This is the major assessment for your project and comprises six parts: project proposal and plan, progress reports, draft final report, team meeting documentation including agenda and minutes, project report, and the self and peer assessment (SPA).

In this major assessment you are required to form a group (up to four members 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 (subject to approval of the unit coordinator or local lecturer) or a given case based project.

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

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 local lecturer.

You are required as a group to write a comprehensive report on your project. You are also expected to demonstrate your talent, innovative thinking, and analytical skills through the conduct of your group project addressing the production of a project plan, 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 or given case project.

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

You are encouraged to use your innovative ideas and imagination to produce a high level project outcome, and demonstrate your learning, and integration and incorporation of knowledge from prior units undertaken in your study course. This assessment should be considered as a great opportunity to link the theoretical knowledge with a practical chosen industry (or a given case) project to help you to be more competitive in the real world environment.

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

Reports and proposals are to be uploaded as MS Word documents. You may also upload MS Project 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 content. The assessment criteria for each part of this assessment, as described under Task Description is as follows:

Project Proposal and Plan - 10%

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

Progress Reports - 5%

Two progress reports are to be submitted throughout the term as per the weekly schedule.

Project Working Documentation - 5%

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

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 sections up to and including the stakeholder analysis as follows:

• Project title page
• Executive summary
• Table of contents
• Introduction (including aim, objectives, scope, terms of reference, and constraints of the project),
• Literature review and background of the project topic
• Project management
• Project analysis (including but not limited to strategic alignment, description of current systems, stakeholder analysis and management)

Self and Peer Assessment - 5%

Each team will be required to evaluate the other team members and the team's performance, both from a personal viewpoint and as a team member.

Project Report - 35%

The project report will at least include the following sections:

• Project title page
• Executive summary
• Table of contents
• Introduction (including aim, objectives, scope, terms of reference, and constraints of the project),
• Literature review and background of the project topic
• Project management
• Project analysis (including but not limited to strategic alignment, description of current systems, stakeholder analysis and management, requirements methodology and statement, and change management issues)
• Discussions (of candidate solution evaluation, proposed improvement or solutions including process models, and prototype design)
• Conclusions and Recommendations
• References
• Appendix (optional)

Please see the 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 we will use Mahara as the learning tool. Please refer to Moodle unit website for more detail instructions on how to use Mahara portfolio and the assessment criteria.

Please review the example links on the unit Moodle website.

You are required to download your portfolio in PDF and submit your work in Moodle. You are further required to include your Mahara Secret URL with your uploaded work. No other type of upload will be accepted.

A project portfolio is to be maintained by every student individually.

Entries are to be made in your portfolio on each occasion that work is undertaken on the project, detailing the work done, time taken, difficulties experienced, and other issues that may arise. It is to be a record of every activity undertaken by you in developing the project.

Entries will be made in the portfolio on a weekly basis starting from teaching Week 3 until (and including) Week 12.

The portfolio will contain work that has been integrated into the group project work, as evidenced by information supplied in the portfolio as to where the work is located in the final group report submission.

Please see Moodle unit website for more specific marking criteria.

Failure to submit a portfolio will disadvantage your overall marks.

This assessment requires you to present your findings based on your DRAFT report.

Presentation of DRAFT project report: Each group will be required to present their DRAFT project report to colleagues and staff for feedback in Week 10. Each group will have until Week 13 (due date for Project Report) to improve the report based on feedback received at the time of the presentation. Documentation regarding the presentation will be submitted via Moodle.

Distance students: The time of the presentations and technology employed will be determined on an individual basis. Please contact the unit coordinator.

Assessments are to be uploaded as MS Word documents, and/or MS PowerPoint slides. No other type of upload will be accepted.

Each group will be allocated a time in Week 10 to present a draft of their 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 of 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 dress;
• Presentation manner;
• Content is explained well;
• Response to questions during Q&A.

Please see unit website for more specific marking criteria.