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| PROJ0010-1 | Integrated software project, including fundamentals in project management
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| Duration : | 10h Th, 290h Proj. |
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| Lecturer : | Jean-Louis Binot, Bernard Boigelot, Benoît Donnet, Guy Leduc, Laurent Mathy |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| All year long |
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Course contents :
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| In this course, groups of 4 students will carry out a substantial integrated software project, which mainly builds on the knowledge, know-how and skills achieved during their bachelor studies (i.e., programming, software engineering, data bases, operating systems and networks), with the goal of consolidating and integrating them, while achieving a realistic project for real users. The project will include several phases, such as clarifying user requirements, designing the software architecture, implementing a prototype, and testing the system. Seminars and continuous project reviews will also be organized to teach fundamentals in project management and group coordination. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The project aims at developing the students' ability to carry out a realistic, complex and incompletely defined software project from the conceptual to the operational phase.
The students will also learn and practice actively project management, including project and team leadership, reporting, oral presentations and defence, thereby improving their autonomy, their abilities to work efficiently in groups, and their communication and writing skills. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| A bachelor degree in computer science or in engineering with a major in computer science. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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- Seminars on fundamentals in project management;
- Seminars on technical oral presentations;
- Monthly project reviews, including oral presentations;
- Feedback on technical progress and project management;
- Writing of a final report;
- Creation of a poster;
- Defence and demonstration of the project.
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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- Face-to-face seminars;
- Monthly review meetings;
- The project is mainly carried out remotely.
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Slides used during the seminars. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The evaluation will be based on:
- the intermediate review meetings (progress achieved, quality of project management) (40% overall, i.e., 10% per review meeting),
- the project completion report (15%),
- the delivered software (30%),
- the final project defence, poster and demonstration (15%).
A template is available for the project completion report, which should describe the project and the proposed solution with some justification of the design choices, its evaluation, some outstanding items and the lessons learned. The project defence consists of an oral presentation and a demonstration of the system, followed by a question/answer session.
The final grade takes account of the amount and quality of the achieved work, the quality of the written report and of the oral presentation, as well as the relevance of the provided answers. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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- Groups of 4 students, randomly chosen, while ensuring a diversity of student profiles in each group (e.g., computer scientists and engineers).
- Presence at the seminars and intermediate reviews is mandatory.
- The project will start at mid-September.
- The final report must be submitted by end of March.
- The defences and demonstrations will be scheduled in April.
- Detailed guidelines can be found at: http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~proj0010
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