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MSIS 460 Assignment Three Case Study Review the course readings on governance and any other sources you may find on IT governance. Read the following...
MSIS 460 Assignment Three Case StudyReview the course readings on governance and any other sources you may find on IT governance. Readthe following case and using only the information provided in the case answer the questions at the end.Situation:An executive steering committee comprised of senior business executives and IT executives haveapproved a program to add capabilities for the order‐to‐cash process. The program manager from theSales organization for the order‐to‐cash program has assigned one of your staff members as the projectmanager to lead the software upgrade of a commercial off‐the‐shelf software package used to takecustomer orders. This project has a very strict target date as the upgrade provides capabilities neededto meet the requirements of a new regulation that impacts the way certain types of orders must beprocessed by your company. The program manager instructs you to get the project underway as soonas possible and to work with a manager in the Sales organization to get things started. The Salesmanager will be the project sponsor.During the course of the project your project manager has a conversation with an individual manager inCustomer Service who "likes" features in the new release of the software package and has asked thatthese new features be "squeezed" into the project. Your project manager assigns the team of analystsworking on the project to determine the impact of this request. After several weeks of effort, theydetermine that the additional features will require a large degree of “customization” of the softwarethat will result in a substantial increase in the budget required for the project due to additional softwarelicense requirements, development, and testing. The additional scope will delay the project by threemonths. During a routine one‐on‐one update with the project manager, you discovered the project is amonth behind schedule due to the additional analysis work related to the request. There is anopportunity to get the project back on track but that will require additional resources or cutting somedeliverables from the scope of the project. You reflect on the situation and regret your actions to let theanalysis take place. You had a feeling that the request was a poor value proposition. You contemplateyour next steps.Questions1. Identify the types of governance mechanisms that appear to be in place for the program and thecustomer order software upgrade project. Using the Gartner model of supply‐side anddemand‐side governance, how would you classify the IT governance mechanisms you identified?Explain your reasoning for why you classified the mechanisms into either demand or supply‐sidemechanisms.2. Identify the governance mechanisms that appear to be missing for the program and thecustomer order software upgrade project. Using the Gartner model of supply‐side anddemand‐side governance, how would you classify the IT governance mechanisms you identified?Explain your reasoning for why you classified the mechanisms into either demand or supply‐sidemechanisms.3. As the IT manager of the IT project manager tasked with the software upgrade in this situation,what are your next steps?In total, you should have three deliverables: responses to questions one, two, and three. Please keep your responses to 1-2 pages (double-spaced) per question.
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