuss what you believe to be the most important aspect of change management. Provide specific examples to justify your opinion and illustrate your ideas.

Topic 6 DQ 2

Explain why it is important to evaluate the effectiveness of proposed solutions using both qualitative and quantitative data. Justify your opinion with specific reasons and examples.

Each question needs to be answered at least 1 page. 

Q1.

Name and describe four quality of life impacts of computers and information systems. Explain how these have impacted your personal or business life. How would ethics support these four quality of life issues?

Q2

You are the new IT Manager for the Cougar Corporation, a firm of 500 employees, with 5 buildings located in three different states.  Much of the information is critical to the operation of the business and contains key customer information.  As the new IT Manager, one of your employees comes to you concerned with the safeguarding of the firm’s information.  As you investigate this issue further, you too are concerned as it does not appear many methods of safeguarding the firm’s information are in place.  What methods would you want to make sure are in place to help with the safeguarding of information?  What role do you see firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus systems playing in promoting security?  – Write up a memo to your supervisor detailing methods you would like to see implemented across the firm and the role of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus systems in promoting better safeguarding of the firm’s information.  – Your supervisor will need this no later than 11:59pm CT on Sunday evening.

Q3.

How has e-commerce transformed marketing? Explain how social networking and the wisdom of crowds help companies improve operations.  Research and discuss two examples of social networking.

Q4.

Explain how knowledge work systems provide value for a firm.  Why do you think knowledge work systems are important today?  Discuss how CAD, virtual reality, and augmented reality are used today.  What has been your experience with these three tools?  Are there similar technologies to CAD, VR, and AR that you see on the horizon that will benefit firms in the future?

Q5

Distinguish between the four kinds of organizational change that can be promoted with information technology.  Explain how you have been impacted by one of these kinds of organizational change.  What were the benefits and disadvantages from your perspective?  Describe how, in your personal experience, information technology was used to promote the change.  If you have not experienced organizational change previously, research an example of how one of the four kinds of organizational change was promoted with information technology in a company or organization.

Contemporary Public Policy Paper

Assignment Overview

For your final assignment, you will examine the rapidity of change in our contemporary society and what happens when a public policy outlives its original intent. You will analyze the theory of Social Construction of Reality and how public policy is influenced by societal, political, and economic factors. You will choose an existing public policy and conduct an evaluation of that policy. The evaluation will be done in the form of a 10-12 page research paper that can be written with scenario below. 

Final Stages of a Public Policy

There are public policies that were created in an era of industry; however, society is now in an era of information and technology, and those policies that were created may have outlived their original intent. Choose a public policy that has evolved beyond its original intent. Examples:

· Social Security

· Immigration reform

Justify whether the public policy should be modified or abolished, and recommend changes and modifications to the policy. Imagine that you would be testifying this information before a committee that is dependent upon the policy you choose.

Assignment Instructions

Along with the overarching ideas from the option you choose, be sure to address the following in your research paper:

· Explain the evolution of the public policy in society.

· Use the Theory of Social Construction of Reality to explain how organizational structure and environment impact public policy.

· Analyze how societal factors drove the evolution of the public policy.

· Evaluate the structure and purpose of the public policy.

· Evaluate the challenges that the federalist structure of the United States governmental system presents for the public policy.

· Recommend changes or modifications to the public policy based on the analysis of its evolution.

Submission Requirements

· Written communication: Your writing should clearly identify where each grading criteria or part of the assignment is addressed. Your points must be logical, substantive, and relevant based on the evidence presented. The writing must be free of errors that detract from the overall message.

· APA guidelines: Resources and citations must be formatted according to current APA style and formatting. When appropriate, use APA-formatted headings.

· Resources: Your ideas must be supported with relevant recent, scholarly sources that are dated within the past five years and are properly cited and referenced in current APA style.

· Length of paper: 10–12 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and references.

· Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

· Writing assistance is available through the Writing Center or Smarthinking, the free online writing tutorial and review service.

Most criminal justice agencies have some version of an internal affairs (IA) department. Hollywood has long portrayed IA as the enemy, investigating and looking to reprimand their own brothers and sisters in law enforcement, corrections, and the courts. Personnel who talk or report issues to IA are often characterized as rats or snitches, and there is said to be an unwritten rule known as the blue wall of silence.

Do you believe IA should be as concerned with the law enforcement officer who fails to report a known ethics violation versus the person suspected of the ethics violation? Should they (if proven to be guilty) both be reprimanded? Explain your position.

ANSWER THE ABOVE QUESTION AND THEN REPLY TO MY CLASSMATE’S RESPONSE TO THE ABOVE QUESTION AND EXPLAIN WHY YOU AGREE? (A MINIMUM OF 125 WORDS or MORE)

 CLASSMATE’S POST

Well, wrong is wrong.  In our police department we have a policy and procedure, P&P III 3.3.2 which states “All personnel are required to report any observation or information received which constitutes violation of the written directives of this department.”  The problem is that there are many different levels of “wrong.”  If any officer is committing crimes on or off duty, then I absolutely expect it to be reported.  We have taken an oath to protect and serve and in no way are we above the law.  Now when it comes to things on a smaller scale of wrong, I think we all look the other way when an officer uses salty language or rolls a stop.  And yes, anyone who does come to supervisors with these things are called rats.

While I was working as a canine handler, I was at a 7-11 grabbing a soda and was getting the cold shoulder from the clerk.  I asked her what her problem with me was, she told me that she thought we all did not like her because she reported misconduct by one of our detectives.  When she told me what he had done, I was horrified and told her that not only I, but all of us admired her for her courage to come forward to report a dirty cop.  It turns out that this guy was window peeping her and then served a fake search warrant to her apartment off duty on his own time.  She ended up being one of many women who reported similar accounts against this detective.  Not only did we fire him, he was investigated criminally, and the case was sent to the prosecutor’s office.  It was my supervisor on third shift that had the courage to do the right thing and put a stop to this detective’s behavior.  If my supervisor would not have had the guts to do the right thing, he would have been just as guilty for letting this happen and if these escalated to these women being assaulted, our department could have been on the hook.  Aside from that, it would be a terrible thing to live with knowing that you could have prevented it.

I believe that if the violation is serious enough and if the violation is a felony, the person who had knowledge and failed to report it should be disciplined as well.  These are tumultuous times and with the public having a compromised trust in the police, the police must do the right thing and hold those responsible for misconduct accountable.  I have always said if you can’t trust the police, you can’t trust anyone.

In 2017, one of the biggest cyberattacks ever to occur was caused by the failure of the management and IT staff at a well-known, very large enterprise to take the necessary action to prevent the hacking the personal information of over 800 million customers. The ability of the black hats to penetrate the technology portal at mega-giant Equifax and steal personal information was determined to be the simple failure to apply a patch to fix a known risk referred to as the Apache Struts vulnerability. An alert had been promulgated and the employees at Equifax knew of the vulnerability, and even ran some scans, but never applied the patch that would have prevented the reconnaissance and penetration of the data farm at Equifax. The credit-reporting agency had two months to apply the fix before the cybercriminals began stealing the data.

Discuss

For this assignment, research a recent cybersecurity issue that had a considerable impact on an enterprise.

• Describe in detail the recent cybersecurity issue that you selected.
• How was the enterprise impacted?
• What could have been done to prevent the incident?