School: Science

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Project Methods and Professionalism
  • Unit Code

    CSG2344
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr David Michael COOK

Description

This unit develops students' expertise in: the project development life cycle; project management techniques including planning, risk and configuration management; quality assurance; verification and validation; and requirements definition and design specification. The unit studies management issues involved in computing together with technical issues related to measurement and assessment of processes. The unit develops skills in both traditional Waterfall processes as well as Agile processes. Future developments together with social issues relating to ethics, professionalism and the law are also considered.

Prerequisite Rule

For students not enrolled in Y14, must pass CSI1241.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CSG3332, CSG3446, CTC3320, CTC3400

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Integrate prescribed knowledge management areas within a complex IT project.
  2. Implement the processes involved in completing a complex IT project.
  3. Collaborate with others to manage teams of people.
  4. Communicate and articulate project management requirements within a team environment.
  5. Apply WCAG guidelines in conjunction with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and global accessibility values.

Unit Content

  1. Automated support tools for use in the software development life cycle.
  2. Configuration management, change control.
  3. Documentation report and technical writing.
  4. Ethical issues; standards, codes of conduct, confidentiality.
  5. Implementation issues for systems.
  6. Legal issues; contracts, negligence, copyright, outsourcing, competitive tendering, consultancy.
  7. People, teamwork, and conflict resolution.
  8. Professional issues; standards, professional associations, professional practice, continuing professional development, networking and mentoring.
  9. Project management principles and practices including software life cycles, methodologies, models and prototypes.
  10. Quality assurance and risk management documentation.
  11. Software design issues and specification.
  12. Software requirements definition, including generation of Scope of Work, develop Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), prepare a Cost Estimate and a Development Schedule.
  13. Testing, verification and validation.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour workshopNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestCompetency building test materials20%
ProjectGroup project and presentation40%
Reflective PracticeVideo reflection15%
TestEnd of semester test25%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestCompetency building test materials20%
ProjectGroup project and presentation40%
Reflective PracticeVideo reflection15%
TestEnd of semester test25%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

CSG2344|3|1

School: Science

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Project Methods and Professionalism
  • Unit Code

    CSG2344
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr David Michael COOK

Description

This unit develops students' expertise in: the project development life cycle; project management techniques including planning, risk and configuration management; quality assurance; verification and validation; and requirements definition and design specification. The unit studies management issues involved in computing together with technical issues related to measurement and assessment of processes. The unit develops skills in both traditional Waterfall processes as well as Agile processes. Future developments together with social issues relating to ethics, professionalism and the law are also considered.

Prerequisite Rule

For students not enrolled in Y14, must pass CSI1241.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CSG3332, CSG3446, CTC3320, CTC3400

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Integrate prescribed knowledge management areas within a complex IT project.
  2. Implement the processes involved in completing a complex IT project.
  3. Collaborate with others to manage teams of people.
  4. Communicate and articulate project management requirements within a team environment.
  5. Apply WCAG guidelines in conjunction with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and global accessibility values.

Unit Content

  1. Automated support tools for use in the software development life cycle.
  2. Configuration management, change control.
  3. Documentation report and technical writing.
  4. Ethical issues; standards, codes of conduct, confidentiality.
  5. Implementation issues for systems.
  6. Legal issues; contracts, negligence, copyright, outsourcing, competitive tendering, consultancy.
  7. People, teamwork, and conflict resolution.
  8. Professional issues; standards, professional associations, professional practice, continuing professional development, networking and mentoring.
  9. Project management principles and practices including software life cycles, methodologies, models and prototypes.
  10. Quality assurance and risk management documentation.
  11. Software design issues and specification.
  12. Software requirements definition, including generation of Scope of Work, develop Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), prepare a Cost Estimate and a Development Schedule.
  13. Testing, verification and validation.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour workshopNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestCompetency building test materials20%
ProjectGroup project and presentation40%
Reflective PracticeVideo reflection15%
TestEnd of semester test25%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestCompetency building test materials20%
ProjectGroup project and presentation40%
Reflective PracticeVideo reflection15%
TestEnd of semester test25%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

CSG2344|3|2