Assignment Content

Scenario B: Internet Bank

Imagine you work for a start-up company that is launching an internet bank. The internet bank will provide the following financial products and services to its customers:

• Accounts and deposits
• Credit, debit, and travel cards
• Loans
• Insurance
• Investments
• Tax services

Senior management and investors have identified the following key technical factors for the success of the internet bank:

• Scalability: The technology and software application infrastructure must accommodate high growth and new users without impacting the service levels delivered to existing users.
• Availability: Users must be supported with robust, consistent, and reliable access; excellent performance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Security: Industry-accepted security practices and a multi-level authentication system have to be put in place to authenticate and identify each user before they access their accounts and initiate transactions.
• Manageability: The technology and software applications infrastructure must be easy to manage, support, and update.

You have been assigned to analyze your organization and develop a technical architecture to support the business processes of this internet bank.

The purpose of the project proposal is to describe a project (i.e., to describe how to automate or improve the automation of a specific business process) and then to explain how completing the project will positively affect the business.

Once a project proposal is accepted, project work can begin; therefore, a successful project proposal must include all of the information necessary for stakeholders to make a go/no-go decision, including a statement of scope, a list of the benefits you expect the proposed project to provide, and a rough estimate of how long it will take and how much it will cost to complete the project.

For this assignment, you will create a 3- to 4-page project proposal for the business scenario you selected earlier this week and that was approved by your instructor. For your project proposal, be sure to:

• Complete the Project Proposal Template based on the business scenario you selected (and that was approved by your instructor) earlier this week. If you prefer, you may re-create the template using another software application of your choice, such as Microsoft Excel.
• Develop a project definition and scope that defines the project and articulates the business context for the project.
• Identify problems that the proposed system is expected to solve (or opportunities the proposed project is expected to produce).
• Create project objectives.
• Create the project methodology or game plan.
• Compile a high-level schedule for completing the project scope.

Refer to this week's learning activities for help creating your project proposal.

Submit your assignment.

Project Proposal Template

Fill out each of the sections below with information relevant to your project and add your companys name.

Company Name

Project Proposal

Project Scope Statement
Project Title
Project Sponsor(s)
Business Context for the System
Project Scope Description
Date Prepared
Prepared By

Problems/Issues/Opportunities the Proposed System Expected to Solve
Problems	Issues	Opportunities

Project Objectives
Project Objective Name	Project Objective Description

Project Deliverables
Project Deliverable Name	Project Deliverable Description

Project Acceptance Criteria
Project Acceptance Criteria Name	Project Acceptance Criteria Description

Project Exclusions
Project Exclusion Name	Project Exclusion Description

Project Constraints
Project Constraint Name	Project Constraint Description

Project Assumptions
Project Assumption Name	Project Assumption Description

High-Level Work Schedule: Project Scope

Milestones

Due Dates

ID

Activity

Resource

Labor Hours

Labor Rate

Labor Total

Material Units

Material Cost

Material Total

Total Cost