Skills expected by an employer:
- Justification presentations of a project
- Evaluate alternatives for feasibility solutions
Technical Specification Development
- Project planning
- Work Breakdown analysis
- Cost estimation
- Group Coordination and interaction
- Interview skills for interaction with customer and domain experts
- Cooperation skills
- Present formal documents for project continuation
- Produce specs suitable for production development
The Main Focus
Begin with a broad unstructured problem
Utilize (Introduce) program management skills required to achieve a structured solution
to improve productivity of the process
Expose Costing Concepts including Direct Costs (labor, Equipment, etc.) and overhead considerations
Mission of 410:
To consolidate key concepts of the undergraduate CS curriculum and to expose the students to "real world" applications
of a variety of skills