IFQ736-1 Industry Project (Phase 2)
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| Unit code: | IFQ736-1 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | IFQ735 or IFN735 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | This is a capstone project unit designed to integrate all of the discipline specific knowledge and skills that you have developed throughout your course and major/specialization. |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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Unit Outline: Session 1 2027, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | IFQ736-1 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | IFQ735 or IFN735 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | This is a capstone project unit designed to integrate all of the discipline specific knowledge and skills that you have developed throughout your course and major/specialization. |
Overview
The aim of this unit is to help you integrated and apply your advanced generalist and specialist knowledge and skills attained from your degree, to a challenging real-world team-based project conducted with a real industry client.
In this unit, you will continue work on the same project commenced IFQ735 in the previous semester, with the same team and industry client. The project will require you to address an industry problem or realise an industry opportunity through the application of professional and research skills, disciplinary theories, tools, and techniques. The unit provides you with the opportunity to develop your project management skills, to lead teams in complex and changing environments as well as to develop your social, sustainability, ethical awareness, professional skills and attitudes.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Integrate advanced specialist disciplinary knowledge and skills to conduct and deliver a project for an industry client.
- Critically analyse a complex industry problem or opportunity and use problem-solving skills to generate solutions.
- Apply well-developed research skills to locate and evaluate information, established theories, and techniques to solve an industry problem.
- Critically reflect on your professional values, attitudes and individual contribution to the project including a consideration of social, sustainability and ethical issues that occurred in the project.
- Manage a real world IT industry project using best practices, techniques and tools.
- Work collaboratively to sustain a high performance team environment to achieve project outcomes and demonstrating responsibility, autonomy and leadership of assigned sub-components of the project.
- Communicate orally, visually and in writing to specialist and non-specialist audiences in accordance with expected industry standards.
Content
You must pursue a complex project relevant to your major/specialization. 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. In this second part of the project, you will continue from part 1 to progress implementation and testing your project. The project will be completed in the same team and industry client that you had in part 1. The final phase of the project will be completed in IFQ736-2 in the following semester.
Learning Approaches
This unit is designed for asynchronous online study, with activities including numerous short videos, podcasts and exercises carefully chosen to reinforce key skills and concepts. Students will have the opportunity to participate in online discussions with peers and teaching staff.
There will be regular meetings with your project supervisor(s)(tutor / tutor + any industry supervisor). 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.
Embedded support for learning has been integrated into this unit by providing continual opportunities for formative feedback in workshops, mentoring meetings and through assessment is an integral part of this learning experience. As a 12 CP unit you can expect to spend on average 15 hours per week undertaking your industry project, conducting independent research, attending class and mentoring meetings.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
This unit provides you with multiple opportunities to receive feedback on your learning and assessment. This includes:
- Teaching team feedback: The teaching staff will provide advice and assistance during class and project meetings. Formal feedback in the form of a rubric and personalised written feedback will be provided on all assessment tasks.
- Academic mentor: Regular 1:1 or small group meetings with your academic mentor.
- Industry partner: You will be encouraged to seek formative feedback on your progress from your industry partner. Your industry partner will provide summative feedback on your project.
- Peers: During class, your peers will provide feedback on your project.
- Unit Coordinator: Consultations with the unit coordinator can be arranged at any time throughout the semester at a mutually convenient time.
Assessment
Overview
The assessment in this unit has been designed to provide you the opportunity to draw together your IT knowledge and research skills developed in the degree. You will be required to undertake an ethics module to meet the Australian Computing Society requirements. Across the semester you will maintain a guided reflective practice portfolio of your industry research experience. At the end of the semester, you will provide an update about your project progress via an oral presentation. This presentation is an important opportunity for you to receive feedback on your progress.
Unit Grading Scheme
S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Online Ethics Module Part 3
In this self contained online Ethics module (Part 3) you will learn about the different methods of ethical analysis, a model of reflective practice and strategies for recovering from ethical failures. You will then need to pass an online quiz to test your knowledge of the topics covered. You must pass the quiz in order to pass this unit, however you may attempt the quiz an unlimited number of times until you pass.
This Ethics Module Part 3 has as a prerequisite Ethics Module Parts 1 and 2 which you will normally have completed as part of earlier units at QUT (IFQ585 for Part 1 and IFQ735 for Part 2). However, if you haven't already completed those Modules, you will need to complete them first before completing Part 3.
Threshold Assessment:
As an IT professional you will be legally bound by a code of ethics and professional conduct. Knowledge of these codes is therefore essential for all IT graduates. You must pass this Online Ethics Module in order to pass this unit, i.e. regardless of how well you do in the other assessment items, you cannot pass this unit if you fail this assessment item. You may however attempt this assessment items an unlimited number of times until you pass.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is prohibited during this assessment.
Assessment: Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio
You will be required to write your reflections in response to key questions related to IT practice and the execution of your project. You will be required to evidence these reflections where appropriate with project artefacts.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is prohibited during this assessment.
Assessment: Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points
Each fortnight your team will meet with your Online Learning Advisor to present an update on your progress and plan. In preparation for the meeting, your team will develop an agenda outlining the topics to be discussed and prepare a short presentation. This is an opportunity to receive feedback and discuss challenges and strategies going forward.
At the end of the teaching period you will give a final formal presentation to your Online Learning Advisor summarising the project progress to date and plan for the next teaching period.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is prohibited during this assessment.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
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.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Costs
There are no out of the ordinary costs associated with the study of this unit. Students in the course of completing this project might opt to visit the industry partner's workplace for meeting. Costs associated with this optional activity, will be the responsibility of the student.
Resources
Lecture slides as they are published throughout the unit and the recommended texts.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
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.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.IQ20 Master of Information Technology
- Demonstrate advanced specialist IT knowledge in at least one information technology discipline
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3, ULO5, Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio, Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points - Critically analyse complex IT problems and opportunities and use creativity and problem-solving skills to generate innovative and novel solutions that are convincingly justified.
Relates to: ULO2, Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio, Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points - Integrate advanced, industry-best practice, IT methods, tools and techniques to develop and implement complex IT systems, processes and/or software.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3, ULO5, Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio, Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points - Demonstrate knowledge of IT research principles and methods and their application to IT focused, real-world scholarly or professional projects.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio, Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points - Employ leadership and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts to create value for others
Relates to: ULO5, ULO6, Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio, Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points - Communicate effectively in IT professional and scholarly contexts to specialist and non-specialist audiences using written, visual and oral formats.
Relates to: ULO7, Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio, Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points - Demonstrate business acumen and well-developed values, attitudes, behaviours and judgements in professional contexts.
Relates to: ULO4, Online Ethics Module Part 3, Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio, Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points - Create positive change through critically reflecting upon and actioning responses to the social, cultural, ethical, sustainability, legal and accessibility issues in the IT field, including how they relate to First Nations Australians and diverse populations.
Relates to: ULO4, Online Ethics Module Part 3, Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio, Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points
Unit Outline: Session 3 2027, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | IFQ736-1 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | IFQ735 or IFN735 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | This is a capstone project unit designed to integrate all of the discipline specific knowledge and skills that you have developed throughout your course and major/specialization. |
Overview
The aim of this unit is to help you integrated and apply your advanced generalist and specialist knowledge and skills attained from your degree, to a challenging real-world team-based project conducted with a real industry client.
In this unit, you will continue work on the same project commenced IFQ735 in the previous semester, with the same team and industry client. The project will require you to address an industry problem or realise an industry opportunity through the application of professional and research skills, disciplinary theories, tools, and techniques. The unit provides you with the opportunity to develop your project management skills, to lead teams in complex and changing environments as well as to develop your social, sustainability, ethical awareness, professional skills and attitudes.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Integrate advanced specialist disciplinary knowledge and skills to conduct and deliver a project for an industry client.
- Critically analyse a complex industry problem or opportunity and use problem-solving skills to generate solutions.
- Apply well-developed research skills to locate and evaluate information, established theories, and techniques to solve an industry problem.
- Critically reflect on your professional values, attitudes and individual contribution to the project including a consideration of social, sustainability and ethical issues that occurred in the project.
- Manage a real world IT industry project using best practices, techniques and tools.
- Work collaboratively to sustain a high performance team environment to achieve project outcomes and demonstrating responsibility, autonomy and leadership of assigned sub-components of the project.
- Communicate orally, visually and in writing to specialist and non-specialist audiences in accordance with expected industry standards.
Content
You must pursue a complex project relevant to your major/specialization. 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. In this second part of the project, you will continue from part 1 to progress implementation and testing your project. The project will be completed in the same team and industry client that you had in part 1. The final phase of the project will be completed in IFQ736-2 in the following semester.
Learning Approaches
This unit is designed for asynchronous online study, with activities including numerous short videos, podcasts and exercises carefully chosen to reinforce key skills and concepts. Students will have the opportunity to participate in online discussions with peers and teaching staff.
There will be regular meetings with your project supervisor(s)(tutor / tutor + any industry supervisor). 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.
Embedded support for learning has been integrated into this unit by providing continual opportunities for formative feedback in workshops, mentoring meetings and through assessment is an integral part of this learning experience. As a 12 CP unit you can expect to spend on average 15 hours per week undertaking your industry project, conducting independent research, attending class and mentoring meetings.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
This unit provides you with multiple opportunities to receive feedback on your learning and assessment. This includes:
- Teaching team feedback: The teaching staff will provide advice and assistance during class and project meetings. Formal feedback in the form of a rubric and personalised written feedback will be provided on all assessment tasks.
- Academic mentor: Regular 1:1 or small group meetings with your academic mentor.
- Industry partner: You will be encouraged to seek formative feedback on your progress from your industry partner. Your industry partner will provide summative feedback on your project.
- Peers: During class, your peers will provide feedback on your project.
- Unit Coordinator: Consultations with the unit coordinator can be arranged at any time throughout the semester at a mutually convenient time.
Assessment
Overview
The assessment in this unit has been designed to provide you the opportunity to draw together your IT knowledge and research skills developed in the degree. You will be required to undertake an ethics module to meet the Australian Computing Society requirements. Across the semester you will maintain a guided reflective practice portfolio of your industry research experience. At the end of the semester, you will provide an update about your project progress via an oral presentation. This presentation is an important opportunity for you to receive feedback on your progress.
Unit Grading Scheme
S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Online Ethics Module Part 3
In this self contained online Ethics module (Part 3) you will learn about the different methods of ethical analysis, a model of reflective practice and strategies for recovering from ethical failures. You will then need to pass an online quiz to test your knowledge of the topics covered. You must pass the quiz in order to pass this unit, however you may attempt the quiz an unlimited number of times until you pass.
This Ethics Module Part 3 has as a prerequisite Ethics Module Parts 1 and 2 which you will normally have completed as part of earlier units at QUT (IFQ585 for Part 1 and IFQ735 for Part 2). However, if you haven't already completed those Modules, you will need to complete them first before completing Part 3.
Threshold Assessment:
As an IT professional you will be legally bound by a code of ethics and professional conduct. Knowledge of these codes is therefore essential for all IT graduates. You must pass this Online Ethics Module in order to pass this unit, i.e. regardless of how well you do in the other assessment items, you cannot pass this unit if you fail this assessment item. You may however attempt this assessment items an unlimited number of times until you pass.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is prohibited during this assessment.
Assessment: Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio
You will be required to write your reflections in response to key questions related to IT practice and the execution of your project. You will be required to evidence these reflections where appropriate with project artefacts.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is prohibited during this assessment.
Assessment: Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points
Each fortnight your team will meet with your Online Learning Advisor to present an update on your progress and plan. In preparation for the meeting, your team will develop an agenda outlining the topics to be discussed and prepare a short presentation. This is an opportunity to receive feedback and discuss challenges and strategies going forward.
At the end of the teaching period you will give a final formal presentation to your Online Learning Advisor summarising the project progress to date and plan for the next teaching period.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is prohibited during this assessment.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
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.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Costs
There are no out of the ordinary costs associated with the study of this unit. Students in the course of completing this project might opt to visit the industry partner's workplace for meeting. Costs associated with this optional activity, will be the responsibility of the student.
Resources
Lecture slides as they are published throughout the unit and the recommended texts.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
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.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.IQ20 Master of Information Technology
- Demonstrate advanced specialist IT knowledge in at least one information technology discipline
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3, ULO5, Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio, Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points - Critically analyse complex IT problems and opportunities and use creativity and problem-solving skills to generate innovative and novel solutions that are convincingly justified.
Relates to: ULO2, Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio, Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points - Integrate advanced, industry-best practice, IT methods, tools and techniques to develop and implement complex IT systems, processes and/or software.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3, ULO5, Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio, Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points - Demonstrate knowledge of IT research principles and methods and their application to IT focused, real-world scholarly or professional projects.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio, Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points - Employ leadership and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts to create value for others
Relates to: ULO5, ULO6, Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio, Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points - Communicate effectively in IT professional and scholarly contexts to specialist and non-specialist audiences using written, visual and oral formats.
Relates to: ULO7, Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio, Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points - Demonstrate business acumen and well-developed values, attitudes, behaviours and judgements in professional contexts.
Relates to: ULO4, Online Ethics Module Part 3, Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio, Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points - Create positive change through critically reflecting upon and actioning responses to the social, cultural, ethical, sustainability, legal and accessibility issues in the IT field, including how they relate to First Nations Australians and diverse populations.
Relates to: ULO4, Online Ethics Module Part 3, Guided Reflective Practice Portfolio, Work-in Progress Fortnightly Check-Points