COIS20025 Assessment item 2—About Systems Development
Due date: 9am AEST, Monday of Week 6 ASSESSMENT
Weighting: 30% 2
Length: 1500 words (+/- 10%)
Objectives
This assessment relates to course learning outcomes 1, 2, 3 and 4 stated in the e-course profile.
Assessment 2 is an individual assessment. In assessment 2, you are assigned some tasks which assess your course knowledge gained between weeks 1 and 5 about different facets of systems development. All students will have to write a report showing the answers to the questions in all tasks.
Please note that ALL submitted A2-reports are passed through a computerized copy detection system and it is extremely easy for teaching staff to identify copied or otherwise plagiarised work.
• Copying (plagiarism) can incur penalties ranging from deduction of marks to failing the course or even exclusion from the University.
• Please ensure you are familiar with the University’s Plagiarism Policy, available from: http://policy.cqu.edu.au/Policy/policy_file.do?policyid=1245
The tasks
For the purpose of this assignment, you are assumed to be one of the consultants appointed to shoulder the system analysis responsibilities in ABC Information Services in the project as in the case study.
You will plan and manage the project as well as investigate and document the system requirements. For your Assignment 2 submission, you will produce a report that documents that discuss this project based on your understanding of it and the related investigation results through the tasks below.
Task 1: (10 marks)
Approach to Systems Development
• Compare the use of SDLC and agile development approaches. (5 Marks)
• Justify your choice of your selected approach to systems development. (5 Marks)
Task 2: (15 Marks)
Systems Requirements
• What are the primary functional requirements for the system in the case study? (10 Marks)
• What are the non-functional requirements for the system in the case study? (5 Marks)
Task 3: (15 Marks)
Project Cost Benefit Analysis
• Discuss your Project Cost Benefit Analysis (7.5 Marks)
• Provide an excel spread sheet with details in a Project Cost Benefit Analysis (7.5 Marks)
Task 4: (20 Marks)
Project Schedule
• Show a work breakdown structure and a project schedule (as a Gantt Chart). Explain each of them and discuss how they relate. (10 Marks)
• Given the system goals, requirements, and scope as they are currently understood, is the project schedule reasonable? Why or why not? (10 Marks)
Task 5: (25 Marks)
System Information Requirement Investigation Techniques
• The stakeholders involved. (5 Marks)
• Explanation of your chosen 3 most useful investigation techniques. (10 Marks)
• Justify the usefulness of the 3 investigation techniques. (10 Marks)
The Report (Important: The report makes up 100 marks - to scale to 30%)
You will produce a report that aims to explain your systems analysis results. Your produced a report that is within the following structure, format and details. In the report, you have to strictly follow the presentation wordings, structure and contents as follows:
Report Layout and Submission Guidelines
As in a separate template file “COIS20025Assessment2TemplateFile” (in MS Word) provided to you, the report for ‘Systems Development’ has been organised using the following headings and guidelines. Please observe the word count in each section when developing your report:
• Title Cover Page with clear details of course title/name, student number/name, lecturer & tutor (Provided in template file) *Not for word count
• Introduction (Provided in template file) *about 100 words
o It clearly defines the aims of the report.
o It identifies the project objectives.
• The Approach to Systems Development - in Task 1 *about 250 words
o Write about your comparisons for the use of SDLC and agile development
o Write about your justifications for the chosen approach to system development
• Systems Requirements- your answers for questions in Task 2. *about 250 words
o What are the primary functional requirements for the system in the case study?
o What are the non-functional requirements for the system in the case study?
• Project Cost /Benefit Analysis – Task 3 *about 200 words
• Project Schedule - Task 4 *about 200 words
o How is the work breakdown structure in the project as well as the project schedule Gantt Chart? What are they and how they relate to each other?
o Given the system goals, requirements, and scope as they are currently understood, is the project schedule reasonable? Why or why not? Task 4.
• System Information Requirement Investigation Techniques - Task 5. *about 250 words
o The stakeholders involved.
o Explanation of your chosen 3 most useful investigation techniques.
o Justification of the usefulness of the 3 investigation techniques.
• Reflections and Conclusions *about 100 words
o Present your reflections about this project (e.g. achievement and constraints).
o The conclusions are a summary of your findings.
• References (must complete by showing 1 or more references with their related in-text citations) *Not for word count
Note: The recommended numbers of word in each section in the report are to be used as a rough guide.
Help
To help the student members communicate, forums are created for your use on the course Moodle website for the purposes of Assessments 1 and 2. Please use them for your greatest benefits.
Help on writing reports is contained in the Faculty Guide for Students – Chapter 4 – available here:
http://www.cqu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/2289/Extract-of-Chapter-3.pdf
You may also benefit from a video supplied by the CQUniversity Communications Learning Centre available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0v9ekxeoko

Assessment criteria
Assignment 2 marking guide
Marks for Assessment 2 will be allocated as follows:
TOPIC Weight Mark
Introduction (5 marks)
Clearly defines the aims of the report
Identifies the project objectives.
2.5
2.5
Approach to Systems Development - Task 1 (10 Marks)
• Compare the use of SDLC and agile development approaches.
• Justify your choice of approach to systems development.
5
5
Systems Requirements - Task 2 (15 Marks)
• What are the primary functional requirements for the system in the case study?
• What are the non-functional requirements for the system in the case study? 10
5
Project Cost Benefit Analysis - Task 3 (15 Marks)
• Discuss your Project Cost Benefit Analysis
• Provide an excel spread sheet with details in a Project Cost Benefit Analysis 7.5
7.5
Project Schedule - Task 4 (20 Marks)
• The project work break down structure & schedule - Gantt Chart
• Explain that given the system goals, requirements, and scope as they are currently understood, is the project schedule reasonable? Why or why not? 10
10
System Information Requirement Investigation Techniques – Task 5 (25 Marks)
• The stakeholders involved.
• Explanation of your chosen 3 most useful investigation techniques.
• Justification of the usefulness of the 3 investigation techniques.
5
10
10
Reflections and Conclusions (5 marks)
• Present your reflections about this project (e.g. achievement and constraints).
• The conclusions are a summary of your findings.
2.5
2.5
References 5
TOTAL: 100
Assessment mark will be weighted to 30%.