Assignment Task
Purpose
This document presents detailed information about each of the Sections required for a Capella DIT Capstone proposal and final project submission. Each section in this document aligns with the DIT Capstone Template. Carefully read the Template Guide so that you can be certain to provide the material that is necessary to successfully write each section of your Capstone.
Consult with your mentor about adding headings that might be necessary to enhance the organizational structure of your Capstone Project. Review the proper process to add additional levels of headings.
Originality and Source-Matching Software
As you work through your capstone project, you must ensure the originality of your content and use appropriate citations to provide attribution. You should use the source-matching software provided in the course room by Capella University to check the originality of your drafts. Plagiarism, unintentional or deliberate, is a violation of ethical standards in academic research as well as a
violation of Capella University’s academic integrity policy. As you check the originality of your drafts, you might find a high number of matches to your previously submitted capstone drafts. You should filter out the matches to your prior drafts as such content is not considered an academic integrity issue.
Executive Summary
Write a one-to-two-page executive summary of your project here for MS 4 and 5. This should explain the problem, purpose, method, population, and results of your project. Implications or practical uses of the project results should be included. The Executive Summary is not an APA abstract; instead, it could be used to provide a high-level explanation of your project to a CEO, COO, or other key- stakeholder.
Dedication and Acknowledgement
You can write a brief acknowledgment to those who supported your goals toward completing your doctorate, and/or dedication to someone(s) close to you that made a difference in your progress. This is your space to determine content. If you choose not to include this, please delete the page. You can also title this Dedication or Acknowledgement, if only one or the other is provided.
Contents
Use the embedded TOC and allow the programmed headings to create the updated TOC for you. Note that right-clicking the TOC allows you to update the fields – you can update the page numbers only, or all the items. If you break the headings and link to the TOC, use the Home page button on the Word tabs, and select the correct heading in “Styles” to match to the TOC alignments.
Information
Writing into the template should not be an exercise in redundancy. Avoid restating the same concepts multiple times. Each section has its own reason for existence and level of importance to your project; the template is designed to ensure that you move, logically, deeper into the content of your project topic, becoming more granular as you move through the template. While the overarching general problem may be high-level, the specific problem will be lower level; your project should be specific and geared to a specific IT field of study, industry or business technical problem you are studying. Each section should provide the reader with new, more, and different information from previous or other sections. The concepts should become precise and tailored specifically to your project. Avoid general statements, opinions, bias, jargon, and colloquialisms.
Business Technical Problem And Project Scope
1. Introduction
The introduction opens the window into your Capstone project, orienting the reader to the project topic, focus, and area of interest. The introduction should provide a concise, clear overview of the proposed project.
Include an interesting fact, statistic, or comment that catches the attention of your reader which is relevant to your topic and project. Cite the sources of your facts and statistics. Ensure a thesis sentence exists in which you identify the topic and specific focus of your project. Make a strong case for your project topic and focus.
2. Capstone Topic
Include information about your DIT project focus and topic, and overarching information. Explain how the project aligns with the field of study. Include at least one to two citations for support.
Here is a good format to follow:
- Include information about your DIT field of
- The project focus and topic, and overarching Consider beginning this paragraph with something like, “The project focus is .”
- Explain how your chosen topic aligns with the DIT program
3. Problem of Practice
Describes the general business technical problem and the specific business technical problem identified in your DIT area of interest within the scholar and practitioner literature. Supports the existence of the general and specific business technical problems using baseline data and at least five supporting citations published in scholarly and/or practitioner journals within the past 3-5 years.
Focus on problems experienced by information technology (IT) practitioners, not social, government, societal, or religious organization problems.
4. General business technical problem
What is happening throughout the industry or field of interest? How is the problem manifesting? What adversity is being experienced? In other words, what harm does the general business technical problem create for the practitioner? The general problem is an umbrella problem under which the specific problem fits.
5. Specific business technical Problem
What narrowed group of participants are experiencing the problem (i.e., a specific sector of the larger industry or field of study, a specific type of IT practitioner, etc.). How is the problem manifesting? What adversity is being experienced? The specific problem is a subproblem of the general problem. Use a current source (within the past 3-5 years) to cite the specific problem and follow with at least two-three cited supporting sentences.
6. Project Question
State one project question, regardless if you are using a generic qualitative inquiry technique or a quantitative regression technique. The project question should align with the specific problem, purpose, gap in practice, and the data analysis techniques you identify in 1.4.2 Approach for the Project and later in 2.6.3. Data Analysis Plan and Presentation.
7. Context Company or Industry
Situates the issue or problem in context to the company, industry of focus, or field of study. Provide some background information on the company, industry, or field of study context with deidentified information. What are the events, trends, and issues that contribute to the specific problem? What are the events, trends, and issues that illustrate the gap in practice? Describe how the project may be useful to the company, industry, or field of study. Cites to at least three published supporting articles or company specific documentation from the last 5 years.
8. Summary
Concludes with statements that contain a summary of key points of the project and an overview of the content of the remaining sections for the project. Do not copy and paste content from previous sections, but summarize the key points from the sections above. Provide citations to at least five industry or scholarly articles that help provide the main support for your topic, problem, focus, and industry selection. Provides a logical explanation of the overarching project plan.
Critical analysis:
- What is context and background of the topic and problem?
- Who is affected, involved, and interested and why?
- How, when, where, and why does this problem or issue occur?
- What was the progression of the problem or issue and why did the progression occur?
- What are the implications resulting from the problem or issue?
- What can be learned from evaluating the problem or issue?
