The Case study provides the opportunity for students to focus their skills of system analysis and development, software design and development, documentation development and quality, system and software quality, interpersonal relationships and formal and quality documentation in the development of a solution to the Case Study project. Working as members of supervised teams, students undertake the analysis, design, documentation and implementation of an appropriate software system to assist with the resolution of a realistic business problem. As part of their success, teams will decide their methodology, and demonstrate quality planning and project planning skills.
1 hr seminar/wk, 3 hrs tutorials/wk
Workload commitments per week are:
You will need to allocate up to 5 hours per week in some weeks, for use of a computer, including time for newsgroups/discussion groups.
CSE3900, CSE9020, FIT3015, FIT3048, GCO9800,GCO3500
FIT9017, FIT9018, FIT9019 and FIT9030
Must be enrolled in course 3309, 0366, 0539, 0360 or 1772
Sue Foster
Sue Foster
At the completion of this unit students will be able to:
Practical work: 100%
| Assessment Task | Value | Due Date |
|---|---|---|
| Team project management document | 5% | Thursday 10 March 2011 |
| Business case document and requirements | 10% | Thursday 24 March 2011 |
| Functional requirements and design document | 15% | Thursday 14 April 2011 |
| Technical documents and user manuals | 25% | Thursday 12 May 2011 |
| Presentation of project | 10% | Thursday 19 May 2011 |
| Presentation of working prototype | 25% | Thursday 26 May 2011 |
| Tutorial attendance and contribution | 10% | Weekly during tutorials |
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https://emuapps.monash.edu.au/unitevaluations/index.jsp
You will need Adobe Acrobat reader to access weekly lecture / class materials, and access to Microsoft Office software (PowerPoint, Word, and Excel) for document preparation. These software programs should be available for use in University computer labs.
| Week | Date* | Activities | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 21/02/11 | No formal assessment or activities are undertaken in week 0 | |
| 1 | 28/02/11 | Introduction to Case Study | Students provided with FIT4037 survival kit; Tutorial attendance and contribution assessed weekly during tutorials |
| 2 | 07/03/11 | Forming teams | Team project management document due Thursday 10 March 2011 |
| 3 | 14/03/11 | IT Projects and Project management | |
| 4 | 21/03/11 | Functional requirements | Business case document and requirements due Thursday 24 March 2011 |
| 5 | 28/03/11 | Database structures | |
| 6 | 04/04/11 | IT Projects and Risk management | |
| 7 | 11/04/11 | Project testing | Functional requirements and design document due Thursday 14 April 2011 |
| 8 | 18/04/11 | Technical documents and user manuals | |
| Mid semester break | |||
| 9 | 02/05/11 | User Manuals and presentation discussion | |
| 10 | 09/05/11 | Team presentations of Prototype functionality | Technical documents and user manuals due Thursday 12 May 2011 |
| 11 | 16/05/11 | Developing prototypes | Presentation of project due Thursday 19 May 2011 |
| 12 | 23/05/11 | Developing prototypes | Presenting of working prototype due Thursday 26 May 2011 |
| 30/05/11 | SWOT VAC | No formal assessment is undertaken SWOT VAC | |
*Please note that these dates may only apply to Australian campuses of Monash University. Off-shore students need to check the dates with their unit leader.
To pass a unit which includes an examination as part of the assessment a student must obtain:
If a student does not achieve 40% or more in the unit examination or the unit non-examination total assessment, and the total mark for the unit is greater than 50% then a mark of no greater than 49-N will be recorded for the unit
Specific tasks and marking criteria will be distributed at the beginning of the semester.
No hurdle requirements are expected to be handed in with this first deliverable.
Specific tasks and marking criteria will be distributed at the appropriate time.
Project teams are required to provide hurdle requirements in the form of minutes of meetings, and individual timesheets as well as confidential peer reviews. These are assessable items. Students may be individually assessed on the level and standard of their contributions where applicable.
Specific tasks and marking criteria will be distributed at the appropriate time.
Project
teams are required to provide hurdle requirements in the form of
minutes of meetings, and individual timesheets as well as confidential
peer reviews. These are assessable items. Students may be
individually assessed on the level and standard of their contributions
where applicable.
Specific tasks and marking criteria will be distributed at the appropriate time.
Project teams are required to provide hurdle requirements in the form of minutes of meetings, and individual timesheets as well as confidential peer reviews. These are assessable items. Students may be individually assessed on the level and standard of their contributions where applicable.
Specific tasks and marking criteria will be distributed at the appropriate time.
Students are marked on presentation skills as well as the appropriateness and clarity of their screen shots. Students may be individually assessed on the level and standard of their contributions where applicable.
Specific tasks and marking criteria will be distributed at the appropriate time.
The prototypes will be assessed by the unit leader and supervisor from a marking criteria designed by the unit leader at the time project teams present their prototype.
Project teams will be given this marking guide closer to the time of their presentation. Project teams are required to also provide hurdle requirements in the form of minutes of meetings, individual timesheets as well as confidential peer reviews. These are assessable items. Students may be individually assessed on the level and standard of their contributions where applicable.
Tutorial attendance and group contribution. To ensure all group members attend and contribute in the tutorials, students will be allocated a mark out of 10. This will be assessed over the 12 weeks.
Assignment coversheets are available via
"Student Forms" on the Faculty website: http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/resources/student/forms/
You MUST submit a completed coversheet with all assignments, ensuring
that the plagiarism declaration section is signed.
Submission must be made by the due date otherwise penalties will be enforced.
You must negotiate any extensions formally with your campus unit leader via the in-semester special consideration process: http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/resources/student/equity/special-consideration.html.
Assignments in this unit cannot be resubmitted.
Students are required to be aware of the referencing requirements for creating assignments. All assignments in this unit are required to be referenced where a contribution to the assignment has come from a source other than the student themselves.
The following link will provide you with an appropriate array of referencing requirements:
http://www.monash.edu/lls/llonline/quickrefs/19-styles.xml
If you are unsure about the appropriate reference style to use, please talk with your supervisor.
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You can find Monash's Education Policies at:
http://policy.monash.edu.au/policy-bank/academic/education/index.html
Key educational policies include:
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Reading List
Yardley, D. (2002) ‘Successful IT Project Delivery’, Addison-Wesley, UK. ISBN 0-201-75606-4
Schwalbe, K. (2004) ‘Information Technology Project Management’, Thomson Course Technology – 3rd (or 4th) Edition. ISBN 0-619-15984-7
Curry, J. & Stanford, P. (2005) ‘Practical System Development: A Project-based Approach’, Pearson SprintPrint, Australia. ISBN 0-7339-7336-1