Overview
In this unit, you will learn key concepts of Information and Communication Technology project management from both a traditional and Agile perspective. You will apply project management principles and use project management software with the aim of delivering successful projects. Industry standards, quality assurance, professional ethics, social, cultural and legal issues relevant to the theories and principles of project management will also be covered.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisite: COIT11226 Systems Analysis. Anti-requisite: If you have successfully completed COIS13064 ICT Project Management, then you should not take this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2019
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student feedback
Distance students requested weekly interactive sessions
Weekly interactive sessions should be held that distance students can attend.
Feedback from Student feedback
Students requested more integrated tutorials and less duplication of content from other units.
More practical activities related to the lecture content should be developed for the tutorials and an audit of content should take place to identify content duplicated in other units.
- Describe the activities and importance of both traditional and agile project management
- Apply common project planning, scheduling, budgeting and resource management tools and procedures
- Evaluate project status and recommend appropriate corrective action where necessary
- Assess the ethical, social, cultural and legal impacts of projects on diverse stakeholders.
Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA is in use in over 100 countries and provides a widely used and consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is increasingly being used when developing job descriptions and role profiles.
ACS members can use the tool MySFIA to build a skills profile at https://www.acs.org.au/professionalrecognition/mysfia-b2c.html
This unit contributes to the following workplace skills as defined by SFIA. The SFIA code is included:
- Business Analysis (BUAN)
- Project Management (PRMG)
- Change Management (CHMG)
- Requirements Definition and Management (REQM)
- Information Systems Co-ordination (ISCO)
- Business Process Improvement (BPRE)
- Methods and Tools (METL)
- Programming/software development (PROG)
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Presentation - 15% | ||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 35% | ||||
| 3 - Examination - 50% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Presentation - 15% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 35% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Examination - 50% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
SUCCESSFUL PROJECT MANAGEMENT 7TH EDN
Edition: 7th (2018)
Authors: Gido, J & Clements, JP
Cengage Learning
Boston Boston , MA , USA
ISBN: 9781337095471
Binding: Hardcover
Additional Textbook Information
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Webcam and headset
- Access to Microsoft Visio
- Access to Microsoft Office
- Access to Microsoft Project 2016.
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
j.shield@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Project Management Concepts
Chapter
Successful Project Management 7th edn (2018) Chapter 1
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Defining Scope, Quality, Responsibility, and Activity Sequence
Chapter
Successful Project Management 7th edn (2018) Chapter 4
Events and Submissions/Topic
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Chapter
Non-teaching week
Events and Submissions/Topic
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Developing the Schedule
Chapter
Successful Project Management 7th edn (2018) Chapter 5
Events and Submissions/Topic
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Resource Use
Chapter
Successful Project Management 7th edn (2018) Chapter 6
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Determining Costs, Budget, and Earned Value
Chapter
Successful Project Management 7th edn (2018) Chapter 7
Events and Submissions/Topic
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The Project Manager; Quality Management; Managing Risk; Closing the Project
Chapter
Successful Project Management 7th edn (2018) Chapters 8, 9 and 10
Chapter 14 of the Systems Analysis and Design text by John Satzinger et al.
Events and Submissions/Topic
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Project Communication and Documentation; The Project Team; Project Management Organisational Structures; Project Management Career Paths
Chapter
Successful Project Management 7th edn (2018) Chapters 11, 12 and 13
Events and Submissions/Topic
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Identifying and Selecting Projects; Developing Project Proposals
Chapter
Successful Project Management 7th edn (2018) Chapters 2 and 3
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Unit Coordinator: Jamie Shield, Cairns,
j.shield@cqu.edu.au,
Office: 07 4037 4750
1 Presentation
Objectives
The aim of this assignment is to allow
you to gain adaptive project management experience. By completing this
assignment, you will be able to describe the activities and importance of
adaptive project management.
You will be assigned as an adaptive
project manager for a software development project and given parameters such as
time and resource budgets that you will need to manage.
Task Description
You are to manage the small project using adaptive tools and techniques.
You will be responsible for managing aspects such as the scope, time, quality,
communications and risks.
Your tasks will include the development
of adaptive project plans. You will be responsible for monitoring progress and
updating your plans to reflect progress.
Each week, people will be required to
demonstrate (in class) the progress they have made on the project and present their
updated project management plans.
At the start of the project, you will be
assigned weeks in which you will need to demonstrate your project progress and present
your updated project management plans.
You will only be assessed on your last two presentations. You might be expected to complete additional
presentations for formative feedback. Distance students are to record and
submit videos of their presentations.
You will be asked to perform tasks such
as the following using adaptive tools and techniques:
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Creating and maintaining a
backlog
·
Developing sprint plans and
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Managing sprints
·
Designing, coding and testing
Sharing of Code
The assignment is individually
assessed. Sharing of code files is
strongly encouraged. Sharing of project management concepts and techniques is
encouraged. Sharing of project management files will be considered plagiarism.
Week 3 Friday (2 Aug 2019) 11:45 pm AEST
This assignment has components due in Weeks 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
Week 10 Friday (27 Sept 2019)
Informal feedback will be provided during in-class presentations. Your marks and formal feedback will be returned in Week 10.
The assignment is individually
assessed.
You will be assessed on aspects such as:
·
the quality and feasibility of
your user stories and the completeness and prioritisation of your backlog.
·
the regularity of updates, the
evolution of your product backlog, the feasibility of your sprint plan, and the
breakdown of your user stories into subtasks.
·
the regularity of the
management of your sprint taskboards.
·
the completeness of identified
issues and the quality of your planned controls.
·
stage presence, the quality of
your prototype demonstration and coverage of your project management plans.
·
quality use of tool support.
- Describe the activities and importance of both traditional and agile project management
- Assess the ethical, social, cultural and legal impacts of projects on diverse stakeholders.
- Communication
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
2 Written Assessment
Objectives
The aim of this assignment is to allow
you to gain predictive project management experience. You are to complete
predictive project management tasks for a collection of project scenarios and
simulations.
Task Description
You will:
·
Develop and manage project integration,
human resources, procurement, communications, stakeholder, quality and risk
plans using predictive techniques and tools, for example,
·
Create recommendations to proactively
manage or correct project issues
·
Play project management simulations
·
Role play a project management scenarios
The scenarios will be distributed to you
in two quizzes.
Week 10 Friday (27 Sept 2019) 11:45 pm AEST
The first quiz is due in Week 10 and the second quiz is due in Week 12. For oncampus students, the role plays will take place in-class in Week 10. If you miss class, you should submit as if you are a Distance student.
Week 12 Friday (11 Oct 2019)
Your marks and feedback for both quizzes will be returned in Week 12 when the moderation process is complete. Any feedback you receive prior to the moderation process might change.
The assignment is individually assessed.
You will be assessed on aspects such as:
·
Project management plans and
simulations: the quality, completeness, feasibility and/or correctness of your
plans, files and recommendations
·
Simulations: the quality of
your reflections on task management strategies including your ability to
integrate unit materials
·
Spelling, grammar and use of
CQUni Harvard referencing
·
Role play: convincing and
consistent role play
- Apply common project planning, scheduling, budgeting and resource management tools and procedures
- Evaluate project status and recommend appropriate corrective action where necessary
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
Examination
Calculator - non-programmable, no text retrieval, silent only
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
