IFN711 IT Industry Project
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| Unit code: | IFN711 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | Completion of 96cp from MIT or (Admission to IN23 and Completion of 48cp) |
| Antirequisite(s): | IFN702 |
| Credit points: | 24 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $2,237 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $7,056 |
| International unit fee | $9,648 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | IFN711 |
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| Credit points: | 24 |
| Pre-requisite: | Completion of 96cp from MIT or (Admission to IN23 and Completion of 48cp) |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Reflect and report on the trade-offs associated with human control, monitoring, disclosure, regulation and privacy in a cybersecurity context. (CLO5, CLO6) |
| Anti-requisite: | IFN702 |
| Coordinator: | Jason Watson | ja.watson@qut.edu.au |
Overview
The aim of this unit is to help you apply skills previously attained in your degree in an advanced problem domain and to enable you to conduct a well-defined project with specific outcomes. The project addresses an industry problem through the application of IT theories, tools and techniques. You will develop project management skills to lead teams in complex and changing environments. This unit introduces a range of traditional and contemporary project management approaches.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Integrate advanced specialist disciplinary knowledge and skills in the context of an industry project.
- Critically analyse a client brief and use novel methods, advanced problem solving, analysis and design skills to achieve an outcome for a client.
- Demonstrate project management skills including project planning, execution, and closing.
- Communicate effectively and professionally to diverse audiences in oral and written formats.
- Work collaboratively in a team environment, to deliver a sophisticated IT system/solution.
- Demonstrate reflective judgement, professional skills and ethical conduct.
Content
You must pursue a complex project relevant to your major. In order to ensure the success of your project, you will follow a formal project management framework in order to deliver the project outcomes to stakeholders. You are required to plan, execute and close out a project delivering a number of project products.
Learning Approaches
This unit includes pre-recorded lectures, tutorials sessions, project meetings and optional drop-in sessions. You are expected to attend all tutorial and project meetings. The active learning tutorials sessions are used to embed and apply project management knowledge and skills, interact with your tutor and work with your team members.
There will be regular meetings with your project supervisor(s) (tutor). This is to ensure that you progress in an expected manner and to give you an opportunity to discuss any problems you may have encountered. Feedback and further actions and recommendations will be provided to you during these regular meetings. The optional virtual drop-in sessions are available to students for direct consultation with the unit coordinator by appointment.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Advice and assistance will be provided by the teaching staff during tutorial sessions. You will receive formative feedback on your progress during these sessions.
Guidelines and objectives will be provided for each piece of assessment to help you assess your progress. Written feedback will be provided on items of assessment.
Once you have a project selected there will be regular meetings with your project supervisor, where you'll report on what you have completed since your last meeting. This will be an opportunity to discuss any problems you may have encountered. Your supervisor should give feedback on your progress at the regular meetings or via email throughout the semester.
Consultation times, allowing individual contact between staff and students will be specified.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment of Project Management knowledge and skills will include a variety of team and individual assessments during the tutorial sessions. You will also produce a number of Project Management artefacts related to the planning, execution, and close of the team-based industry project. All project documentation must be made available for assessment. Industry based research projects will consider industry partner feedback in terms of satisfaction of project deliverables.
As an emerging professional you will be expected to maintain professional standards relating to client confidentiality, ethics and intellectual property. Attendance and interaction will be monitored in all tutorials and project meetings.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Project Plan
Your team will submit a written project plan providing a description of the background, objectives, significance, scope, benefits, expected deliverables, and schedule of the project. This project plan should incorporate the feedback from assessment task 1.As part of this assessment, you will complete a self and peer evaluation of contribution of yourself and your peers to this assessment item.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Portfolio
Portfolio of professional engagement. Portfolio of professional practice experiences and reflections. The portfolio will include a series of artifacts related to student's engagement in the unit, their degree, ethical practice, and their profession.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Project Presentation
Your group is required to deliver a virtual or in-person individual oral pitch, which provides an overview of the industry project. Each team member will be allocated a component of the presentation to deliver and will be individually assessed on the component they present. Additionally, you should briefly outline your unique contribution to the project and the team.
Assessment: Project Report
Written project report providing a detailed description of the project and its outcomes. Project specific appendices to the report may be specified by your project supervisor. Any project resulting in functioning products must also include review of the product's functionality and the degree of functional achievement
against the original project deliverable set. As part of this assessment, you will complete a self and peer evaluation of contribution of yourself and your peers to the industry project.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Online ethics Module Part 2
In this self-contained online Ethics module (Part 2) you willlearn how to identify challenges when faced with ethicaldecision-making and how to apply the principles of ethicalbehaviour. You will then need to pass an online quiz to testyour knowledge of the topics covered. You must pass thequiz in order to pass this unit, however, you may attemptthe quiz an unlimited number of times until you pass.
This Ethics Module Part 2 has as a prerequisite EthicsModule Part 1 which you will normally have completed aspart of an earlier unit IFN558. However, if you haven'talready completed Module Part 1 then you will need tocomplete this fi rst before completing Part 2.
Threshold Assessment:
As an IT professional you will be legally bound by a code ofethics and professional conduct. Knowledge of thesecodes is therefore essential for all IT graduates. You mustpass this Online Ethics Module in order to pass this unit,i.e. regardless of how well you do in the other assessmentitems, you cannot pass this unit if you fail this assessmentitem. You may however attempt this assessment items anunlimited number of times until you pass
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Lecture slides as they are published throughout the unit.
Use of these resources is a central component in the classroom discussions and required for successfully completing studio assessment tasks.
Scrum Guide Version July 2013 by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland - available for free online at Scrum.org
The DSDM Agile Project Management Framework available free at http://www.dsdm.org/digdeeper/ book/dsdm-agile-project-framework
A Leaders Framework for Decision Making by David J. Snowden and Mary E. Boone - available for free online at Harvard Business Review
Risk Assessment Statement
Project work can sometimes involve site visits to commercial or industrial premises. When you visit such premises, you are responsible for acquainting yourself with any Health and Safety policies and procedures applicable to visitors (e.g. wearing of protective clothing such as hard hats, safety glasses, etc), and for observing those procedures. You are also responsible for notifying workplace supervisors of any health condition you have (e.g. asthma) which may place you at risk in some commercial or industrial situations.