Management of IT

Assignment 1 – Exercise – Tips for Success and Being Professional

Developed by R.Spring 2020

Your name:                                                                            

Policies:

• Submissions made through
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  0.
• Submissions without your
  name stated above earn a 0.
• Submissions with the
  original questions and/or formatting removed from the file earn a 0.
• Submissions without
  adequate references or acknowledgements will earn a discounted grade,
  potentially a 0.
• Submissions that I can’t
  open or require a password will earn a 0.
• Second chances might be
  requested at any time through D2L email, and are awarded at the sole
  discretion of the instructor.

Success in This Course

Being successful in this course requires you to read the
syllabus, understand its goals and requirements and plan to work
accordingly.  Once you plan your work,
you need to implement the plan and keep up. 
You also need to follow best professional practices in achieving your
goals.  This exercise intends to aid you
in being successful in this course and do so in a professional manner.

Readings for this assignment:

• Course Syllabus
• Class Schedule Spreadsheet
• The D2L Course Resources
  and Structure
• Class Roster (D2L)
• Course Reading Materials
  (D2L LMs) Readings ReadMe Files for this assignment and the other LMs
• Communication Rules
• Policy on Plagiarism (in
  this Assignment)
• Varied sources on the web
  linked into this assignment

Actions/Deliverables for this assignment:

• Read as per above
• Research what you read and
  other policies on plagiarism
• Respond to this assignment
  within the file (leaving all questions and formatting intact)
• Deliverable: Upload your
  response using the A1 Assignment Folder in D2L
• Deliverable: Make entries
  on the Module 1 Discussion
• Completion and grading
  options: All questions must be completed. When all are successfully
  completed, you will earn an A.

Q1 Required- 10 Points) Read the syllabus. 

• What questions
  do you have?  
• What are the
  goals of this course? 
• How do they
  align with your career goals?

Q2 Required- 10 Points) Review the class schedule
spreadsheet to establish a plan to be successful in the class.  Note that there are six exercise assignments
including this one and your final grade exercise component will be based on the
top four exercise assignment grades. The exercises and any follow-up discussion
need to be done in a timely fashion because they prepare for and feed into the
final project/case study.  You can
maximize your chance for success by thoughtfully completing the exercises
according to the due dates in the plan.

• Review your plan
  and comment on your confidence in being successful in this course. 
• What questions
  and comments do you have? 

Q3 Required- 10 Points) Review the D2L for the course.  You will be using the assignment folders,
learning modules, discussion and email mostly. 

• What questions
  and comments do you have about D2L?
• Review the
  discussion tool for the Case Study and answer the following questions:
  • What
    is the due date for Case Study Team Formation?
  • What
    is the due date for the Case Study Plan?
  • What
    is the due date for the Case Study Checkpoint/Outline?

Q4 Required- 10 Points) Review the class roster in D2L.  Locate classmates you know and can work with.  Contact them by D2L email.

• According to the
  syllabus, which assignments can/will you work in teams? 
• Since you can
  choose your own team mates, what comments do you have?

Q5 Required- 10 Points) Review the self- and team-assessment
form for this course’s case study project.

• Do you predict that you can provide an objective
  assessment on this form of
  • Your performance in this course?
  • Your team mates performance in this course?
  • Why or why not?
• Given this form, describe your ideal team mate
  (without using any names):
• Given this form, describe your most dreaded team
  mate (without using any names):

Q6.Required 10 Points) OER Edition: Review the resources for
the course linked from the LM1-ReadMe file.

• Do you think the
  resources such as those prescribed will contribute to your success in this
  course?
• Do you have
  questions or comments about having no textbook and relying on cost-free web
  resources?
• Read the
  Wikipedia article on IT Management (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology_management).
  List and comments or questions on our use of this online resource: We will use
  it as a learning resource for acquiring knowledge and skills appropriate for IT
  managers to participate and contribute to:
• Governing IT
  Resources
• Managing IT
  Risks including Sourcing IT
• Business-IT
  Alignment
• IT Financial,
  Service and Configuration Management
• Note that the
  cost-free, online resources are written from many perspectives. Please list any
  comments, questions or concerns that you have about our course materials having
  many perspectives.
• Finally, do a
  web search on “computer accessibility” and define what it is here and also state
  in a paragraph the importance to the IT profession of making computers
  accessible.

Q7 Required- 10 Points) Review the Communication Rules for
this course.

• What questions
  do you have?
• Do these
  guidelines seem reasonable and helpful for interacting together professionally,
  especially on a team?
• What other
  guidelines do you think we should use in our online communications and in
  working together on a team?

Q8 Required- 10 Points) Policy on Plagiarism

Unfortunately, plagiarism has become more prevalent in all
of society, including the university. 
Therefore, effective this term, I will be applying plagiarism tests to
everything that you submit.  The test
will utilize available search techniques to determine whether what you submit
is your work. If I determine that you have plagiarized, your assignment grade
will be penalized according to the following guidelines:

Your Plagiarism	Response
You buy work and claim it is your own.	Work with the administration to get you expelled from KSU.
You accept or use work from another and claim it is your own.	Work with the administration to fail you in my course.
You download or scrape work from the web and claim it is your own.	Work with the administration to fail you in my course.
You accept or use work from another and do not adequately cite or acknowledge.	Award a zero on that assignment.
You download or scrape work from the web and do not adequately cite references.	Award a zero on that assignment.
You do not perform adequately in supporting a team effort in a class assignment.	Award a lower grade down to a zero on that assignment.

In many cases where I identify the possibility of
plagiarism, I will try to work with you to remedy the situation in a positive
fashion.  For example, my second chance
assignment submission might be used to re-submit an assignment after having
included proper citations, etc.

For this question, please do the following:

• Review my
  policy.
• Compare it to
  other professor’s policies at KSU and other universities too.
• Your comments on
  Plagiarism
  policy:
• Do a web search
  on reference citation methods for the ACM [3], APA [2] and MLA [1].  Comment on the commonalties and differences
  here.  Choose one for your use in this
  course and describe here which one and why you chose it.  Then USE THAT METHOD OF CITING REFERENCES IN
  THE REMAINDER OF THE COURSE.

Q9 Required- 10 Points) Review relevant ethical codes and
professional practice approaches and adopt one or select and compile to develop
your own to guide your professional practice as an IT manager.

Some Suggestions:

ACM

• http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics
  Code of ethics

IEEE

• http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html
  Code of ethics

Complete these statements to complete question 9 (Required):

• The code of ethics and
  professional conduct I will follow in this course is <list them>.
• They came from <list
  the sources>.
• I chose them because
  <list the reasons why you chose those principles and guidelines>.

Q10 Required- 10 Points)

• Answer two
  questions here and then copy your answers to complete D2L Discussion Posting
  for Exercise 1- yes you have to provide the same material twice:
• Plagiarism part:
  • Create
    an example of plagiarism (hint: scrape something off the web without attribution
    or citation). 
  • Describe
    why it is plagiarism. 
  • Fix
    it so that it is no longer plagiarism and describe how that eliminates the
    plagiarism. Make sure to use your chosen method of reference citations from Q8.
  • Copy
    your example of plagiarism and fix and also make comments on the discussion for
    this assignment.
• Teamwork part:
  • Describe
    your ideal team mate for this course (do not use any names)
  • Describe
    your dreaded team mate for this course (do not use any names)

Q. Optional IT Career Enhancer) Consider building a toolkit
for your own use as an IT manager. This toolkit would contain tools you have
found useful for managing IT. Consider beginning this toolkit with your
approach to ethics and professional practice. Describe resources you have found
here and considering sharing them by posting them on the D2L discussion topic
for toolkits.  If you would rather not
start a toolkit, please briefly tell why here. Answer these questions for each
tool you want to include:

How is the tool accessed?

How is the tool used?

What is the value of the tool for
the IT manager?

General comments on the tool:

Remember, this question is OPTIONAL.

Sources and works used in completing this exercise:

1. Purdue Online Writing Lab on MLA Citations (retrieved
   April 20, 2019) https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html 
2. Purdue Online Writing Lab on APA Citations (retrieved
   April 20, 2019) https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html
3. ACM Citation Style and Reference Formats. (retrieved
   April 20, 2019) https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/reference-formatting

Required: Please add your list of sources.

Required: Please complete the following:

___ I did not use any method of citation (maximum B on
the assignment).

___ I used the ACM approach and have cited my references
as I went in the text and also listed them at the end.

___ I used the APA approach and have cited my references
as I went in the text and also listed them at the end.

___ I used the MLA approach and have cited my references
as I went in the text and also listed them at the end.

Required: Acknowledgements of people and discussions used in completing this
exercise: