Course overview
This course draws upon software engineering principles, practices and professional skills to produce mid-project deliverables for software development required by a client, while working in a project team. In this second course of three comprising the capstone project, students will contextualise their knowledge and skills from previous courses to achieve and present progress on developing a solution to an industry relevant problem. Through this approach, students will enhance their proficiency in problem solving, programming, project management, team organisation, stakeholder management, conducting presentation meetings and comprehension of enterprise governance practices. Students will research industry advancements and academic literature and report on a topic related to the project. The capstone project as a whole will equip students for their professional careers.
Course learning outcomes
- Produce mid-project deliverables within a specific context by applying software development skills, discipline knowledge and skills and project management techniques
- Justify the progress of the project and mid-project deliverables considering individual contributions and learnings
- Contribute to project development and testing as part of a team
- Describe the need for governance processes in IT organisations
- Describe current research-based knowledge and technical and/or creative skills in a topic related to the project
- Communicate complex information and concepts to broad audiences