FIT3170

Really fun unit where you work to build a big project across the span of a year. Great that there are enough diverse project options so you can pick what you would like to do. Interesting and great practical experience creating a product from start to finish with a team of around 15 people.

I'll keep this very short tbh, unit content and teaching staff....exist ig? They're not bad, but they're just there Your entire experience will be determined by your team, I luckily had a really nice team so workload and difficulty was really manageable but this isn't always the case. Although at this point of your degree most of the "freeloaders" are filtered off so it's a bit rare to have a bad team Other than that, if you put this in your resume it's considered quite impressive due to the overall team size and working as a proper SWE team. Tip: Even if you're not PM just claim that you are in the resume, companies love it and they don't have explicit proof

This unit has been somewhat time consuming but overall, I think it such a great opportunity to experience development that is somewhat similar to industry. You are divided into sub-teams (agile teams) and role teams (system architects, Project Managers and RTE's). There are Tech Reports and Milestones, which alternate and take lots of time but ultimately, they keep the project on track. The Workload is completely dependent on how much time you want to put into the project yourself and also how effective your team members are

Great at prepping you for real world projects. As another reviewer said, they give you a variety of project options. For Sem 1 2025 we got to choose between things like game dev, restaurant review and AI generated recipes app, ML hand gesture zoom tool, a cafe POS system, and a real estate management tool. In the early weeks you have to learn the SAFe framework which lowkey seems hella overkill, but once you get used to it ig it's alright. One thing to be cautious of: don't sweat too much for the first PI planning session as they kinda expect you to be absolute monkeys at it - just let them guide you and refer to the workshop slides. You are allowed to do a custom stack if you want to - so long as you can justify your choices. The default stack is MongoDB + MeteorJS, so if you've done a fullstack and/or databases unit you'll be chilling. I haven't found the teaching to be anything amazing just yet - but I'll edit my review if I see it getting better. Forum posts have been handled reasonably well.