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INFO 424
Team Project Practicum
Week 1
Glenn Booker
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INFO 424 Overview
• This course is to get you ready for the
senior design sequence, INFO 425-426,
and develop team project skills
• It gives you a chance to understand the
process and the document templates
• It builds on the foundation courses you’ve
completed over the last couple of years
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The Path to Senior Design
This course!
Networking, Server?
Database
Project Mgmt
Senior Design
HCI
Analysis & Design
Programming
Concept from Prof. Hislop
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Your Role
• Your role is to treat your work in this class
as seriously as your work for a co-op or
other ‘real’ employer
• Appropriate use of professional tone, and
quality work
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My Role
• My role for this course is more of a mentor
and guide than lecturer
– Ok, there are lecture materials, but mostly to
outline the process we’re using, and remind
you what you learned in INFO 200, 355, 420,
etc.
– Some class periods may become review time
for your draft work
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Our Development Approach
• We’re following a cyclical development
approach
– Each cycle includes requirements, design,
and implementation work
– The first cycle focuses more on req’ts and
design; later cycles more on implementation
• This course will follow one cycle
– INFO 425-426 will have three cycles
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Our Development Approach
• This approach provides a balance
between a traditional waterfall life cycle,
and faster RUP or Agile methods, which
typically don’t exceed four weeks per
iteration or time box
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Cycle Phases and Products
Phase
Deliverable
Launch
Launch Report
Requirements
Requirements Spec (SRS)
Test Specifications
Design
Design Spec (SDS)
Prototype
Implementation
Customer Documentation
Post Mortem
Launch Report
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Templates
• All of the documents have templates
– Much kinder than giving no guidance
– Use the templates!
– Don’t delete sections
• If it’s truly irrelevant, add a sentence to indicate it’s
not applicable to your system
• Then think again and make sure it really is
– Each template also has rubrics, to provide a
consistent basis for grading
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IEEE Standards
• IEEE Standards are used for the basis of
two templates
– IEEE 830 is the basis for the software
requirements specification (SRS)
– IEEE 1016 is the basis for the software design
specification (SDS)
• Why? These standards capture industry
best practices
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IEEE Standards
• There are instructions on my web site for
downloading these standards
– BTW, you may wish to download more of
these standards
– They’re free while you’re here, very pricey
otherwise
– For example, user documentation isn’t
prepared this term, but you could use that
standard to help next term
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Project Portfolio
• Hardcopy and softcopy required
– Both due on deadline date
• Softcopy
– Post to the course site
• Communications…Group Pages…<team>…
Group Discussion Board…Team Products
– Softcopy file names
• Cycle-Team-Document
• Example: C1-Blue-SRS
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Project Portfolio
• Hardcopy - Build a project portfolio
– Formal record of the project work
– Primary vehicle for feedback from me
– Submit in class or my 3rd floor mailbox
• Submit in a folder or accordion file
– Three ring binders do not work well
– Contents are cumulative
• All graded products
• All drafts reviewed by me
– Re-submit with each new document
– Maintain across the term
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Project Drafts
• Submit drafts of document sections to the online
course area
– Initial writing
– Significant re-writes and editing
– See syllabus for instructions on location and naming
• Purpose is to provide a record of individual work
– Items do not count as team deliverables
– I will not read most of these items
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Project Implementation
• Submit the full implementation to the
course site
– Discuss format if needed
• End of term CD
– Include all documents (SRS, SDS, etc.)
– Include all implementation work
– Package the material as you would to let
someone else install the product
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Course evaluation
• The work done your team is the basis for
70% of your course grade
• The rest is individual contribution,
measured by
– Peer evaluation
– My observations
– Your team’s project portfolio
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Team Selection
• Teams for this course will consist of 3-5
people, selected by you during the first
class
– Each team will get a Group communication
area in Blackboard
• You may choose to keep the same teams
and project for INFO 425-426, but it isn't
required
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Project topic
• Your team will choose the subject of your
project (see handout)
• Two major types of options
– Your team’s idea
– Support a faculty research project
• Teams may work on the same project
• Instructor approval of topic is required
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Project topic
• Projects must include some significant
software development aspect
• They may include hardware
• They can be real or fictitious
• Keep the cycle structure in mind
– An early need will be to plan what will be
implemented in each cycle
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Project topic
• Implementation of part of the system is
required
• Some projects have predefined development
environments
• Some allow you to choose the development
environment
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