COURSEWORK weighted at 100% Learning Outcomes 1-5.
A portfolio of documented and evidenced completion of assignment work (circa 6000 words).
The assignment tasks will include hands-on practical experience of aspects of the indicative content to meet the learning outcomes together with reflection on the appropriateness of certain approaches and evaluation of the extent to which corporate operating procedures ensure compliance with legislation and codes of practice.

Indicative Content
System Lifecycles
Typical system life cycles and evolution.
The modelling of life cycle stages and modelling tools.
Data modelling (physical and logical).
An understanding of dynamic data structures
System maintenance and support issues.
System implementation issues.
Software System quality assurance.
Deming, SPC quality in manufacture.
Monitoring an ICT system
The interpretation of analytical and strategic results.
Presenting the results of an analytical process to an interdisciplinary/non-technical audience.
Business Process Modelling
Process Review Techniques
Change Management
The nature of change at work.
Mapping the flows of materials, money and data.
Use of formal information flow modelling.
Creation and uses of Dataflow Diagrams and their logicalisation.
Use of Entity Life Histories for transaction completeness anaylsis.
Risk analysis
Corporate risk analysis, main areas of contingency planning.
The Risk Register.
Risk assessment techniques.
Risk amelioration.
Compliance with legislation
Declaration of the purposes of data use; registration and penalties.
UK Freedom of Information Act 2000. Consumer Protection Act 1987.

The module content may be delivered in a series of tutorial sessions. Non-contact time will be used for independent research and workplace-based learning. An example delivery schedule would be 1*2-hour tutorial session/week for 12 weeks.
Work-based Component
Students are encouraged to spend at least 36 hours over the course of the module seeking re-enforcement of academic learning through practical experience in their own workplace. This will include investigation of how aspects of the taught material apply to the workplace through the use of worksheets and will inform the coursework assignment. Students will have access to a workplace based mentor While it is difficult to be prescriptive, Mentors will usually devote 12 hours in total to their mentees either on a one to one basis or in groups if possible. The time will be used to support the mentees in their completion of set tasks.
3.5 hours of Academic Tutor Contact time will be used for formative and summative reviews. Where necessary, reviews will be conducted virtually using appropriate tools. There will be five 30 minute-long formative reviews and a summative review lasting 1 hour.. Employer Feedback Forms will be completed by the work-based mentor and Self assessment forms will be completed by the student. These will inform the reviews
(12*2, 1:20) (5*0.5,1:1),(1*1,1:1)

You will need access to these resources:

The Module Handbook including schedule and module descriptor
The Module Workbook containing the case studies and worksheets for
Work-based re-enforcement of learning.
Text books, journals and web-sites in the module area
The Internet.
Word Processing and presentation graphics software for use in the coursework
Access to relevant hardware and software such as databases, spreadsheets in the work-place.
Staffordshire University has subscriptions to electronic book services such as Safari Tech Books, Ebrary and Netlibrary. There are titles in each of the collections that will support students studying this module. Staffordshire University has subscriptions to IEEExplore, ACM Digital Library, Elsevier Science Direct and Infotrac Computer Database all offering full text electronic access to journals and conference proceedings

None

Bott F et Al (2001), Professional Issues in Software Engineering (3rd edn), Taylor and Francis, ISBN: 0748409513
London and New York
Burnes B (2000) Managing change (2000) 3rd Edition London Financial Times. Pitman Publishing
British Computer Society code of conduct and code of good practice.