Undergraduate Student Projects

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Undergraduate Student Projects

• Overview Who is here, for which units?
• Expectations of the course
• Unit Descriptions (Note Presentations,
  Milestones, Hurdles, Late Penalty, Task type A/B)
• Now what?
• New project teams formation, launch, project
  proposals.
• Future lectures and workshop topics

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Overview (Roadmap)

• Projects An opportunity to put everything you
  have learnt into practise.
• Cp783 (cp710) First Semester (15points)
• Cp784 (cp711) The following Semester (15points)
• Cp711 students have a bit extra to do (30points)
• One Project, One Team for BOTH semesters.
• Working in Teams of 4-5
• Workload 8-10 hours per week, per student

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Problem Based Learning

• You are given a problem and some guidance --- You
  learn through the process of solving it (We dont
  have a sample solution!)
• Real problems, Real clients, Realistic experience
• Issues youll face
• communication with client and within team,
• Management and organisation
• Personality differences in team
• Planning, estimating work involved
• Working to deadlines

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What to expect

• Over the next few slides
• Overview lifecycle
• Milestones (also see unit outline)
• Team formation Roles/Responsibilities
• Major artefacts expected
• NOTE COMMUNICATION, PLANNING MANAGEMENT AND
  DOCUMENTATION ARE IMPORTANT ISSUES!

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Lifecycle (generally)

• During your first semester
• Eliciting what is needed from your client
• Researching possible solutions
• Building a prototype
• Designing a solution
• During the next semester
• Detailed design
• Implementation
• Testing
• Delivery /Installation

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Milestones

• Refer to Unit Description table of tasks
• Learn as you go, search the internet for example
  documents (including other universities and IEEE
  standards)
• e.g. The University of Melbourne
  www.cs.mu.oz.au/SE-projects

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Roles and Responsibilities

• Know each team members personality and talents
  and use them.
• Some Roles
• Project Manager
• Secretary
• Librarian, Website/archive manager
• Programmer
• Designer
• Tester
• Document writing
• Client Liaison
• Technical researcher/trainer

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Now What? Launching your project

• Team Formation
• Roles
• Management plan (SPMP)
• Suggestion Do an internet search with the
  keywords IEEE Standard template SPMP
• Project tender bids/Project Proposal

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Future Lectures/Workshops

• Unit website www.ballarat.edu.au/itms/units/itmspr
  ojects
• You are obligated to consult the website
  regularly!