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PROM02 Assignment 3 – Viva & Appendices

University of Sunderland

School of Computer Science

PROM02 – Masters Project Module

Assignment 3 of 3 – Viva & Appendices

This assignment contributes 30% to your final module mark. This is divided into two elements: Viva and Appendices.

The following learning outcomes will be assessed:

Knowledge

K3 An understanding and critical awareness of project management concepts, techniques and tools for the management of projects

K4 Advanced knowledge in a specialised area of the relevant discipline

Skills

S7 The ability to reflect objectively on method, process and outcome of the project.

S8 The ability to independently critique relevant current literature, conduct empirical research or advanced technical or professional activity, in the area under study demonstrating self-direction and originality in tackling and solving problems or conceptualising solutions.

S9 The ability to deal with complex issues in the area of study both systematically and creatively making informed judgements in the absence of complete data.

Important Information

You are required to submit your work within the bounds of the University Infringement of Assessment Regulations (see your Programme Guide). Plagiarism, paraphrasing and downloading large amounts of information from external sources, will not be tolerated and will be dealt with severely. Although you should make full use of any source material, which would normally be an occasional sentence and/or paragraph (referenced) followed by your own critical analysis/evaluation. You will receive no marks for work that is not your own. Your work may be subject to checks for originality which can include use of an electronic plagiarism detection service.

Where you are asked to submit an individual piece of work, the work must be entirely your own. The safety of your assessments is your responsibility. You must not permit another student access to your work.

Where referencing is required, unless otherwise stated, the Harvard referencing system must be used (see your Programme Guide).

Please ensure that you retain a duplicate of your assignment. We are required to send samples of student work to the external examiners for moderation purposes. It will also safeguard in the unlikely event of your work going astray.

Submission Date and Time	As per schedule
Submission Location	Via Canvas for Submission; Viva times will be allocated
Estimated Time on Submission	40 hours

Overview of Assignment 3 – Viva & Appendices (worth 30% of the module marks)

Your Appendices must be submitted by the date on your schedule. You must submit your Appendices as a single pdf file.

Your viva time will be scheduled individually. The viva will last approximately 30 minutes. Two academics will attend your viva - your supervisor and another member of the module team.

The Harvard referencing system must be used for citations.

Assignment 3: Viva & Guidance

The viva has the following format:

Presentation [10 slides & 10 minutes]

Your viva should include a presentation with a maximum of 10 slides to present your research and practical element. This should follow a similar structure to Assignment 2 – Research Paper, with slides including the following:

· Introduction: providing overview for the listeners including purpose, relevance, importance and objectives of the work you are presenting.

· Context / Underpinnings: identifying how you used and applied the research literature and reviews you have undertaken within your research and practical work.

· Practical Element: what your practical work involved and how you undertook it including how you applied and integrated research.

· Outcomes, Results and Evaluation: how you answered your research question and your client/sponsor requirements through your practical work

· Discussion: of outcomes, results, findings, limitations, potential extensions, etc.

The presentation should be no longer than 10 minutes.

In addition, you have up to 5 minutes to quickly, concisely and effectively practically demonstrate your work, providing evidence and examples of this. Practical work is different for each project and demonstrations could be as diverse as:

· live interaction with a system

· records of cyber-attacks over 12 hours and what your approach did to repel them

· screen video of how you achieve your data visualisation

· interview transcripts, coding frame and content analysis examples

· draft versions of strategies, examples of organisational input and responses

· walkthrough of the processes to train and test an AI system

5 minutes is the maximum time, however, most demonstrations will be much shorter. Do not aim to ‘fill’ the 5 minutes, instead aim to illustrate your practice with the most effective examples.

Include the slides from your presentation as one of the sections of the evidence appendix. Use handout format (e.g. 2 pages maximum).

Presentation Questions [5 minutes]

Your supervisor and the second marker (another member of the project team) will then have a short time for questions relating to your presentation.

Project Management Questions [10 minutes]

After your presentation and related questions, you will be asked a series of questions related to your approach to project management and delivery. You should prepare for the following questions:

· How successful were you in achieving the intended objectives for your project?

· What approaches did you use to support the management of your project and how effective were these?

· Was your approach to integrating the research and practical element appropriate and useful?

· Were there tensions, risks, challenges or issues within your project and if so, how did you deal with them?

· What are the key lessons you have learnt about project management from undertaking the project?

The preparation should include you being able to use good examples to discuss these points, for example referring directly to evidence that you have already collected for the Appendix.

Viva Marking Scheme

Element	Mark Range	Mark	Level
			Fail	Borderline	Pass	Merit	Distinction	Outstanding
Framing and Focus	0-3
Research, practical element and integration	0-3
Outcomes & Discussion	0-4
Project Management	0-5
Total	0-15

PROM02 Viva – Feedback Grid

Element	Grading Criteria
	Fail - Under 35%	Borderline - 35%-39%	Pass - 40%-59%	Merit - 60%-69%	Distinction - 70%-79%	Outstanding - 80+%
Framing and Focus	Poor purpose, research questions, relevance and importance. Very poor or no consideration of underpinning literature	Limited purpose, research questions, relevance and importance. Poor underpinning literature	Good clear purpose, research questions, relevance and importance reasonably well underpinned with literature.	Very good clear purpose, research questions, relevance and importance well underpinned with literature.	Excellent clear purpose, research questions, relevance and importance thoroughly underpinned with literature.	Outstanding and novel clear purpose, research questions, relevance and importance thoroughly underpinned with literature
Research, practical element and integration	Poor or no demonstration of advanced technical or professional activity nor of demonstrating self-direction in tackling and solving complex problems or conceptualising solutions.	Limited demonstration of advanced technical or professional activity. Limited self-direction in tackling and solving complex problems or conceptualising solutions systematically and creatively.	Good demonstration of advanced technical or professional activity. Good self-direction in tackling and solving complex problems or conceptualising solutions systematically and creatively.	Very good demonstration of advanced technical or professional activity. Very good self-direction in tackling and solving complex problems or conceptualising solutions systematically and creatively.	Excellent demonstration of advanced technical or professional activity. Excellent self-direction in tackling and solving complex problems or conceptualising solutions systematically and creatively.	Outstanding demonstration of advanced technical or professional activity demonstrating self-direction and originality in tackling and solving complex problems or conceptualising solutions systematically and creatively.
Outcomes & Discussion	Very poor reflection on method, process and outcomes of the project.	Poor objective reflection on method, process and outcomes of the project.	Good objective reflection on method, process and outcomes of the project.	Very good objective reflection on method, process and outcomes of the project.	Excellent objective reflection on method, process and outcomes of the project.	Outstanding and objective reflection on method, process and outcomes of the project.
Project Management	No or very poor understanding and application of project management concepts, techniques and tools in your project.	Limited understanding and application of project management concepts, techniques and tools in your project.	Good understanding and application of project management concepts, techniques and tools in your project.	Very good understanding and application of project management concepts, techniques and tools in your project.	Excellent understanding and application of project management concepts, techniques and tools in your project.	Outstanding understanding and application of project management concepts, techniques and tools in your project.

Assignment 3: Appendix Submission Template & Guidance

The appendix should have 3 sections. You should use the final section of the Appendix, Evidence, to provide examples of the work that you identify as evidence within the first two sections.

Project Achievements, Challenges and Impacts

Achievements [1 page]

Guidance: Identify 3 main achievements of your project and briefly reflect on these completing the following table.

Achievement	Significance	Skills & Knowledge	Evidence
Achievement outline	Why was this significant to the project and/or you	What skills and knowledge did this achievement enable you to apply and/or develop?	Identify where in the Appendix there is evidence to help illustrate these points.

Challenges [1 page]

Guidance: Identify 3 main challenges in your project and briefly reflect on your approach to overcoming these and how successful your approach was. If your approach wasn’t effective or you didn’t entirely overcome the challenge, you should briefly explain why.

Challenge	Explanation	Approach & Solutions	Evidence
Challenge outline	Why was this challenging for the project and/or you	What approaches did you use to overcome the challenge and how successful were these	Identify where in the Appendix there is evidence to help illustrate these points.

Advancing Knowledge and Skills

Guidance: briefly reflect on the impact that the project has had on your personal development and advanced knowledge and skills in your programme area. Concisely summarise these reflections as a bulleted list. Each bullet should be no more than 3 lines long. You should have 5 bullets or less. Each bullet should be supported by evidence

· Up to 5 bullets about your project of up to three lines reflecting on the impact it has had on your personal development and advanced knowledge and skills in your programme area followed by

· Sub-bullet of Evidence: list of where the evidence is in the Appendix-Evidence (e.g. from the Table of Contents)

Project Management

Forecast and Actual delivery – Diagram & Explanation

Guidance for diagram: Compare your forecasted effort, timeline, deliverables, etc. from the Planning Review with your actual project trajectory and outputs using a table and/or annotated diagram on a single page. You should include project status at 2 timepoints during the lifecycle as well as for project end. It is useful to use timepoints that are sufficiently far apart to show progress such as at an early stage and in the middle of the project. For example, using timepoints such as:

· Timepoint 1: in w/c 13/07/2020

· Timepoint 2: in w/c 17/08/2020

· Timepoint 3 – Project End: in the week of project completion

Guidance for explanation: using the diagram briefly reflect on your project management, any deviations from your forecast, changes in approach, etc. referring to supporting evidence (e.g. updated gant chart, refined deliverable list, evidence of achieving milestones, minutes, notes, emails, evaluation documents, etc.). This evidence should be provided in Appendix – Evidence.

Project Management Methods, Techniques and Tools

Guidance: identify 3 project management methods, techniques and/or tools that you have used to manage your project and briefly reflect on your experience with them.

Method / Technique / Tool	Use & Rationale	Appropriateness	Evidence
Name & citation	What did you use this for in your project management and why?	How effective, useful and usable was the method/technique/tool for your project? And for you? Would you use it again?	Identify where in the Appendix there is evidence to illustrate use of the method / technique / tool.

Evidence

Guidance: This appendix should include all of the evidence you refer to in the earlier two sections or in Assignment 2 – Research Paper. You should cross-reference your appendices in your paper.

It should start with a Table of Contents. Each ‘insert’ in the appendix should have a number and title e.g. 3.1 Meetings with Clients and Supervisor, 3.1.1 Supervisor Meeting on 21/06/2021, 3.1.2 Supervisor Meeting on 07/08/2021, etc.

Include designs, code fragments, relevant examples of aspects of your work that show the progress

Remember to include your Ethics Canvas

Remember to include your presentation slides in this Evidence Appendix.

References

In Harvard format

Appendix Marking Scheme

Element	Mark Range	Mark	Level
			Fail	Borderline	Pass	Merit	Distinction	Outstanding
Project Achievements & Challenges	0-4
Advancing Knowledge & Personal Development	0-4
Project Management – Forecast and Actual	0-4
Project Management – Methods / Tools / Techniques	0-3
Total	0-15

PROM02 Appendices – Feedback Grid

Element	Grading Criteria
	Fail - Under 35%	Borderline - 35%-39%	Pass - 40%-59%	Merit - 60%-69%	Distinction - 70%-79%	Outstanding - 80+%
Project Achievements and Challenges	Poor consideration of achievements and challenges. No evidence provided.	Limited consideration of achievements and challenges insufficiently supported by evidence.	Good consideration of achievements and challenges supported by good evidence.	Very good consideration of achievements and challenges supported by very good evidence.	Excellent consideration of achievements and challenges supported by excellent evidence.	Outstanding consideration of achievements and challenges supported by outstanding evidence.
Advancing Knowledge and Personal Development	Poor or no reflection on advancing technical or professional activity through the project. No evidence provided.	Limited reflection on advancing technical or professional activity through the project and/or limited supporting evidence.	Good reflection on advancing technical or professional activity through the project supported with appropriate evidence.	Very good reflection on advancing technical or professional activity through the project supported with good evidence.	Excellent reflection on advancing technical or professional activity through the project supported with excellent evidence.	Outstanding reflection on advancing technical or professional activity through the project supported with outstanding evidence.
Project Management – Forecast & Actual	No or very limited objective consideration of forecast and actual delivery. No evidence provided	Limited objective consideration of forecast and actual delivery insufficiently supported by evidence.	Good objective consideration of forecast and actual delivery supported by appropriate evidence.	Very good objective consideration of forecast and actual delivery supported by very good evidence.	Excellent objective consideration of forecast and actual delivery supported by excellent evidence.	Outstanding objective consideration of forecast and actual delivery supported by outstanding evidence.
Project Management – Methods / Tools / Techniques	No or very poor understanding and application of project management concepts, techniques and tools in your project. No evidence provided	Limited understanding and application of project management concepts, techniques and tools in your project with limited supporting evidence.	Good understanding and application of project management concepts, techniques and tools in your project supported by appropriate evidence.	Very good understanding and application of project management concepts, techniques and tools in your project supported by very good evidence.	Excellent understanding and application of project management concepts, techniques and tools in your project supported by excellent evidence.	Outstanding understanding and application of project management concepts, techniques and tools in your project supported by outstanding evidence.