This is the major assessment for your project and comprises six parts: project proposal and plan, progress report, draft project report, Draft presentation, final project report and project working documentation (team meeting agenda, minutes, action sheet and project working papers).

In this major assessment, you are required to form a group (up to four members but no less than three and subject to class size) and demonstrate the skills and knowledge that you have developed in earlier information systems specialisation units and apply these skills and knowledge to an industry project or a case-based project. Projects are subject to the approval of the project facilitator who may be the unit coordinator or the campus lecturer. As noted in the Weekly Schedule, each team should have three to four members.

 You are strongly recommended to source your own project instead of using a case study. With the permission of your employer, your project can be based on your workplace.

Your project should be of sufficient complexity so that you can demonstrate your knowledge, but still be small enough to complete it within the term. If you are in doubt, please contact the unit coordinator or your campus lecturer.

 As a group, you are required to write a comprehensive report on your project. You are expected to demonstrate knowledge, innovative thinking, and analytical skills through the conduct of your group project addressing the production of a project plan, and project working documentation, together with appropriate project artefacts such as design documentation and an implementation plan, as part of your project report. In your project report, you need to evaluate and analyse current business information systems, processes and applications, and propose improvements (including a prototype solution for an identified problem or opportunity based on your project requirement). The project will have a designated customer, and you will be required to produce the typical project management artefacts associated with your chosen industry or case-based project.

Note: Please contact the unit coordinator by week two if you have a genuine problem and are unable to participate in a group.

You are encouraged to use innovative ideas and imagination to produce a high-level project outcome and demonstrate your learning and knowledge from prior units undertaken in your study course. This assessment is an excellent opportunity to link theoretical knowledge with a practical chosen industry (or a case) project to help you to be more competitive in the real-world environment.

Please refer to the Moodle unit website for more detailed information in relation to this assessment.

Reports and proposals are to be uploaded as Microsoft Word documents. You may also upload Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel documents to support your work. No other type of upload will be accepted, with the exception of a ZIP file for Project Working Documentation.

The project documentation will be assessed on the quality of the content. The assessment criteria for each part of this assessment, as described under Task Description are as follows:

Project Proposal and Plan - 10%

The proposal and plan will include sections for the project description, project scope, objectives and constraints, statement of work, work breakdown structure, Gantt chart, risk assessment, quality plan, team structure, roles and responsibilities matrix, and project schedule.

Progress Report - 5%

A progress report is to be submitted halfway through the term.

Draft Project Report 10%

This assessment is designed to give you feedback on your project report prior to your presentation in Week 10. The report is to consist of the following content, up to and including project analysis as follows:

• Project title page

• Executive summary

• Table of contents

• Introduction

• Project management overview

• Team structure

• Project analysis (including but not limited to strategic alignment, stakeholder analysis and management plan)

• Conclusion and recommendations

Draft Presentation - 5%

Each team will be required to present in week 10.

Final Project Report - 35%

The report is to consist of at least the following content:

• Project title page

• Executive summary

• Table of contents

• Introduction

• Project management overview

• Team structure

• Project analysis (including but not limited to strategic alignment, stakeholder analysis and management, requirements elicitation methodology, requirements statement, change management solution and risk analysis)

• Discussions (of candidate solution evaluation, proposed improvement or solutions including process models, and prototype design)

• Conclusions and Recommendations

• References

• Appendix (optional)

Project Working Documentation - 5%

The team's project working documentation includes the team meeting agenda, minutes arising from the various meetings, action sheet items and project working papers.

Please see the Moodle unit website for more specific marking criteria.

This is an individual assessment.

An e-portfolio is a learning tool that enables students to accumulate evidence of learning achievement. In this unit, you will use Portfolium as a learning tool to record your portfolio entries. As part of the reflective component of this unit, you are required to develop a Project Portfolio with ten entries on a weekly basis starting from Week 2 of the term until Week 11. The ePortfolio is to be a record of every activity undertaken by you in developing the project. The entries will be a weekly discussion and reflection of your learning based on the project tasks you undertake and an identification of any gaps in your knowledge and strategies to correct these gaps.

Please refer to the Moodle unit website for more details on this assessment and detailed instructions on how to use Portfolium.

This assessment requires you to present your findings based on your Draft Project Report.

Presentation of Draft Project Report: Each group will be required to deliver an oral presentation based on their Draft Project Report to their peers and staff for feedback in Week 13. Each group will have until Week 13 (the due date for the Final Project Report) to improve the final report based on the feedback received at the time of the presentation.

Presentations will need to be delivered via Zoom. 

Presentations are to be uploaded as Microsoft PowerPoint slides. No other type of upload will be accepted.

Each group will be allocated a time in Week 10 to present their draft project report. Each presentation will be assessed on the following criteria:

Group marks will be based on:

• Preparation and consistency of presentation;
• Set up and use visual aids;
• Timing of presentation including Q&A;
• Continuity and flow from one presenter to the next;
• Presentation content is relevant to the topic;
• Content is clear, concise and relevant.

Individual marks for presentation will be based on:

• Professional attire;
• Presentation skills;
• Content is explained well;
• Response to questions during Q&A.

Please see the Moodle unit website for more specific marking criteria.