Welcome to Communication Systems Design

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Welcome toCommunication Systems Design

• Before lunch
• Course issues
• Team issues
• After lunch
• Project issues

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Fundamentals I

• Transform from Students to Professionals!
• Each of you is expected to take full
  responsibility for
• Your own learning
• The learning of others in the course
• To accomplish the best project results and good
  grades.
• Problem-based, Project-driven, Multi-disciplinary
  learning
• Everyone can and must contribute!

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Fundamentals II

• Review and respect the KTH code of conduct, or
  leave the course!
• Seriously!
• You will have to include a confirmation of that
  you are aware of the consequences not to respect
  it)?
• Including
• Only original contributions to acknowledged
  baseline!
• No cheating with the weekly time reports!
• Do not sweep conflicts under the carpets - the
  teaching team is checking under them

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Fundamentals III

• Your commitments are made during kick-off week
• Participation
• 100 30p gt 750 h
• 80 24p gt 600 h
• 60 18p gt 450 h
• 50 15p gt 375 h
• 25 7,5p gt 200 h (SU ICT4D students only)?
• You have to declare all other commitments, both
  other courses and employments outside school in
  the personal commitment declaration in the plan
• Total workload max 120 without special
  permission.

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Course Outline
Feed-back
Feed-back
Feed-back
Oral Presentation Written Report Video Exhibition
MidTerm Presentation
Lessons Learned incl. Individual Contribution
DELIVERABLES
Project-plan
Jan/Aug
Feb/Sep
Mar/Oct
Apr/Nov
Jun/Jan
May/Dec
WS
WS
WS
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The Project - Center of Gravity in CSD
Student team
Project
Designated Workspace
Technical Staff
Equipment
Course Web
Principal and other stakeholders
Teaching Team Coaches experts
Modules
Administration
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The Course Web
Everything is on the web! If it isn't, or if
anything is incorrect, let us know!
Course Information overview, learning-objectives,
rules, program. Course Activities Outlines for
workshops, instructions for deliverables. Course
Modules Guidelines, reading suggestions,
PowerPoint Presentations, videos. Discussion
Forum Ask us! Ask each other! Suggest! Share
ideas, information, examples! Answer!
Participate!
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Your Project Web
Name your team Create a logo Design your web
Internal part and External part
Remember We only grade deliverables that are
posted on the project website no later than at
the deadline.
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Not all Students will pass or get the highest
grade!

• Credits measure contribution in time. Grade
  measures contribution in quality.
• Team-grades. Adjusted for individual contribution
  in the final grade.
• Probation!

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Grade-outlinefor Team and Individual Grading
F Your project and/or you underperformed under
excellent conditions. D-E Your project and/or
you delivered what you were supposed to. B-C
Your project and/or you delivered above
expectations in one way or another, e.g., in
methods used, insight offered. A Your project
and/or you surprised us! Offered genuinely new
insights, challenged established wisdom,
succeeded under extraordinary circumstances.
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Grading Process
Individual grades for the course based on
performance in relation to the project
plan Feedback on deliverables delivered by
process and content experts

• INPUT
• Teachers from the modules
• Coaches
• Principal
• Experts
• Others involved in the
• deliverable

• DECISION
• Björn
• Lena

• FEED-BACK
• at Workshops
• Kick-off workshop
• Midterm workshop
• Final workshop

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Experiences from earlier CSD-courses

• You are already running out of time!

Get to work now!

• Team building and project management takes time!

Pay attention to it and use tools offered to
build a solid team from the beginning!

• All projects are different but very much alike!

Learn from other projects experiences but find
your own way!
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This weeks assignmentA Project Plan posted on
a website!

• Monday Process-experts and mentors
• Tuesday Content-matter experts
• Monday-Tuesday Meet your principal
• Wednesday First version of a project plan
  (deadline noon, on your teams website)?
• Friday Final version of a project plan
  (deadline noon, on your teams website)?

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Good Luck!
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Team issues

• Team forming
• Team building
• Team management
• Conflict resolution

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Team forming team member allocation rules

• Principals request for competences in project
  definition
• Students input
• Diversity in all aspects
• Some projects, e.g. travelling abroad require 20
  credits