Exploring Agile and Lean Practices in Project Management
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COIT 20246 ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSIONDue date:Thursday Week 11 (2PM AEST)Part:Written AssessmentWeighting:30% of total assessment. Submission:Electronic (see course website for details)InstructionsIt will be necessary to use literature/online resources to complete this assignment, please ensure you cite and reference any such materials using the Harvard format. DO NOT copy content directly from either the text or Internet resources: this assignment is to be in your own words. You will lose marks if you do not use your own words!Please complete your assignment using this submission template file, inserting your responses where indicated.DO NOT delete the marking criteria page – changes are permitted to the formatting of other pages including the headers and footers.Please fill in the following details:Student NameStudent Number
TasksThere are ten (10) tasks, one for each week: the tasks are detailed below. There is a table to complete for each task. Please fill in the information required. An example of a completed task is below. Note the first response is good – so aim for something like this. The second response is not acceptable, so if you submit anything like it, you won’t pass the assignment! The reasons? Poor resource selection (Wikipedia), no Harvard reference and a block cut and paste from the site (no citation, no original content).ExampleTaskFind two resources that explain aspects of IT Service Management. (Good Response)Title and Reference:COBIT versus ITILIbaraki, S 2014, online,COBIT versus ITIL, viewed 29/01/2015, <http://blogs.technet.com/b/cdnitmanagers/archive/2014/04/06/cobit-versus-itil.aspx>.Summary:This resource is a blog entry discussing the differences between CoBIT and ITIL. I chose this resource as there is a lot of confusion about the way in which ITSM is applied and the distinction between the CoBIT and ITIL implementations is frequently unclear. Ibaraki explains that CoBIT provides the governance and metric structures while ITIL delivers on the actual mechanics and “how-to” processes. The author makes an interesting observation that it is wrong to simplify COBIT as providing the ‘why’ and ITIL providing the ‘how’ because both ITSM mechanisms have considerable overlap and bothneed to be used at the same time. I found this article very useful in explaining the differences and similarities between these two aspectsof ITSM.(Bad Response)Title and Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT_service_managementSummary:This pages talks about ITSM.It says that IT service management(ITSM) refers to the entirety of activities – directed bypolicies, organized and structured inprocessesand supportingprocedures– that are performed by an organization or part of an organization to plan, deliver, operate and control IT services offered to customers.It is thus concerned with the implementation of quality IT services that meet the needs of customers, and is performed by the IT service provider through an appropriate mix of people, process and information technology.
Note: Each resource summary should be a maximum of 300 words.Week 1TaskThe past decade has witnessed tremendous advances in computing, wired and wireless communication, and storage technologies. Discuss the main features and applications of two mass storage technologies namely: direct-attached storage and network-attached storage.SummaryTitle and Reference:Getting started with storage. Understanding SAN vs. NAS vs. DASOlson, C 2014, online, Getting started with storage. Understanding SAN vs. NAS vs. DAS, viewed 23/01/2018, <https://vanillavideo.com/blog/2014/started-storage-understanding-san-nas-das>.Summary:This resource is a blog entry which discusses the features and applications of direct-attached storage and network-attached storage. I chose this resource because it gives a brief description of these two attached storage technologies. This resource explains that in directly- attached storage the storage devices are directly attached to the computer withoutany network. While in the Network-attached storage the filesare shared over the network and hence it works as a computer.It also explains that directly-attached storage is used in external hard drive which is connected through a USB cable and the network-attached storage is used in computer across a network for example, Ethernet. At a particular time the network- attached storage can transfer the data to multiple users but in direct-attached storage only one user can connect at a time.The features of DAS device are they are cheaper and it’s easy to setup and configure. There is no need of any sort of IP address and hence the transfer of data is fast. At the same time, NAS devices do not depend on the number of disks and their size. It also provides an easy way to provide RAID redundancy to multiple users and hence provides highest utilization of storage sources.Disadvantages of DAS devices includes that it requires a special hardware connection while the disadvantages of NAS devices includes that it provide slow latency and requirean IP address.I found this article because it explained the advantages and disadvantages of both direct-attached storage devices and network-attached storage devices.
Week 2TaskReal-time operating systems are operating systems that guarantee a certain capability within a specified time constraint. Discuss the main benefits of real-time operating systems for the health sector.SummaryTitle and Reference:1. Real Time Operating Systems Support Healthcare IoT2. Real time operating system architectures are important for medical designersO’Dowd, E 2017, online, Real Time Operating Systems Support Healthcare IoT, viewed 23/01/2018, <https://hitinfrastructure.com/news/real-time-operating-systems-support-healthcare-iot>.Moon, J 2011, online, Real time operating system architectures are important for medical designers, viewed 23/08/2018, <http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/electronics-technology/real-time-operating-system-architecture-is-important-for-medical-designers/35970/>.Summary: These resources are an article which discusses the real-timeoperating system and their benefits in the health sector. I choose these resources because they give a brief idea of why real time system architectures are important for medical sector. Basically, a real-time operating system is defined as an operating system which accomplishes a particular capability in reference to a time constraint. They manage thehardware resources and process the data in real-time. Theseoperating systems provide availability and reliability which is very important in the health sector.The real time has many characteristics which are important in the health industry like, power management, graphics capabilities, platform independence and multicore support along with data integrity and security.The author also explains that these operating systems are
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