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ELEC9610: E-Business Analysis and Design
2025 unit information
This unit examines the essential pre-production stages of designing successful internet websites and services. It focuses on the aspects of analysis, project specification, design, and prototype that lead up to the actual build of a website or application. Topics include, B2C, B2B and B2E systems, business models, methodologies, modeling with use cases / UML and WebML, the Project Proposal and Project Specification Document, Information Architecture and User-Centred Design, legal issues, and standards-based web development. Students build a simple use-case based e-business website prototype with web standards. A final presentation of the analysis, design and prototype are presented in a role play environment where students try to win funding from a venture capitalist. An understanding of these pre-production fundamentals is critical for future IT and Software Engineering Consultants, Project Managers, Analysts and CTOs.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Engineering
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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ELEC5743 or EBUS3003 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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Basic knowledge of Database Management Systems |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate an understanding of the roles of all the stakeholders in an e-commerce development project by clarifying individual responsibilities and deliverables towards the team effort
- LO2. work in a group, manage or be managed by a leader in roles that optimise the contribution of all members, while showing initiative and receptiveness so as to jointly achieve engineering project goals with the scope of the projects
- LO3. develop milestones and implement project management techniques to manage the workload in a group for specific engineering projects
- LO4. demonstrate an understanding of professional practice in terms of social, ethical and economical responsibilities with respect to successful web projects
- LO5. demonstrate proficiency in undertaking inquiry and knowledge development for a particular engineering problem by identifying information needs and evaluating a vast number of documents in varied formats to draw meaningful conclusions
- LO6. write proposals in a clear and well constructed engineering format to convey stakeholder specific information at a degree of thoroughness commensurate to the requirement and task at hand
- LO7. demonstrable understanding of 'use-case scenarios' as specific tools used in improving the usability of e-business sites to the extent of the work presented
- LO8. demonstrate an understanding of current issues and developments in content management systems, e-commerce and knowledge management systems
- LO9. demonstrate an understanding of a web modelling language such as WebML, including the underlying principles and techniques, to the extent of the material presented in the course.
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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