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A Cross-Functional Systems Project In An Is Capstone Course, M. Maloni, P. Dembla, J. A. Swaim
A Cross-Functional Systems Project In An Is Capstone Course, M. Maloni, P. Dembla, J. A. Swaim
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Information systems (IS) practitioners must regularly work cross-functionally with business users when implementing enterprise systems. However, most IS higher education is not truly cross-functional in nature with students typically relying on instructors or even themselves to represent user requirements. To address this gap, we describe an ambitious multi-course project that paired students from an operations management class as business users with students from an undergraduate IS capstone course as systems developers to build an enterprise resource planning (ERP) application. In doing so, we attempted to emulate the critical success factors typically encountered in realistic cross-functional systems projects as identified in …