IMIS Business Information Systems Project

Course

In Leicester

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    Leicester

  • Duration

    1 Year

To analyse a business problem, plan, design, test, and implement a suitable solution. A social audit and legal compliance check will be required

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Location

Start date

Leicester (Leicestershire)
24 Millstone Lane, LE1 5JN

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Course programme

Theme: Embracing all Four Themes
Course: Higher Diploma
Module Title: Business Information Systems Project
Module Code: H36
Resources:

  • Software: CASE Tools, Visual Basic (at least V6), Access, Project Management Tool.
  • Students should have a working knowledge of the IMIS
  • Code of Ethics and be able to understand and apply the ethical and legal concepts contained therein

Project Time:

200 Notional Hours –50 hours guidance, 150 hours project development

Module Aim:

Students will be expected to analyse a business problem, plan, design, test, and implement a suitable solution. A social audit and legal compliance check will be required.

Prerequisites

Other modules need to be completed before to attempting this module. However, module can be taught in parallel with Information Systems Strategy and Database Development.

SPECIFIC COURSE AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES:

  • Evaluate the strategic options available to different business entitiesand the ways in which the business and information systems strategies can be aligned and integrated.
  • Evaluate a range of information systems solutions.
  • Examine the options for establishing and maintaining information systems integrity.
  • Model business situations to inform the development process using accepted standards.
  • Respond to a requirements specification by analysing and designing a contextually relevant solution.
  • Examine the social and legal impacts of developing and implementing information systems and the role played by Information Systems professionals in addressing such issues.
  • Determine effective strategies for managing information systems development.

MODULE AIMS:

  • To develop a student’s ability to plan, organise and work independently on,a selected problem, drawing on and extending ideas encountered in other study modules. (A1)
  • To provide the student with the opportunity to analyse a business problem and to specify, design, implement and test a software solution to an appropriate level of professional competence. (A2)
  • To develop the student's ability to communicate the work carried out, through means of a written report and a software demonstration. (A3)

MODULE LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Students should be able to:

A1:

  • Assess the scope and feasibility of a project requiring at least 150 hours of individual effort, to develop a cost-effective Information Technology (IT) solution to a business project. (LO1)
  • Use basic project management techniques to plan, organise, schedule and control their project. (LO2)

A2:

  • Review, select and employ relevant modelling methods and techniques within an appropriate development process to design, build and test a software product. (LO3)
  • Adopt a professional approach towards all aspects of an IT project. (LO4)

A3:

  • Produce a report to a professional standard, commensurate with the level of the programme of study, which describes the development process and the product, and includes technical documentation for the product. (LO5)
  • Prepare and give a short presentation on a completed project and demonstrate the software produced. (LO6)

DETAILED MODULE CONTENT:

LO1: Selecting and Defining a Project

  • Choice of project topic and identification of a relevant business project.
  • Definition of the problem and specification of a set of high-level objectives for the project.
  • Definition of the scope of the project in terms of its size and complexity.
  • Specification of a body of work that can be carried out and completed in the time available.

LO2: Project Management

  • Production of a project plan.
  • Identification of the main stages and milestones of the project.
  • Decomposition of stages into work products.
  • Identification of manageable chunks of work (manageable means 'can be achieved within 2 or 3 weeks').
  • Task analysis: identify tasks, estimate their duration, place them into an overall sequence of project tasks; and identify dependencies between tasks.
  • Simple project management tools and techniques and diagrammatic representation: for example, work breakdown structures, task tables, Gantt Charts.

LO3: System Development Approaches and Methods

  • Review and selection of an appropriate set of methods, i.e. a methodology, for carrying out analysis, design and implementation.
  • Review and selection of a development strategy: for example, the linear sequential model - sometimes called the waterfall model; the prototyping model; the Rapid Application Development (RAD) model; the evolutionary model; the incremental model; the spiral model.
  • Map of the stages, activities and deliverables of the project onto the selected development strategy.
  • Review and selection of development tools.
  • Technical solution adopted: for example, hardware/software choices; software architecture.
  • Documentation of software.
  • Build decisions: for example, bespoke software; application packages, code generator.
  • Test plan: what is to be tested; testing strategies: how testing is to be carried out; test data, test output.

LO4: Professional Approach

  • Adopting an engineering approach: undertaking investigation; selecting and applying methods in a disciplined manner; validating work; assessing risk and managing the work; using a disciplined approach to implementation; applying quality assurance techniques.
  • Social, ethical and legal concepts.
  • Professional codes of conduct: the IMIS Code of Ethics.

LO5: Project Report

  • Writing-up scholarly work; distinction between a dissertation and a report for managerial consumption.
  • Writing, structuring and formatting a report for an academic project.
  • Reflection on the development work carried out.
  • Appraisal of the end product.
  • Commentary on lessons learnt over the duration of the project.
  • Technical documentation.

LO6: Product Demonstrations

  • Oral presentations.
  • Software demonstrations.

IMIS Business Information Systems Project

Price on request