- Project life cycle
- Project stakeholders
- Management skills
- Project planning
- Software cost estimation
- Work module design, assignment and version control
- Role of repository, project library and version control
- Contingency planning
- Reporting and controls
- Testing and testing plans: alpha and Beta

Including:
A Group ASSIGNMENT length 3000 WORDS weighted at 70% assessing Learning Outcomes 1 to 4 - This will involve the analysis, design and implementation of a required information system based on a given case study.

An Individual ASSIGNMENT length 1000 WORDS weighted at 30% assessing Learning Outcomes 1 and 4 providing the student's individual critical reflection on the group work.

The style of the module is based on a series of on-line worksheets that present material, refer you to internal and external references and guide you in further study. You will be expected to follow these references and others of your own to build on the body of knowledge presented in the worksheets.
You will work as a virtual team with other students enrolled on the module and build up an on-line project plan as you proceed.
Electronic learning strategies will be used extensively.

The 3 hours contact time will typically include provision of On-line, telephone and email support as necessary.

Software Engineering, A Practitioner's approach, Roger Pressman, 2004, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0071238409

Methods of IT Project Management, Jeffrey Brewer & Kevin Dittman, 2009, Prentice Hall; 1 edition, ISBN-10: 0132367254

Project Management and Project Network Techniques, 7/e, Lockyer & Gordon, 2005, Prentice Hall, ISBN-10: 0273693786

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