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Coffs Harbour Session 1,  2 Session 1,  2
Gold Coast Session 1,  2,  3 Session 1,  2,  3
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Papua New Guinea - IBSU Enga N/A Session 1
Papua New Guinea - IBSU Port Moresby N/A Session 1

Unit Summary

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit

Credit points

12

AQF level

7

Level of learning

Advanced

Former School/College

Former School of Business and Tourism

Pre-requisites

ISY00243 - Systems Analysis and Design] AND CSC00228 - Database Systems I AND ISY00245 - Principles of Programming OR CSC00235 - Applications Development AND 60 credit points in any SCU units

Unit aim

Requires students to undertake planning and control for software projects and perform software analysis and design for clients. Students will have opportunities to demonstrate and apply their skills of project management, software analysis and design, documentation, communication and maintenance of relationship with other stakeholders. Students are also expected to organise meetings, keep records of their activities and review their project.

Unit content

This is a capstone unit, where students are expected to demonstrate the skills to undertake the activities to plan, monitor, control and review project, and complete system analysis and design. The topics of most relevance to achieving the goals of this unit are as follows:

  1. Project management
  2. Feasibility analysis
  3. Systems analysis
  4. Systems design
  5. Presentation of system specifications
  6. Report writing
  7. Client/user liaison

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to: GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 use effective techniques for project management to achieve project goals
2 plan, monitor, control and evaluate project, and complete activities for analysis and design of systems relevant to their major
3 choose and justify an appropriate methodology for systems analysis and design
4 demonstrate the application of analysis and design tools to document system specifications
5 demonstrate the ability to interact and involve all stakeholders during planning, analysis and design phases.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. use effective techniques for project management to achieve project goals
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
    • GA6:
  2. plan, monitor, control and evaluate project, and complete activities for analysis and design of systems relevant to their major
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    • GA2:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
    • GA6:
  3. choose and justify an appropriate methodology for systems analysis and design
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    • GA2:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
  4. demonstrate the application of analysis and design tools to document system specifications
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
    • GA6:
  5. demonstrate the ability to interact and involve all stakeholders during planning, analysis and design phases.
    • GA3:
    • GA5:
    • GA6:

Prescribed texts

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Prescribed texts may change in future teaching periods.