tiger12506/VMAT — Issue #49: Presentation
Author: natem345
Created: 2012-01-05 22:54:21+00:00
State: open
Labels: Documentation/Final

Wednesday 1/11 7th-9th: Present Design & Demonstrate Prototype (showing design feasibility), Location TBD.
Please have an 8-10 minute presentation that:
A.	Summarizes high level requirements (~1 minute)
B.	Cover any technical requirements (~1 minute if needed)
C.	Explain large technical decisions (including technology choice), your high level architecture and perhaps one of the most challenging technical decisions in terms of design/modeling.
UML would be appropriate to show. Code: probably not.
D.	Demonstrate current working features (prototype)
(C and D can be switched in order, depending on how you want to do it)
This presentation should be “polished” to impress a technical review board type audience. I do not require dressing up.

Following that presentation we will have five minutes of informal discussion:
What are the difficulties of the project? They are probably not technical in nature. How did you address these? What was unforeseen? This will be a discussion time that can involve every senior in the room. This discussion was suggested by a student in last term’s course assessment. This component is not graded (unless you won’t actually discuss your real problems).

Following an architecture review I realized I did not make the following expectation clear enough.
The audience of this document has to be able to say after reading it “I understand what they are trying to do technically. They seem like they have explored the possible problem points and have ideas / strategies / patterns to implement this project.”

This applies both to the architecture doc and the presentation. Please let me know if that is unclear.