Part 1: Comparing SDLC Approaches and Recommendation

You have been hired to implement the CRM system for WeLoveVideo. Part of your job is to propose and recommend a project approach based on several models. 

A meeting is scheduled for next week with the WeLoveVideo CIO to discuss your recommendations on the project approach.

Prepare for this meeting by developing a 6 to 8–slide multimedia-rich presentation with speaker notes that explains the Waterfall and Agile SDLCs and how your 

team will guide WeLoveVideo. Include the following in your presentation:

• Explain the typical phases that comprise an entire systems project of Waterfall and Agile SDLCs

• Identify differences in documentation produced, with an explanation as to why it would or would not be used

• Explain stakeholder expectations that should be set based on the chosen SDLC

• Determine the pros and cons associated with each Waterfall and Agile SDLC

• Include a relevant graphic summary or chart comparing Waterfall and Agile for the WeLoveVideo CRM project, including features, team, delivery, and 

feedback

• Identify attributes within WeLoveVideo that would dictate your recommendation on the type of SDLC you would lean toward

Presentation Note: The slides in your multimedia-rich presentation should only contain essential information and as little text as possible. Do not design a slide 

presentation made up of long bullet points. Your speaker notes must convey the details you would give if you were presenting. Review the Create Speaker Notes 

video for more help.

• Compose an executive summary to accompany your presentation that includes your SDLC recommendation and references to support your 

recommendation. This summary for the executive team is typically 1- to 2 pages in length.

Format your citations per APA guidelines

Part 2: Project Plans

After consideration of your proposal from Part 1, the WeLoveVideo CIO is having a hard time envisioning how the project would be executed based on your 

recommendations. She has asked your company to develop a project plan in both Waterfall and Agile so she can better understand the implications to her team.

Use Microsoft® Excel®, Project, or another project management tool of your choice (and approved by your instructor) for your project plans.

Design a Waterfall and an Agile milestone-level project plans for the WeLoveVideo CIO in which you:

• Develop a Waterfall approach milestone-level project plan with inputs and outputs for each phase of the project based on the SDLC with milestones at the 

end of each project phase and within phases, if applicable

• Design a Waterfall approach milestone-level project plan with comprehensive SDLC phases

• Develop an Agile approach milestone-level project plan with inputs and outputs for each phase of the project based on the SDLC with milestones at the 

end of each project phase and within phases if applicable

• Design an Agile approach milestone-level project plan with comprehensive SDLC phases

 

 For the Unit IV Case Study, you will focus on floods and flood prevention in your community. Start by conducting research around your community/location for examples of mitigation and flood prevention. For example, consider any rivers or dams in your community, areas that are below sea level, etc.

 Take photographs of what you find so that you can show your professor what your area has done to address the issue of floods. If you are not in a flood area, research an area that does experience flooding, and use online images.

 

Using what you learned about your community and what you learned about past floods from this course, write a case study, a minimum of four pages in length, that addresses the following points:

 

Explain what has been done with regard to mitigation, recovery, and/or response efforts within your community or the community you researched.

 Explain who conducted these efforts and the vulnerabilities they faced in their community, and include the role these individuals or groups played with mitigating, responding, and/or recovering from the risk.

 Research at least one major flood (this is not limited to your community). Explain what caused the flood and the response.

 

What can your community, or the community you researched, learn from past floods?

 Discuss the best practice efforts that should/could be used in your community or the community you selected to mitigate future flooding.

 Your paper should be a minimum of four pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages. You are required to use a minimum of three outside sources as part of your case study. One outside source must be from the CSU Online Library. All scholarly sources, including the textbook, must be cited and referenced according to APA guidelines.

 Additionally, include at least four visual aids/images that support your content (one 4-by-4- inch image per page maximum).Make sure to cite the visual aids or pictures used in APA style. Please incorporate those into your paper in APA format 

Textbook: Valick, N. A., & Tracy, P. E. (2017). Case studies in disaster response and emergency management (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. 

Death Penalty and 8th amendment Assignment: 

Research a federal public policy topic. Using best practices for objectivity and research quality, discuss the constitutional history, the political and social debates, and the current status of your selected policy. 

Topic Guidelines. Your chosen topic must: 

1. Be a national/federal issue. Not a local/state issue. Most topics do play out to some extent within the states and that is fine. But the primary jurisdiction of your topic must be the responsibility of the national branches of government. 
   • Example of a national issue: abortion rights is predominately a national issue driven by the U.S. Supreme Court. It does play out in the states and that is ok.
      
   • Example of a local issue: police misconduct is a local issue driven my municipal branches of government. It does play out at the federal level in terms of calls to the Department of Justice to intervene but the predominant issue swirls at the local level and therefore does not fall within the themes of this course.
      
   • See suggestions at end of this document. These are just ideas and you do not have to select from that list.
      
2. Have sufficient resources/research materials available with which to do your paper. Very new or very small issues are less likely to have sufficient sources for your use. Additionally, the resource/research materials must be factually reliable and unbiased.
    
3. Not be overly broad. For example, immigration covers many different things. Avoid talking about several subjects within one broad policy field, which will result in only a very superficial treatment of everything and not gaining any deep understanding. Instead, focus on one slice and explore it more deeply. For example, you can write about the DACA issue, which is one specific thing within the broad immigration debate.
    

*** IMPORTANT: You must present your chosen topic in an entirely neutral way. This is not a position or debate assignment. This is a research assignment. Present to me the research you have conducted on both sides of the topic. Remain neutral. Pretend you have been selected to teach me about the topic. You may choose to explore your own opinion only after you have completed your paper, using the concluding paragraph to do so. Papers that do not follow this core requirement will not score well. 

Some questions to ask yourself to help develop material for the paper: 

• What are the significant milestones in your topic’s history? The idea in this paper is not to throw in every detail/development. Part of your task is to exercise judgement and select what is important enough to include and what is not.
   
• Are there any national laws or Supreme Court decisions around your topic? If yes, these are significant aspects and it is necessary to give these them proper attention in your paper.
   
• Does your topic play out to some extent at the state level too? If yes, what is going on among the states? Do these state actions contradict the federal position? Explore.
   
• Is your topic controversial or debated? If yes, what is the controversy about? What are the major arguments on each side? Or, what are the politics around the topic? Or, what action or inaction is happening among government leaders?
   
• Where does your topic stand today? Or, what is the next step that is due to happen?
   
• Lastly, as part of your closing comments, what is your own opinion on this topic, know that you have done our research? It’s ok to not have a clearly developed opinion; use the space to explore where your thinking is heading.
   

4. Research your selected topic in an unbiased manner. Give both sides of the story. As a researcher you hold back your opinion, preferring instead to explore all arguments, all evidence. Only after you have reported on all your research, in the final paragraph you can and should explore your own opinion. Again, this should remain in the closing portion of your paper, only after you have presented your research into all sides of the issue. 

Format Rules: 

• Minimum 6 full and complete pages. A cover sheet (not part of the 6 pages) should capture your name and any other items you wish to include. The 6 pages should be full text. Can’t come up with 6 full pages? The deduction starts at 4 points.
   
• Absolutely no plagiarism. We discuss this at length in class.
   
• MLA or APA format: pick one and use it correctly throughout.
   
• Follow standard college writing guidelines. For example: 
  • Double spaced
     
  • Times New Roman
     
  • 12 pt font
     
  • 1 inch margins
     
  • APA, MLA, or Footnote citation style. Choose one and use it consistently and correctly
     

• Use quotations judiciously; the rule of thumb is to quote when you cannot reasonably improve on what was written in your source. 

Common pitfalls that cost students points: Don’t do them! 

• Handing in late
   
• Not fulfilling the absolute minimum number of full typed pages
   
• Choosing state or local issues (federal only)
   
• Choosing a federal topics that are way too broad, offering no deeper understanding. (Hint: a
  broad topic, like “immigration”, is actually about many topics. Pick one of those.
   
• Choosing a topic that is good but has very limited usable resource materials available.
   
• Not telling the story in a chronological sequence, making it a challenge to follow what is going
  on in the paper.
   
• Not using quotes the proper way and instead using them to fill up the page. If a quote is not
  saying anything unique or especially enlightening, then there is no purpose to providing the quote.
  Paper topic ideas (These are just a few to help get you thinking. Feel free to choose something else as long as it meets the guidelines at top)
  Abortion rights
  Second Amendment and gun control policy
  Gay Marriage and the Defense of Marriage Act
  Race-based rights and the Civil Rights Movement
  Death penalty and the Eighth Amendment
  Hate speech and the First Amendment
  Right to privacy and homeland security/ government surveillance Deferred Act

#5 Discussion Topic – Bolivia Case StuPlease watch the following two videos and then post a 250-300 word commentary of your views and thoughts and reflections on the Discussion Board – follow this with at least one additional post(s) of about 75-100 words that is a response to other students postings.

Please watch the following two videos and then post a 250-300 word commentary of your views and thoughts and reflections on the Discussion Board – follow this with at least one additional post(s) of about 75-100 words that is a response to other students postings.

Please be sure to make an effort to discuss what you personally think and avoid any form of ‘copy and paste’ model. It is your own opinions, reflections and commentary that you should provide for the forum to be effective and interesting. be sure to make an effort to discuss what you personally think and avoid any form of ‘copy and paste’ model. It is your own opinions, reflections and commentary that you should provide for the forum to be effective and interesting.

Please be sure that you:

• do not ‘copy and paste’ information in the posts
• feel free to discuss your own personal views and reflections on the topic 
• try to minimize or avoid generalized comments – such as – “this is really a huge problem and the government should do something about it.”
• feel free to include personal anecdotal information – things that you have personally experienced are great to include
• feel free to include information that you have learned in other classes and/or in your own personal reading – please give a reference/link if relevant
• please be sensitive to others viewpoints – especially if you don’t share their opinion on a particular issue
• upload your 250-300 post on the discussion forum first before you respond and make your second post
• make as many response posts as you wish.

the first video: ‘Anarchy in the Andes’

the second video: ‘Bolivia’s Child Laborers’

 

What have you posted on your social media accounts recently? Was it a recent trip or office function? How much of your personal life have you posted online with very few security controls? There is a vast amount of information concerning ordinary people available publicly on the web; all you need is time and basic online investigative skills to find it.

Using OSINT techniques, conduct a passive online investigation of a senior officer within a publicly traded organization. Document the process as you go so that it can be replicated; use screen captures to prove completion of each step and include as an appendix to your report.

Write your report to include following:

1. Full name and any aliases of your target
2. Personal information (address, telephone number, email, and asset information)
3. Birth date, age, other important dates
4. Professional and personal connections (people)
5. Personal interests and membership in user groups (Have they taken a vacation recently?)
6. Contribution to blogs
7. Presence on social media websites (Facebook, Twitter, and so forth; include account names)
8. Professional networks
9. Public records
10. Criminal investigations or other newsworthy items
11. Report the findings of your investigation. As this is part of an investigation, you need to provide your step-by-step process.

Your target, a senior officer for a publicly traded company, should have information related to every requirement within this report. Please read the rubric carefully before continuing.

Essay Portion:

Read the article “How users think about social media privacy.”

Then in 500–750 words, answer the following:

• Discuss your understanding of privacy in the digital age.
• Discuss vertical privacy versus horizontal privacy.
• Discuss the moral and ethical implications, from a Christian worldview, within the context of digital privacy and performing a personal data search as used in the exercise above.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.