COM4015 - Technology in Business

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:

Software development occurs within a business context and from the design stage onward consideration of a range of commercial, legal, and technological constraints are required. These requirements have driven organisational changes in the working culture (structures and methods of businesses). In this module, students explore the drivers for a technology project:

• reducing cost (staffing, Back Office, technology);
• increasing profit (new sales opportunities, increase conversion rates, new markets);
• costs of new technology (capital, operating);
• building a business case for technology: requirements, solution selection, procurement, implementation, and cost benefit analysis;
• delivery styles: Agile, Waterfall organisations, Collaboration, KanBan and Scrum;
• governance and regulation (including General Data Protection Regulation), stakeholder management, and event storming.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Workshops
Hours: 36
Intended Group Size: Cohort

Guided independent study
Hours: 114

Further details relating to assessment
Pitch with Project Plan: Pitch and plan based on business problem in the context of people, planet and profit. Students will pitch their plan as a group for designing a system and consider the implication of such a system on stakeholders, data protection, health & safety, jobs and employment laws, environment, and national, or/and international economy. The pitch presentation will be followed by 15 minutes of questions. The Project Plan is also assessed as a teamwork (1,500 words), should inform the pitch and be tested through the questions. This should be scheduled at the end of the semester in order to prepare students for COM4025 Team Project module.

Unseen/open book Exam: When the module is delivered by an overseas franchise partner, the final pitch and project plan may be replaced by a 2-hour unseen/open book exam. In this exam students are permitted to bring notes and texts into the exam room. They are then presented with an unseen scenario in which they must apply concepts from the course. For example, this could be to outline a project plan in response to a business problem that is presented.

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

For details regarding, pitch with project makeup, assessment, marking criteria, and schemes, research ethical approval, and grading, students will be referred to 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 Pitch with project plan (Group work); Viva (5 mins + 15 mins questions) + project plan (1,500 words); end of semester 1 100%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Jim Diokou
Level - 4
Credit Value - 15
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 4S1

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