The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is not the IT project manager, but you are. The CIO would like an evaluation from you of project management tools in the marketplace - their strenths, weaknesses and so forth. You need to prepare a report for the CIO that critiques four such project management (PM) tools along the lines of MS Project, Jira, Trac, GitHub, GoogleCode and so on. You are not limited to these tools and in fact may choose others you feel are more appropriate. Weighted Scoring Model Additionally as part of your report for the CIO you need to include a weighted scoring model (see week 4 lectures) to help explain how you arrived at your decision - as to what you thought the best four tools were and why. The parameters you use in your weighted scoring model are up to you, but there should be no less than five (5) of them, and the parameters you evaluate the tools on should be appropriate to the sort of tools you are evaluating. Consider the sort of material we have covered over the chapters of Schwalbe during the first half of semester, you may choose any of these 12 chapters as the sorts of parameters in your weighted scoring model, e.g. cost, time, scope, quality, risk etc. with regard to what the PM tools do and don't provide. You do not have to use the Schwalbe chapters as the context, you may choose to use others - such as tool integration, import and export capability, methodology driven capabilities, dictionary support, add-ins/plugins etc. The choice is yours! Writing As you are a professional IT person, you will also have to back your report up with some recourse to the literature in this space (appendix 1). While you are not expected to cite/quote exclusively from A* journal publications, 1 it does help if you draw upon the scholarly literature 2 to back up your claims. Length The report should not be more than @2000 words, but in addition to the weighted scoring model you should draw upon suitable literature to back up the points you are making (appendix 1). Guides You may want to refer to this link just as a starting point. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_software_hosting_facilities Naturally you would draw upon exposure to tools introduced in the practical sessions. The management tools introduced during practicals were: • MS Project – WBS, Gantt Chart • Stackoverflow/P.M. Stackexchange – Software development and PM Knowledge bases and Collaboration Blogs • GitHub – Code Repository and Issues/Bug Tracking • JIRA or TRAC – Methodology Driven