Welcome to the INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CAPSTONE

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Welcome to theINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CAPSTONE

• Semester Year

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Agenda

• Faculty introductions
• Course Information
• Projects review
• Library presentation
• Project assignments
• Group meetings

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Faculty

• Teacher
• TBD
• Capstone Director
• Carol Keyser
• Librarian
• TBD

• Faculty Advisors
• TBD
• TBD

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Course Information

• Roles and Goals
• Process
• Student Expectations
• Deliverables
• Grading
• Course Schedule

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Roles and Goals

• Students
• Client
• Course Instructor
• Faculty Advisor
• Evaluation Panel

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Students

• Technical Experts
• Marketing Experts
• Management Experts

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Client

• Executes and complies with SOW
• Rates project teams performance

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Teacher

• Coach
• Mentor
• Judge

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Faculty Advisor

• Contacts the client prior to the first class
• Attends meetings as follows
• First class meeting
• Initial sponsor meeting
• PDR/FDR
• Team meetings as required
• Technical Guidance
• Feedback on deliverables

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Evaluation Panel

• Attends the final academic presentations
• Evaluates the academic presentations for each
  capstone team

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ProcessBegin with the end in mind.

• Organize the project
• Problem
• Hypothesis
• Research
• Analysis
• Conclusion

• Organize yourselves
• Project manager
• Project plan
• Milestone schedule
• Division of labor
• Execute

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Hypothesis - Definition

• An unproved theory, proposition, supposition,
  etc. tentatively accepted to explain certain
  facts or (working hypothesis) to provide a basis
  for further investigation, argument, etc.
  (Websters New World Dictionary)

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Hypothesis Five Rules

1. Single declarative sentence
2. Not a statement of fact
3. Precise
4. Limits range of topic
5. Testable

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Individual Deliverables

• Peer Evaluations
• Research Presentations

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Team Deliverables

• To the client
• SOW
• Weekly status reports
• Interim report
• Interim presentation
• Final report
• Final presentation

• To the University
• Weekly reports
• Statement of work
• Academic report
• Academic presentation

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Grading

• Sponsor Evaluation 5
• Research Presentation (Individual)
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• Peer Evaluation (Individual)
  15
• Interim Report 5
• Interim Presentation 5
• Academic Report 30
• Academic Presentation 20 ----
• Total 100

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Blackboard Web Site

• This site is updated by the Instructor. All
  course information, resources, and grades are on
  this site.
• URL http//blackboard.spsbe.jhu.edu/
• Follow the directions to Enroll into the course
  site.

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Archive Site

• URL - http//128.220.215.178/
• SOW
• Academic Report
• Academic Presentation

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Technical Staff

• Blackboard
• Natalie Hannon
• 410-309-1274
• Intech_at_jhu.edu

• Librarian
• Name
• Phone
• email

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Project Overviews

1. TBD
2. TBD

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Timeout to Complete your Project Selections
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Library Presentation

• Librarians name
• Breakout room

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Team Assignments
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Initial Team Activities

• Tonight
• Choose a Project Manger
• Meet with Faculty Advisor

• This Week
• Enroll in Blackboard
• Schedule kickoff meeting w/client.
• SOW
• Project plan

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Due at Next Session

• Executed SOW
• Preliminary Interim Presentation
• Preliminary Interim Report
• Project plan

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Good Luck!!!