ICT50220 Diploma of Information Technology – Project Assessment

by Harry / Wednesday, 15 November 2023 / Published in Computer Science

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Specific task instructions

The instructions and the criteria in the following tasks and activities will be used by the Teacher/Assessor to determine if the student has satisfactorily completed this assessment event. Use these instructions as a guide to ensure the student demonstrates the required knowledge and skills.

All the resources for the assessments are provided in the CI_ResearchAndQuality_Pro2of2_Appx (Long URL: https://share.tafensw.edu.au/share/items/2d0c9f88-6714-484a-bdfe-8e6021aebd24/0/?attachment.uuid=51bc91be-23f7-4d34-92fd-9dc5a6fd2283) folder.

Case Study Scenario

Scenario – Gelos Enterprises and Sports Warehouse

Review Gelos Enterprises and Sports Warehouse Scenario (Long URL: https://share.tafensw.edu.au/share/items/2d0c9f88-6714-484a-bdfe-8e6021aebd24/0/?attachment.uuid=51bc91be-23f7-4d34-92fd-9dc5a6fd2283) provided in the resources folder(CI_ResearchAndQuality_Pro2of2_Appx) before commencing other parts of this assessment. This scenario will provide you with an understanding of:

the relationship between Gelos Enterprises and Sports Warehouse, including the services Gelos Enterprises has been contracted to provide (including your role as the client web development lead for Gelos Enterprises)
the Sports Warehouse 3-year Strategic Business Plan for 2022 – 2025
the current Sports Warehouse computer infrastructure
Sports Warehouse job profiles
Sports Warehouse recent sales data

There is a wide range of additional business documents available on the Gelos Enterprises website (Long URL: https://share.tafensw.edu.au/share/file/d0b458dc-3922-409d-b1fe-9a2f785f4a38/1/GelosEnterprises.zip/index.html). You will need to log in with your TAFE student Username and Password.

Note: Not all documents on the Gelos Enterprises website are relevant to this assessment. Part of your assessment tasks will involve identifying relevant documents needed for the gathering of business requirements relating to the project brief.

Part 1: Gather Data

To complete this part of the assessment you will need to identify relevant sources of information to determine the business requirements to be fulfilled by Gelos Enterprises for their client Sports Warehouse. Ensure that you review the Case Study Scenario which contains key documentation provided by Gelos Enterprises and Sports Warehouse relevant to the project.

Task 1: Understand the business and project requirements

Review the Case Study Scenario which contains key documentation provided by Gelos Enterprises and Sports Warehouse and demonstrate your understanding of the client and their requirements by completing the following table. Ensure that your response includes an overview of the organisation, business needs, critical business factors, business priorities, existing infrastructure, and quality assurance requirements.
After reviewing the Case Study Scenario, determine the information resources and the data that are required based on the project requirements. Document your response in the following table (you may add or remove rows as you see fit).
Note: Information sources may include resources provided to you as part of the case study scenario, however, based on your understanding of the project requirements it is your role to determine if these are relevant to the project and if any additional information is required.
Complete the following table by identifying stakeholders and a minimum of four key stakeholders involved in this project. As part of your response:

list the role of the stakeholder
identify if this is an internal (works within Gelos Enterprises) or external stakeholder (works within Sports Warehouse or is another third party)
identify if the stakeholder is a key stakeholder who should be contacted as part of the information gathering process
describe how the stakeholder is relevant to the project including the type of information you expect to source from them.

Use the following table to document your answer. Add or remove rows as you see fit.

1.4 You are tasked with interviewing senior Sports Warehouse stakeholders. Develop at least 10 critical questions that you can use to interview executive level stakeholders to gather more information about the project and business requirements.

Your questions must be in plain English and include a mixture of open and closed questions. They must also not be loaded or leading questions.
You should also include questions that ensure you can confirm with stakeholder business critical factors relating to current and future directions.
Prepare your questions in a suitable format, for example, you might choose to use a PowerPoint Presentation or a Handout.

1.5 Identify the policies and procedures and quality assurance methodologies and confirm them with the Sports Warehouse stakeholders in the interview.

1.6 Review the Sports Warehouse recent sales data and complete the following table

Part 2: Key Stakeholder Meetings

Assessor Note:

For this part of the assessment, it is the role of the trainer/assessor to facilitate and engage with the student in two stakeholder role-plays divided into Task 1 and Task 2.

The student must demonstrate appropriate oral communication and interview skills, ensuring that they use appropriate information gathering techniques such as open questioning.

Relevant observations for this task can be found in the observation checklist.

Details are summarised in the following:

Task 1 – Student interview with Sports Warehouse CEO

For this task you will need to act as the Sports Warehouse CEO (or arrange a suitable person to do so such as another teacher). The student will interview you based on the questions they developed in Part 1: Task 1 to obtain a better understanding of the Sports Warehouse’s Strategic priorities in relation to the project.

Task 2 – Student interview with Sports Warehouse Operations Manager

For this task you will need to act as the Sports Warehouse Operations and Technology Manager (or arrange a suitable person to do so such as another teacher). The student will meet with you to confirm their understanding of the specific Sports Warehouse project requirements.

Task 1: Interview with Sports Warehouse CEO

Interview with Sports Warehouse CEO (role play/Script)

Complete your interview with the Sports Warehouse CEO, Elleanor Stephens, utilising the questions you prepared in Task 1, as well as any other items you would like to confirm. Ensure that you document all information gathered in the interview.

When completing the interview, you must also:

articulate your research and resource requirements clearly and direct discussion to elicit the views and opinions of Elleanor Stephens by using effective listening and open questioning techniques.
use a range of verbal responses and make comparisons that show an understanding of topics and concepts.
recognise and respond to both explicit and implicit protocols within your familiar work context (that is, as a Client Web Development Lead at Gelos Enterprises)
use a mix of intuitive and formal processes to identify key information and issues, evaluate alternative strategies, anticipate consequences, and consider implementation issues.
effectively undertake role play despite potential noise, interruptions and/or distractions.

After you have completed the interview, you should confirm your understanding of the information gathered with the key stakeholder. Draft an email (using the Gelos Enterprises email template) to Elleanor Stephens summarising and confirming the key information you gathered in the meeting. Ensure that your email:
- summarises your key findings from the information gathered in the interview.
- summarises your understanding of Sports Warehouse’s critical business factors and requirements relating to the current and future directions of the organisation and how this relates to the project.
- is approx. 150 – 250 words.

Task 2: Meeting with Sports Warehouse Technology and Operations Manager

Prepare for your meeting with Sally Cortez, the Sports Warehouse Operations manager by completing the following table. You should draw on your knowledge of the Case Study Scenario and the information you gathered in Part 1: Task 1 and Part 2: Task 1.

Meet with Sally Cortez, the Sports Warehouse Operations Manager to confirm your responses to Task 2.1. Document Sally’s responses including any feedback or corrections to your understanding.

What was are response

What did she say in the meeting

How did she feel

What improvement did she talk about

Script: It is important you focus on good oral communication and interview skills.

There are two tasks:
1. Task 1: Interview with the CEO: Use the question developed in Part 1 – Task 1, follow up with an Email using the template provided.
2. Task 2: Interview with Operation Manager: Confirm with her their understanding of the Company project requirements.

Script: It is important you focus on good oral communication and interview skills.

There are two tasks:
1. Task 1: Interview with the CEO: Use the question developed in Part 1 – Task 1, follow up with an Email using the template provided.

Part 3: Testing the Sports Warehouse website

Student note: this part of the assessment requires you to build on the Sports Warehouse website you developed as part of your work in Web Cluster 3. If you have not built the Sports Warehouse website yet as part of the course, your assessor may give you a pre-built alternate website to review and test. You will be required to review this website and perform quality assurance procedures over it. Refer to the following tasks for further details.

Task 1: Prepare to test your website

Before you commence testing your static website for Sports Warehouse complete a Quality Assurance plan.
Review the Sports Warehouse Website QA Checklist included as part of the case study scenario and enter “N/A” against any items you believe are not relevant to the project justifying your response in the same space.
Determine whether you will use a centralised, distributed or combined quality assurance methodology and justify your response
Based on your understanding of the case study scenario, what guidelines would you implement for the updating and loading of content to your website.
Summarise the specifications which you used to originally develop your website in Web Cluster 3.

Task 2: Testing the static website

Student note: In this task you will test and identify errors which may exist within your website. It is important to document these errors when completing this task, as in Part 4 of this assessment you will be asked to fix these errors and retest your website comparing the differences in your test results.

In-line with Sports Warehouse QA requirements, you must test the basic functionality of your website and document your results using the provided Website test documentation template.

In your response, you will need to outline the following tests performed and the initial tests results. The following testing must be completed and documented:

HTML/CSS validation

Use the W3C validation tools to validate your HTML & CSS to ensure that your markup and styling code is clean and correct. This will also help with cross-browser accessibility.

Document your results from both the HTML & CSS validation tools.

Cross-browser testing

Test your web page in 3 or more browsers including at least 1 mobile browser on a portrait phone (you can use a variety of browsers and operating system combinations) and document the differences in how your web page is displayed and operates across them.

Capture screenshots of your web page in the different browsers
Construct a summary of how they appear differently across browsers

Accessibility testing

Document your web page’s results from a Web Accessibility Evaluation tool. (Long URL: https://wave.webaim.org/).

Document your WAVE validation tool results.
Document any errors and how you fixed them (you don’t need to worry about the warnings if they are too specific/obscure).
Construct a paragraph outlining some other (hypothetical) potential accessibility issues you could face with your website and how you could address those issues.

Quantification of errors

List all errors observed in your initial tests and compare to the number of errors observed in your final tests.
Use Google Lighthouse to test the speed, performance and search engine optimisation of your website.
Using Google Lighthouse as a basis, create a list of benchmarks your website should meet and describe how reviews could be conducted to ensure continuous improvement of your website.
- Once you have completed the testing, draft an email to the Sports Warehouse Technology and Operations Manager, Sally Cortez using the Gelos Enterprises Email template.

Submit the website testing documentation (including completed email template) to your assessor.

NOTE: The documentation must be submitted as a PDF; no other formats will be accepted.

Submit the project for review:

website documentation (PDF)

Part 4: Rectify errors and retest your website

Student note: this part of the assessment requires you to retest on the Sports Warehouse website. You will be required to review this website and perform quality assurance procedures over it. Refer to the following tasks for further details.

Task 1: Rectifying errors in development

Rectify the errors you noted in Part 3: Task 2.1 and repeat all testing procedures documenting your results.
Compare your final test results to those obtained in Part 3: Task 2.1, noting how you rectified the errors identified.

Submit the website testing documentation (including completed email template) to your assessor.

NOTE: The documentation must be submitted as a PDF; no other formats will be accepted.

Submit the project for review:

website documentation (PDF)

Part 5: Research and evaluate emerging web technology trends

To complete this part of the assessment, you will be required to enhance the Sports Warehouse website using emerging web technology trends.

Throughout the different stages of the website development, you will have to follow quality assurance processes as outlined in the task instructions. Any feedback requested by the client must be recorded in a change request form. You must keep record of the history of the project development in a change log.

Task 1: Research emerging web technologies

Sally Cortez (Operations Manager) and Patrick Brown (Customer Service Officer) of Sports Warehouse have asked you to research, evaluate and implement some emerging web technologies that may improve the Sports Warehouse website. They have provided details for 3 additional website features and would like you to investigate technology solutions for each one.

Part 6: Implement emerging web technologies

Task 1: Implement the emerging technology solutions

Create a working demonstration for 2 of the features evaluated in Part 5. You should implement a working proof of concept that shows the Sports Warehouse staff how the emerging web technology could be used in the live website.

Task 2: Test the solutions

- Perform cross browser testing on your web application to test the web app in different browsers such as Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome using Browserling (Long URL: https://www.browserling.com).
- For each solution, describe any differences between how each browser handles the web technology you are demonstrating in the space provided.