| Effective Term: | 2026/20 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Innovation, Science & Sustainability |
| Unit Title: | Project 2 |
| Unit ID: | ITECH3209 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (ITECH3208) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 029999 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This is the second of two IT capstone project courses. In this course, students will work in teams to complete an authentic industry IT project begun in ITECH3208 Project 1. You will continue to follow an agile approach to development and negotiate with your client and other stakeholders to agree on deliverables. This is an opportunity to refine your knowledge and skills from previous courses and experience aligned with professional expectations and good practice. You will have a chance to apply higher level professional standards such as SFIA and CBOK to your project needs to create and deliver outcomes that benefit your client. You will be expected to independently seek out industry events such as seminars, workshops and expos and use industry sources to build upon your knowledge and support your project work. This is an opportunity to develop and reflect on your professional experience to date and to broaden your understanding of the IT industry. . |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | |
| Supplementary Assessment:No |
| Supplementary assessment is not available to students who gain a fail in this Unit. |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | | | | | | | Advanced | | |  | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Analyze a specific IT problem to adapt and implement agile project management ceremonies, methodologies, and artifacts that ensure the quality delivery of a technical solution. |
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| K2. | Apply effective communication strategies to ascertain stakeholder needs, manage client relationships, and interpret technical information for diverse audiences to improve project deliverables. |
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| K3. | Explain the roles and responsibilities within a collaborative team environment as defined by industry procedures and frameworks, including the ACS CBOK and SFIA standards. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Analyze industry resources, tools, and techniques to evaluate alternative solutions and contribute to the development of project artifacts for an IT client. |
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| S2. | Apply collaborative team strategies and effective presentation techniques to deliver technical and non-technical project solutions to diverse audiences. |
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| S3. | Evaluate the relationship between industry frameworks (ACS CBOK/SFIA) and practice while conducting respectful, constructive peer reviews of technical work. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Analyze complex IT problems to decompose them into achievable deliverables, applying agile planning, estimation, and quality assurance techniques to create industry-standard artifacts and models. |
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| A2. | Apply collaborative industry techniques to deliver project outcomes, producing technical documentation and reflections that align individual and team performance with stakeholder needs and the ACS CBOK/SFIA frameworks. |
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| Unit Content: |
This second project course will usually involve the completion of a project commenced in the first project course. Following from the project planning and initial execution completed in the first project course, the focus for this course is to execute, monitor and close an IT project. Acceptance criteria identified during the first project course must be included in an appropriate testing framework, with appropriate validation and verification performed. The complete project implementation and documentation will involve close consultation with the client.
•Working effectively in teams. Using a team charter.
•Estimating work and monitoring progress for completion.
•Executing, monitoring and delivering projects using agile techniques.
•Quality assurance. Verification and validation.
•Writing technical and non-technical documentation.
•Developing poster presentations.
•IT and related industry activity and research developments in the local community, and around the globe; ACS’s CBOK, SFIA and their relationship with industry; Career pathways. |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, inter-act and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display skills in-person and/or online in: • Using effective verbal and non-verbal communication • Listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Showing empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others. Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating a collegial environment • Showing self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect • Inspiring and convincing others • Making informed decisions • Displaying initiative | | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically • Evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Considering alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving. | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work fluently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Finding, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information • Collating, managing, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Contributing actively to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and benefiting from digital learning opportunities. | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in global economic environmental and societal contexts • Committing to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Evaluating ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Embracing lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • Implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life. | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | Professional Standards |
| 1. |
K1, K3 |
Engage in agile ceremonies to coordinate work in your project team and reflect on team processes. |
Individual report demonstrating evidence of engagement, contribution, leadership and reflections on outcomes from ceremonies conducted. |
15-20% |
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| 2. |
K3, S1, S3, A1, A2 |
Using industry tools and practices, each student contributes to work collaboratively in a team to create and deliver outcomes that deliver value to your client, solving an IT related problem. |
Project deliverables: technical reports or products with appropriate supporting documentation. Assessed based on individual contribution. |
30-40% |
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| 3. |
K1, K3, S2, S3 |
Create industry recognised artefacts and use appropriate tools to plan, estimate and monitor work completed and track progress in your project. |
Artefacts and project information radiators. Evidence of appropriate use of industry recognised tools and techniques for estimation and monitoring progress. |
15-30% |
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| 4. |
K2 |
Consult with a client, report on progress, give presentations to explain and justify solution and demonstrate work completed to a variety of stakeholders. Review and provide feedback to peers |
Presentations |
20-30% |
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| 5. |
S3 |
Each student will describe their independent engagement with industry resources or activities to research and evaluate alternative solutions, consider ethical impacts of decisions or learn new skills to support their project work. The student will discuss their work and reflect on their own skills development and relate it to the course's learning outcomes, CBOK and SFIA skills |
Journal or Essay. The student may also be requested to attend an interview to discuss this further. |
Hurdle task: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory |
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