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Lecture 12 - Assignment Guide

The document provides guidance for a computing project assignment, outlining the weekly plan, deliverables, presentation requirements, and general guidance. The assignment involves project planning, primary and secondary research, and producing two reports and a presentation evaluating the research and project management process.

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Lecture 12 - Assignment Guide

The document provides guidance for a computing project assignment, outlining the weekly plan, deliverables, presentation requirements, and general guidance. The assignment involves project planning, primary and secondary research, and producing two reports and a presentation evaluating the research and project management process.

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Managing a Successful

Computing Project
Assignments Guidance
Weekly plan

• Week 1: Planning
• Week 2: Primary Searching
• Week 3: Secondary Searching + Assignment 1 Report
• Week 4: Presentation
• Week 5: Reflection + Assignment 2 Report
Deliverables

• Assignment 1: report contains


– Evidence of Project management activities
• Project charter
• Project plan (WBS, WBS dictionary, Gantt chart)

– Evidence of research activities


• Primary research (qualitative and quantitative)
• Secondary research

– Evaluation of PM process and research process


Deliverables

• Assignment 2:
– Presentation slide
– Report including:
• Logbook provides evidence of the project development process
• Performance review provides evidence of reflection and evaluation of
the
project management process and individual performance
Presentation

• Introduction to project
– Current product
– Problems / disadvantages that needs digital wellbeing
– Research question
• Do digital technologies improve life or distract from it?
• What product features can (should) be designed to improve health and wellbeing
• Research results
– Primary research (qualitative / quantitative)
– Secondary research
– Each result need analysis & conclusion
• Conclusion
Guidance

• Read the brief and think about what the project brief is asking.
• Research what the project brief is asking. How can you approach the
problem, opportunity, hypothesis and requirements being posed?
• Apply a range of secondary research sources to plan/scope and
support the project and its findings. Secondary research sources
may include textbooks, journal articles, newspapers and magazine
articles (not factual accounts).
• Develop your project plan based on the deliverables of the project,
the constraints of the project and the assumptions made.
• Conduct your project according to your stated project plan and meet
with your tutor to receive a sign-off at each stage of the project
process.
Guidance
• Primary research sources may include original first-hand accounts, legal and
historical documents, results of experiments and market research data collection.
Apply both qualitative and quantitative research methods to evaluate data collected
from primary research.
• Keep notes of your progress throughout the project in your logbook. This is an
important record of your work and must be used to record the development of your
ideas and your progress through the project. The logbook should include:
• A record of what you did, when and what you were thinking.
• A record of where things went wrong and what you did to overcome any unexpected
results.
• You will be asked to reflect on the success of your project and your own
performance in a personal performance review at the end of the project. This is a
written reflection of around 500 words.

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