IT Capstone Part II

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IT CapstonePart II

• Make it work!
• And understand how

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Admin

• Review IP assignment feedback

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Class Expectations

• Professional development
• Project
• Both count toward grading
• Texts
• Hoffman, "Organization Through the Eyes of a
  Project Manager"
• Goldratt, Eli, Critical Chain North River Press

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Professional development

• Professional issues (this includes attendance)
• Life-long learning/Reading in the discipline
  (Critical Chain others)
• Summarizing and writing
• Intellectual property (practical)
• Citation
• Turnitin.com
• Creativity in technology
• Project management using software tools (MS
  Project or similar)
• Project progress reporting, project change
  management
• Teamwork
• Leadership
• Testing. design testing and design for test. 
• Technical presentations and writing
• Technology in business
• Research and resource location techniques
• Documentation. Logbooks, professional technical
  report writing. CD copy
• Presentation
• Guest Speakers

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Project

• Complete your project
• Step 1
• Review POS (Faithful, Concise, Complete,
  Inspiring?)
• What are you really doing?
• Condense it into a clear, simple short goal.
  Every word in the POS should be meaningful
• Review write-up with coach
• Goals
• Schedule
• Resources
• Updates
• Confirm with customer
• When did you last contact your customer?

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Project (cont)

• Step 2 Act
• Divide and conquer
• Build
• Test
• Repeat build/test in fast loop
• Test against specifications (hand-off criteria)
• Document as you go

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Project (cont)

• Step 3 Deliver
• Document
• Poster
• Demo
• Presentation
• Hand-off
• Deadline April 10 (Friday) 2009
• Non-negotiable
• Plan work/school etc. now!