Developing an Information Governance Policy for PFJ Bank

The assignment requires students to develop an information governance policy for PFJ Bank, a European retail and investment bank. The policy should justify the importance of information governance in the organization's context and propose an implementation strategy. The accompanying report should critically evaluate the organizational context and demonstrate understanding of key information governance principles and practices. The word count is 4000 words, and the assignment will be marked out of 100 based on criteria such as the appropriateness and completeness of policy content, justification of the importance of information governance, and presentation.

COURSEWORK ASSESSMENT SPECIFICATION
Module Title: Leadership for a Digital Age
Module Number:
Module Tutor
Name(s):
Academic Year: 2018-19
% Weighting (to
overall module):
100%
Coursework Title: Report
Average Study
Time Required by
Student:
Approximately 50-55 study hours
Dates and Mechanisms for Assessment Submission and Feedback
Mechanism for Submission of Work by Student:
The report must be submitted Turnitin on Module Blackboard site.
Date by which Work, Feedback and Marks will be returned to Students:
Within twenty working days after the submission date.
Mechanism for return of assignment work, feedback and marks to students:
Formal feedback will be made available via Blackboard following completion of all reviews
and internal moderation of results.
Learning Outcomes tested in this assessment
This assignment will assess the following learning outcomes:
1. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of key concepts, models and theories
relating to leadership and practice and critical appreciation of the uncertainty and
limits of this knowledge
2. Critically analyse the relationship between technical leadership and business
performance.
3. Demonstrate the ability to convey and translate technological concepts and data into
formats and business cases that are of value to strategic decision-makers

4. Critically appraise the ethical, social and legal concerns and incorporate good
practice into technical leadership practice in diverse environments and/or teams.
General Information
This assignment constitutes 100% towards the final mark for this module. Any queries
relating to this assignment should be directed to Module tutor.
Type of the submission required
This is an INDIVIDUAL piece of work contributing towards the module assessment.
Deliverables should be assembled into a single report document, which includes (critical
appraisal, research, and snapshot evidences of tasks carried out and justification of
technologies used). Submission will be in the form of a MS word report (4000 words).
Formative Feedback
There will be an opportunity for formative feedback during the semester. You are advised to
start working on this assignment as early as possible so that you can seek clarification from
the module tutor regarding any questions you might have during the semester. Note that
tutors will not predict your grade, and you should not take the lack of comment on any
aspect of your work as indicating that it is correct. You should make every effort to take
advantage of formative feedback as tutors will not comment on draft work at other times.
Remember that you will get more useful feedback from us by asking specific questions than
just presenting us with your documentation and asking, ‘Is this right?’
The actual word count is to be declared on the front of the assessment submission.
Under the word limit
No Penalty: In not making use of the full word count,
students may have self-penalised their work. If students
have been able to achieve the requirements of the
assessment using fewer words than allocated, they will not
be penalised.
Up to 10% over word limit
No Penalty: Situation flagged by tutor in feedback but over-
run is tolerated and no deduction is made from the final
mark.
More than 10% over the
word limit
The marker will stop reading when they judge that the
word count exceeds the recommended word count by
more than 10% i.e. for a 3000 word essay, the marker will
read only the first 3300 words and will indicate on the text
where they stop reading.
The content following this point will not be read and a mark

will be awarded only for the content up to this point.
Assessment
In 4000 words you are required to carry out an analysis of yourself in order to assess your
relative strengths and weaknesses as a leader in the digital age. You should assess
yourself with regard to a number of leadership models and frameworks and discuss the
importance of self- awareness and continuous professional development, demonstrating
critical reflection.
Assessment Criteria/Marking Scheme:
The assignment relies upon understanding of network and computer security design. Within
each marking section clear guidance is given for how high marks in each category can be
achieved. You are advised to submit a report in word format.
Description Marks
Section 1: Self Analysis – 30% (suggested word limit for this section is 1200 words)
Critically review various leadership models/theories and conduct a thorough self-analysis,
using a range of diagnostic tools and frameworks (available on the blackboard), to demonstrate a
critical understanding of the relationship between digital technical leadership and enhanced
business performance and transformation.
Include a summary of your overall leadership strengths and areas for development in the
context of digital technical leadership.
30
Section 2: - Leadership Capabilities and Behaviours – 20% (suggested word limit for this section is 800
words)
Provide examples of the leadership capabilities and behaviours that can be applied to the
management of geographically dispersed teams, and evaluate how your examples can be
applied in your practice or within a role to which you aspire to which requires this competence.
20
Section 3: - Business Transformation – 20 % (suggested word limit for this section is 800 words)
Identify and critically evaluate a contemporary issue from your professional practice or
research and provide an evaluation as to how digital technical leadership can enhance
business transformation and performance of this issue.
20

Section 4 – Personal Development Plan – 30% (1200 words)
Complete a personal development plan identifying a range of personal development objectives
that would evidence your ability to demonstrate the competences to be an effective leader in
the digital age. You should draw on your findings in the earlier sections to contextualise and
justify how these objectives will enable you to be an effective Leader in Digital Age to your
current role or role to which you aspire to.
This plan should set out objectives for your future approach to leadership with a range of
learning activities, success criteria and timescales.
30
Total 100
Grading Guidance
Fail: A fail submission will show lack of understanding of deliverable. There will be clear
gaps in the response across the listed tasks, some of the areas are not covered or covered
in limited detail at the descriptive level. There will be inadequate evidences of design, and
testing of a network and computer security. Design will be either incomplete or below the
expected standards, there will be no enough evidence to show steps taken for design and
work lacks critical evaluation of the design principles and ethical considerations. Incomplete
submission.
Pass: A Pass submission would show effective use of appropriate research of design
principles, technologies and a working design should include effective use of hardware
devices, configuration evidences and problem solving. The assignment should also include
evidence of research and understanding of network design principles, security
implementation and critical thinking.
Commendation: A commendation submission would show significant evidence of
research, critical thinking and understanding of design and security. This includes
demonstrating in-depth design and configuration understanding, decision making, creative,
critical thinking, problem solving and methodology. Report should also include critical
appraisal of the research and social, ethical considerations and must include evidence of
referencing and appendix.
Distinction: A distinction submission would show an optimised design addressing security
challenges, critically evaluation of the technologies, security controls and social ethical

considerations related to compliance. The report includes evidence off design
implementation and testing, walk through screen shots to provide rigorous understanding of
the steps taken and validation results. A demonstration of excellence in research, design,
testing and compliance. Work should include evidence of rigorous research conducted for
each deliverable, particularly reference to latest journals on computer and network security.

COURSEWORK ASSESSMENT SPECIFICATION
Module Title: Principles of Software Engineering
% Weighting (to
overall module):
100%
Coursework Title: Assignment
Dates and Mechanisms for Assessment Submission and Feedback
Mechanism for Handout to Students:
Blackboard
Date and Time of Submission by Student:
Date 05/09/2019 (14:00 hours)
 Part A: Component 1: Software design and project prototype
 Part B: Component 2: Critical-Evaluation
Mechanism for Submission of Work by Student:
The reports must be submitted via Turnitin. The source code MUST be uploaded to Blackboard
Date by which Work, Feedback and Marks will be returned to Students:
Within 20 working days after submission of this assignment
Mechanism for return of assignment work, feedback and marks to students:
Formal feedback will take place following completion of all reviews and internal moderation of results.

Learning Outcomes tested in this assessment:
The following learning outcomes will be assessed by this assignment:
1. Demonstrate critical knowledge and understanding of appropriate software engineering theories,
technologies and methodologies
2. Ability to apply software engineering knowledge to a complex business challenge or project
3. Critically reflect on professional, legal, social, security and ethical issues related to the design,
development and use of software in an organisational context.
4. Ability to critically evaluate your Software Engineering skills
5. Demonstrate problem solving skills in complex situations in the context of the design, development
and use of software solution.
Assignment Overview:
The assignment is divided into two components as follows:
Practical Solution
Prototype
(50%)
Individual Work– design and development of a program prototype solution
using Java based on the case study given below. This activity assesses
module learning outcomes 1, 2 & 5. (2000 words)
Critical Discussion
(50%)
Individual work - critical discussion of some issues relating to Software
engineering. This activity assesses module learning outcome
3 & 4. (2000 words)
General description
Case Study Scenario:
Mechachrome software development ltd has been commissioned to develop the banking software for
NatioNarrow building society, a rapidly growing building society. You have been recruited as software architect
into a team of junior interface designers (Human computer interaction), business analysts, database
developers and System analysis designers who will be relying on your experience. You are expected to pro-
actively oversee and contribute across the team.
The program’s primary user will be the bank tellers whom must be logged in using valid credentials and then
on behalf customers, will perform functions such as making deposits, withdrawals and transfer. Customers
can come into the branch and request a bank statements based between two dates, showing all transactions
done on their accounts (deposits, withdrawals and transfers). Customers can also simply request a balance
update but must provide an answer to their secret question. Tellers should have the functionality to reverse
transactions but only immediately after they have happened (consider using design pattern) for this.
The bank manager while able to perform the same functions as the tellers should additionally able to, create
new user credentials (user logins and passwords) for access to the program in the event they have hired new
staff.
The manager can also approve and grant loans, open new bank accounts of which there are several types:
 Current (0.98% interest)
 Savings (2.98% interest)
 ISA (5.2% interest)
 Business (2.0% interest)
 Student (0.5 % interest)
 Child (Children under 18 years of age) (0.5% interest)
Every month, interest is paid on each of the accounts and penalties of £20 on accounts that are overdrawn.
This functionality should be automated and not done manually by any employee. (Consider a design pattern to
re-use existing methods). ISA accounts, when withdrawals >= £1000 are made, a penalty charge of 10% of
the withdrawal amount should be applied.
Tasks
Using the provided NatioNarrow Bank case study, develop a solution from a software architect’s perspective
that includes the following:

Practical Solution (prototype) and commentary
 Produce a use case model to model the functional requirements from the scenario narrative.
o Showing actors and the use cases they perform.
o Use inheritance where necessary of both use cases and actors.
o Use of <<includes>> and <<extends>> where necessary.
 Produce a class diagram to model the system structure you propose for your potential solution.
Decouple as much as possible with Boundary, Control and Entity classes. Only one instance of the
control classes should be allowed to be created. Consider a design pattern for this (In your
commentary, justify the use the chosen design pattern, on the other hand, if you do not use it, justify
why).
o Detailed classes with all global variables and datatypes with access modifiers (private, public
or protected) clearly shown in adherence to encapsulation principal of OOP and multiplicities
of the relationships.
o Procedures or functions with (parameters and their datatypes shown) as well as return type
for the class functions. (see diagram below)
o Use of class relationships (dependency, aggregation, composition, inheritance and
realisation).
o Show inheritance where applicable.
o Consider the use of design patterns in your proposed solution.

An example of a detailed class diagram
 Produce sequence diagrams to model the functional requirements (use cases) from the scenario
narrative.
o Showing actors and interacting objects.
o Method calls between objects with parameters and return types were necessary.
o Use of conditions and loops where necessary.
An example detailed sequence diagram
Program:
 Develop the proposed solution in Java using a modern IDE. Produce at test plan and test cases.
NOTE: The solution is only going to be a prototype at the software architect level but a skeletal code
should be produced, you do not need to write functionality into the methods but you must build and
design the Forms (JFrames) and link them to each other.
Task: Reflection and Critical Evaluation: (50%, Learning Outcome 3 & 4)
You are required to write a report that contains a critical discussion with the title "NationNarrow Reflection
and Critical-Evaluation". Name your report using your user ID, e.g. w1612345.
Given that, please address the following topics in your discussion:
1. Using software engineering literature, critically evaluate the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) you
have chosen for your development in the context with examples from your work.

2. Critically reflect on professional, legal, social, security and ethical issues related to the design,
development and use of software in an organisational context.
References
leading information sources in Computing. Since Computer Science is highly dynamic, recent references to
conference and journal papers from the last five years are preferred.
This is meant to be a critical discussion and not just a description of things such as Java. Your discussion
should not be limited to your practical system, but a discussion of the broader issues involved.
Your discussion for the practical solution commentary should contain 2000 words and for the critical
evaluation 2000 words and should be presented in the form of a word document and submitted to
Blackboard.
References must be used in order to strengthen any points that you raise in your discussion.
Your discussion must be your own words and, where you have used someone else’s words (quotations), they
should be correctly quoted and referenced in accordance to the Harvard or APA System. If you require
guidance on citation, please use the booklet ‘Cite Them Right’ available from the City Campus library.
Your Reference list is not included in the word count.
Additional Programming Requirements:
Your code must comply with the following requirements:
1. The Java standard should be used as the programming language.
2. Use an industrial strength IDE
3. The program should be executable (i.e. no compile time errors that prevent it from being executed).
4. Project directory should be attached to your word document with the commentary in a zip file. Simply
submitting individual .java files will receive a mark of Zero for the program section.
5. Use meaningful naming conventions for variables, methods and classes.

Marking Scheme
The following marking scheme will be used for this assignment:
Description Marks
Practical Solution (50 %)
Use case model
Logical design showing:
 Correct Actors
 Efficiency showing inheritance of actors and use cases.
 Re-use of use cases
10
Class diagram:
Logical design showing:
 Encapsulation.
 Efficient design (Inheritance where applicable).
 Abstraction.
 Functions and Procedures with parameters and return types
 Use of design patterns. (Add colour to your design pattern classes to highlight
them)
10
Sequence diagram:
A logical design showing:
 Method calls that match method names from your class diagrams.
 Parameters and return types shown.
 Following the rules of Boundary, control and entity interaction i.e. boundaries can only
talk to control and controls to entities.
10
Program:
A prototype which directly reflects the class diagram designs.
Use of coding standards, comments, OOP principals (inheritance, encapsulation, and
polymorphism) and design pattern classes in Java.
20
Critical Discussion (50%)
Introduction, Conclusion and Criticality 10
Critical self-reflection on your work 15
Critically reflect on professional, legal, social, security and ethical issues related to the
design, development and use of software in an organisational context.
15
Referencing and references 10
Total Marks Available: 100
Note: The marks awarded will be converted to a percentage in order to obtain the final mark for the
assignment.

Formative Feedback
There will be an opportunity for formative feedback during the semester. You are advised to start working on
this assignment as early as possible so that you can seek clarification from the module tutor regarding any
questions you might have during the semester. Note that tutors will not predict your grade, and you should not
take the lack of comment on any aspect of your work as indicating that it is correct. You should make every
effort to take advantage of formative feedback as tutors will not comment on draft work at other times.
Remember that you will get more useful feedback from us by asking specific questions than just presenting us
with your documentation and asking, ‘Is this right?’
The actual word count is to be declared on the front of the assessment submission.
Marking Criteria
Since the elements above are wide ranging, general criteria are given that are applied as a percentage to
each component of the portfolio. In the following, ‘writing’ is understood to apply both to coding and English

ESSMENT SPECIFICATION
Module Title: Information Governance and Cyber Security
Module Number:
Academic Year: 2018-2019
% Weighting (to
overall module):
100%
Coursework Title: information governance policy for an organisation
Average Study
Time Required by
Student:
100 study hours
Dates and Mechanisms for Assessment Submission and Feedback
Mechanism for Submission of Work by Student:
Electronic submission on Turnitin via Blackboard
Date by which Work, Feedback and Marks will be returned to Students:
Within 20 working days after submission of this assignment
Mechanism for return of assignment work, feedback and marks to students:
Formal feedback will take place following completion of all reviews and internal
moderation of results.

Assessment
Introduction
This Assignment is about the development of an information governance and cyber security
policy for a chosen organisation, accompanied by a report justifying the policy and
recommending an implementation strategy. The combined word length will be 4000 words.
It will be worth 100% of the module marks and will assess all of the MLOs. You will be given
written feedback which you will be able to feed into your workplace and/or further study.
This assignment is designed to cover the following Learning Outcomes:
 Critically evaluate and demonstrate your understanding of key information governance
and cyber security principles and practice
 The ability to critically evaluate an organisation’s approach to information governance
and cyber security
 The ability to advise in depth on the design and implementation of a strategy to meet the
legal, regulatory, organisational and/or societal requirements for information governance
and cyber security
 Exercise personal responsibility and initiative in developing partnerships with other
professionals to facilitate the management of an organisation’s information assets in an
ethical manner
The assignment details
PFJ Bank is of one of the European retail and investment bank headquartered in the UK
with operations across Europe. Underpinning the bank is a foundation of stability, security
and trust with its client base and all relevant stakeholders to the business. The board of
directors and senior management recognise that strong information governance is essential
to the successful running of the organisation.
PFJ Bank recognises that it is responsible for large amounts of information including very
sensitive and private information and will take all necessary and appropriate steps to
safeguard and reduce risk to all information it owns and controls.
PFJ Bank is governed by all UK and EU law as well as local laws within the European
countries in which it operates.
Your task is to develop an information governance policy for PFJ Bank and write an
accompanying report in which you justify the approach and content of the policy, and
propose an implementation strategy for the strong governance of information throughout its
lifecycle across the PFJ organisation.
The word length for this assignment is 4000 words.

Assessment criteria
The work will be marked out of 100 in line with the University’s marking grades and
according to the following assessment criteria:
3. Appropriateness and completeness of policy content – 25%
4. Justification of the importance of information governance to the organisation based on a
critical evaluation of the organisational context – 25%
5. Justification of the approach taken and rationale for the form and content of the
information governance policy based on a critical evaluation and understanding of
the organisation, and reference to principles and best practice -30%
6. Presentation including appropriate language, clarity of expression and style; appropriate
structure and format; length and the relevance of appendices if used -20%