All student presentations must be undertaken individually.
Each student will be required to make a presentation from one of the following topics assigned to them based on their last their Student ID, “LAST DIGIT”, e.g., if your student ID is 20001306, your topic for your presentation will be 6.
This is decided to avoid excessive duplication of topics chosen by students. For this reason students will not be able to select topics of their own choice, but rather, will need to deliver the topic allocated to them randomly.
Presentations are to be delivered during tutorial times of the final two weeks of the session.
Presentation Topics:
0. Project Management: Describe two personal experiences (in your student life, your working life or your home life) within the last two years where a project management approach would have been helpful. What specifically would have helped in each situation? How would you have applied the core processes? What tools would have been useful?
1. Requirements Modelling: An information technology teacher at a local High School has asked you to visit her class and give a presentation about requirements modelling. Develop a presentation that will briefly describe modelling tools and techniques and why these are used. Include information about the object-oriented approach to software development and specific models for this approach.
2. Interface Design: Search the web to find an example of one good and one bad user interface design in information system packages. What makes good and bad design in these interfaces? Discuss the extent to which your analyses are based upon the technical aspects of the Information System and to what extent these are based upon the usability aspects for human operators.
3. Agile Development: Using the materials in the textbook and your own research, prepare a presentation on the pros and cons of agile development methods. You may focus on one or two methodologies as your example.
4. Cloud Computing: Your manager informs you that she’s booked you to present a short talk on cloud computing to a small business, looking to expand their information system, which
does not have many internal resources. Using your text and your own Internet research, prepare and present a talk on cloud computing and it’s applicability to their information systems.
5. Problem or Opportunity: Describe the difference between an Information System being designed and developed to solve a business problem compared to being designed and developed to respond to an evolving business opportunity. Use at least one example that has been reported in the media over the last two years.
6. Product Training: Using the internet, find an example of training for a software or hardware product. Present a brief summary of the product, the training, the type of training offered and the cost of training. Do you think this training is effective? Why or why not?
7. Versioning: Research and present your findings on version numbers for releases of software. For example, if a version is version 4.5, what sort of changes would justify a 5.0 release? What about 4.5.1 or 4.6? Give an example of a software product that uses this kind of version numbering and explain the significant changes between release numbers.
8. Emerging Technologies: Using the internet, find an example of an emerging information technology that can be anticipated to generate new capabilities for information systems. Provide a clear rationale on why this may be considered to be “disrupting” to existing businesses and business models.
9. Prototyping: Prototyping is a common technique used in system design and development, particularly when agile methods are used. Prepare a presentation that describes the types of prototyping and their relative advantages and disadvantages. You may also make mention of prototyping