Students Experience the Theory Taranaki Polytechnic’s IS301 Project Life Cycle. Principal.pdf

Students Experience the Theory: Taranaki Polytechnic’s IS301 Project Life Cycle. Dr Noel Bridgeman Principal Lecturer and Research Co-ordinator 1. INTRODUCTION Taranaki Polyechnic New Plymouth Previous papers (Bridgeman, 1999, Bridgeman noelb@taranaki.ac.nz 2000) examined aspects of project work for NACCQ’s National Diploma in Business Computing and Taranaki Polytechnic’s Bachelor of Applied Information Systems. It is suggested that student projects have there own style ABSTRACT of lifecycle, which has to take into consideration both industry and academic considerations. This paper is an attempts to addresses the shape of such a lifecycle, as it An IS301 project is usually the last piece of work applies to Taranaki Polytechnic’s Bachelor of Applied that a student does to complete their Bachelor of Applied Information Systems IS301 Project. It is further Infornmation Systems degree at Taranaki Polytechnic. suggested that examination of student projects in other It has been designed to provide an opportunity for students Polytechnic Information Systems or Information to draw together know