Course information

Course Overview

This course will provide opportunity for BSc(IS) student to

• Develop an IT system or proof of concept application that satisfies a list of functional and quality requirements. Student will work with a team and practice their requirements gatherings, analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment and project management skills.
• Build the addition depth required to become a Business IT professional. This includes building up competence in the student's selected track, applying their learning domain knowledge and technology to the relevant track domain industry sector.

IS Project Experience Options

Student must work on a project that is aligned to the declared track (1st Major or 2nd Major).

• Student may choose to complete an IS Application Project or an IS Research Project.

IS Application Project	IS Research Project
Requirements + Scoping + Design and Development (POC) + Testing (System and User Testing)	Research + Data Collection + Solution approach + solution implementation + report
Implemented POC (Demo of the implementation is need)	Implementation (Demo of the implementation is need)
	Student with GPA >3.4

Prerequisites

Student must pass the following module:

• Software Project Management (IS212)
• 1 mandatory track core course
• 1 additional track core/elective course

Student must also be in year 3 or year 4. Do note that this is a mandatory course for ALL SIS (IS) undergraduate students.

Student who wish to complete an IS Research Project will need to have a GPA of > 3.4.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the course, student will be able to:

• Showcase expertise in executing a project using knowledge acquired from the courses taken from the IS curriculum
• Experience developing of some technology deliverable for an IT system or proof of concept
• Experience working in a team environment with a sponsored project (internal, external or self-proposed) using project management skills experience throughout the courses taken in IS
• Learn about an industry or technology that is related to his selected track not otherwise available in the course curriculum.
• Work on complex and real project used by the project sponsor

Stakeholders & Students

Stakeholders

• All track project will be manage by Track Coordinator of the corresponding track.
• Each project will have a faculty supervisor and a faculty reviewer.
• Sponsors/Mentors of the project may be an internal faculty or from the industry for external industry depending on the nature of the project.

Students

• All project must be completed in teams.
• Application project will consist of students of group size 4 to 6.
• Research project will consist of students of group size 2 to 3.
• Application project must be done only once
• Students are to self-form their teams prior to registration of the IS Project Experience course.
• Students from different cohorts are welcome and encouraged to work together.
• However, students of the same team will need to be from the same selected track.

Application Project	Research project
4-6 student members	2-3 student members
Sponsors/ Mentors	Sponsor is the supervisor (internal faculty)
Supervisor + Reviewer 1 + Track Coordinator	Supervisor + Reviewer 1 + Track Coordinator

Project Timeline and Milestones

Academic Term	Proposal/Acceptance	Midterm	Finals
Term 1	Week 0 - 1 (of the term)	Week 7-9	Week 13-15
Term 2	Week 12 - 13 (of the previous term)	Week 7-9	Week 13-15
Attendance	Students, TC	Students, TC, Supervisor, Reviewer, Sponsor (optional)	Students, TC, Supervisor, Reviewer, Sponsor (optional)

Grading

Grading components
Proposal/Acceptance [10%]
Midterm [30%]
Final Presentation [50%]
1 min Project Video [5%]
Poster [5%]

Individual grading
At the end of the course, peer evaluation ithin team (+ or -)

Roles and Responsibilities

Track Coordinator – (All Tracks)

• Create and maintain both course design documents for Track X (Application and Research)
• Arrange project briefing to students and supervisors- optional (Week 1)
• Manage the Requirements + Scoping of projects
• App Projects and Research projects
• Preparing the proposal doc outline and share with students
• Project requirements
• Alignment to track
• Time line
• Solution approach
• Technology
• Any preliminary design/analysis/research
• Manage Grading regulations
• App Projects and Research projects

Project supervisor Supervision is not track dependent. Faculty from any track can supervise the IS projects.

• Weekly/Bi-Weekly supervisions
• Tracking Project progress (PM skills)
• Participation during the milestones’ timeline
• Grading

Project Co-ordinator The project coordinator is the instructor who manages the admin aspects of the course

• IS Project process management
• Wiki management?
• Scheduling System Management?
• Policy management
• Posters Submission & Poster day
• Award Management (Awards - Best track project, Best IS project)

Resources

1. Proposal Template [docx]