HERE ARE COMMENTS FROM MY INSTRUCTOR FOR ACTIVITY ONE

· Good use case and good attempt to reflect the performance gap however not sure the topic is well presented. Based on what I could gather, it is about using technology to reduce the number of FTE to provide monitoring and surveillance services. Assuming the above is true, the performance gap should present the number of FTE per month and related costs to do the work today vs. the performance improvement (number of FTE and hours needed) once the technology has been acquired.

Leverage this feedback to update your activity 1 submission accordingly, resubmit and move forward with the next activities

ACTIVITIES CONTINUE BELOW

Before you prepare Activities 2-4, though, be sure to revise your Activity 1 if the feedback from the instructor recommends that you do so. All of your subsequent activities will be based on your Activity 1, and the feedback from the instructor is intended to help make it easier for you to prepare subsequent Activities of good or superior quality.

You do not need to submit your revised Activity 1 until the end date of Session 4 when you need to also submit Activities 2-6. Completing Activities 2-6 may give you insights that may make you want to further revise your Activity 1. Take advantage of these insights to make final revisions in your Activity 1 before submitting Activities 1-6 via your Assignments Folder at the end of Session 4.

Activity 2. Document Requirements.Define and document the requirements to solve the problem you identified. Use Template 2, located in the IT Economics Corporation reading titled Defining and Documenting IT Acquisition Requirementsto document the requirements for solving the business

Performance problem. Available at:http://www.iteconcorp.com/T2RequirementsDevelopment.html

Activity 3. Summarize Alternative Solutions.Identify and document alternative solutions that meet the requirements identified in Activity 2. Use Template 3, located in the IT Economics Corp. reading titled Identifying Alternative Solutions.Fill in the template with your information to complete this activity. Provide at least three alternative solutions. Keep in mind that the status quo is not an alternative solution. Available at:http://www.iteconcorp.com/T3T4IdentAlts.html

Activity 4 Analyzing Alternative Solutions.In this activity, you enter your three or more alternative solutions, analyze them, and rank them based on how well they meet the Activity 4 criteria. (In Activity 5, the risk analysis will be used to screen out all but the two best alternative solutions, taking into account benefits, cost, and risk.) Template 4 for Activity 4 is available at:http://www.iteconcorp.com/T3T4IdentAlts.html

You completed Activities 1 through 4, which resulted in the identification of at least three alternative solutions that meet your requirements. You analyzed and ranked the alternative solutions. You should be ready for the next step, developing a work breakdown structure for the two or three top-ranked alternative solutions based on the guidance provided by IT Economics Corporation.

Activity 5. Develop a work breakdown structure (WBS) for each of your two or three alternative solutions to your performance problem. The link at the end of this paragraph leads to the IT Economics WBS reading, which includes an explanation of how to develop a WBS and illustrations of work breakdown structures. The illustrations can serve as a model for your preparation of Activity 5. The explanation and illustrations should give you an idea of the level of detail appropriate for the WBS required for each of your two alternative solutions. The reading is available at:http://www.iteconcorp.com/T5WorkBreakdownStructure.html

Activity 6.Perform a Risk Analysis on each of your two or three best alternative solutions to your performance problem.

The reading from IT Economics Corp., Risk Analysis of Alternative Solutions,includes a risk analysis template along with five broad risk criteria and their definitions. Also, there are three examples of the use of the template to document a risk analysis. Use this template and the risk criteria to conduct and document a risk analysis for each of your alternative solutions. The reading with template is available at:http://www.iteconcorp.com/T6RiskAnalysis.html