School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Enterprise Architecture
  • Unit Code

    MAN6936
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    8
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Laizah MUTASA

Description

Strategic goals and business requirements should drive Information Technology (IT) solutions. The unit examines how Enterprise Architecture (EA) and enterprise modelling contribute to this process. Enterprise architecture is about understanding all of the different people, processes, business and technology elements that make up the enterprise and how those elements interrelate. The unit emphasises the importance of planning and managing IT from an architectural perspective and highlights how an agile enterprise architecture can more effectively support changes in business strategy. Students examine selected common EA frameworks and documentation so they can use modelling techniques that support strategy and business-driven views of the enterprise.

Prerequisite Rule

Students enrolled in L71 must have passed MAN5902 (Business Systems Analysis).

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MAN6930, MIS5707

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appraise the constituents of enterprise architecture.
  2. Evaluate global frameworks used for enterprise architecture and their application in different sectors including private and government.
  3. Assess how governance frameworks support the strategic alignment of enterprise architecture.
  4. Create enterprise architecture using standard notations to support strategy and business driven views of the enterprise.

Unit Content

  1. Enterprise architecture role in linking strategic, business and technology planning.
  2. The value and risks associated with completing an enterprise architecture.
  3. Common architectural approaches.
  4. Enterprise modelling techniques and tools.
  5. The governance role of enterprise architecture.
  6. Enterprise architecture as a profession.
  7. The dichotomy between the professed theory of enterprise architecture and its evidence in practice.

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 213 x 3 hour seminarNot 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

The unit focuses on the practice of EA as compared to the complex theory of EA demonstrated in recognised EA frameworks. EA frameworks are poorly adopted and provide little practical guidance. Alternatives are suggested and examined and supported by including industry guest speakers to present their use of EA in practice. The unit assessments seek to examine EA failure and to provide a logical process by which this can be examined. The learnings provide a strong base for determining the root causes of poor IT adoption generally.

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
ReportEA Essay40%
AssignmentEA modeling20%
ExaminationFinal examination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportEA Essay40%
AssignmentEA modeling20%
ExaminationFinal examination40%

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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