Availabilities:
Location | Domestic | International |
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China - Guangxi UST | N/A | |
Gold Coast | ||
Melbourne | N/A | |
Online | ||
Papua New Guinea - IBSU Port Moresby | N/A | |
Perth | N/A | |
Sydney | N/A |
Unit description
Equips students with the skills necessary to understand and actively manage programming and programmed systems. Explores concepts such as outsourcing, testing, system procurement, system integration and implementation management. In addition, students will be introduced to key techniques for project management of design, implementation and maintenance processes.
Unit content
1. Testing techniques: usability, unit, integration and others
2. Version management systems
3. Software procurement, evaluation and acceptance
4. Management of software development projects
5. Maintenance of software systems
6. Impact and management of modern trends in software and technology (Cloud, Mobile, etc.)
7. Other project management techniques applicable to information systems
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
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1 | Develop and implement plans for software testing in the areas of acceptance, usability, unit, integration and others |
2 | Create software procurement specifications and evaluate candidate proposals |
3 | Modify code and documents using a version management systems |
4 | Assess and discuss maintenance systems in large scale software projects |
5 | Analyse and recommend management actions due to the impact of current trends in information technology |
6 | Assess and recommend appropriate modern information technology project management techniques to a variety of model projects. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- Develop and implement plans for software testing in the areas of acceptance, usability, unit, integration and others
- Create software procurement specifications and evaluate candidate proposals
- Modify code and documents using a version management systems
- Assess and discuss maintenance systems in large scale software projects
- Analyse and recommend management actions due to the impact of current trends in information technology
- Assess and recommend appropriate modern information technology project management techniques to a variety of model projects.
Prescribed texts
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Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Fee paying courses
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International
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