Success in Your Project A Guide to Student System Development Projects

Abstract

Projects are an important feature of most undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the fields of information systems, software engineering and business computing. Indeed, for the majority of computing-related degree courses, projects represent a mandatory double module, undertaken in the final year of study. As such, they make the largest single contribution to the final degree classification of many students. While a small number of students will undertake pure research projects, most will carry out a system development project that aims to deliver a business system, software component or technical infrastructure. This is usually supplemented with an element of research, and with critical analyses of the execution of their project and of the theory applied. System development projects are largely self-managed by students, with occasional supervision and review by a member of the academic staff.