School: Science

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Principles of Project Management
  • Unit Code

    CSI6219
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr David Michael COOK

Description

This unit provides a practical introduction to the principles of project management in an information technology context.The unit covers project definition, planning, execution, management and control, and implementation. Topics include quality, issue and risk management, project scope management, development strategies and methodologies relating to the software development life cycle, creating and managing a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), project management software, team and organisational management issues in software development projects and communications.

Prerequisite Rule

Students enrolled in course I45 must have passed CSI6207. Students enrolled in course L33 must have passed CSI6199.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CSI5113

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of cross cultural and indigenous issues in a project management context.
  2. Implement a project administration framework for a substantial project
  3. Manage and control issues associated with complex information systems projects.
  4. Manage the software development life-cycle of substantial information systems projects.
  5. Plan detailed project documents for an information systems project to meet strategic and operational objectives based on an appropriate software development life cycle strategy.
  6. Reflect on organisational and team dynamics and issues within substantial information systems projects.

Unit Content

  1. Dealing with clients and stakeholders: managing change, building and managing project teams, managing conflict.
  2. History and development of project management as a discipline: basic principles, the project life-cycle, project management terminology.
  3. Introduction to Software Engineering: concepts relating to the software development cycle.
  4. Post project reviews and evaluation using internationally recognised IT management standards.
  5. Project administration: tracking and monitoring, reporting project progress and outcomes, presentations.
  6. Project adoption (includes project initiation), project implementation, project integration and project termination, communicating project objectives.
  7. Project initiation: strategic and operational planning frameworks, establishing project goals and objectives, deliverables, process models.
  8. Project management tools and techniques, work breakdown structures, Gantt charts, project management software.
  9. Project planning: scoping, resourcing, costing, scheduling, presentation.
  10. Quality, risk and issue management.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour workshopNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, guest speakers and team based discussions.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentWeekly cumulative assessable exercises20%
ReportMajor Team Report30%
Reflective PracticeVideo Reflection20%
TestEnd of semester Test30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentWeekly cumulative assessable exercises20%
ReportMajor Team Report30%
Reflective PracticeVideo Reflection20%
TestEnd of Semester Test30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

CSI6219|2|1

School: Science

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Principles of Project Management
  • Unit Code

    CSI6219
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr David Michael COOK

Description

This unit provides a practical introduction to the principles of project management in an information technology context.The unit covers project definition, planning, execution, management and control, and implementation. Topics include quality, issue and risk management, project scope management, development strategies and methodologies relating to the software development life cycle, creating and managing a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), project management software, team and organisational management issues in software development projects and communications.

Prerequisite Rule

Students enrolled in course I45 must have passed CSI6207. Students enrolled in course L33 must have passed CSI6199.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CSI5113

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of cross cultural and indigenous issues in a project management context.
  2. Implement a project administration framework for a substantial project
  3. Manage and control issues associated with complex information systems projects.
  4. Manage the software development life-cycle of substantial information systems projects.
  5. Plan detailed project documents for an information systems project to meet strategic and operational objectives based on an appropriate software development life cycle strategy.
  6. Reflect on organisational and team dynamics and issues within substantial information systems projects.

Unit Content

  1. Dealing with clients and stakeholders: managing change, building and managing project teams, managing conflict.
  2. History and development of project management as a discipline: basic principles, the project life-cycle, project management terminology.
  3. Introduction to Software Engineering: concepts relating to the software development cycle.
  4. Post project reviews and evaluation using internationally recognised IT management standards.
  5. Project administration: tracking and monitoring, reporting project progress and outcomes, presentations.
  6. Project adoption (includes project initiation), project implementation, project integration and project termination, communicating project objectives.
  7. Project initiation: strategic and operational planning frameworks, establishing project goals and objectives, deliverables, process models.
  8. Project management tools and techniques, work breakdown structures, Gantt charts, project management software.
  9. Project planning: scoping, resourcing, costing, scheduling, presentation.
  10. Quality, risk and issue management.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour workshopNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, guest speakers and team based discussions.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentWeekly cumulative assessable exercises20%
ReportMajor Team Report30%
Reflective PracticeVideo Reflection20%
TestEnd of semester Test30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentWeekly cumulative assessable exercises20%
ReportMajor Team Report30%
Reflective PracticeVideo Reflection20%
TestEnd of Semester Test30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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