COM4025 - Team Project (Employer Led)

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

In this module, students develop the soft and transferable skills that will enable them to collaborate successfully on a team project. In the first half of the semester, students are supported to develop group working skills through guided independent and group activities and encouraged to reflect on their personal strengths and areas for development. In the second half of the semester, students work intensively in teams to provide a software solution to a given business brief, setting understanding of software development within an applied business context. Through the team project, students integrate and apply the practical skills and knowledge gained from their previous modules in an employer-led project such that students gain valuable sector insights while demonstrating their capacity for critical self-reflection and growth. The content covers: • Model, design and deploy a software system using appropriate tools and technologies; • Work together as a team to plan, execute, and review a specified project; • Evaluate the ongoing development of self-confidence and team working skills, reviewing personal strengths and areas for development; • Practice basic security and risk management in the planning and delivery of a software project.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Group seminars
Hours: 30
Intended Group Size: Cohort

Workshops and supervised project work
Hours: 30
Intended Group Size: Cohort

Guided independent study
Hours: 90

Further details relating to assessment
All the assessment components designed in this module will serve as an integrated assessment of knowledge and skills obtained from other modules across the year. Students will have the opportunity to integrate and apply practical skills and knowledge in an employer-led project and gain sector insights.

Team Project (50%): An example team project (to illustrate scope and level):
Brief: Design an on-line retail system through which customers can:
- create an account
- purchase items from an on-line catalogue
- receive account information
- different classes of items are stored in a database
- on checkout the total to pay is displayed.
Students are expected to provide custom extensions to meet specified management report requirements. The marks awarded for the Team Project component shall be based on fitness of the solution. A single submission is required per team.

Employer involvement may include:
Contribute to the project brief
Serve as a product owner and conduct acceptance testing
Involve in sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives

Reflective report (40%): A reflective account of the project process. To be completed independently by each team member. Here, each student should reflect critically on the decisions taken by the team and on their own contributions, with reference to personal strengths and areas for development.

Peer assessment (10%): Each student must rate their team members against predefined criteria and provide them with constructive feedback. The mark they receive for this component is calculated from the marks awarded to them by their team.

In this module, formative assessment will be used to support the skills that contribute to the assessment. Formative assessment may include coding labs, design and modelling tasks, case study presentations, short quizzes, agile retrospectives, or specific research tasks. Formative feedback will be an ongoing process within class sessions.

Full details are available in the Module Handbook.
For students studying at Leeds Trinity campus, there are variations to the Taught Programme Academic Regulations, as required by the accrediting body, and these variations are contained within Additional Regulations.

Assessment:

001 Team project; aretefact; 2,000-word equiv; end of semester 2 50%
002 Reflective report; 1,000 words; end of semester 2 40%
003 Peer assessment; 500-word equivalent; end of semester 2 10%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Yashar Baradaranshokouhi
Level - 4
Credit Value - 15
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 4S2

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