SCENARIO
You have been hired as a software development manager for a large online retail company. You manage a team of developers who maintain the application programming interface (API) used to interact with your company’s e-commerce data. The company currently hosts the API at an offsite data center that houses several servers. The site is fully staffed 24 hours a day to ensure uninterrupted service to your customers. The company API has expanded over the last year, and in turn, data center maintenance and expansion costs have sharply increased.
The executive team had tasked the former manager to research cloud-based systems to see if such a migration would solve the growing data center costs (e.g., salaries, updating of servers, real estate). The former manager created an ineffective presentation to communicate the findings to the whole company. You will write a critique explaining how or why the presentation is not appropriate for all employees to see.
You will then need to research cloud-based alternatives for the API and determine what kind of technical communication deliverable would be most effective to communicate your findings to each stakeholder audience so they understand how they may be affected.
Critique the attached PowerPoint Presentation explaining why it is ineffective or inappropriate for communicating the information to all company employees. Support your explanation with specific examples from the presentation.
Steps to success:
• Define your audience’s needs and expectations for this PowerPoint. What do they need to know? Why? Where does the PowerPoint fail this audience (this can be format, information, etc.)?
• What is the purpose? Keep this in mind as you go through the document and write down information that does not fit that purpose.
• Document all of the findings and discuss in detail each finding and how it is not appropriate or ineffective for the audience.
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