| Name: | Lawrence (Lawrie) Dalman ID: 11689490 | ||
| Project Title: | Cybersecurity Standards Required of US and Australian Defence Supply Chains: Disparity of Standards and SME Achievability | ||
| Week Number: | Two (2) | Date: 08/03/2021 – 14/03/2021 | |
| Planning | |||
| Milestone: | Planned: | Actual: | Comment: |
| Finalise Project Title, Abstract and Blog. | Create new Blog for final choice project. Resolve Title for 15 words or less. Write new abstract with fewer words. Publish the new title and abstract to the blog.Identify research sources and begin collection and protection of material contributing to or aligned with the project. |
Blog Published.
Title resolved. New abstract finalised. Title and abstract published. Began updating standards and certification documents relating to the topic. |
Noted the complexity of the title could imply inadequate or excessive scope of the project.
Abstract may still need refinement. Rate of change of Australian documentation has not been great, but much of the US documentation has been updated. New source documents downloaded. |
| Issues | |||
| Description: | Date: | Action/Result: | Finished (Y/N) |
| Allocation of time between work demands and Master’s studies. | 08-12/03/2021 | Revise work, sleep and study programs to provide for successful conclusion of the capstone project. | Y |
| Finding very few academic articles wit relevance to the topic and purpose of the project. | 12-14/03/2021 | Seek more Journal and internal academic writing on the topic. | Y |
| Name: | Lawrence (Lawrie) Dalman ID: 11689490 | ||
| Project Title: | Cybersecurity Standards Required of US and Australian Defence Supply Chains: Disparity of Standards and SME Achievability | ||
| Week Number: | Three (3) | Date: 15/03/2021 – 21/03/2021 | |
| Planning | |||
| Milestone: | Planned: | Actual: | Comment: |
| Finalise progress report format and publishing. | Begin working on Assessment 2, due 28/03/2021. | Commenced review of the current standards and requirements of the US and Australian defence supply chain contributors. | Exactly what was expected in the documents was found, although to a greater extent than expected. Suggesting the research question is valid and the information gap is significant. |
| Resolve Research questions and problem domain. | Publish Progress reports for weeks 2 and 3. | Refined the scope a little to contain the size of the project. | This remains a risk to be monitored. The project could easily break out of scope. |
| Finalise decision to use Zotero, rather than EndNote. | Confirm risks and deficiencies experienced with EndNote remain. | Confirmed problems remain with EndNote. | Definitely using Zotero with APA 7. |
| Issues | |||
| Description: | Date: | Action/Result: | Finished (Y/N) |
| Late publishing progress reports.
|
21/02/2021 | Publish ASAP, before the end of the day Monday 22/03/2021. | N |
| Name: | Lawrence (Lawrie) Dalman ID: 11689490 | ||
| Project Title: | Cybersecurity Standards Required of US and Australian Defence Supply Chains: Disparity of Standards and SME Achievability | ||
| Week Number: | Four (4) | Date: 22/03/2021 – 28/03/2021 | |
| Planning | |||
| Milestone: | Planned: | Actual: | Comment: |
| Development of Project Proposal and Plan for A2 | Identify all key required elements. Begin detailed planning. | Completed outline of the project and identified and recorded key requirements of the Plan and the project. | This process identified some elements required, which had not been considered. |
| Commence work on the spread sheet for comparison and analysis of standards. | Identify the required standards, make initial review to decide which standards will be the backbone of the comparison. | Identified 10 standards and 3 control frameworks, making up requirements for comparison.
Selected CMMC as the strongest standards. |
This work to make detailed comparison of the standards, will be a major element of the project and will take more effort than expected. |
| Plan and book industry interviews. | Identify prospective interviewees for discussion of the topic and their views. | Identified three good interviewees, who have deep knowledge of the topic and agree with the identified problem domains. | These interviews are a valid contribution, although because of the topic, none are prepared to be “on-the-record” or directly quoted. |
| Continue with off-line progress reports. | Enforce the importance of recording progress each week of the project. | Progress reports are continuing to be made off-line for later publication to the blog. | This is a basic and easily overlooked obligation of the project, keep it in the plan and progress reports. |
| Issues | |||
| Description: | Date: | Action/Result: | Finished (Y/N) |
| Previous week there was delay with publishing. | 22/03/2021 | Late publication completed. | Y |
| Revise work, study program to allow more project time each week. | 23/03/2021 | In order to keep up work and study demands; less time is allowed now for sleep and recreation. | Y |
| Name: | Lawrence (Lawrie) Dalman ID: 11689490 | ||
| Project Title: | Cybersecurity Standards Required of US and Australian Defence Supply Chains: Disparity of Standards and SME Achievability | ||
| Week Number: | Five (5) | Date: 29/03/2021 – 04/04/2021 | |
| Planning | |||
| Milestone: | Planned: | Actual: | Comment: |
| Continue review and note taking from the standards. | As review is being conducted, refine the sheet for best direct comparison. Take not of key point for later use in the report. | Good progress being made, including note taking of key content. | With many hundreds of practices identified by the standards, this is going to be too big to include in the report itself. |
| Continue to identify articles contributing to the topic. | Very few articles of an academic nature, address the issues defined by the project. Identify articles which can contribute in and aligned way with the project. | Started finding articles addressing general views of cybersecurity standards, along with SMEs capability and compliance, which can be applied to SMEs in Defence Supply chains. | A great deal of feedback is coming from the US. The issues I’m raising are greatly experienced in the US as well. |
| Record weekly progress report. | Make this week’s progress entry. | Progress recorded. | None. |
| Issues | |||
| Description: | Date: | Action/Result: | Finished (Y/N) |
| Finding great interest in the topic in the US. Requiring addition and time in UTC -7 to -4. | 02/04/2021 | Reschedule work, study time to allow for work and research in UTC -1 to -7 time zones. | Y |
| Name: | Lawrence (Lawrie) Dalman ID: 11689490 | ||
| Project Title: | Cybersecurity Standards Required of US and Australian Defence Supply Chains: Disparity of Standards and SME Achievability | ||
| Week Number: | Six (6) | Date: 05/04/2021 – 11/04/221 | |
| Planning | |||
| Milestone: | Planned: | Actual: | Comment: |
| Continue review and documentation of standards. | Finalise the format of the comparison and a means of checking the results. | Format finalised. Taken the view that due to variation in language and description in the standards, some authors interpretation is required. | Satisfied in the comparison and alignments being made for the comparison matrix. |
| Continue review of literature. | Identify additional suitable articles and sources. | Finding most of the best information available from Governments and Institutional Authorities. | This contributes well to the topic, but does not address “academic” writing on the topic enough. |
| Finalise writing of A2 Project Proposal and Plan. | Assemble all the elements already prepared and assemble in appropriately formatted paper. | Completed draft of the A2 submission. | More work needs to be done on the MS Project Gant Chart and WBS. |
| Issues | |||
| Description: | Date: | Action/Result: | Finished (Y/N) |
| Not happy with how the project plan is developing. Struggling to ensure the written plan can be completed. | 06/04/2021 | Make more reliance on dependencies in the project plan, hoping to prevent any elements going incomplete. | N |
| Providing for the over representation of institutional references, over academic. | 07/04/2021 | Assessed those institutional references are fine, but all references must be very high quality. Also correctly formatted. | Y |
| Name: | Lawrence (Lawrie) Dalman ID: 11689490 | ||
| Project Title: | Cybersecurity Standards Required of US and Australian Defence Supply Chains: Disparity of Standards and SME Achievability | ||
| Week Number: | Seven (7) | Date: 12/04/2021 – 18/04/2021 | |
| Planning | |||
| Milestone: | Planned: | Actual: | Comment: |
| Finalise project plan for revised available time ad obligations. | Revise plan, including slack and dependent tasks. | Plan revised with less detail and key and weekly tasks being dependent. | Not ideal for the presentation of a project plan, but more achievable and less stressful. |
| Finish Project Proposal and Plan for submission. | Final edits and proof reading, before submission. | Rushed to completion on time. | Completed on time, but unsure about the appropriateness of the selected articles for bibliography. |
| Submit A2 to EASTS and publish on the blog. | Submit before the revised due date, after extension to 23:59 14/04/2021. | Submitted on time. | This was a huge demand on time for submission. Will have to do better with time management as the project assessments only get harder. |
| Commence work on A3, Annotated Bibliography. | Gather articles selected from the 100+ articles gathered. | Managed very little progress this week, but have a plan and outline of what needs to be done completed. | Ensure time is included in the schedule for writing this assessment. |
| Write week 7 progress report. | Write this week’s report. | Completed report, but highlights time issues and stress. | None |
| Issues | |||
| Description: | Date: | Action/Result: | Finished (Y/N) |
| Continuing work, study time management issues, impacting available time for the project. | 12/04/2021 | Adjust schedule again. | N |
| Name: | Lawrence (Lawrie) Dalman ID: 11689490 | ||
| Project Title: | Cybersecurity Standards Required of US and Australian Defence Supply Chains: Disparity of Standards and SME Achievability | ||
| Week Number: | Eight (8) | Date: 19/04/2021 – 25/04/2021 | |
| Planning | |||
| Milestone: | Planned: | Actual: | Comment: |
| Finalise comparison matrix spread sheet. | Make last changes and confirm accuracy of the comparison. | Completed the sheets. | The sheet may require some small additional changes in format for readability, but the information is all there. |
| Finalise work on A3 Annotated Bibliography and Reflective Analysis. | Complete the bibliography and workout the reflective analysis. | Completed the bibliography, but not satisfied with the reflective review. | Will try to make improvement to the reflective analysis. Improve the balance of positive and negative assessment. |
| Write week 8 progress report. | Write the progress report of this week. | Report written. | None |
| Issues | |||
| Description: | Date: | Action/Result: | Finished (Y/N) |
| Name: | Lawrence (Lawrie) Dalman ID: 11689490 | ||
| Project Title: | Cybersecurity Standards Required of US and Australian Defence Supply Chains: Disparity of Standards and SME Achievability | ||
| Week Number: | Nine (9) | Date: 26/04/2021 – 02/05/2021 | |
| Planning | |||
| Milestone: | Planned: | Actual: | Comment: |
| Begin work on A4 Task 1, Final Report and Task 2 Seminar Presentation. | Start gather all the notes and draft writing for the report.
Identify and create the IEEE template for the report. |
Downloaded IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security template, from IEEE (https://template-selector.ieee.org).
Continued to write draft material in a standard Word format. |
Template selection is good. Care needs to be taken while transferring draft writing into the IEEE format, not to contaminate or damage the IEEE format. |
| Submit and publish to the blog, A3 Annotated Bibliography and Reflective Review. | Final proof read, submission to EASTS and publication to the blog of A3. | Submitted by 25/04/2021 and published by 30/04/2021. | Submitted on time, published to the blog a few hours later. |
| Write progress report for week 9. | Write this week’s progress report on the project. | Report written. | None. |
| Issues | |||
| Description: | Date: | Action/Result: | Finished (Y/N) |
| Discovering the potential conflict of Australian and UK spelling of Defence, versus the US Defense. | 28/04/2021 | Work out how to handle this in the report writing.
Choose to use both correctly in the Australian, UK or US context of the writing. |
y |
| Name: | Lawrence (Lawrie) Dalman ID: 11689490 | ||
| Project Title: | Cybersecurity Standards Required of US and Australian Defence Supply Chains: Disparity of Standards and SME Achievability | ||
| Week Number: | Ten (10) | Date: 03/05/2021 – 09/05/2021 | |
| Planning | |||
| Milestone: | Planned: | Actual: | Comment: |
| Continue work on Final Report. | Continue first draft writing. | Progress of draft writing going very well. | The total word count is going to exceed the required limit. Keep writing and cut words after the draft is written, during review. |
| Start writing script for Seminar Presentation. | Start writing script and practice delivery. | Difficult to write this draft, before final report draft is completed. | Delay until report draft is finished and something near final word count is achieved. |
| Start working out delivery for seminar. | Work out what method of delivery to use for the presentation. Voice-over-PowerPoint, Video-over-PowerPoint, or video presentation. | Decided the best mix was to combine small personal video stream, Video-over-PowerPoint is my choice. Work toward that. | Work out camera and audio to use and ensure suitable quality. |
| Write week 10 progress report. | Write obligatory progress report. | Report written. | None. |
| Issues | |||
| Description: | Date: | Action/Result: | Finished (Y/N) |
| Unsure what recording tool and technique to use for Seminar recording. | 07/05/2021 | Tried all the tools I currently have. Best results were achieved using Zoom. The virtual background is also useful for my office not being shown. | Y |
| Tested all my microphones and none provide sufficient quality and noise reduction for semi-professional recording. | 8/05/2021 | Ordered a new Elgato Wave1 microphone. It will continue to have great use after the Seminar recording, but will enhance the professionalism of the presentation. |
Y |
| Name: | Lawrence (Lawrie) Dalman ID: 11689490 | ||
| Project Title: | Cybersecurity Standards Required of US and Australian Defence Supply Chains: Disparity of Standards and SME Achievability | ||
| Week Number: | Eleven (11) | Date: 10/05/2021 – 16/05/221 | |
| Planning | |||
| Milestone: | Planned: | Actual: | Comment: |
| Finalise draft report content. | Complete writing draft content for the final report. |
Draft finished, but word count is still an issue. |
Continue review and edit of draft material. |
| Begin migrating contents of draft report to the IEEE template. | Begin migrating draft content to IEEE, ensure headings and titles are appropriately formatted and styles changes as required. | Progressing well, formatting is not as much an issue as expected. | Continue to cut words with every edit! |
| Ensure references are in order, accurate and correctly formatted for IEEE format references. | Check all references to ensure accuracy and formatting for final report. | References checked and confirmed. | References look good, between 35 and 40 references will be included in the final report. |
| Write weekly progress report. | Write week 10 progress report. | Report written. | None. |
| Issues | |||
| Description: | Date: | Action/Result: | Finished (Y/N) |
| Dealing with word count. Having written a 6500 word draft, it now must be cut down to 4500-5000 words. | 23/05/2021 | Continuing to more and more aggressively edit the material. Selection of content to cut, against what remains is still problematic. | N |
| Starting the script for the seminar presentation cannot commence unti something near final words are available. | 23/05/221 | Press the editing and migration to IEEE format. | N |
| Name: | Lawrence (Lawrie) Dalman ID: 11689490 | ||
| Project Title: | Cybersecurity Standards Required of US and Australian Defence Supply Chains: Disparity of Standards and SME Achievability | ||
| Week Number: | Twelve (12) | Date: | |
| Planning | |||
| Milestone: | Planned: | Actual: | Comment: |
| Finalise Report | Get somewhere near 4500 words MAX.
Check formatting, spelling, punctuation and grammar. |
Finally got the report down to 4450 words.
Looks good, words down, but context meaning and value of the report remains. |
Not entirely comfortable about what is lost from the report, however, the focus on the key problem domains is intensified. |
| Finalise Presentation script and PowerPoint presentation. | Working on the PowerPoint presentation and script to speak to the presentation | Worked through three drafts. Word count and time for the presentation remain issues. First presentation run through was over 35 minutes. | Getting very economic with the language of the presentation. |
| Finalise the Seminar Presentation and report. | Complete editing of PowerPoint and the script. Practice it a few times. | PowerPoint, script and practice completed. | Ready to make final recordings. |
| Record and edit the final Seminar Presentation. | Record the presentation, using screen share of PowerPoint, in Zoom, With side-by-side video. | Recording made and 21 takes…
Edited with CutCopy, video editing suite. |
Video is a little wooden, but I’m not used to this type of presentation. Would live the time back lost not progressing slides in line with reading the script. |
| Submit Final Report and Seminar Presentation in EASTS. | Submit A4 Tasks 1 & 2 to EASTS. | All submitted by 23:45 23/05/2021. | Found out after submission the due date had been extended to 30th.
Too late, I have not time left to change or repair anything. |
| Week 12 Progress report. | Write this week’s progress report. | Report written. | Was to be the last report, but without time to finalise the blog, there will be one more. |
| Issues | |||
| Description: | Date: | Action/Result: | Finished (Y/N) |
| Almost out of available time. | 21/05/2021 | Make had decisions and complete the work! | Y |
| Name: | Lawrence (Lawrie) Dalman ID: 11689490 | ||
| Project Title: | Cybersecurity Standards Required of US and Australian Defence Supply Chains: Disparity of Standards and SME Achievability | ||
| Week Number: | Thirteen (13) | Date: 24/05/2021 – 30/05/2021 | |
| Planning | |||
| Milestone: | Planned: | Actual: | Comment: |
| Finalise Publication of Project Blog requirements. | Publish Report and Seminar Presentation.
Publish off-line Progress Reports. |
All requirements accounted for and published. By 30/05/2021. | Final Cpstone Research Project, Report, Seminar and Blog completed. |
| Issues | |||
| Description: | Date: | Action/Result: | Finished (Y/N) |