Course Title: Software Engineering Project B
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Software Engineering Project B
Credit Points: 24.00
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
COSC2411 |
City Campus |
Undergraduate |
140H Computer Science & Information Technology |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 2 2007, Sem 2 2008, Sem 2 2009, Sem 2 2010, Sem 2 2011, Sem 2 2013, Sem 1 2015, Sem 2 2015, Sem 1 2016 |
COSC2411 |
City Campus |
Undergraduate |
171H School of Science |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 1 2017, Sem 2 2017, Sem 2 2018 |
Course Coordinator: Barti Murugesan
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 3496
Course Coordinator Email: barti.murugesan@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: Building 14, Level 8, Room 6A
Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Required Prior Study: INTE2376 Approved Industry Experience 1 and INTE2377 Approved Industry Experience 2
You may not enrol in this course unless one of these courses is explicitly listed in your enrolment program summary. Note it is a condition of enrolment at RMIT that you accept responsibility for ensuring that you have completed the prerequisite/s and agree to concurrently enrol in co-requisite courses before enrolling in a course.
Course Description
This course is designed to provide you with hands-on practical experience developing software in a project environment. Your project team of 4-6 students should complete projects from inception to implementation.
The emphasis is on understanding and working within a corporate environment, using formal project management and software delivery methodologies and integrating all the skills and knowledge that you should have acquired from your previous courses into a solid base to progress from into your professional life.
This course includes a Work Integrated Learning experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/or community is integral to your experience.
Type of WIL activities involved:
projects with industry and community based organizations
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
This course contributes to the following Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) in BP096 Bachelor of Software Engineering:
1. Enabling Knowledge
You will gain skills as you apply knowledge effectively in diverse contexts.
2. Critical Analysis
You will learn to accurately and objectively examine and consider computer science and information technology (IT) topics, evidence, or situations, in particular to:
- Analyse and model requirements and constraints for the purpose of designing and implementing software artefacts and IT systems
- Evaluate and compare designs of software artefacts and IT systems on the basis of organisational and user requirements.
3. Problem Solving
Your capability to analyse problems and synthesise suitable solutions will be extended as you learn to:
- Design and implement software solutions that accommodate specified requirements and constraints, based on analysis or modelling or requirements specification.
4. Communication
You will learn to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences through a range of modes and media, in particular to:
- Present a clear, coherent and independent exposition of software applications, alternative IT solutions, and decision recommendations to both IT and non-IT personnel via technical reports of professional standard and technical presentations.
5. Team Work
You will learn to work as an effective and productive team member in a range of professional and social situations, in particular to:
- Work effectively in different roles, to form, manage, and successfully produce outcomes from teams whose members may have diverse cultural backgrounds and life circumstances and differing levels of technical expertise.
6. Responsibility
You will be required to accept responsibility for your own learning and make informed decisions about judging and adopting appropriate behaviour in professional and social situations. This includes accepting the responsibility for independent life-long learning. Specifically, you will learn to:
Effectively apply relevant standards, ethical considerations and an understanding of legal and privacy issues to designing software applications and IT systems.
Upon successful completion of this course you should be able to:
- CLO1: Apply the many aspects of project management and project delivery in an environment that emulates the corporate world
- CLO2: Apply standard software development and delivery principles and methodologies in new contexts
- CLO3: Identity the key factors for successful project completion, as well as the risks and issues associated with project and software delivery
- CLO4: Negotiate the project deliverables and milestones with your corporate sponsor and/or project manager and assume responsibility for a successful outcome
- CLO5: Communicate using the proper language of the field including reports written with a professional approach
- CLO6: Apply effective team dynamics and discuss why this is critical to your project’s success
Overview of Learning Activities
All your learning activities in this course are based on applying your discipline knowledge in a process of planning and executing a substantial research-based project or industry-sponsored capstone project experience.
The learning activities included in this course are:
- Face-to-face activities, where the project coordinator and industrial partners present project proposals;
- Group discussions, where you will discuss and analyze with the course coordinator project issues for effective outcomes;
- group presentations to industrial partners, colleagues and RMIT academics; and
- guest lectures/discussion leaders from industry experts on key topics.
You will be completing your project as a team devising optimal solutions for the business problems provided combined with timely deliverables. This means that you will work face-to-face in a dedicated project office type environment on a full time basis to complete your project in constant, dynamic interaction with your team members and regular interaction with your project manager and project sponsor.
The Project Proposals from the various industrial sponsors are presented during the first week of work. You will nominate your choice of project during the first week where after teams will be formed and the projects will begin.
A total of 240 hours of study is expected during this course, comprising:
Teacher-directed hours (48 hours): Introductory lectures, presentation of project proposals, sprint meeting, consolations, final project presentations.
On the first week the course coordinator and the industrial partners will present you a number of project proposals to set your preferences.
From the project start, each week there will be project meetings (with each team) to keep the teams on track. Participation in the meetings is compulsory; the schedule will be coordinated with the team.
Student-directed hours (192 hours): You are expected to be self-directed, working as an independent team at the RMIT labs or from the office of industrial partner.
Overview of Learning Resources
There is no single text or reference but you will be sourcing a variety of tools and materials, some of which will be provided for you and some of which you will source yourselves. You will also be sharing your ideas, skills and knowledge with your student team colleagues. You will be in regular contact with your sponsor and other technical relevant resources to collaboratively deal with issues that may arise, and to ensure that the initial project objectives are met.
As the project teams and projects will be created based on the activities on Week 1, it will not be possible to transfer to this course after Week 1. In a limited number of projects, industrial partners might provide opportunity to work in their offices to gain more mentoring from industrial colleagues. A limited number of working places might be also provided at VXLab: https://www.rmit.edu.au/about/our-locations-and-facilities/facilities/research-facilities/virtual-experiences-laboratory/
Overview of Assessment
This course has no hurdle requirements.
Assessment tasks
Early Assessment Task:Draft Project Documentation
Weighting 10%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 4 & 5
Assessment Task 2: Team Project Report
Weighting 45%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1-6
Assessment Task 3: Presentation, communication and self-management tasks
Weighting 45%
This assessment task supports CLO 1, 3, 4, 5 & 6