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Murdoch’s graduate attributes, to ensure coverage of these, as well.The curriculum map was then subject to review by the SE academics (in effect the sameparticipants of the Review Team convened late in 2003), and modified as required. Thepurpose of this exercise was to ensure the outcomes of the RE Design Studio would integratewith other Software Engineering Studios.8.2.2 What was plannedOnly minor changes were made to the RE component of the Design Studio: generally to assistin data collection, and to make the group working environment more seamless. However, theaddition of the content of another SE unit had some impact. Except for the area of estimationtechniques, that unit covered in greater depth curriculum elements touched on lightly inENG260, since as the introductory unit to the SE discipline, ENG260 had provided somecontext for RE. So, for example, the Software Development Life Cycle was dealt with briefly,as was a historical perspective to SE as a discipline. Therefore the bulk of the materialintegrated easily into the format existing for ENG260. The secondment environment wasexpanded to include an additional ‘problem’ or task (see Figure 8.10). This acted as atrigger for students to explore the major additional component – estimation techniques.Figure 8.10: Memo to students to trigger investigation of estimation techniquesThe greatest change in the unit occurred in relation to formal assessment. In 2005, this wasbased on• three group assignments (no change in format from the previous offering, but markallocation was modified to 10%, 10% and 15%). As in 2003, each group-based problemrequired use of the products of the preceding problem. In this way, students were348