SEG4911 – Projet génie logiciel en fin d’études / Software Engineering Capstone Project The Final Drive to Your A+ Timothy Lethbridge University of Ottawa 1

The home stretch: Key things to do to maximize your mark 1. Ensure your customer gives you a good rating  Meet with them  Demo to them regularly  Surprise them with ‘something extra’  Be responsive to their change requests  Invite them to the final course demo  Promise them a small amount of support after the course (only if you can deliver on this) 2

Things to do … 2. Focus on quality at the end  Drop of hide things that are not going to be working well  Clean up the code (but be careful not to break it) Ensure there are good comments, etc.  Drive down your list of bugs by fixing them And show a graph of this 3

Things to do … 3. Prepare your final presentation with flair and showmanship  Customers, and other people may be invited  Do a full-fledged demo With a decent sized, interesting example On the real system, not simulated Practice many times so you don’t stumble on remaining bugs 4

Things to do … 3. the presentation, continued  Pretend you are demonstrating to a venture capitalist who may be interested in funding your ‘company’  In addition to the demo Explain interesting design issues, algorithms Give an overview of how your management and quality assurance plans worked out Describe what changed from the original plans Discuss lessons learned and war stories 5

Things to do … 4. The final report  Fill in details of the template you have been building As always, highlight the important changes  Expand on the items on the previous slide that are also key in the presentation  Explain how each team member contributed, and whether you think any member contributed at a higher level than the others 6