Management of Student Information Systems

The President of XXX university has just
read the following article (
http://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/6-waysit-still-fails-the-business/d/d-id/1107793?print=yes
) and believes this may sum up the issues delaying our new Student Information
System at XXX. The President has asked you, as the new Director of Information
systems at XXX (the prior Director was fired due to the failure of this
system); to provide her with a description of each of the top 4 issues (and
their solutions) that you would expect would cause problems with the
implementation of this SPECIFIC system. Here are the basic goals of the
system:
Allow students to access grades,
transcripts, and billing data on their own PC or mobile device. Allow students to access the state – wide D2L
system through the XXX portal, again using student – owned mobile devices. Provide access to all student data for
faculty advising purposes using faculty owned computers and mobile
devices. Most important — provide
support to the XXX Admissions Team who are charged with new student
recruitment.
Please note that you MUST provide SPECIFIC
issue s and solutions to THESE system goals. DO NOT simply provide a list of
generic issues. HINT – this might be a great time to draw on some of the
concepts we have covered in class.
2. Consider the Triple Constraint mode l in
our project management coverage from class and answer these points:
Which constraint causes the highest chance
of failure for an IT project? Research and then provide a specific business
example where this occurred (be SURE to provide reference s) what were the approximate costs (in actual
monetary amounts) to the firm due to these failures and how long did it take to
recover from these problems? Provide two
actual business examples of great successes in IT project management.
Considering the Triple Constrain t Model, why did these succeed? Again, provide
references.