VCE Applied Computing Study Design 2025–2028 Unit 3 AOS2

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Reasons for undertaking software development projects

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Increasing productivity and efficiency, reducing costs, identifying opportunities to address market gaps, meeting organisational objectives or needs.

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Features of a brief documenting a problem, need, or opportunity

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Problem/need/opportunity outline, proposed users, programming languages to be used, feasibility, originality.

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Features of project management using Gantt charts

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Identification of tasks, sequencing of tasks, time allocation, dependencies, milestones, critical path, monitoring and documenting progress.

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Methods for collecting data to determine needs and requirements

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Interviews, observations, surveys, reports.

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Characteristics of functional and non-functional requirements

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Functional requirements specify what the system should do, while non-functional requirements specify how the system performs a function.

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Constraints influencing solution development

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Economic, legal, social, technical considerations.

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Characteristics of solution scope

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Version/solution boundaries.

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Analytical tools for depicting relationships between users, data, and systems

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Context diagrams (Level 0), data flow diagrams (Level 1), use case diagrams.

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Purpose and features of software requirements specifications

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Defining requirements, constraints, scope, user characteristics, technical environments, analytical tools depicting existing processes and systems.

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Key legal requirements relating to intellectual property and data privacy

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Copyright Act 1968, Privacy Act 1988, Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014.