IFB399 IT Capstone Project (Phase 2)
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| Unit code: | IFB399 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisite(s): | IFB398 or CAB398 or IAB398 |
| Equivalent(s): | CAB399, IAB399, IFZ399 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,192 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,704 |
| International unit fee | $5,640 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2026, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | IFB399 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | IFB398 or CAB398 or IAB398 |
| Equivalent: | CAB399, IAB399, IFZ399 |
| Coordinator: | Erwin Fielt | e.fielt@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Building upon the unit IFB398 Capstone Project (Phase 1), this unit gives you the opportunity to apply, under appropriate guidance, the knowledge and skills gained in your course to date to execute the completion of a planned IT project. In this unit, you will apply your disciplinary and professional knowledge and skills to refine and extend the existing deliverable. You will use appropriate quality assurance techniques to ensure you are meeting your stakeholders' needs. You are expected to work professionally in a team to deliver a high-quality outcome to project stakeholders. The final IT product is to be delivered as a professional package that can be used directly by stakeholders and, where appropriate, published for access by the broader community.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Integrate discipline knowledge and skills through applying advanced problem solving and critical thinking to develop and deliver an implementable IT solution that addresses the business requirements and drivers.
- Plan and manage an IT project and resources across the lifecycle using industry standard project management methodologies.
- Sustain high-performance team practices that embody the relevant professional conduct behaviours expected to manage an industry IT project.
- Communicate professionally and persuasively to stakeholders in written, oral and visual formats.
Content
This is a project-oriented unit and you are required to develop an IT solution that meets the requirements of an industry or community stakeholder. You will also reflect on your role as an IT professional and team member.
The focus of this unit is integrating the knowledge and skills learnt earlier in your course. Much of the content will be specific to your project and learnt through self-directed study and through informal collaborative learning with peers and stakeholders. Guidance will be provided by industry or academic partners (clients) and the unit's teaching staff.
You are required to work effectively with project participants from different disciplinary backgrounds, as either other team members or stakeholders and clients. Through self-directed study, you will also learn how to apply specialist techniques, skills and tools in the execution of your project.
Learning Approaches
You will be working on an authentic, solution-driven project. The project will act as a vehicle for you to develop professional disciplinary and project management knowledge and skills. Activities will be guided by close interaction with your partner supervisor as well as your unit supervisor during regular meetings. Feedback and scaffolded learning activities will provide support to help you through your project plan.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive detailed feedback on the process you are following and on the quality of the artefacts you are producing during regular meetings. These will provide you with ample feedback on your progress towards the final submission of the summative assessment tasks of the unit.
Feedback will be provided on your progress during the regular meetings in the following manner:
- your interim project deliverables will be critiqued at each project meeting;
- comments on summative assessment work in criteria sheets;
- from peers in team meetings;
- from industry representatives if engaged as stakeholders.
Assessment
Overview
There are multiple opportunities for you to demonstrate your mastery of the unit learning outcomes. The Project Progress and performance is designed to provide you with early and ongoing feedback on the progress of your project throughout the semester. The project artefact, final report and demonstration video assessments are the culmination of your work across the capstone units and provides an opportunity to showcase your learning across the degree at the end of the semester.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Project Progress and Performance
You will manage and contribute to regular project management meetings during which your teaching staff will consider the progress of the project, and assess whether your contribution to the project is satisfactory. In the meeting, you will reflect on your work as a team and discuss your progress with respect to tasks and goals agreed upon at the previous meetings. You will be required to provide evidence to your teaching staff of the work undertaken, and to examine critically any changes needed to the process and to your schedule in order to ensure success. The discussions will include reflection on your behaviour and observations of the behaviour of others you have interacted with during the project's development.
This assessment is not classified as an assignment.
Assessment: Project Artefact
You will produce the final version of your deliverables by the end of the semester, developed in incremental stages according to the plans shared and refined with your client and tutor. The artefact submission will include all supporting documentation and subsidiary artefacts created in the course of the project. These will vary according to the project type but may include design documents, detailed test reports, source materials for research reports, mockups, prototypes, user experience tests, user manuals and executable programs. This assessment item will be marked by the teaching team but will rely in part on detailed feedback from the project supervisor or client. You must provide evidence of appropriate review and/or verification and validation of the deliverable.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Final Report
You will provide a final report on your project, incorporating a discussion of the scope agreed upon and detailing your progress against these agreed outcomes. Your report should examine critically your success when measured against the plan inherited from IFB398, including a discussion of the project's goals, feasibility, scope and timeframe, risks, and any revisions that were required. The report should provide a summary of the artefacts created in the course of the project, including for example representative designs and suitable evidence of project tracking such as burn-down charts. This may include an individual or group reflection on your contributions, ethical behaviour and observations of the behaviour of others you have interacted with during the project's development. This report is intended for the Capstone teaching team rather than the client.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Demo Video
The Demo Video requires you to explain and demonstrate the completed artefact of your Capstone project. Your aim with this video should be to persuade a professional audience that you delivered a professional and interesting artefact that achieved the stakeholders’ objectives to a high level of satisfaction and quality.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
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.
Resources
All learning materials and support resources associated with this unit are available in your Canvas site. There are no extra resources that you are required to purchase.
Risk Assessment Statement
The capstone project has been assessed for Health and Safety, and relevant material is provided as part of the teaching material in phase 1 (IFB398). Risks concern mostly possible activities conducted off Campus as part of your Industry WIL experience. The relevant information is available in Canvas.
It is your responsibility to familiarise yourself with the Health and Safety policies and procedures applicable within campus areas and laboratories.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
Australian Computer Society Core Body of Knowledge
1: ICT Professional Knowledge
- Professional expectations
Relates to: ULO3 - Teamwork concepts and issues
Relates to: ULO3 - Interpersonal communication
Relates to: ULO4
2: ICT Problem Solving
Relates to: ULO1
4: Technology Building
- Systems development and acquisition
Relates to: ULO2
5: ICT Management
- IT project management
Relates to: ULO2
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.DS01 Bachelor of Data Science
- Demonstrate a broad and coherent knowledge of the principles, concepts and techniques of the data science discipline, with depth of knowledge in at least one area developed through a major.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Use appropriate statistical, computational, modelling, data management, programming and generative artificial intelligence techniques to develop solutions for deriving insights from data.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving skills, as well as adaptivity in applying learned techniques in new and unfamiliar contexts.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Work effectively both independently and collaboratively in diverse and interdisciplinary teams.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report - Communicate effectively in a variety of modes, to expert and non-expert audiences, including in a professional context.
Relates to: Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Develop your learning, professional capabilities and skills, and capture it through a curated portfolio of work.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report
IN01 Bachelor of Information Technology
- Critically analyse and conceptualise complex IT challenges and opportunities using modelling, abstraction, ideation and problem-solving to generate, evaluate and justify recommended solutions.
Relates to: ULO1, Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Integrate and apply technical knowledge and skills to analyse, design, build, operate and maintain sustainable, secure IT systems using industry-standard tools, technologies, platforms, and processes.
Relates to: ULO1, Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Demonstrate an understanding of the role of IT in enabling business outcomes and how business realities shape IT decisions.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Demonstrate initiative, autonomy and personal responsibility for continuous learning, working both independently and collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams, employing state-of-the-art IT project management methodologies to plan and manage time, resources, and risk.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Project Progress and Performance, Final Report - Communicate professionally and effectively in written, verbal and visual formats to a diverse range of stakeholders, considering the audience and explaining complex ideas in a simple and understandable manner in a range of IT-related contexts.
Relates to: ULO3, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2026, Online
| Unit code: | IFB399 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | IFB398 or CAB398 or IAB398 |
| Equivalent: | CAB399, IAB399, IFZ399 |
Overview
Building upon the unit IFB398 Capstone Project (Phase 1), this unit gives you the opportunity to apply, under appropriate guidance, the knowledge and skills gained in your course to date to execute the completion of a planned IT project. In this unit, you will apply your disciplinary and professional knowledge and skills to refine and extend the existing deliverable. You will use appropriate quality assurance techniques to ensure you are meeting your stakeholders' needs. You are expected to work professionally in a team to deliver a high-quality outcome to project stakeholders. The final IT product is to be delivered as a professional package that can be used directly by stakeholders and, where appropriate, published for access by the broader community.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Integrate discipline knowledge and skills through applying advanced problem solving and critical thinking to develop and deliver an implementable IT solution that addresses the business requirements and drivers.
- Plan and manage an IT project and resources across the lifecycle using industry standard project management methodologies.
- Sustain high-performance team practices that embody the relevant professional conduct behaviours expected to manage an industry IT project.
- Communicate professionally and persuasively to stakeholders in written, oral and visual formats.
Content
This is a project-oriented unit and you are required to develop an IT solution that meets the requirements of an industry or community stakeholder. You will also reflect on your role as an IT professional and team member.
The focus of this unit is integrating the knowledge and skills learnt earlier in your course. Much of the content will be specific to your project and learnt through self-directed study and through informal collaborative learning with peers and stakeholders. Guidance will be provided by industry or academic partners (clients) and the unit's teaching staff.
You are required to work effectively with project participants from different disciplinary backgrounds, as either other team members or stakeholders and clients. Through self-directed study, you will also learn how to apply specialist techniques, skills and tools in the execution of your project.
Learning Approaches
You will be working on an authentic, solution-driven project. The project will act as a vehicle for you to develop professional disciplinary and project management knowledge and skills. Activities will be guided by close interaction with your partner supervisor as well as your unit supervisor during regular meetings. Feedback and scaffolded learning activities will provide support to help you through your project plan.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive detailed feedback on the process you are following and on the quality of the artefacts you are producing during regular meetings. These will provide you with ample feedback on your progress towards the final submission of the summative assessment tasks of the unit.
Feedback will be provided on your progress during the regular meetings in the following manner:
- your interim project deliverables will be critiqued at each project meeting;
- comments on summative assessment work in criteria sheets;
- from peers in team meetings;
- from industry representatives if engaged as stakeholders.
Assessment
Overview
There are multiple opportunities for you to demonstrate your mastery of the unit learning outcomes. The Project Progress and performance is designed to provide you with early and ongoing feedback on the progress of your project throughout the semester. The project artefact, final report and demonstration video assessments are the culmination of your work across the capstone units and provides an opportunity to showcase your learning across the degree at the end of the semester.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Project Progress and Performance
You will manage and contribute to regular project management meetings during which your teaching staff will consider the progress of the project, and assess whether your contribution to the project is satisfactory. In the meeting, you will reflect on your work as a team and discuss your progress with respect to tasks and goals agreed upon at the previous meetings. You will be required to provide evidence to your teaching staff of the work undertaken, and to examine critically any changes needed to the process and to your schedule in order to ensure success. The discussions will include reflection on your behaviour and observations of the behaviour of others you have interacted with during the project's development.
This assessment is not classified as an assignment.
Assessment: Project Artefact
You will produce the final version of your deliverables by the end of the semester, developed in incremental stages according to the plans shared and refined with your client and tutor. The artefact submission will include all supporting documentation and subsidiary artefacts created in the course of the project. These will vary according to the project type but may include design documents, detailed test reports, source materials for research reports, mockups, prototypes, user experience tests, user manuals and executable programs. This assessment item will be marked by the teaching team but will rely in part on detailed feedback from the project supervisor or client. You must provide evidence of appropriate review and/or verification and validation of the deliverable.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Final Report
You will provide a final report on your project, incorporating a discussion of the scope agreed upon and detailing your progress against these agreed outcomes. Your report should examine critically your success when measured against the plan inherited from IFB398, including a discussion of the project's goals, feasibility, scope and timeframe, risks, and any revisions that were required. The report should provide a summary of the artefacts created in the course of the project, including for example representative designs and suitable evidence of project tracking such as burn-down charts. This may include an individual or group reflection on your contributions, ethical behaviour and observations of the behaviour of others you have interacted with during the project's development. This report is intended for the Capstone teaching team rather than the client.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Demo Video
The Demo Video requires you to explain and demonstrate the completed artefact of your Capstone project. Your aim with this video should be to persuade a professional audience that you delivered a professional and interesting artefact that achieved the stakeholders’ objectives to a high level of satisfaction and quality.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
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.
Resources
All learning materials and support resources associated with this unit are available in your Canvas site. There are no extra resources that you are required to purchase.
Risk Assessment Statement
The capstone project has been assessed for Health and Safety, and relevant material is provided as part of the teaching material in phase 1 (IFB398). Risks concern mostly possible activities conducted off Campus as part of your Industry WIL experience. The relevant information is available in Canvas.
It is your responsibility to familiarise yourself with the Health and Safety policies and procedures applicable within campus areas and laboratories.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
Australian Computer Society Core Body of Knowledge
1: ICT Professional Knowledge
- Professional expectations
Relates to: ULO3 - Teamwork concepts and issues
Relates to: ULO3 - Interpersonal communication
Relates to: ULO4
2: ICT Problem Solving
Relates to: ULO1
4: Technology Building
- Systems development and acquisition
Relates to: ULO2
5: ICT Management
- IT project management
Relates to: ULO2
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.DS01 Bachelor of Data Science
- Demonstrate a broad and coherent knowledge of the principles, concepts and techniques of the data science discipline, with depth of knowledge in at least one area developed through a major.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Use appropriate statistical, computational, modelling, data management, programming and generative artificial intelligence techniques to develop solutions for deriving insights from data.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving skills, as well as adaptivity in applying learned techniques in new and unfamiliar contexts.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Work effectively both independently and collaboratively in diverse and interdisciplinary teams.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report - Communicate effectively in a variety of modes, to expert and non-expert audiences, including in a professional context.
Relates to: Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Develop your learning, professional capabilities and skills, and capture it through a curated portfolio of work.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report
IN01 Bachelor of Information Technology
- Critically analyse and conceptualise complex IT challenges and opportunities using modelling, abstraction, ideation and problem-solving to generate, evaluate and justify recommended solutions.
Relates to: ULO1, Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Integrate and apply technical knowledge and skills to analyse, design, build, operate and maintain sustainable, secure IT systems using industry-standard tools, technologies, platforms, and processes.
Relates to: ULO1, Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Demonstrate an understanding of the role of IT in enabling business outcomes and how business realities shape IT decisions.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Demonstrate initiative, autonomy and personal responsibility for continuous learning, working both independently and collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams, employing state-of-the-art IT project management methodologies to plan and manage time, resources, and risk.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Project Progress and Performance, Final Report - Communicate professionally and effectively in written, verbal and visual formats to a diverse range of stakeholders, considering the audience and explaining complex ideas in a simple and understandable manner in a range of IT-related contexts.
Relates to: ULO3, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2026, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | IFB399 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | IFB398 or CAB398 or IAB398 |
| Equivalent: | CAB399, IAB399, IFZ399 |
| Coordinator: | Erwin Fielt | e.fielt@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Building upon the unit IFB398 Capstone Project (Phase 1), this unit gives you the opportunity to apply, under appropriate guidance, the knowledge and skills gained in your course to date to execute the completion of a planned IT project. In this unit, you will apply your disciplinary and professional knowledge and skills to refine and extend the existing deliverable. You will use appropriate quality assurance techniques to ensure you are meeting your stakeholders' needs. You are expected to work professionally in a team to deliver a high-quality outcome to project stakeholders. The final IT product is to be delivered as a professional package that can be used directly by stakeholders and, where appropriate, published for access by the broader community.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Integrate discipline knowledge and skills through applying advanced problem solving and critical thinking to develop and deliver an implementable IT solution that addresses the business requirements and drivers.
- Plan and manage an IT project and resources across the lifecycle using industry standard project management methodologies.
- Sustain high-performance team practices that embody the relevant professional conduct behaviours expected to manage an industry IT project.
- Communicate professionally and persuasively to stakeholders in written, oral and visual formats.
Content
This is a project-oriented unit and you are required to develop an IT solution that meets the requirements of an industry or community stakeholder. You will also reflect on your role as an IT professional and team member.
The focus of this unit is integrating the knowledge and skills learnt earlier in your course. Much of the content will be specific to your project and learnt through self-directed study and through informal collaborative learning with peers and stakeholders. Guidance will be provided by industry or academic partners (clients) and the unit's teaching staff.
You are required to work effectively with project participants from different disciplinary backgrounds, as either other team members or stakeholders and clients. Through self-directed study, you will also learn how to apply specialist techniques, skills and tools in the execution of your project.
Learning Approaches
You will be working on an authentic, solution-driven project. The project will act as a vehicle for you to develop professional disciplinary and project management knowledge and skills. Activities will be guided by close interaction with your partner supervisor as well as your unit supervisor during regular meetings. Feedback and scaffolded learning activities will provide support to help you through your project plan.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive detailed feedback on the process you are following and on the quality of the artefacts you are producing during regular meetings. These will provide you with ample feedback on your progress towards the final submission of the summative assessment tasks of the unit.
Feedback will be provided on your progress during the regular meetings in the following manner:
- your interim project deliverables will be critiqued at each project meeting;
- comments on summative assessment work in criteria sheets;
- from peers in team meetings;
- from industry representatives if engaged as stakeholders.
Assessment
Overview
There are multiple opportunities for you to demonstrate your mastery of the unit learning outcomes. The Project Progress and performance is designed to provide you with early and ongoing feedback on the progress of your project throughout the semester. The project artefact, final report and demonstration video assessments are the culmination of your work across the capstone units and provides an opportunity to showcase your learning across the degree at the end of the semester.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Project Progress and Performance
You will manage and contribute to regular project management meetings during which your teaching staff will consider the progress of the project, and assess whether your contribution to the project is satisfactory. In the meeting, you will reflect on your work as a team and discuss your progress with respect to tasks and goals agreed upon at the previous meetings. You will be required to provide evidence to your teaching staff of the work undertaken, and to examine critically any changes needed to the process and to your schedule in order to ensure success. The discussions will include reflection on your behaviour and observations of the behaviour of others you have interacted with during the project's development.
This assessment is not classified as an assignment.
Assessment: Project Artefact
You will produce the final version of your deliverables by the end of the semester, developed in incremental stages according to the plans shared and refined with your client and tutor. The artefact submission will include all supporting documentation and subsidiary artefacts created in the course of the project. These will vary according to the project type but may include design documents, detailed test reports, source materials for research reports, mockups, prototypes, user experience tests, user manuals and executable programs. This assessment item will be marked by the teaching team but will rely in part on detailed feedback from the project supervisor or client. You must provide evidence of appropriate review and/or verification and validation of the deliverable.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Final Report
You will provide a final report on your project, incorporating a discussion of the scope agreed upon and detailing your progress against these agreed outcomes. Your report should examine critically your success when measured against the plan inherited from IFB398, including a discussion of the project's goals, feasibility, scope and timeframe, risks, and any revisions that were required. The report should provide a summary of the artefacts created in the course of the project, including for example representative designs and suitable evidence of project tracking such as burn-down charts. This may include an individual or group reflection on your contributions, ethical behaviour and observations of the behaviour of others you have interacted with during the project's development. This report is intended for the Capstone teaching team rather than the client.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Demo Video
The Demo Video requires you to explain and demonstrate the completed artefact of your Capstone project. Your aim with this video should be to persuade a professional audience that you delivered a professional and interesting artefact that achieved the stakeholders’ objectives to a high level of satisfaction and quality.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
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.
Resources
All learning materials and support resources associated with this unit are available in your Canvas site. There are no extra resources that you are required to purchase.
Risk Assessment Statement
The capstone project has been assessed for Health and Safety, and relevant material is provided as part of the teaching material in phase 1 (IFB398). Risks concern mostly possible activities conducted off Campus as part of your Industry WIL experience. The relevant information is available in Canvas.
It is your responsibility to familiarise yourself with the Health and Safety policies and procedures applicable within campus areas and laboratories.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
Australian Computer Society Core Body of Knowledge
1: ICT Professional Knowledge
- Professional expectations
Relates to: ULO3 - Teamwork concepts and issues
Relates to: ULO3 - Interpersonal communication
Relates to: ULO4
2: ICT Problem Solving
Relates to: ULO1
4: Technology Building
- Systems development and acquisition
Relates to: ULO2
5: ICT Management
- IT project management
Relates to: ULO2
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.DS01 Bachelor of Data Science
- Demonstrate a broad and coherent knowledge of the principles, concepts and techniques of the data science discipline, with depth of knowledge in at least one area developed through a major.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Use appropriate statistical, computational, modelling, data management, programming and generative artificial intelligence techniques to develop solutions for deriving insights from data.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving skills, as well as adaptivity in applying learned techniques in new and unfamiliar contexts.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Work effectively both independently and collaboratively in diverse and interdisciplinary teams.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report - Communicate effectively in a variety of modes, to expert and non-expert audiences, including in a professional context.
Relates to: Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Develop your learning, professional capabilities and skills, and capture it through a curated portfolio of work.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report
IN01 Bachelor of Information Technology
- Critically analyse and conceptualise complex IT challenges and opportunities using modelling, abstraction, ideation and problem-solving to generate, evaluate and justify recommended solutions.
Relates to: ULO1, Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Integrate and apply technical knowledge and skills to analyse, design, build, operate and maintain sustainable, secure IT systems using industry-standard tools, technologies, platforms, and processes.
Relates to: ULO1, Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Demonstrate an understanding of the role of IT in enabling business outcomes and how business realities shape IT decisions.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Demonstrate initiative, autonomy and personal responsibility for continuous learning, working both independently and collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams, employing state-of-the-art IT project management methodologies to plan and manage time, resources, and risk.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Project Progress and Performance, Final Report - Communicate professionally and effectively in written, verbal and visual formats to a diverse range of stakeholders, considering the audience and explaining complex ideas in a simple and understandable manner in a range of IT-related contexts.
Relates to: ULO3, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2026, Online
| Unit code: | IFB399 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | IFB398 or CAB398 or IAB398 |
| Equivalent: | CAB399, IAB399, IFZ399 |
Overview
Building upon the unit IFB398 Capstone Project (Phase 1), this unit gives you the opportunity to apply, under appropriate guidance, the knowledge and skills gained in your course to date to execute the completion of a planned IT project. In this unit, you will apply your disciplinary and professional knowledge and skills to refine and extend the existing deliverable. You will use appropriate quality assurance techniques to ensure you are meeting your stakeholders' needs. You are expected to work professionally in a team to deliver a high-quality outcome to project stakeholders. The final IT product is to be delivered as a professional package that can be used directly by stakeholders and, where appropriate, published for access by the broader community.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Integrate discipline knowledge and skills through applying advanced problem solving and critical thinking to develop and deliver an implementable IT solution that addresses the business requirements and drivers.
- Plan and manage an IT project and resources across the lifecycle using industry standard project management methodologies.
- Sustain high-performance team practices that embody the relevant professional conduct behaviours expected to manage an industry IT project.
- Communicate professionally and persuasively to stakeholders in written, oral and visual formats.
Content
This is a project-oriented unit and you are required to develop an IT solution that meets the requirements of an industry or community stakeholder. You will also reflect on your role as an IT professional and team member.
The focus of this unit is integrating the knowledge and skills learnt earlier in your course. Much of the content will be specific to your project and learnt through self-directed study and through informal collaborative learning with peers and stakeholders. Guidance will be provided by industry or academic partners (clients) and the unit's teaching staff.
You are required to work effectively with project participants from different disciplinary backgrounds, as either other team members or stakeholders and clients. Through self-directed study, you will also learn how to apply specialist techniques, skills and tools in the execution of your project.
Learning Approaches
You will be working on an authentic, solution-driven project. The project will act as a vehicle for you to develop professional disciplinary and project management knowledge and skills. Activities will be guided by close interaction with your partner supervisor as well as your unit supervisor during regular meetings. Feedback and scaffolded learning activities will provide support to help you through your project plan.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive detailed feedback on the process you are following and on the quality of the artefacts you are producing during regular meetings. These will provide you with ample feedback on your progress towards the final submission of the summative assessment tasks of the unit.
Feedback will be provided on your progress during the regular meetings in the following manner:
- your interim project deliverables will be critiqued at each project meeting;
- comments on summative assessment work in criteria sheets;
- from peers in team meetings;
- from industry representatives if engaged as stakeholders.
Assessment
Overview
There are multiple opportunities for you to demonstrate your mastery of the unit learning outcomes. The Project Progress and performance is designed to provide you with early and ongoing feedback on the progress of your project throughout the semester. The project artefact, final report and demonstration video assessments are the culmination of your work across the capstone units and provides an opportunity to showcase your learning across the degree at the end of the semester.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Project Progress and Performance
You will manage and contribute to regular project management meetings during which your teaching staff will consider the progress of the project, and assess whether your contribution to the project is satisfactory. In the meeting, you will reflect on your work as a team and discuss your progress with respect to tasks and goals agreed upon at the previous meetings. You will be required to provide evidence to your teaching staff of the work undertaken, and to examine critically any changes needed to the process and to your schedule in order to ensure success. The discussions will include reflection on your behaviour and observations of the behaviour of others you have interacted with during the project's development.
This assessment is not classified as an assignment.
Assessment: Project Artefact
You will produce the final version of your deliverables by the end of the semester, developed in incremental stages according to the plans shared and refined with your client and tutor. The artefact submission will include all supporting documentation and subsidiary artefacts created in the course of the project. These will vary according to the project type but may include design documents, detailed test reports, source materials for research reports, mockups, prototypes, user experience tests, user manuals and executable programs. This assessment item will be marked by the teaching team but will rely in part on detailed feedback from the project supervisor or client. You must provide evidence of appropriate review and/or verification and validation of the deliverable.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Final Report
You will provide a final report on your project, incorporating a discussion of the scope agreed upon and detailing your progress against these agreed outcomes. Your report should examine critically your success when measured against the plan inherited from IFB398, including a discussion of the project's goals, feasibility, scope and timeframe, risks, and any revisions that were required. The report should provide a summary of the artefacts created in the course of the project, including for example representative designs and suitable evidence of project tracking such as burn-down charts. This may include an individual or group reflection on your contributions, ethical behaviour and observations of the behaviour of others you have interacted with during the project's development. This report is intended for the Capstone teaching team rather than the client.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Demo Video
The Demo Video requires you to explain and demonstrate the completed artefact of your Capstone project. Your aim with this video should be to persuade a professional audience that you delivered a professional and interesting artefact that achieved the stakeholders’ objectives to a high level of satisfaction and quality.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
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.
Resources
All learning materials and support resources associated with this unit are available in your Canvas site. There are no extra resources that you are required to purchase.
Risk Assessment Statement
The capstone project has been assessed for Health and Safety, and relevant material is provided as part of the teaching material in phase 1 (IFB398). Risks concern mostly possible activities conducted off Campus as part of your Industry WIL experience. The relevant information is available in Canvas.
It is your responsibility to familiarise yourself with the Health and Safety policies and procedures applicable within campus areas and laboratories.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
Australian Computer Society Core Body of Knowledge
1: ICT Professional Knowledge
- Professional expectations
Relates to: ULO3 - Teamwork concepts and issues
Relates to: ULO3 - Interpersonal communication
Relates to: ULO4
2: ICT Problem Solving
Relates to: ULO1
4: Technology Building
- Systems development and acquisition
Relates to: ULO2
5: ICT Management
- IT project management
Relates to: ULO2
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.DS01 Bachelor of Data Science
- Demonstrate a broad and coherent knowledge of the principles, concepts and techniques of the data science discipline, with depth of knowledge in at least one area developed through a major.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Use appropriate statistical, computational, modelling, data management, programming and generative artificial intelligence techniques to develop solutions for deriving insights from data.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving skills, as well as adaptivity in applying learned techniques in new and unfamiliar contexts.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Work effectively both independently and collaboratively in diverse and interdisciplinary teams.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report - Communicate effectively in a variety of modes, to expert and non-expert audiences, including in a professional context.
Relates to: Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Develop your learning, professional capabilities and skills, and capture it through a curated portfolio of work.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report
IN01 Bachelor of Information Technology
- Critically analyse and conceptualise complex IT challenges and opportunities using modelling, abstraction, ideation and problem-solving to generate, evaluate and justify recommended solutions.
Relates to: ULO1, Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Integrate and apply technical knowledge and skills to analyse, design, build, operate and maintain sustainable, secure IT systems using industry-standard tools, technologies, platforms, and processes.
Relates to: ULO1, Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Demonstrate an understanding of the role of IT in enabling business outcomes and how business realities shape IT decisions.
Relates to: Project Progress and Performance, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video - Demonstrate initiative, autonomy and personal responsibility for continuous learning, working both independently and collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams, employing state-of-the-art IT project management methodologies to plan and manage time, resources, and risk.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Project Progress and Performance, Final Report - Communicate professionally and effectively in written, verbal and visual formats to a diverse range of stakeholders, considering the audience and explaining complex ideas in a simple and understandable manner in a range of IT-related contexts.
Relates to: ULO3, Project Artefact, Final Report, Demo Video