Exam Content Conducting research and preparing a report on the supporting inform

Exam Content
Conducting research and preparing a report on the supporting information for your project serves two important purposes:The researched report helps explain your choice of technologies in terms of business benefits and risks. This supported rationale is critical for executive approval.
A report reinforces or improves your plan—but only if you apply the results of your research to your plan. In the industry, project managers develop their plans iteratively, revising them as they conduct more research and identify better or cheaper alternatives. This iterative approach is especially relevant to IT projects because new technologies are developed and retired quickly.
This week, you are conducting research that provides additional information to support your project and writing a second draft of your project plan.
Conduct further research related to your project concerning:Industry trends and history
Top technology vendors
Project management approaches
Development and deployment approaches
Analyses of impact and risks.
You may want to include Forbes and Harvard Business Review in your list of organizations to research.
Record your research findings in the Supporting Research Report template that you submitted in Week 2.
Write a second draft of your project plan. Include the following in your second draft:Identify 3 improvements you would recommend for the project based on your research in your updated draft.
Highlight the recommended 3 improvements in yellow and explain why you made the changes. You can include your explanation in parenthesis next to the change you made.
Submit both your Supporting Research Report and the second draft of your Project Plan.