FIT3015 - Industrial experience project

Leader: Helana Scheepers, Henry Linger, Peter O'Donnell

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2007 (Day)
Caulfield Second semester 2007 (Day)

Synopsis

In their final year of study, students are given the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills they have gained, in the development of an information system for a real world client. Students work in groups and will: design, develop and deliver an information system for a client, manage the project through all its development stages, communicate effectively with all project stakeholders, primarily via studios and meetings, develop project documentation to a professional standard, present their project work to academics and other groups, attend unit seminars, contribute in a professional and committed manner to the work of the group

Objectives

Students will have knowledge of:

1. the environment in which a client operates;
2. eliciting information from a client;
3. a project management process to measure and control development of a system;
4. the scope and size of a system;
5. the processes involved in the design, development and delivery of an information system,
6. the effective management of clients, groups and individuals within groups;
7. the roles and responsibilities of all project stakeholders.

Assessment

Individual diaries / timesheets, project documents, group presentation / minutes, peer assessment, delivered product, examination

Contact hours

Lecture/seminar: 1 hour per week, Studios: 6 hrs per week

Prerequisites

All Faculty and Campus units in the BITS (Systems Development), i.e. FIT2002, FIT2023, FIT2027, FIT2030 OR (for Bachelor of Computing and double degree students) CSE2132, and CSE2203 or equivalent, and completion of at least 96 credit points towards the Bachelor of Computing or double degree

Prohibitions

CSE3301, GCO2819, GCO3819, CSE3200, FIT3039, FIT3040, FIT3038, FIT3025, FIT3026, FIT3016, FIT3017, FIT3047, FIT3048, IMS3501, IMS3052, IMS3000