Software Design and Development Project

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Work effectively as part of a team, recognising the different roles within the team, and reflecting on both your own and the team's performance
• Manage a project effectively
• Solve complex problems in creative and innovative ways

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Specify, design, develop, test and evaluate a prototype interactive software
• Apply appropriate engineering techniques and tools

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Agile methodologies for software project management
• User-centred and participatory design processes
• The main concepts that underpin the design of user interfaces
• The multidisciplinary nature of the design of software systems, and the range of contributory disciplines (software engineering, human factors, cognitive psychology, graphics design, ethics, etc.)

• Human-computer interaction
• User-centred and participatory design
• Requirements capture
• The software development lifecycle
• Agile methodologies for software project management
• Evaluation and user acceptance testing methodologies

Teaching and learning methods

The content of this module is delivered through lectures, the module website, directed reading and pre-recorded materials.

Students work on their understanding through a combination of independent study, preparation for timetabled activities and supervision meetings, along with formative assessments in the form of coursework assignments.

Students work on their practical skills, professional skills and technical understanding in peer discussions, design meetings and supervision meetings.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Fitzpatrick and Collins-Sussman . Debugging Teams .

Cockburn. Agile Software Development .

I. Sommerville (2007). Software Engineering . Addison-Wesley.

M. Fowler and K. Scott (1997). UML Distilled. Addison-Wesley.

Sims and Johnson. Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction .

T. Lethbridge and R. Laganiere (2005). Object-Oriented Software Engineering . McGraw Hill.

Cohn. User Stories Applied .

Assessment strategy

This module is assessed by a combination of coursework and a written examination.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.