IFQ711-1 IT Industry Project 1
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| Unit code: | IFQ711-1 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisite(s): | Completion of 96cp from MIT |
| Antirequisite(s): | IFN702 |
| Equivalent(s): | IFN711 IT Industry Project (Requires both IFQ711-1 and IFQ711-2) |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
Unit Outline: Session 1 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | IFQ711-1 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | Completion of 96cp from MIT |
| Equivalent: | IFN711 IT Industry Project (Requires both IFQ711-1 and IFQ711-2) |
| Anti-requisite: | IFN702 |
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. This is unit is the first of a two-part project experience with the unit IFN711-2 being designed to immediately follow.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Work collaboratively in a team environment, to deliver a sophisticated IT system/solution (CLO4, CLO6, CLO7)
- Demonstrate and apply project management skills including project planning, execution, and closing (CLO1, CLO4)
- Communicate effectively and professionally to diverse audiences in oral and written formats (CLO5)
- 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)
- Integrate and apply advanced specialist disciplinary knowledge and skills to an industry project (CLO1, CLO3)
- 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 is unit is the first of a two-part project with IFN711-2 designed to immediately follow.
Learning Approaches
This unit includes 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 and S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Project Pitch and 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 the contribution of yourself and your peers to this assessment item. Your team is also required to deliver a virtual or in-person individual oral pitch, which provides an overview of the scope and requirements of your industry project plan. 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. The feedback provided can result in a redirection of the project objectives or a change to the scope of work to be undertaken.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
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 is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Interim Project Prototype and Project Report
Your interim project prototype with a 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 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 is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
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
Lecture slides and classroom discussions will be your key resource. However, we also recommend a number of texts to support your learning.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
A Leaders Framework for Decision Making by David J. Snowden and Mary E. Boone - available for free online at Harvard Business Review
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
Other
Lecture slides as they are 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.
Unit Outline: Session 3 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | IFQ711-1 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | Completion of 96cp from MIT |
| Equivalent: | IFN711 IT Industry Project (Requires both IFQ711-1 and IFQ711-2) |
| Anti-requisite: | IFN702 |
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. This is unit is the first of a two-part project experience with the unit IFN711-2 being designed to immediately follow.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Work collaboratively in a team environment, to deliver a sophisticated IT system/solution (CLO4, CLO6, CLO7)
- Demonstrate and apply project management skills including project planning, execution, and closing (CLO1, CLO4)
- Communicate effectively and professionally to diverse audiences in oral and written formats (CLO5)
- 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)
- Integrate and apply advanced specialist disciplinary knowledge and skills to an industry project (CLO1, CLO3)
- 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 is unit is the first of a two-part project with IFN711-2 designed to immediately follow.
Learning Approaches
This unit includes 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 and S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Project Pitch and 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 the contribution of yourself and your peers to this assessment item. Your team is also required to deliver a virtual or in-person individual oral pitch, which provides an overview of the scope and requirements of your industry project plan. 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. The feedback provided can result in a redirection of the project objectives or a change to the scope of work to be undertaken.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
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 is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Interim Project Prototype and Project Report
Your interim project prototype with a 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 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 is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
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
Lecture slides and classroom discussions will be your key resource. However, we also recommend a number of texts to support your learning.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
A Leaders Framework for Decision Making by David J. Snowden and Mary E. Boone - available for free online at Harvard Business Review
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
Other
Lecture slides as they are 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.