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ISIT 351
IT Project
Annual 2012 AUTUMN LECTURE 01
Introduction & Administration

Some people youll meet

Lecturer & Co-Ordinator: Dr Bob Brown
eMail: bobbrown@uow.edu.au Office: 39.108 Phone: x3758 Consultation:<subject to change>
Monday 13:30-14:30 Tuesday 08:30-10:30
All other times by appointment ONLY

ADMIN STUFF

Tutors: Andy & Bob & Dane

(in alphabetical order)

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THIS IS YOUR

CAPSTONE
SUBJECT

This is your chance to show us what youve learned over the last few years

Subject Description

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This subject is a group project, conducted under the supervision of an academic staff member(s). Staff members will propose real-world IT projects ranging from the selection and implementation of IT to the development and implementation of software systems. Involves: project planning, group coordination, seminars and individual presentations, research of proposed application domain, preparation of reports and, depending on the project, various system development methodologies. Students will form teams, each of which will design, implement and document a solution to one of the proposed projects. Teams will meet weekly with supervisors to discuss progress and problems.

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Subject Objectives

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On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to: 1. gather necessary information about the domain of their problem 2. develop a project plan for a small group working on an IT problem 3. execute that plan to produce a viable solution to an IT problem 4. communicate effectively (both orally and in writing) the results of their investigation 5. communicate effectively with their team members

Provisional Enrolment
I *may* be able to waive the pre-req in some cases NO GUARANTEES

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Will be considered on a case-by-case basis

See your Degree Co-Ordinator & *fix* your workload/schedule before I can even consider anything else

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Provisional Enrolment
>NOTE:

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As this is a CAPSTONE subject, I must assume that you are TOTALLY familiar with the concepts from previous topics (DFDs, UseCase etc) So it is up to YOU to keep up

This will probably require a considerable amount of independent extra study.

Attendance Requirements
according to UOW regulations:

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It is the responsibility of students to attend all lectures, tutorials, labs, seminars, practical work etc. for all of the subjects in which you are enrolled. It should be noted that the amount of time spent on each 6 credit point subject should be at least 12 hours per week, including lectures, tutorials & labs etc. thats all lects & labs PLUS 8 hpw of your Facebook time Full Time student = FULL TIME JOB .. (3 subj = 36 hpw) Satisfactory attendance is deemed by the University, to be attendance at approximately 80% of the allocated contact hours. To maximize learning outcomes, it is strongly recommended that students attend all lectures. Failure to meet minimum attendance will result in a Technical Fail

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Schwalbe, K. (2010)
Information Technology Project Management (6th ed). Cengage learning.

ADMIN STUFF *OR* Pinto, J.K Project Management

achieving competitive advantage Pearson pub.

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Week
1

Proposed Topic
Intro: Assessment, approach and IT project management What is project management? who is the project manager? The IT Context in project management Why do so many IT projects fail Special Guest lecture The project management process SDLC - SAD - RE - BPM Methodologies, methods, techniques & tools Project Integration Management Project scope management - the WBS Project human resources management Group Presentations Review
No tutorial

Reading

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Chapter 1 Textbook, Individual Reflective Report due Chapter 2 Textbook Prepare questions for special Guest Chapter 3 Textbook Microsoft Project Tutorial in class quiz Student Project work Student Project work Chapter 4 Textbook Chapter 5 Textbook Chapter 9 Textbook

3 4

6 7 8 9 10 11

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Student Project Report Part A due Project presentations due

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Preparation for Spring Semester

Tutorial Classes no tutorial classes in week 1

ALSO PLEASE NOTE: there will be no tuts in week 8 due to the ANZAC Day Holiday so tuts will run to week 13

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1: Mon.17:30-19:30.3.122 2: Mon.17:30-19:30.3.123 3: Wed.08:30-10:30 .3.123 4: Wed.15:30-17:30.3.123

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GROUPS
YOU DO NOT CHOOSE YOUR TEAM !
To emulate the real world workplace, your group will be assigned to you
And NO. You cannot swap for any reason.

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It will be a RANDOMN selection, with some consideration to spreading skills etc.

Formation Politics Meetings Conflict resolution

ASSESSMENT ITEM

% OF FINAL MARK

GROUP/ INDIVIDUAL

DUE DATE

AUTUMN SESSION
1. Tutorial participation & individual reflective report

10% 25% 5% 15% 25% 20%

Individual

Weeks 2-12 AUTUMN SESSION Due in tutorials

2. Project Report Part A: Group incl Presentation

Group Individual

Week 12 AUTUMN SESSION

3. In class quiz

Week 6 AUTUMN SESSION in tutorial Class

SPRING SESSION
5. Mini-Deliverables

Individual Group Individual

SPRING SESSION: eek 5, Week 6, Week 8, Week 10

7. Project Report Part B: Group

Week 12 SPRING SESSION

8. End of Spring Session Exam

Exam Week SPRING SESSION

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WebCT - eLearning
This subject will make extensive use of eLearning
Make sure you can log on
(thats your responsibility)

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Lecture notes will become available there

(but DONT contain sufficient information for you to pass without attending class)

Most assignments will be submitted through drop-boxes Your Group Work project may involve use of WebCT discussion boards appropriate (ie: professional) online conduct is required at all times it is a factor in your assignment marks

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This subject is in two distinct CHUNKS

IS Design Proposal Project Management

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$3.1m Parliament House website a year late

February 14, 2012 smh.com.au

A "major breach" of Australia's Parliament House computer network partly contributed to a $600,000 cost blowout &12-month delay in constructing the newly designed parliament website which is due to launch to the public this Friday evening. Revealed in senate estimates yesterday, the total cost of the new aph.gov.au site, which was meant to go live February 2011, had so far come to about $3.1 million The cost blowout and delayed launch follows a botched IT upgrade deployed in December, which brought the parliament site down for 3 days, and attacks on the website by the loose-knit hacking collective Anonymous over Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's internet filtering policy. The new site - which people inside parliament have had access to since the middle of January this year - replaces the current one which has been in place for 12 years and will offer "significant new functionality.

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Computer failure let parole violators commit murder: report

April 19, 2011 smh.com.au Seven criminals who had breached their parole orders had committed murder while out of jail and were not identified as parole violators because of a failing in Victoria Police's computer system. The seven had either been charged with other offences while on parole or had acted in a way that have led their parole being cancelled if police had known of their situation at the time. A failing in the police LEAP computer system meant they had been allowed to commit murder when they should have been locked up. A secret police report revealed the murders could have been prevented if police who dealt with the offenders over other matters had known they were on parole. Detective Superintendent Gerry Ryan said the computer issue was in the process of being resolved. ''It's currently in the process of happening these things take time unfortunately,.

Technology failure misrouted hiker's 911 calls June 18, 2009 smh.com.au
A lost hiker who was killed in a helicopter crash after her rescue last week called 911 repeatedly, but was initially routed to non-emergency lines lacking the technology to help locate her, authorities said. Megumi Yamamoto, a University of New Mexico graduate student from Japan, dialed 911 after getting lost in the Sangre de Cristo mountains when she and her boyfriend became separated. She and State Police Sgt. Andy Tingwall were killed when the helicopter sent to rescue her crashed in stormy weather the night of June 9. Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano said that such misrouted calls have not occurred in more than a year, after the installation of technology that uses cell phone tower signals to narrow a person's location to within a 2-square-mile area through triangulation.

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Reasons for Project Failure

Incomplete or changing requirements Limited user involvement Lack of executive support Lack of technical support Poor project planning Unclear objectives Lack of required resources

Its about PEOPLE

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Website or app: what should startups build first? February 8, 2012 smh.com.au
Roamz founder, Jonathan Barouch says an app was an obvious choice for his business. Apps are becoming so popular that some start-ups are bypassing a website in favour of developing their own smartphone tool. Barouch says We're a location-based service that people access with their phones, so it made sense for us to focus on the app. We do have a basic website and we're working on a full-blown site, but the easiest win for us initially was the app. The advantage of building an app distributed through the Apple store is the global reach this gives the business. People all over the world now use roamz someone has just uploaded a shot of a lolly shop in Santa Maria in the US. If we'd been a web-based business, achieving this reach would have been much more difficult,

Who are your stakeholders?

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Model client/users/stakeholders

Draw stick figures? Guess? Ask them?

Ask em what?
Do they even KNOW?

If any mere algorithm could yield a perfect solution to multi-dimensional constraint-satisfaction problems then
thered be NO engineers, architects or designers
Just skilled workers (brick layers, plumbers, programmers)

youre not here to become a worker, but hopefully, an employable & PROFESSIONAL decision maker
&, as responsible ethical professionals, you must be able to live with your decisions!

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So what is this DESIGN stuff ? WHEN is it? WHY is it? WHO does it? WHAT do they do?

I think its a series of TRADE-OFFs to SATISFY all of a projects NEEDS (requirements)

AND

a maximal subset of WANTS (options)

WITHIN

A bunch of given (& unexpected) Constraints

Time (inc. speed) Money (up front; construction, operation, maintenance, depreciation) Materiel (equipment, saw materials, supplies) Personnel (stakeholders; users; staff; skills; training; wages etc) Legal (Legislation; Regulation; Standards; Copyright IP; TradeLaws etc) Technical etc

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Predictive vs. Adaptive

Predictive design
Assumes the system is well understood
development project can be planned & organised in advance, then developed according to the plan

Adaptive design
Assumes that system requirements are not well understood
Some requirements may only emerge after some preliminary development work

Toolbox vs Cookbook
Toolbox
A suite of techniques & tools
Up to the expert to use them the best way
[BUT: how do you

become an expert?]

Cookbook
Methods & techniques are pre-defined & prescribed by some methodology

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Functional requirements vs. Non-Functional requirements

Functional
fundamental or essential describe what the product has to do, or what processing actions it is to take
(Atlantic Systems Guild 2007)

Non-Functional
Not what a software will do, but how it will do it
(Thayer 1990)

can be subjective [..] & relative..

(Chung, Nixon, Yu & Mylopoulos 1999)

properties [..] such as performance & usability these requirements are as important as functional reqs for a projects success
(Atlantic Systems Guild 2007)

METHOD ?
What are the first steps TOWARDS being able to make a design ?

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*some* Methodologies
Process Oriented STRADIS/YSM/JSD Blended SSADM/Merise/IE etc Object Oriented OOA/RUP etc Rapid development RAD/DSDM/XP/WISDM People Oriented ETHICS/KADS/CommonKADS Organization Oriented SSM/ISAC/PI/PRINCE etc Frameworks Multiview/SODA/CMM/Euromethod Activity Oriented ATSA/ATSA-OO

HOMEWORK
Go learn about:
COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING
What is VETAB ? What in an RTO ?

EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
Mining, Quarrying etc

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