KV5037 - Computing Consultancy Project

You will learn through lectures, workshops, and independent learning. The lectures will cover consultancy and project management theories and concepts that will enable you to work effectively within your team. You will work on these during workshops within the collaborative workspaces in Northumbria’s CIS building computer labs.

You will be supported by lecturers during the timetabled sessions when you will receive feedback, guidance, and support with your client and consultancy project. The University’s eLearning Portal offers remote access to all lecture and seminar materials to reinforce your learning. In addition, the university library offers support for all students through providing electronic resources.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:
MLO1 You will be able to recognise the role of a consultant and associated professional issues.

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
MLO2 You will learn to interact professionally with real clients and use and apply appropriate project management techniques to your consultancy activity.
MLO3 You will be able to identify appropriate solutions to a range of well-defined and abstract problems both on an individual and group basis.
MLO4 You will be able to present your chosen solutions using logical and reasoned arguments.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
MLO5 You will be able to differentiate between the module requirements and the reality of business/organisational requirements.

Assignment 1 – (50%) Reflective Log (2,000 words): documenting and reflecting upon your approach to meeting the general and specific requirements of the project brief which you have been assigned.

Assignment 2 – (50%) Group Work (10,000) To develop your individual skills in consultancy related activities.
If the assessment is completed by groups of more than one student, then a rigorous Peer Assessment mechanism is employed to ensure a fair distribution of marks based upon students’ individual contributions to the project.

MLO1, MLO3, MLO4, and MLO5.
Feedback is verbal or via notes made to students work.
Continuous formative feedback and advice is provided on, student engagement with external clients, team dynamics and communication. This is and tutors for all assessed components.

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This module is designed to deepen your knowledge and enhance employability, acquiring hands on experience working on a real-life project, an experience that is directly transferrable to industry and the world of work after your graduation. You will enhance your abilities as a problem solver with valued investigative, theoretical and practical skills to implement a solution as part of a consultancy team. The computing sector is a wide discipline in which professionals can find themselves working within a number of different roles and specialisms, each requiring a specific skillsets, knowledge and behaviours. You will work as a member of a team bringing your own skillset to a project with a specific set of requirements which will be negotiated with the client. These requirements could be technical, organisational or commercial and the consultancy project will align to your degree specialism. The final deliverable will be a client-oriented solution along with a report and reflective log.