Marking scheme for the course
| COURSE COMPONENT | WEIGHT | DUE DATE |
| Business assignment | 20% | May 14 |
| Technology assignment | 20% | June 19 |
| Policy assignment | 20% | July 18 |
| Project | 40% | August 31 (new! it was July 30 before) |
For detailed information on assignments, please check the web page of the respective module.
Please direct questions on assignments to the coordinator of the corresponding module.
Questions on the project should be directed to the course coordinator, A. Rau-Chaplin.
Administration:
Submission of the business assignment will be by email attachment to Prof. Sunny Marche.
All remaining submissions (technology and policy assignment, and the project) will be electronic, in hyptertext (HTML) format, that you will publish on your password-protected group web site on borg.cs.dal.ca.
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Team up with your classmates into groups of size 3. The perfect team has people with technical, business and legal/policy backgrounds.
Agree on a topic for your case study. Ideally the topic should be your own organization and how
it can incorporate e-commerce (or e-business or e-services) in its operations. You should address this topic from
three viewpoints, technical, policy and business.
Project guidelines:
We would like to make the project useful to you, as well as to us. To this end, you may want to make your project relevant to your department (i.e. the department of one of the members of your group), and make it as "real" as possible. Perhaps it can form the basis for a real business case that you may want to propose to your department head for implementation in the near future.
As a rough length guideline, your project report should be about 30 pages typed, 1.5 spaced, point size 11. Feel free to generate a shorter of a longer report, if necessary or appropriate for your project.
Consider carefully the scope of your project. If you make the scope too broad, the project may
end up too superficial. If you make the scope too narrow, it may be less interesting, or give you less issues to
talk about.
To ease collaboration within the group, you may wish to maintain an evolving draft of your report on your group web site as you work on it.