IFQ711-2 IT Industry Project 2


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Unit Outline: Session 2 2024, QUT Online, Online

Unit code:IFQ711-2
Credit points:12
Pre-requisite:IFQ711-1 IT Industry Project 1
Equivalent:IFN711 IT Industry Project (Requires both IFQ711-1 and IFQ711-2)
Anti-requisite:IFN702
Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.

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 is the second part of a two-part project experience that extends the work undertaken in IFN711-1.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

  1. Work collaboratively in a team environment, to deliver a sophisticated IT system/solution (CLO4, CLO6, CLO7)
  2. Demonstrate and apply project management skills including project planning, execution, and closing (CLO1, CLO4)
  3. Communicate effectively and professionally to diverse audiences in oral and written formats (CLO5)
  4. Critically analyse a client brief and use novel methods, advanced problem solving, analysis and design skills to achieve an outcome for a client (CLO2, CLO3, CLO7)
  5. Integrate and apply advanced specialist disciplinary knowledge and skills to an industry project (CLO1, CLO3)
  6. Demonstrate reflective judgement, professional skills and ethical conduct (CLO6)

Content

You will pursue a complex project addressing an industry project relevant to your course of study. 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. This unit is the second part of a two-part project experience that extends the work undertaken in IFN711-1.

Learning Approaches

This unit employs flexible learning methods such as pre-recorded lectures, tutorial sessions, and project meetings. You are expected to attend all tutorial and project meetings. The active learning tutorial 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.

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 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: Journal

Journal of professional practices. The journal will include a description of all project management events with a personal reflection of your practices and identification of lessons learned. The journal will also include a confidential peer assessment of your group members and describe their contribution.

This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.

Weight: 30
Length: 1500 words
Individual/Group: Individual
Due (indicative): Week 8
Related Unit learning outcomes: 6

Assessment: Verbal and written project report

A written project report developed by the team providing a detailed description of the project and its outcomes. Your project supervisor may specify project-specific appendices to the report. Any project resulting in functioning products must also include a 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 also individually contribute to an oral presentation as part of a larger presentation performed by your team: your team is expected to present the solution to the industry problem you have been assigned.

This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.

Weight: 20
Length: 3,000 words team report and individual 2-3 minute contribution towards a team presentation.
Individual/Group: Individual and group
Due (indicative): Week 10
Related Unit learning outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Assessment: Project

Your performance on the project and the final project artifact. Any project resulting in functioning products must also include a 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 the contribution of yourself and your peers to the industry project.

This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.

Weight: 50
Length: Submission will vary depending on project specification
Individual/Group: Individual and group
Due (indicative): Week 10
Related Unit learning outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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.

Requirements to Study

Requirements

No specific requirements 

Costs

There are no extraordinary charges or costs associated with the requirements for this unit.

Resources

Slides, links, and resources published throughout the unit.

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 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.