Advanced Project

Unit code: NIT6150 | Study level: Postgraduate
Credit points
12
(Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
Location
City Campus
Footscray Park
Online Real Time
VU Brisbane
VU Sydney
Prerequisites
NIT5082 - Cloud Security; or
NIT5110 - Networking Systems; or
NIT5130 - Database Analysis and Design; or
NIT5150 - Advanced Object Oriented Programming; and
EPM5600 - Principles of Project Management; or
EPM5700 - Project Management and Information Technology
(Or equivalent to be determined by unit coordinator)
Overview
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Overview

Modern information technology projects are developed quicker and at a lower cost, often (but not always) by a team of IT professionals. In this unit, complex IT projects will be developed by students, considering the requirements and the maintainability of the final product. Each student will work on a project as a member of an IT project development team. The projects will focus on industrial and business IT applications such as intelligent systems, IoT systems, network systems, financial systems, and medical information systems. To successfully complete the project, students will be required to apply an advanced body of knowledge and specialist cognitive and technical skills in one or more IT areas, including user experience, cybersecurity, software development, database management systems, networking, wireless/mobile computing, intelligent systems, IoT, web-based and general application development environments. At the successful completion of this unit, students will be able to manage and contribute to current IT projects. Students will apply principles of professional ethics in their project development, considering human factors and privacy protection requirements.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

  1. Adapt and manage complex IT development processes;
  2. Analyse industry requirements, design and develop corresponding IT systems;
  3. Implement quality assurance and quality control mechanisms such as milestone testing and user acceptance testing;
  4. Create and maintain project documentation;
  5. Interpret and elucidate information to both specialist and non-specialist audiences; and
  6. Critically reflect understanding of human factors, privacy and professional ethics in practical project development.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment type: Report
|
Grade: 10%
Project Proposal
Assessment type: Report
|
Grade: 40%
System Analysis and Design Report
Assessment type: Project
|
Grade: 50%
Final System Delivery and Evaluation

Required reading

Required readings will be made available on VU Collaborate.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Graduate Diploma in Cyber Security
NGCS | Graduate diploma | Duration: 1 year
Master of Applied Information Technology
NMIT | Masters (coursework) degree | Duration: 2 years

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