SEG4911 – Projet génie logiciel en fin d’études / Software Engineering Capstone Project

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

2. 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)

3. Things to do … 2. Focus on quality at the end • Drop or 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

4. Things to do … 3. Prepare your final demo 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

5. Things to do … 3. the demo, continued • Pretend you are demonstrating to a venture capitalist who may be interested in funding your ‘company’ 4. For the mid-semester presentation • 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

6. Things to do … 5. Final deliverables • Commented code • Updates to your wiki pages describing requirements. design, etc. • Final group meeting minutes • A summary wiki page explaining • How each team member contributed • Lessons learned