Course overview
This course draws upon software engineering principles, practices and professional skills to produce mid-project deliverables for software development required by a client, while working in a project team. In this second course of three comprising the capstone project, you will contextualise your knowledge and skills from previous courses to achieve and present progress on developing a solution to an industry relevant problem. Through this approach, you will enhance your proficiency in problem solving, programming, project management, team organisation, stakeholder management, conducting presentation meetings, and comprehension of enterprise governance practices. You will research industry advancements and academic literature and report on a topic related to the project. The capstone project as a whole will equip you for your professional careers
- Selling Your Project
- Project Closure
Course learning outcomes
- Produce final project deliverables within a specific context by applying software development skills, discipline knowledge and skills and project management techniques.
- Make a significant, evidence-based contribution to a project as part of a project team.
- Justify and defend the success of the project and final deliverables in terms of quality, robustness and alignment with client requirements and expectations, considering individual contributions and key learnings to enhance future project outcomes.
- Demonstrate reflective practice by analysing delivery and individual contribution, documenting lessons learned and improvements to drive continuous professional development.
- Prepare comprehensive product documentation and facilitate the handover process to the client and effectively communicating the value of your product to the client.
- Communicate complex information and concepts to broad audiences.
- Consider the cultural and ethical aspects of the project and justify the decisions made.