School: Business and Law

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

    Agile Projects
  • Unit Code

    PRJ6404
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Vish RAMAKONAR

Description

Agile projects are part of the family of adaptive approaches to Project Management (PM). This unit begins by providing a background to agile methodologies, their philosophy, values, and principles. Students will learn when and why agile approaches are used in projects together with the comparative theoretical and applied benefits of adaptive, hybrid and predictive methodologies. Students will explore the delivery lifecycle of agile projects through the lens of the Scrum framework. The unit will also allow students to critique the various instruments and techniques used to plan, create, and refine the product backlog, estimation of stories held within the backlog and planning, monitoring and control of sprint activities prior to delivering value to the client. Finally, students will analyse the challenges associated with implementing adaptive approaches in both projects and organisations.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will be offered in an accelerated mode over seven weeks.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to MAN6307

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the global development of adaptive and hybrid approaches in project management.
  2. Critically review authentic project management issues using strategic adaptive project management concepts.
  3. Communicate complex project management knowledge to diverse stakeholders in both written and oral formats.
  4. Use professional global adaptive project management standards, guides, and approaches, to complete an authentic and substantial agile case study to meet agreed deliverables.

Unit Content

  1. The origins of agile project management.
  2. Popular agile methodologies.
  3. Agile in software development projects.
  4. Agile in non-software projects.
  5. Agile leadership in projects.
  6. The future of agile project management.

Learning Experience

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

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAgile Assignment40%
Case StudyAgile Case Study40%
PresentationFinal Presentation20%

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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School: Business and Law

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

    Agile Projects
  • Unit Code

    PRJ6404
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Vish RAMAKONAR

Description

Agile projects are part of the family of adaptive approaches to Project Management (PM). This unit begins by providing a background to agile methodologies, their philosophy, values, and principles. Students will learn when and why agile approaches are used in projects together with the comparative theoretical and applied benefits of adaptive, hybrid and predictive methodologies. Students will explore the delivery lifecycle of agile projects through the lens of the Scrum framework. The unit will also allow students to critique the various instruments and techniques used to plan, create, and refine the product backlog, estimation of stories held within the backlog and planning, monitoring and control of sprint activities prior to delivering value to the client. Finally, students will analyse the challenges associated with implementing adaptive approaches in both projects and organisations.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will be offered in an accelerated mode over seven weeks.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to MAN6307

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the global development of adaptive and hybrid approaches in project management.
  2. Critically review authentic project management issues using strategic adaptive project management concepts.
  3. Communicate complex project management knowledge to diverse stakeholders in both written and oral formats.
  4. Use professional global adaptive project management standards, guides, and approaches, to complete an authentic and substantial agile case study to meet agreed deliverables.

Unit Content

  1. The origins of agile project management.
  2. Popular agile methodologies.
  3. Agile in software development projects.
  4. Agile in non-software projects.
  5. Agile leadership in projects.
  6. The future of agile project management.

Learning Experience

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

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAgile Assignment40%
Case StudyAgile Case Study40%
PresentationFinal Presentation20%

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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