Systems Development
MTB520
Overview
To enrol in this unit, you must be accepted into a course from the provider.
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Level of study: What does Postgraduate mean?
Postgraduate
EFTSL: What does EFTSL mean?
0.125
Delivery Method: What does delivery method mean?
Fully Online
Prerequisites: What are the prerequisites?
Duration:
13 weeks
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Domestic student fee:
$2,000.00 (AUD)
International student fee:
$2,225.00 (AUD)
Description
This unit provides knowledge and understanding of contemporary issues in systems development. It dissects various systems development lifecycles, methodologies, techniques and tools, exploring contexts in which they succeed and fail. Factors affecting the success of these methods are examined, along with comparisons of the values and principles that underlie these methods (eg. Agile vs Waterfall). The relationship and alignment between techniques, system and management issues, human capital and social capital will also be explored. Successful alignment involves coverage of: systems planning; requirements analysis; risk analysis; and design and implementation strategies for complex applications within medium and larger sized organisations.
Enrolment Restriction
In order to enrol in this unit, you must be accepted into one of the following courses:
- Graduate Certificate of Technology (Business Systems)
- Graduate Diploma of Technology (Business Systems)
- Master of Technology (Business Systems)
- Master of Information Technology Project Management
If you wish to seek approval to enrol in this unit without being accepted in a course, please contact OUA regarding the process.
Prerequisites
Equivalent units
You cannot enrol in this unit if you have successfully completed any of the following unit(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
- MTB140 — Managing the Transition to eBusiness
Assessment
- Analysis Task — Business analysis (20%-30%)
- Analysis Task — Systems analysis (30%-40%)
- Assessment — Task (10%-20%)
- Proposal — System proposal (30%-40%)
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this unit students will be able to:
- demonstrate an understanding of the elements of software engineering theory and practice involved in the implementation of commercial systems
- demonstrate an understanding of approaches to eliciting requirements in the development or choice of software systems
- demonstrate an understanding of options and risks in relation to implementing new systems such as: new development, purchasing existing packages and outsourcing
- identify and analyse the risks as they relate to meeting business needs with developed or purchased software
- demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentals of system analysis and design in the software construction process
- analyse a business or allied problem and design and document aspects of a possible solution using common modelling tools
- compare and contrast various systems development methodologies in terms of their suitability for, and alignment with, a given organisational scenario
- critically interpret current issues in software development methodologies and or change management and assess their impact on projects from a human perspective, as well as a technical standpoint
- evaluate the importance of various stakeholder concerns regarding systems success, whether the systems are developed or purchased, through a social capital perspective
- identify ethical issues related to working with multiple stakeholders in relation to trust and expectations.
Topics
This unit addresses the following topics.
| Number | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Organisational structure, business strategies and business models |
| 2 | The scope of systems development and analysis |
| 3 | Requirements analysis and management across stakeholders (social capital) |
| 4 | Human capital |
| 5 | Systems documentation |
| 6 | Systems life-cycle and software life-cycle models including Agile techniques |
| 7 | Scenario-based analysis techniques |
| 8 | Open source software development |
| 9 | The Unified Modelling Process (UML) |
| 10 | Object-oriented design |
| 11 | System and software design patterns, metrics |
| 12 | System and software engineering ethics |
| 13 | Why systems fail? Criteria of systems' success and fail |
Study Resources
This unit is delivered using the following methods and materials:
Instructional Methods
- Chat rooms
- Discussion Forum/Discussion Board
- Embedded Multimedia
- Online Quizzes/Tests
- Online assignment submission
- Podcasting/Lecture capture
- Standard Media
- Web links
Textbook information for this unit is currently being updated and will be available soon. Please check back regularly for updates. Alternatively, visit the Unibooks website and enter the unit details to search for available textbooks.
Relevant Courses
This unit is a core requirement in the following courses:
- Graduate Certificate of Technology (Business Systems), Swinburne University of Tnlgy
- Graduate Diploma of Technology (Business Systems), Swinburne University of Tnlgy
- Master of Technology (Business Systems), Swinburne University of Tnlgy
- Master of Information Technology Project Management, Swinburne University of Tnlgy
This unit may be eligible for credit towards other courses:
- Many undergraduate courses on offer through OUA include 'open elective' where any OUA unit can be credited to the course. You need to check the Award Requirements on the course page for the number of allowed open electives and any level limitations.
- In other cases, the content of this unit might be relevant to a course on offer through OUA or elsewhere. In order to receive credit for this unit in the course you will need to supply the provider institution with a copy of the Unit Profile in the approved format, which you can download here. Note that the Unit Profile is set at the start of the year, and if textbooks change this may not match the Unibooks textbook list.
