1. I494: Designing and Developing an Information System
Week 1

2. Outline
Introduction Course Goals Course Activities Project Information Project Lifecycles

3. A little bit about me Matt Hottell Office Hours: Work experience
Other responsibilities
Serve IT
Internships
Office Hours:
Informatics West 120
MW 2:30-3:30, and by appointment
After class on Mondays – informal meetings on demand

4. Associate instructors
Thai Yue
Diyue Bu
Steve Voyk
Jaiqi Li
Manali Gortekar
Anusha Radhakrishnan
Office: Info West 003
Capstone Veterans

5. My goals Teaching you: how to work smart how to plan and organize
some new technologies
Helping you:
identify your strengths
prepare for career, or graduate school

6. What you can do to help
Be serious
Be reliable
Have fun

7. Skills you can focus on
Designers Developers Business Analysts Testers/Quality Assurance Documenters Technical Support Sales/marketing

8. Status Reports Plan your work – work your plan
A template will be provided
Additional software will be available
Due between 12PM Friday and 12PM Monday – in the dropbox
Team project status
Individual sections

9. Other Course Stuff Course Webpage
1 Exam - see schedule
Project elements
Technology Proficiency Task
Team work
Team exercises
Evaluations
Removal from group

10. Project Team based What does it mean to be team based? What size team?
Technology
Web?
Database?
Static?
Dynamic?
Interesting

11. Must the project succeed?

12. How do we measure success?

13. It all depends on our outlook?
No, but
Surprises are bad:
Bad news doesn’t get better with time
You should think about projects that you will be proud of.

14. Team Formation Timeline
This year we are attempting to make capstone even better by shortening the timeline for team formation.
Teams should be formed by the end of the 4th week of class.
Teams should have a rough project idea by the end of the 5th week
Don’t procrastinate!!!

15. Individual Team Formation reports
Due every week until you are in a fully-formed team.
Uploaded to Oncourse.
Not graded individually, but missed reports will damage your grade.

16. Project ideas?

17. Project Proposals Check the Oncourse Forum Current community proposals
Student proposals

18. A Typical Class
Notices/Announcements Questions/Answers about previous class New material Activity or Discussion If I am more than 5 minutes late you are free to leave

19. What are the practices?
Place and time to work on projects Discussion of course material Activities We’ll be shuffling things up as teams start forming

20. This Wednesday’s Practice will be in Rawles Hall 100 for all students!
What are the practices?
Place and time to work on projects
Discussion of course material
Activities
We’ll be shuffling things up as teams start forming
This Wednesday’s Practice will be in Rawles Hall 100 for all students!

21. Words for the Wise…

22. Team Formation Exercise

23. Admin

24. Admin Make sure your resume is updated and posted in the new system
First resumes must be approved, and this can take a while!

25. Project Lifecycles

26. Major SDLC Phases Concept/Preliminary Analysis
Gathering information to help understand the big picture
Find out the organization's objectives and the nature and scope of the problem under study.
Propose solutions
You can also study what competitors are doing
Stakeholder interviews
Describe the costs and benefits of the solutions

27. Major SDLC Phases Requirements
Gathering pertinent information that translates project goals into specific, actionable or measurable parameters
Determine:
Features
Restrictions
Platform/technologies
User interaction needs

28. Major SDLC Phases Design
Describes desired features and operations in detail.
User interface
Processes
Information architecture

29. Major SDLC Phases
Development or Implementation

30. Major SDLC Phases
Testing

31. Major SDLC Phases
Deploy

32. Project Lifecycles
Classic Waterfall Spiral New Waterfall Prototyping Build it and Fix it Staged Delivery Evolutionary Delivery Design to Schedule Design to Tool Buy off the shelf (COTS)

33. Classic Waterfall
Concept
Requirements
Design
Construct
Test
Deploy

34. Spiral Objectives Risk Mgmt Evaluate Alternatives Waterfall Plan next
iteration
Commit

35. New Waterfall
Concept
Requirements
Design
Construct
Test
Deploy

36. Evolutionary Prototyping
Concept
Requirements
Design
Prototyping
Construct
Test
Deploy

37. Build it
Construct

38. Build it and fix it
Construct
Repair

39. Staged Delivery
Concept
Requirements
Design
Construct
Test
Deploy

40. Remainder Combine evolutionary prototyping and staged delivery
Evolutionary Delivery
Combine evolutionary prototyping and staged delivery
Design to Schedule
Like staged delivery, except according to predetermined schedule
Design to Tool
Only functions supported by existing software tools
Buy off the shelf (COTS)

41. Buy it?
Install

42. Classroom Assessment
This is NOT graded!
Get out a piece of paper and take a few moments to write down the answer to the following question:
What was the most interesting fact I learned in class today?
Make sure you write your name on the paper and turn it in as you leave class.