units

FIT4002

Faculty of Information Technology

18 September 2017 29 April 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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12 points, SCA Band 2, 0.250 EFTSL

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LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Information Technology
OfferedClayton Full year 2015 (Day)

Synopsis

Students will undertake a large project and work in groups on a software project for a client. The client may be internal to Monash or from the industry or research organisation. In general, projects involve all aspects of the system development lifecycle. Groups are responsible for their own project management, with guidance from a supervisor. Some projects will warrant students working in pairs or individually.

Outcomes

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

  1. select and use appropriate tools, techniques and strategies for managing risks in the context of a software project;
  2. select and use appropriate tools, techniques and strategies and managing project resources, including time and personnel;
  3. choose and follow a software development methodology that is appropriate to the team, project and client, and justify this methodology;
  4. design and implement a software system of a quality acceptable to an external client;
  5. elicit requirements from a client and ensure that these are communicated to team members and other stakeholders in an appropriate form;
  6. produce internal documentation of a sufficient quality to support project development activities (including specification, analysis, design, testing);
  7. communicate effectively with other project stakeholders, including clients, end users, and supervisors;
  8. verify systematically that project deliverables meet agreed quality standards;
  9. produce external documentation of a sufficient quality to meet the needs of clients, end users, and client-site technical staff.

Assessment

Assignments: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

  • One 2-hour seminar
  • One 2-hour laboratory

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

  • A minimum of 8 hours additional study per week including undertaking all stages of the software lifecycle for the project, preparation of project documentation, preparation for individual and group presentation, software walkthroughs and SWEBOK interviews. Students are also expected to attend fortnightly group meetings with project supervisor, hold regular meetings with client (may be off-campus) and attend regular meetings of the project group.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr David Squire

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Software engineering

Prerequisites

FIT2002 and FIT3077

Co-requisites

FIT4004

Prohibitions

CSE4002

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/fit4002/