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| CLASS SCHEDULE: | Monday 10:00 - 11:50 AM & Wednesday 10:00 - 10:50 AM |
| CO-REQUISITE : | Recitation Wednesday 11:00 - 11:50 AM |
| PRE-REQUISITES: | Completion of CS300 and either CS 350 or CS 451 with grade of C or better |
| INSTRUCTOR: | Janet Brunelle |
| OFFICE: | Engineering and Computational Sciences Building: Room 3210 |
| PHONE NUMBER: | (757) 683-6001 ext. 4832 |
| CS OFFICE: | (757) 683-6001 ext 5000 |
| EMAIL ADDRESS: | brunelle@cs.odu.edu (homepage) |
| OFFICE HOURS: | Tuesday, & Thursday; 1:30 - 4:00 pm & Wednesday; 2:00 - 4:00 pm |
| COURSE TEXT: | Schwalbe, Information Technology Project Mgmt, Course Technology |
LECTURES
Week 1 - Agenda
- Course Rationale
- Discuss Syllabus
- Define potential project ideas:
Outline of help to develop project topic ideas - Background of Project Analysis
- What is a Project?
- Discussion of Project Ideas
Week 2 - Agenda and Lecture Notes
Week 2 - Deliverables and Clarifications
- Research problem areas
- Clarifications of assignments
Week 3
Week 4 - Deliverables
- Student Presentations
Week 5
- Project Selections
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Project Feasibility
- Management Context
- Group Kick-off
Week 5 Deliverables - Build a webpage to include:
- Societal Problem (statement)
- Data collected about the problem with references
- Characteristics of the problem with data and references
- Identify the customer
- What do you know about the customer?
- What would be a perfect solution?
Week 6
Week 6 Deliverables - to be added to website
- Reduce number of topics to one
- Competition matrix
- MFCD
Week 7
Week 8
- Leadership
- Project Risk
- Feasibility Presentations
Week 9
Week 10 Week 11
- Presentation 3
- Market Plan guidance
- Funding Plan guidance
- Evaluation Plan guidance
- Management Plan guidance
- Risk Plan guidance
- SBIR guidance
- Estimating code email
- Phases
- Business plans
- Webpage Demonstration
- Final Exam Written portion
HANDOUTS
- Course Schedule Ideas from Fall 2007
- Ideas from Spring 2006
- Ideas from Fall 2005
- Ideas from Spring 2005
PRESENTATIONS
Webpage Requirements
Webpage Grading Criteria
PROJECT GROUPS
Red
- Andrew Miller
- Bruce Modes
- Russell Pratt
- Steven Simmons
- Kevin Tindall
- Tyler Wood
- Robert Bittle
Blue
- Jacob Baughman
- Nick Bitto
- Kyle Bohannon
- Brian Evans
- Chad Pellitt
- Eric Schultz
- Joseph Ofosu
Green
- Ashley Casper
- Joel Elixson
- Alexander Hitchens
- Neil Monday
- Rahil Patel
- Jeremy Sellen
Orange
- Andrew Cartwright
- Spencer Garland
- Nicole Jackson
- David Norris
- Generoso Nunez-Arias
- Ryan Null
GRADING
All grades will include a component/multiplier based upon the student's demonstrated Professionalism
Final grades will be based on following weights:
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Mid-term examination |
10% |
Individual | |
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Final examination - written portion |
10% |
Individual | |
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Formal presentation |
I |
10% |
Individual |
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Formal presentation |
II |
15% |
Group |
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Final Exam - presentation portion |
IV |
20% |
Group |
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SBIR Proposal |
10% |
Group | |
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Web Information Page |
10% | Group |
IMPORTANT DATES
August 25 | 1st day of class |
August 27 | Ideas Due |
Sept 15 & 17 |
Presentation I |
Oct 17 | Midterm Exam Due |
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Oct 22 | Presentation II |
Nov 12 | Presentation III |
Dec 1 | Preliminary Web page Due |
Dec 5 | Final Exam Written portion due |
| Dec 10 | Webpage Due |
Dec 10 | Final Exam Presentation Portion 9:00AM - 1:00PM |
NOTE: Dates are subject to change due to class enrollment size, and coverage of information in class, and due to availability of review board members for the formal presentations.
GRADES
Grades for this course can be viewed using Blackboard.