Type: Individual ProjectUnit: Human Factors and ProductivityPoints Possible: 100Deliverable Length: 3–4 new pages in the Human Elements in IT Strategy documentHuman Elements in Information Technology (IT) StrategyThis course is comprised of a series of Individual Project assignments that will contribute to a Key Assignment submission at the end of the course. Each week, you will complete a part of a Human Elements in IT Strategy document. You will select a real or fictitious organization and apply your research to the development of a strategy that would be appropriate for the organization’s plan to address human elements in the organization and its IT projects.You will be given a Key Assignment to develop a Human Elements in IT Strategy document for an organization with an established IT department that could benefit from the strategy. The goal of this assignment is to focus on outlining a strategy that an organization could adopt to improve productivity in the IT department and benefit the company.Organization SelectionThe first step will be to select an organization as the target for your Human Elements in IT Strategy document. This organization will be used as the basis for each of the assignments throughout the course and should conform to the following guidelines:Nontrivial: The organization should be large enough with an IT department that is evolved enough to allow the reasonable exercise of the human elements in IT strategy research and documentation process.Domain knowledge: You should be familiar with the organization so that you can focus on the project tasks without needing a significant amount of time for domain education.Accessibility: You should have good access to the people and other information related to the project. This will be an important part of the process.Select an organization that meets these requirements, and submit your proposal to your instructor before proceeding further with the assignments in the course. Approval should be sought within the first several days of the course. Your instructor will tell you how to submit this proposal and what notification will be given for project approval.AssignmentYou will be developing a Human Elements in IT Strategy document that outlines the strategy that an organization will use to treat the human element issues of its IT department with the goal of establishing better productivity for the organization as a whole. Your first task in this process will be to select an organization to use as the basis of your research and analysis for each of the assignments in the course. You will also create the shell document for the final project deliverable that you will be working on during each unit. As you proceed through each project phase, you will add content to each section of the final document to gradually complete the final project delivery. Appropriate research should be conducted to support the development of your document, and assumptions may be made when necessary.The project deliverables are as follows:Submit the project proposal to the instructor for approval.Develop the Human Elements in IT Strategy document.Use Microsoft Word.Title PageCourse number and nameProject nameYour nameDateTable of Contents (TOC) Auto-generated TOCSeparate pageMaximum of 3 levels deepBe sure to update the fields of the TOC before submitting your project.Section headings (create each heading on a new page with "TBD" as content, except for the sections listed under New Content below)Project Outline (Week 1)Human Factors and Productivity (Week 1)Success Factors in the IT Organization (Week 2)People, Processes, and Technologies (Week 3)IT Project Stakeholders (Week 4)Behavioral Layers (Week 5)New ContentProject OutlineProvide a brief description of the organization that will be used as the basis for the projects in the course.Provide additional detail on the IT organization in your summary.Include company size, location(s), and other pertinent information.The organization should be large enough with an IT department that is evolved enough to allow the reasonable exercise of the human elements in IT strategy research and documentation process.Human Factors and ProductivityProvide an overview of the Human Elements in IT Strategy suitable for a nontechnical audience.The overview must identify the key enhancement and inhibitor factors for the organization in terms of productivity, quality of work, motivation, morale, communication, and coordination within the IT organization and its projects.Be sure that this project is approved by the instructor.Name the document "yourname_SWE441_IP1.doc."Submit the document for grading.

Imagine this scenario: Pine Valley Furniture wants to use Internet systems to provide value to its customers and staff. There are many software technologies available to Internet systems development teams, including SOAP, HTML, JSON, XML, CSS, ASP.NET, Objective-C, PHP, Java™, Python, Ruby, AJAX, Swift™, AngularJS, Bootstrap, jQuery, and R. Create a 3-4 page Word document that includes a comparison table. The assignment should have a title page and a reference page with a list of academically acceptable references. The comparison table should have a minimum of 3 columns and be 1/2 page to a full page in size. Address the following items in your assignment: Compare at least 3 Internet systems developments software technologies for use at Pine Valley Furniture. Analyze how the selected Internet systems developments software technologies support Pine Valley Furniture’s core business processes. Justify why an Internet systems developer might choose a specific type of technology instead of another type of technology for Pine Valley Furniture. Explain how these technologies can bring value to Pine Valley Furniture. Incorporate additional research to support your comparison. Cite references to support your assignment.

Week 3 AssignmentYour Week 3 Assignment instructions will be provided by your course instructor. Please refer to the course announcements for more information. Your completed assignment should be uploaded to this assignment dropbox.Grading Criteria Assignments Maximum PointsMeets or exceeds established assignment criteria 40Demonstrates an understanding of lesson concepts 20Clearly presents well-reasoned ideas and concepts 30Uses proper mechanics, punctuation, sentence structure, spelling, and APA style 10Total 100---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please review the assignment located in the attachment